Lord Broughampresented a petition from Footscray for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. He said, that he felt it his duty to the important question of the Corn-laws and free trade generally, to state, regarding what was called the appeal to the country about to be made, that he did not consider it as a fair appeal upon that question, and when he recollected the circumstances in which the appeal was made, and the points upon which it really turned, he should by no means look upon the result of the general election as a decision of the country upon the Corn-laws and free trade.
§ Petition laid on the Table.