The _League Oracle_ says-- 1. "If we have free trade, the landlords' rents will fall 100 per cent."--(_League Circular_, No. 15. p. 3.) 2. "Provisions will fall one-third."--(Ib. No. 34, p. 4.) "The Corn-laws makes the labourer pay double the price for his food."--(Ib. No. 15.) 3. "The Corn-law compels us to pay _three times the value for a loaf of bread_."--(Ib. No. 13.) "If the Corn-laws were abolished, the working man WOULD SAVE 31/2d. UPON EVERY LOAF OF BREAD."--(Ib. No. 75.) "As a consequence of the repeal of the Corn-laws, _we promise cheaper food_, and our hand-loom weavers would get _double_ the rate of wages!"--(Ib. No. 7.) "We shall have _cheap bread_, and its price will be reduced 33 per cent."--(Ib. No. 34.) 4. Messrs Villiers, Muntz, Hume, Roche, Thornton, Rawson, Sandars, (all Leaguers,) say, and the oracle of the _League_ itself has said, that "We want free trade, to enable us to _reduce wages_, that we may compete with foreigners."--(_Post_, pp. 13-16.) 5. The _League Oracle_ admits that "a repeal would _injure_ the farmer, but not so much as he fears."--(_League Circular_, No. 58.) Mr Cobden says-- 1. "If we have free trade, the landlords will have as good rents as now."--(Speech in the House of Commons, 15th May last.) 2. "Provisions will be no cheaper."--(Speech at Bedford, _Hertford Reformer_, 10th June last.) 3. "THE ARGUMENT FOR CHEAP BREAD WAS NEVER MINE."--(_Morning Chronicle_, 30th June 1843, Speech on Penenden Heath.) "THE IDEA OF LOW-PRICED FOREIGN CORN IS ALL A DELUSION."--SPEECH AT Winchester, _Salisbury Herald_, July 29, 1843, p. 3. 4. Messrs Cobden, Bright, and Moore, now affirm--"It is a base falsehood to say we want free trade, to enable us to reduce the rate of wages."--(Mr Cobden on Penenden Heath. Messrs Bright and Moore at Huntingdon.) 5. Cobden, Moore, and Bright, say, that it is to the _interest_ of the farmer to have a total and _immediate_ repeal.--(Uxbridge, Bedford, Huntingdon.[34]) [34] Extracted from a very admirable speech by Mr Day of Huntingdon, (Ollivier, 1843,) and which we earnestly recommend for perusal. * * * * * The disgusting selfishness and hypocrisy of such men as Cobden and his companions, in veiling their real objects under a pretended enmity to "Monopoly" and "Class Legislation"--and disinterested anxiety to procure for the poor the blessings of "cheap bread"--fills us with a just indignation; and we never see an account of their hebdomadal proceedings, but we exclaim, in the language of our immortal bard-- "Oh, Heaven! that such impostors thoud'st unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascals naked through the land!"