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... with a massive silver jug, as an expression of their grati- tude for the measure framed by him for the abolition of the Corn Laws, and of their admiration of his independent, eloquent, and successfnl sueport of the princioies of free-trade. EDINBURGH ...
... amount of ille- gal transactions than during the railway mania, and the glorious uncertainty of the law has attained its highest form in the shape of railway law. The materials for litigation are in a state of con- centration heretofore unparalleled. The Passions ...
... day a meeting of the noblemen. gentlemen, tenant farmers, and others., of the County of Berwick, friendly to the present Corn Laws, was held at Greenlaw. Amongst those present we observed-Sir John Pringle c of Stichell,Bart.; Colonel Spottiawoode of Glaswood; ...
... af. fectod by the present unsettled ste of afi~s as the trade in corn. All parties appear to regard it as certan, that under any D circumstances considerable alteration ini4he corn laws will be piade next session; and no one feelingdisposed to enter ...
... of it is devoted to an attimptto prove, that there was no Irish scarcity in 18445-6 to jAstify Sir Robert's repeal of the Corn Laws; though there Aid come a real scarcity in 1846-47. AnotheT portion is appro- priated to- a -eulogium on. the Cornv llw of ...
... vsfarming in these disastrous years of d 16 and '17 will affirm that the high price of corn was chiefly owing to what has been termed the Peace Corn Law Bill. A corn rent of itself w ml not make a good farmer; but it will he generally allowed that there ...
... those parts of his speech in which our Reporter has so much misunder- stood and perverted his meaning. Alluding to the Anti Corn-Law League, Capt. Barclay said- tThis association hod endeavoured to set landlord, tenant, and labourer against each other: ...
... in various districts of England, forthepurpose of expressingopinionsof the conjectured policy of AMimstersinregard to the Corn Laws. At the whole of these meetings, declarations have been made in favour of con- tinued protection to the agricultural interests ...
... y as regards the Corn Laws, rests entirely with himself. It was lie alone who first pronosed any change; he alonewas thecauso of the late Ministeriaf crisis. The circumstances primearily sug- gesting to him a chauge in the Corn Laws were the successful ...
... Robert Peel in regard to the Corn Laws, we have already. on more than one occasion. stated why it ought not to have been made the ground of infer. ence that he intended any departure from the principle of his own Corn Law. It has been the-practice of ...
... adjourned at a quarter past four oclock. a lieC REPEAL OF TlE CORN LAWS. ed The following are the names of the Scotch representatives en who voted for and against the third reading of the corn law iv. bill. in . AyEs-33. it W. -Baine. - W. Ewart Rt. Hn. T ...
... on osed to -any change- wha-teveintew Corn Laws. He denied-t-tat a'fairecntuto a enpto M-r Miles's expression when he said ta dtrpawnd- be-better than a del-ay of three years Hematta fthie- peal of the Corn -Laws were inevitable imdae'e a ih he preferable; ...