... THE CORN LAWS. The Corn Laws existed in one shape or another for 400 years. Originally they were designed as a bonus exported grain, that and wool being our chief productions before the days potatoes, turnips, and raangold-wu-zels. 1804 the ...

... THE GERMAN CORN LAWS. [reuter's TELEGRAM.I Berlin, Saturday. The agitation here and in the provinces consequent upon the clearness of provisions continues unabated. The Berliner Tageblatt reports Dr. Miquel, Minister of Finance, to have stated in private ...

... THE CORN LAWS. VIII T«-«; bjr a »r. « ■ r>m»o-:-*r *n4 th* b»jirßv •» »o w* ’b*n> Tb*y •r* •«fth du'-nj tS to t tnm mUw ''l ■aic>aMi'm »i»* nbjf-to -P'* drcliifd, Midi m tl ...

... THE CORN LAWS. Messrs. Villiers, Cobden, and Bright headed and guided the movement for their repeal. In the Anti-Corn Law League was established. In the country, and in the House of the agitation for the repeal of those cruel and vicious ...

... THE CORN LAWS. Voiss And Mr. Bright j and loud cheers.) Why, sir, when I tell you that during the last year, 1874 or 1873 forget the exact statistics referred to) —in on® the two last years more than £80,000,000 sterling worth of food which previous ...

... THE CORN' LAWS. tile Tt is a remarikable fact, anid one that-could not, perhaps. fro lie noticed at a time more fitting than the. present, that chii wheat-the staple food of this country, and which, more or I less, rules the Vrice of the rest-is now chenper ...

... THE SPANISH CORN LAWS. A SLIJHKG SCALE. Hera's Mai>i:;i>. .vhsdat.—The Cabinet was to ...

... THE FRENCH CORN LAWS. [from correspondent.] Few articles, in the present reconstruction of the French Customs tariff, have escaped additional impost* so far —and that not very far—as the final voting and decision on each has yet proceeded. Wheat ha* ...

... in separate spheres—one at Manehester, the other at Rochdale—the two men who were to be mainly instrumental in re ing the Corn Laws had, at this both energetically taken up this question of education ; and that this was the cause of wards Sa al tt inimitable ...

... THE FRENCH CORN LAWS. (Reuters Telegrams.) Paris, Friday. M. Gerault Richard, Socialist Deputy for Paris, has written to Meline in reference to an increase in the price of bread- He demaads the abolition or the reduction of the duties on foreign wheat ...

... THE CORN LAWS AND THE PRICE OF WHEAT. correspondent sends the following figures, to show the very small result of the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846 :— Per Qnarter. Wheat, average price for 10 years, 1826 to 1845 575. 6d. Wheat, average price for ...

... li ON THE REMNANT OF T[IE CORN LAWS. By LIUT..G-Es~rRAL T. PEnioxuT THo:.irsoN. What were generally known as the Corn Laws. incanit, a heavy duty on the importatiou of foreign corn, have beet. done away wvith, attended with an almost ...