text:  We have seen that Sir Robert Peel previously to the general election declared his determination to adhere to the existing system of corn-laws regulating the admission of foreign corn by the power of the sliding-scale of duties; but both he and the leading members of his party had distinctly stated in Parliament just before its dissolution that while resolved to adhere to the _principle_ of a sliding-scale they would not pledge themselves to adhere to all the _details_ of that scale