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... THE CORN LAWS The Corn Laws and Social England . By C . R . Fay . 10 s . 6 d . • Cambridge ; University Press . Mr Fay , in his discussions of English economic history , is always a welcome and an instructive writer . His most recent work is inspired ...
... ITALIAN . CORN LAWS EOXE ; November 23 . THB OhttnboT to-day adopted , by 193 votes to 61 : Signer Saracco ' s motion to defer until after tho debate on the Budget the interpellation of Signer Perri and other Deputies on the abolition of tho corn duties ...
... now , Thursday , 25 th June —a memorable day—the Corn Laws are repealed 1 The Qthar . is dated Sa-turday , • 27 th June . , The bells are ringing a joyous peal on account of tho repeal of tlie Corn Laws . Fifty-seven years separate us from the event ...
... tho ' Corn Laws ; ho must be equally ignorant of tho fatal effect ! of that measure on our fundamental industry , In Morley ' s Life of Cobden , Cobden eaid , Nol one aero of land would go out of cultivation bj tho repeal of tho Corn Laws . Since ...
... Cobdenites never mention it . The Corn Laws were not enacted till 1815 . What was tho price of wheat from 1800 to 1814 ? It was £ 4 , 10 s . 7 d . per quarter , when there was no duty on imports ; but after tho Corn Laws wero passed the price fell . From ...
... , why did the people of this country rebel before the repeal of the Corn Laws ? Lord TuUibardine—Because they pnfc the . distress under which , thoy lived down to , the Corn !; Laws instead of the system of government and franchise . then-in vogue ; ...
... wheat to-day would not bo a penny ! .- ' ? 5 than it was before the Corn Laws were rert'alod- ( Cheers . ) Everybody , however , who had aud ^ ed the matter was of opinion that the Corn Laws as they existed up to 1845 wore bad , and rush ; to be abolished ...
... genius . Wnr-n he found that Sir Robert Peel , returned v > power as an upholder of Protection and themaintenance of the Corn Laws was adopting -the ienets of ike- Free Traders , he not onlv broke with him definitel y , but set himsri ; with unsparing ...
... Council , Mr Lloyd George said no programme which had beon submitted by a Government to the country since the days of the Corn Laws would have so profound an effect upon the condition of the people as the programme which the Prime Minister submitted on ...
... clamour in his party wo were nearor at this moment to being a protectionist country thah at any time Eineo tho repeal of tho Corn Laws . As long as ' Mr Churchill was iii tho Conservative party there Would DC no frontal attack tin l ^ reb Trade , but there ...
... Chamberlain as an undisguised Protectionist , '' loo , k--ing back fondly to the good old days , before tlie repeal of the Corn Laws , may bo . cffectm as rhetoric , but it is doubtfultactics . ' For Mr Asquith surely knows that however much popular belief ...
... to . araic ; Secondly , his -ever ready help m stormy times as first lieutenant to Sir Robert Feel in the repeal of the Corn -Laws ; and , thirdlyhis administration under different Prime Ministers of the Admiraltv , especially at the time of the Crimean ...