... eimposition i a duty on corn, we warn those who wve ue have really the interests of their country at heart he ect to be upon their guard. It is not now sufficient red to be merely opponents to the re-enactment of the su e a corn laws. We must be more. We ...

... nt gave the facts, between the C date of the repeal of the 'corn laws, and the end of S188% so as to show your readers how the random f statements of 40 y ago upon the repealef the corn laws stand the 9 tet of practical examination. d e It is of course ...

... station. Lime-street. J. P.—ln 1800 the average prioe of wheat was 113s. lOd. ( in 1850, the year after the abolition of the corn laws, it was 40s. In 1855 it was 745. 9d. Refer to M'Cttikwh'j Commercial Dictionary. If we win Insert the letter of W. F ...

... the old system of corn laws, which was specially devised to exclude foreign corn until it rose to famine prices, and which had the effect of letting it in suddenly and in immense quan- tities, to the titter confusion both of the corn market and the money ...

... after the repeal of the Corn Laws, In my opinion, it is not in the power of the pen accurately to describe the miserable con- dition of the labouring population-f mean the scenes which I witnessed-before the repeal of the Corn Laws. I travelled in Ireland ...

... may esteem ourselvfes very happy that we no longer live; under the corn laws, which were once regarded by both Houses of -Parlia- ment as the jerfectionwof humanrwisdom. If' those laws had' still been in existence, the heavy rains of the last few days ...

... longas the corn laws existed it was refused because exact in- formation as to the amount of grain grown in this country would have assisted in calculating the amount of the burden which those laws imposed upon the people. Since the corn laws ...

... slic((SsivC bad lonr ets is the result of the it CI fire repeal Of tile Corn Laws. and of the c ?? ing o-ecn of the corn malkets of tho w orld to Enlnlish eutsumers. If the Corn I Laws had still been in foree, we should b nov; be w irnessing ...

... Wellington Ministry stood with regard to la Roman Catholic claims in 1829 and Sir Robert Peel's h, Government with regard to the corn laws in 1846- 3 it is about to do in office that which it most strongly ' opposed whilst in opposition. It says much for the ] ...

... 1 not auntil 'the whole. ,eystem' of corn laws t bad, been -utterly swept away and abolished D that the corn tradel became perfectly satis- D factory, by passing entirey under the.influence r *of thgse great laws of -supply and demand v rwbich in the ...

... wer( . Palmerston joined the Free Trade ranks, then 2 and the Corn Laws compelled the Melbour-ne diffe I Ministry to appeal to the country. On their Tbe I return it vwas the same Corn Laws that formed have , the theme of the Queen's Speech, and made the ...

... country. the I - Only four years andi eight months have elapsed -since the corn laws were repealed, amidst a general i ebullition of joy; only two years have elapsed - since the corn-law repeal act came into operation; ronly a few months have elapsed since ...