... plaster to a wooden lea. BRUNTY. NO NEW CORN LAWS. Sin, —Something is happening which feel that the mothers of Britain should insist knowing about. We have read of the distraught days of the old Corn Laws and the terrible times they brought to health ...

... porous plaster a wooden le£. \ BRUNTY. NO NEW CORN LAWS. —Something is happening which feel that the mothers of Britain should insist knowing about. have rev.l the disti aught days of the old Corn Laws mid the terrible times they brought to health and ...

... 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 Before the Com Laws were repealed the cultivation was steadily getting less, and lias been getting gradually less ever since.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 ...

... issue that they were contesting. He reminded his hearers that hundred years ago the Corn Laws were operation. Those laws meant thai foreign countries could not send corn into this country without paving heavy tax The result was that the landlords got rich ...

... 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 ...

... between the two wais was kind hungry forties. The term Hungry Forties was applied to the period prior to 'he repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel in 1846 when, owing the high price of food, distress was common among tne working population. Another ...

... of these peelers. Milton also used the word in his Paradise Regained. It was Sir Robert Peel who, in 1846. repealed the Corn Laws in face of tremendous opposition, but was defeated on his Irish Coercion Bill, resigned and went over the Opposition.—T.J ...

... daily decreasing demand for its labour, union houses overflowing work shops are deserted, corn laws restrain importation and inducing the starving people regard the laws of their country with a deep sense of their injustice—these facts call for immediate ...

... austerity as yet another of the Hungry Forties. The Hungry Forties is applied to the period prior to the repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel in 1846 when, owing to the high price of food, distress was common among the working population. Another ...