... or British Whist. Under Corn laws. Duly on foreign wheat according Peel’s scale. lBs 6d 1842-s—average 52s 4.25 d Under Free Trade. 1849-75—average 52s 4.74.1 Free Trade. Pricl or 4 ut. Loat—London, Edinbuhgh. Under Corn Laws. 1842-s—average 8.25 d. ...

... 000,000 acres have gone out of cultivation does not prove that one acre of this has been caused the repeal the Corn Laws. Before the Com Laws were repealed the cultivation was steadily getting less, and lias been getting gradually less ever since. If Mr ...

... written -he following latter to a Romsey correspondent, who offered to forward copy Lord Palmerston's speech th* repeal of Corn Laws, which considered contained views very much like those expressed by Sir William:— '* Malwocd. Lyndhurst Dear Sir,—l much ...

... AND THE CORN LAWS. LETTER TO GLOUCESTER ELECTOR. A Gloucester elector wrote to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, MP, enclosing cutting from last Saturday's 'Gloucester Journal' Mr T. B. Pox's letter on the subject •' England under the Corn Laws, and the ...

... These evils when the Corn Laws were abolished, and because the duties on many hundreds of articles were done away with. .Hear, hear.; These changes did not. make the price wages down, but, the co*3trary, wages weire>np when the Corn Laws were abohsbed. (Hear ...

... “governing” class. His career English statesman was abnormal in almost every particular. He won his victory over the oppressive Corn Laws outside Parliament, and not in if. He conquered Parliament convincing the people. was a political apostle; a missionary of ...

... of penury, fever, mortality, and crime.” Our correspondent draws a lurid picture the state of the country at the time the Corn Laws were in operation, and concludes that it Is very undesirable that the infamous ’* Com Lavs should be revived. THE EDITOR ...

... November, 1835, I think it is improaable that the working classes will again submit ir, the miseries inflicted on them by the Corn Laws. . Fifty years ago the whole of the labourers in the agricultural districts were on the verge of starvation. Poor rates were ...

... referred being due to the Corn Laws and Protection. The riots were due nothing of the kind. Tbey were instigated by Chartists, who were absolutely opposed to Corn Law agitation, and wbo wanted not the repeal of the Corn ...

... abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846, the population was increasing, pauperism and criminal statistics were declining, and the birth and death-rate# showed a gradual increase prosperity; and. strange it might aeem. immediately the Corn Laws were repealed, ...

... decision one of the most momentous issues set before people this country since Cobden aad his adherents did 'battle .gainst the Corn Laws. The Duke Devonshire, moreover. desires to make it perieajaly tits Colomes that the tariff earn* separated from internal ...

... W. Matthews's inquiry in you* columns. His speech which contains it was made on the eve victory, for the BiU repeal the Corn Laws passed the Commons, after a nipbts’ debate, by majority of 297, on the following 27th February. Under these circumstances ...