... expressing satisfaction at the an, course which lie had taken lin public life, especially in re- of ference to the repeal of the corn laws, a measure the results of which he held to be good. Mr Maule was afterwards t~l entertained at dinner, CO L~iUNCI AT DUNDEc ...

... down with force and with bloodshed. Laws were passed avowedly to abridge such liberties as the people then possessed. A eavage criminal code was in force which enlarged the perpetration of f crime, and the corn laW Of 1814, however intended, largely ...

... kingdoini i as the free trade bad' dne. iet the abolition of' the corn laws. (Cheers.) There are intricaciesconnecte with the question. ' Itis not the repeal. of one par- tticular act o$r law, nor, the enactment of one- par. .'ticular clause, or Act; There ...

... re- Lot, peal of tlce corn laws was granted,'not because the House li~' of Commons or the House of Lords wished to grant it-for la- I believe not neore than one hundred. nembers had ever s-es voted for the repeal of the corn laws-hat it was granted in ...

... history at the time the bounties vere given by the British Government to those who eta r ported fiax,.orn, or malt, that the corn laws, which I we all know Iro much about, were laid on as a bounty to tempt farmers to grow as much as they could, cud having ...

... hand is wvoll f uuctod, and I confide in his isllo no means to pro- I- mnote it but such ns tre s-notioned bv the law of Godtl and the lawe of the land. These u uords oe Cardinanl llanniiii haveo been placed br tdie Countes- of Warwick at tihe head of ...

... greg a-work 'ofhvmg te',Por Sie il nteiatt~oko We n'.Eng ad,'as Cobden and` Ergwere whnte euetethe.' 'alolition of, the Corn Laws. Tliii'quid'n fttdyi, polse an4 itat;6esmen mutd fae 'i-o Saew o el'wtin usuf te eane'Aii n iy eeat in the' kigdm wt a ...

... the Criminal Law of England and Ireland. is L The former of these measures differs in some respects an e from that introduced by Sir Richard Bethel last year. ca c By last year's bill it was not only proposed to alter ml tand amend the law, but likewise ...

... (Iladstone as having extended and, in the opinion of many, inspired it. He need only mention the abolition of the corn and navigation laws, the rearing up of a policy of free trade, sasd the persistent purging of the Customs tariff, so that now the national ...

... ' e THE AXTICORN LAW AGITATION IN a (GERMANY. b Berlin, Satnrday-No fewer than eight pblic is meetings were held last night by the cial )f Democratic party in different districts to protest agaiapt the Government action on the corn law question. It ts ...

... produce and maniufactures of this country. p Ti, experience of the list 30 years had convinced hin1 HI thla tire repeal of the Corn Laws was a vise and lst beseficent measure which had brought great blessings tl to tire working classes, but he had never been ...

... e of our constitutional organism. But for the agitation about the Corn Laws the Conservatives might have had a pro- longed lease of power. The issue in connec- tion with the Corn Laws was economic rather than political, and it cannot at this l time of ...