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... alleged to be asked. The first cern-law, properly so called, was enacted in the middle of the fourteenth century, and it arose, as all corn-laws subsequently have done, out of the agricultural distress then existing. The law of 1466, prohibited the importation ...
... lowing the career of the Chamuer since its establishment, Lord Rlosebery dwelt upon the passing of a resolution against the Corn Laws, and went on to pay clo- quent tributes to Mr. C. P. Villiers and ?? and Bright. The giant was at last slain, not with weapons ...
... radically in thie law of natuie. Social legislature will show how by just legislation, which pervades our whole system of taxation, to re- dress these inequalities. The enactinent of the Poor Law, the abolition of the Corn Laws, the laws of ...
... it was an understood thing held out at the time, that by the abolition of the Corn Laws the repeal of the Malt Tax and the Game Laws would follow, &c. This the Anti-Corn Law League papers at the time prove. The right hon. gentleman dbye I am ...
... instance of Lord Chancellor Cotten- Iham, at the end of the stormy session of 1846 which accom- plished the repeal of the Corn Laws, was the nucleus of our present County Court system. The County Courts have been a success from the first. Within the first ...
... Halifax to the post of Lord Privy Seal. Lord Halifax was a member of every obstrnotive Wbig administration, which opposed the Corn Laws and upheld , finality' in politics. He never showed the least sympathy with popular rights or progress, and after sticking ...
... s to the penny fund in aid of the working men's memorial of gratitude , to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., on the repeal of the corn laws, was 1416,886. The subacriptifn was general, and extended over : all parts of the country, and the amount thus raised (£1 ...
... if they bad the chance, reins- pose the corn laws.(applauie). Then can anything show this in a stronger light I I could have called a meeting in any of these coundes to petition for a repeal of the corn laws, and nobody would come to oppose me; and yet ...
... day. Re had used it in a speech upon Free Trade, in which he dwelt upon the misery of the people before the repeal of the Corn Laws. Colonel Duncan, M.P., was then called to prove that he had attended a meeting of the unemployed in his own borough at the ...
... LAW INTELLIGENCE. OPENING OF MIO6HAELMAS TERM. 0 Yesterday being the first day of Micirselmes term, whenl Per &be superior courts of Common Law and of Eqity61, at Weas- the mninstler, resume their more active arnd public functions after abs tire long ...
... Cobden had reodered to the public by the active part he had taken in oonnexioe 'With the first Beform Bill, the repeal of the corn laws, and re- eently in the negotiations which had led to the commercial treaty with France. Mr. Alderman Mechi seconded the motion ...
... In one circular he I asked for aid for the twq ohildren of Colonel Perounet ! Thompsoq, author of the Catechism of the Corn- Laws, and in another for an association called the :LandTenureReform Association. Bothoirculars we-e drawn up with great care ...