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... because nothing but the most obtuse blockheadism or the most criminal guilt could have devised or maintained a law so wicked as the corn law was. But he hoped that progress with other questions would be less difficult, because he observed that the principles ...
... on the Irish Land Bill would the House have found that wealth of homely logic and of clear statement which sentenced the Corn Laws to death. In Mr. Cobden the Prime Minister would have had a coadjutor of rare completeness. In one respect, and in one. only ...
... because nothing but the most obtuse blockheadism or the most criminal guilt could have devised or maintained a law so wicked as the corn law was. But he hoped that progress with other questions would be less difficult, because he observed that the principles ...
... bill for the removal of the Jews' ci. f il disabilities, and took some part in the debate on the bill for repealing the corn laws. Since the Earl of Aberdeen's death Lord Wicklow has gradually be• come less regular in his attendance at the House of Lords ...
... agree to proposition. The grounds were, that it was i e na pe oli of the corn laws was resisted tic to for our supplies of depend upon foreign nations f -th Were in h at the corn laws themselves armony with the commercial matters, and neral poli c y o f ...
... the Liberals, he said the Earl of Derby passed the Catholic Emancipation Bill, and the Tory Sir Robert Peel repealed the corn laws; the Tories also repealed the property qualification for members of Parliament. He should give a general support to the ...
... already proved to be so beneficial to the operations of commerce generally. The abrogation of the Corn Laws was very speedily followed by the abrogation of the laws affecting Navigation. What Sir ROBERT PEEL commenced, was continued by Lord JoHN RUSSELL. It ...
... brotherly love.' Sir Peter seems further to think that Mr. Bright deserves great praise for his exertions towards repeal of the corn laws, but that, his object once accomplished, his occupation thenceforth was gone. —Morning Chronicle. THE POISONINGS AT BRADFORD ...
... respect to the farmer, and that they had not sen the fulfilment of the promises held out at the time of the repeal of the corn laws that the farmers should be freed from this burden. This is often the case, people get excited at the prospect of change, ...
... that if the corn laws were passed there would be no gold left in the coffers of the Bank. (A laugh.) And yet there was now more gold in the Bank than was ever there before. (Hear, hear.) Well, but the advocates of the abolition of the corn laws made some ...
... —Yours, &c., A. Temple, Dec. 22, 1857. To George Wilson, El., Chairman of the late Anti- Corn Law League. DEAR SIB,—As a member of the Council of the late Anti-Corn Law League, I would call on you as its chairman to take steps to re-organise the League, ...
... opinions which young men bring to London, and which London soon takes from them. The air of Downing -street was opposed to the Corn Laws, and belief in them soon died out. But there is no such prejudice in the minds of the present majority. Certainly they are ...