... trade, Mr Manson ademitted that alter the repeal of the corn laws in IAG t our trand, commerce. and agriculture advanced by bounds, but he maintained that this va s due riot to the repeal of tbe corn laws, but to tIre devQlopinetnt oif railwasv, discoveries ...

... remarks. The lecturer, who chose for his subject, The Repeal of the Corn Laws; its bearings upon present Reforms, narrated in an interesting manner the history of the repeal of the corn laws, and also adverted to the means by which other important re. forms ...

... without affecting prices or narrowing importation; for in such years the prices of corn are wholly determined by the de- mnaud and supply, without reference to the cost of the corn, inncluding therein any reasonable duty with which it may be charged. The latter ...

... Peel aliolisbeil the Corn Laws in 1bl. | (2.) In Decaimhber, I (b, Sir Eob.hrt Peel had ten- dered his resignation to the Queen, and given lord John Russell the opportunity of forming a Liberal Governmmnt enrd abolihin.g the Corn Laws. Lou-d John RLussell ...

... Ratitled opjtonents, vho were for reducing the diuties oil corn and a fixed duty on corn and all the rest of it. Sir 1 Robert Peel and his Go e-rinieait proposed and carried the total repeal of the Corn Laws. I may be to'd that his Government was aesisitei by ...

... of the corn laws. If the rs- tl peal of the corn laws brought prosperity B to this country, to what were they to attn- N buto the depresslon of the last few years C lIe attributed the rire and fall in the market to the - operations of the ...

... thus indirectly becomes a larger houveholders' tax on Z foreign-grown food than eoer was collected under the a e Corn Laws. a a a field of corn worth £,0 a few vear3 ago is now a worth but £40. Supposing there is a gain in pur- fl s chasing power of £20 ...

... exported from Lochboisdale, and he had helped to load a ship with grain. The Chairman-That was before the abolition of the corn laws. Several other witnesses were examined, and the Court rose at two o'clock. The reason for such a short sitting was that the ...

... of the Anglican Church from political primacy. Catholic emancipation, the enfranchisement of the Jews, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the opening of the univer- sities to Nonconformists, and kindred reforms, were mere apprentice work when contrasted with ...

... therefore it must be true. The plain fact is that Mr Bright is so crazed over the supposed good effects of the repeal of the Corn Laws that he dreams dreams, and tries to make the young men see visions of , land flowing with milk and honey which other men ...

... the continuance of the Corn laws. 5. Now, those were t;e sort of arguments with which we were met. What has happened since that: For the: it !r-st--how many years--I suppose for the first 20 years after the repeal of the Corn Law, the rent of land in i ...

... Catholics'; Box; the Whig, was mobbed in the streets of London on his way to impeach Wilces, the hero' of toh'people Peel on the Corn Laws and Gladstone ci 'the Ohurch have shouted aye at one time and no at anothei, withequal fervour and appearance of'convic- ...