... Mr Gladstone could be quoted to show that the difference in the of wheat, taking yearn before and after the Bsoeal of the Corn Laws, was practically infinite. By closer connection with the eolomee the greatest proportion of money now sent out of the country ...

... 11. 11. Fowler, M.P.. Financial Secretory to the Treasury, said Parliamont that was returned Protectionists the repeal of Corn Laws, and might repeat itself. Profoundly attodird as was to bis leaders, nod party man as was. ho would support either party ...

... which in 1815 imposed the Corn Laws, thought they were acting fjr the good of the country, and considered that if corn were made dearer, wages would be made higher, and that thus everybody would be enabled to buy quite as much corn as before forgetful of ...

... was filled a greater number of peers than had ever been present at any debate since the discussion for the Repeal of the Corn Laws. The Earl Derby was prevented by attack gout from being present to add lustre to the debate by his brilliant and powerful ...

... although every intelligent man in every country in the world admitted the juetico of the force of oar argument against the Corn Laws, still it required the occurrence of crushing famine Ireland, a famine which destroyed as many lives in that country would ...

... dearest it was inferior in quality to the Irish, and was largely adulterated with plaster of pans. 4c. The repeal of the Corn Laws had produced a dangerous competition with foreign countries, and many shopkeepers seemed tone more inclined to purchase American ...

... consideration that strikes worth mentioning. If tlie Anti-Corn Law I League had never existed, if Cobden and my! self or Charles Villiers other* who were ! foremost that movement had never I tbo Corn Laws must neecsiarily have been I abolished. Everybody must ...

... abuse, that believed Parliament would, at no distant day, give it its sanction, for the Reform Bill and the repeal of tbe Corn Laws bad struggled through difficulties quite as grea*. He denied that tbe ballot was’a democratic institution ; it was equally ...

... him—lf lo pollbeal Ufa baearning in 18&) one of tha earbatt amahere of the Anti-Oern Law Lragne, which grew oat an eeeortatkm formed m 1838 obtain the repeal the Corn Laws In April. 1848, abre- ejection, stood aa caadadata for the repreeirntmioa of the City ...

... sugar, paper, &c.; well, if they did he could not see that any great harm would result from that. Take the case of the Corn Laws, the Navigation, and the like, were they hut the Corps Legislation, and their legislation had been fraught with good and ...

... the Test mad Corporation Acta would have bean fame, education would have bean band* of the Established Chorah, and odiona corn laws unrepealed. the people to pariodioal famine, and prodaoteg groat snffsricg end ditoontent. After this was not astonished ...

... deputation from tho Glasgow Liberal Association. Replying to an address,he said would nut go back to the question of the corn laws and taxes on knowledge. Although newspaper proprietors and editors had a “tendency to go with the current opinion, yet they ...