... that industry was knocked up by the alteration in the Corn laws, and Irish farmers fell back upon the raising of young stock. The number of milch (tows has doubled since the alteration in the corn laws, but the export of butter has not materially, if at ...

... was subsequently given to the people of Ireland to grow corn, but when the corn laws were repealed that boon was withdrawn ; however the nation at large benefited by the repeal of the corn laws the effect upon Ireland had been vefry ...

... about ? Of course the potato-blight—bail seasons—and the depreciation of prices for Irlah• grain, through the repeal of the Corn Laws, have had their share in the melancholy change. But Mr. Hare, (the present Agent), can scarcely have believed that they did ...

... amendments on the Ballot Bill, counsels them to surrender the optional secrecy clause. It asserts that the repeal of the corn laws alone seemed likely to call forth antagonism between the two Houses of the same kind that which is now threatened. The Spectator ...

... mourn our small farmers exterminated---he opposed with all his strength that ruinous measure, the Repeal of the Corn Laws. We curse the famine laws of Lord Russell—had O'Brien not been abeudoned by the Irish tnembers Repealer!! in name, Whigs in reality—Lord ...

... agitation against the Corn Laws, few thought he could succeed. The Corn Laws were enacted to protect the agricultural interest, and almost every landlord and farmer in the kingdom, thought they would be ruined, if the Corn ...

... AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. A BOUNTY FOR BARLEY GROWING. Sia—l often thought that when Cobden and Bright advocated the repeal of -the Corn Laws, and that by Free Trade for wheat, or bread—not for the purpose of getting in barley—that the masses could get beer and whiskey ...

... roofl ss cabins to indicate the former preseace of patient industry. Lhis chunge was part y accelerated by Tne RepeAL cF THE CorN Laws, under which forcign grain freo of duty, was brought into competition with howe grown grain, which was Laded with heavy taxes ...

... Ireland if we reflect what would have been the result in the North of England if during the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden had been sent for trial before a jury of infuriated Dorset farmers or, a charge based upon some ...

... of the laws relating to tLe poor. Mr. WM/MON proposed to reduce it by 1'30,000, the item included in it for the salaries of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses of Poor Law unions. He reminded the committee that on the repeal of the corn laws the charge ...

... connection with the repeal of the corn laws, at which time he bad frequent conversation with the Liberator, says:— O'Connell mid, this remarkable statement to me in the Reform C:uh in 1846 —' I would rather have the corn laws repealed than attain the repeal ...

... creditors could sellout the 'unfortunate landholders, and this statesman having ruined the farmers by the repeal of the | Corn laws, and driven them in large numbers ‘across the Atlantic, proceeded to ruin the land! owners, and to introduce into Ireland ...