... nle f paid an eloquent tribute to John Bright and Cobden, the great twin brothers who T-slew the Corn Laws. fle admitted that r t first the anti-Corn Law agitation was a class crusade - the towns people against the country people, hut ultimately it beca30e ...

... the corn laws wmas the maddest be had ever heard of. If they substituted for the word repeal the word re-enactment, they had one certain result of the agitation of Cobden. Of all the mad things they had heard in our day the re-enactment of the corn laws ...

... fictitious story, which has recently been revived, that Mlrs Norton sold the secret of Sir Robert Peel's intention to repeal the corn laws to the Times for £500. 'rhe secret archives of the paper contain no record of any such transaction, and it is to be hoped ...

... pockets-in the same way as dukes and the landed interest objected to the new death duties. It was similar in connection with the corn laws, and the action of Toryisin had been selfish and ignoble in all its interests. Time was when he thought organisation in Liberal ...

... progressive party. Sir Robert Peel, during his celebrated tenure of office, between the years 1841-6, effected the repeal of the Corn Laws, the relaxation of the whole commercial code, passed the Bank Charter Act, and established the general financial policy of ...

... present. He swas a small boy at school then, but they were very strong about Corn Laws. lie heard Cobdoun say that if the Corn Laws ware abolished and the Government lot corn conme in free of duty, the pont boy w! got a piece of very dry, ...

... and Bright's Gentleman in the Mask -Lord Aberdeen intimated Peel's inten- tion to repeal the Corn Laws, Mr Vernon Harcoort. discoursed upon international law as. Historicus, and Mr Leonard Courtney, through the nedium of i loading articles, sought to ...

... the Panama scandal, and has been sentenced to six years' penal servitude. The fiftieth anniversary of the repeal of the corn laws was celebrated on Saturday by A special dinner at the Cobden Club, at which Mr Leonard Courtney presided. Lowestoft and Yarmouth ...

... Minister entirely sup- ported this view. In the earlier part of his speech he made an important reference to the question of the corn law agitation, and the effect of free trade on the agricultural industry. 'While admitting that the protectionist party were ...

... the fkllow. ziri year it rope t ' 75.s 21, lan advanc, of 22.s l Id in one yoar. For 1846, the year of thi Rtepeal of the Corn Laws, the average wvi-s 114o 9di per qr. In 1847 it rose to 69e Sd, roly te fall te 0iser 6d in 1848, and by dItegrecii tr 38 ...

... he, was Wafted for North Leicempehire. Hq mide 7 him Maidon apeeoh in Febr.u'ry, 184?, when he opposed the repeal eof the Corn Laws. He uhohed in mane wnyx that he held too broad opinioad to act always with his party. His grace has had a dijsinguimhed career ...

... there was a dccrew~o. of 524,000 acres. This was a complete falsifi- cation of Cobden's prophecy that the rppeal of. the corn laws would give the home growth o' wheat such an impetus that we should soon be alple to produce for ourselves all the wheat we ...