... join the Protection organisation, and when the crisis of 1846 arrived, had no hesitation in supporting the repeal of the corn laws, resigning his seat for West Somerset at the dissolution in 1847, He then applied himself diligently to agriculture, and ...

... country. nle f paid an eloquent tribute to John Bright and Cobden, the great twin brothers who T-slew the Corn Laws. fle admitted that r t first the ?? Law agitation was a class crusade - the towns people against the country people, hut ultimately it beca30e ...

... the corn laws wmas the maddest be had ever heard of. If they substituted for the word repeal the word re-enactment, they had one certain result of the agitation of Cobden. Of all the mad things they had heard in our day the re-enactment of the corn laws ...

... trade, Mr Manson ademitted that alter the repeal of the corn laws in IAG t our trand, commerce. and agriculture advanced by bounds, but he maintained that this va s due riot to the repeal of tbe corn laws, but to ?? ?? oif railwasv, discoveries of lzold, arnd ...

... fictitious story, which has recently been revived, that Mlrs Norton sold the secret of Sir Robert Peel's intention to repeal the corn laws to the Times for £500. 'rhe secret archives of the paper contain no record of any such transaction, and it is to be hoped ...

... without affecting prices or narrowing importation; for in such years the prices of corn are wholly determined by the de- mnaud and supply, without reference to the cost of the corn, inncluding therein any reasonable duty with which it may be charged. The latter ...

... pockets-in the same way as dukes and the landed interest objected to the new death duties. It was similar in connection with the corn laws, and the action of Toryisin had been selfish and ignoble in all its interests. Time was when he thought organisation in Liberal ...

... Ratitled opjtonents, vho were for reducing the diuties oil corn and a fixed duty on corn and all the rest of it. Sir 1 Robert Peel and his Go e-rinieait proposed and carried the total repeal of the Corn Laws. I may be to'd that his Government was aesisitei by ...

... mass of Englishmen during the last half-century have been Grey, carrying the Reform Bill of 1832 ; Peel, abolishing the corn laws ; and Mr Gladstone disestablishing the Irish Church. But society never felt much enthusiasm for any of these men, nor were ...

... Peel aliolisbeil the Corn Laws in 1bl. | (2.) In Decaimhber, I (b, Sir Eob.hrt Peel had ten- dered his resignation to the Queen, and given lord John Russell the opportunity of forming a Liberal Governmmnt enrd abolihin.g the Corn Laws. Lou-d John RLussell ...

... progressive party. Sir Robert Peel, during his celebrated tenure of office, between the years 1841-6, effected the repeal of the Corn Laws, the relaxation of the whole commercial code, passed the Bank Charter Act, and established the general financial policy of ...

... thus indirectly becomes a larger houveholders' tax on Z foreign-grown food than eoer was collected under the a e Corn Laws. a a a field of corn worth £,0 a few vear3 ago is now a worth but £40. Supposing there is a gain in pur- fl s chasing power of £20 ...