... GERMAN CORN LAWS. Berlin, Saturday Evening. An important meeting was held here this afternoon, which official representatives of fewer than two hundred German cities were present. The gathering was convened for the purpose of protesting against the passing ...

... THE FRENCH CORN LAWS. Tbe project of a new com law producing great excite■ent in the Department* of Franc*. Tbe Protectionist* are agitating with energy against any modification of their favourite principles. Tbe agiicnltnral societies are hnsy with petitions ...

... that I no longer enjoy the confidence of tbo leading interests ofthe county. My refusal to concur with those who, after the corn laws had been repealed, were desirous of retarn to protective dutiea ; the conduct 1 pursued with reference to the question of ...

... “justice to Ireland '* It is one of the compensations” which Sir Robert Peel was to have given us for tho abolition of the Corn Laws, but of which we have never received the benefit. Be it the care of our Representatives that be withheld no longer. The present ...

... Court cannot help taking into consideration the eminent services rendered by the said Richard Cobden in the matters of the Corn Laws and the French Treaty. It also makes allowance for his infirmity of temper, and for a certain petulance and arrogance produced ...

... FREE TRADE The repeal of the corn laws in 1846 was characterized by such conditions of political warfare bad never attended any previous reforms. When the Test Acte were repealed there survived no party bent on restoring them. When the Papiste were e ...

... ground commercial loter.-et. This country bis abandoned every vest ga old nroUctive sj -Uni. Its navigation ate dead its corn laws. Free trade has cum-j part oor practical religion. If b; the Continental people say it is. that are !r«e trade.-s from s ...

... following by-law (in addition to those already made and approved of) to the Grand Jury assembled at Summer Assizes, 1854, and the J udges of the Court of Queen’s Bench for their approval in pursuance of Acl7lh Geo. cap. 74, sec. 4. Br Law. —Persons sentenced ...

... majority that the corn taws should be maintained, the Ami-Corn Law League plug-drawing “tumults and disorders of 1812 frightened Sir R. Peel and S r James Graham into deciding that they should repealed. Yes. my lord duke. Anti-Corn Law ...

... of the corn laws two other great free trade measures were carried, relating to the sugar duties and to tbe navigation laws. There were then three great complaining interests—tbe agricultural, colonial, aud shipping. But from time when tbe corn ...

... George Bentinck daring the period when the abolition of the Corn laws was being delated. said Lord George informed him that his friends had pointed oat that by the abolition of the Corn Laws be (Lord George) would save X 1,500 year in the cost of food ...

... some cases their politics, and others their opinions also. He then alluded to the early objections to the abolition of the corn laws, its supporters being designated madmen, and tho race that was afterwards ran between Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Bussell ...