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RAINING AWAY THE CORN LAWS

... the autumn of 1846, the year before ths corn fax was taken off, was driving from the North of Scotland to England amid constant and heavy rain. “That was the ram,” said Mr. Bright, which Rained Away the Corn Laws,” because the s&ircity followinir that ...

Published: Wednesday 04 November 1903
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1896 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BEFORE AND AFTER THE CORN LAWS. TO mr. KDITOR OF THE BELFAST WTTKKLT VTWS,

... BEFORE AND AFTER THE CORN LAWS. mr. THE BELFAST VTWS, Sir Permit me auk. through vour valuable weekly February’s date, what was the cost of living previous to the introduction of the Com Laws, and when the Com Laws were in force, and what Government was ...

Published: Thursday 03 February 1910
Newspaper: Belfast Weekly News
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MR. GHAMBERUIN AT HOME. REMARKABLE MEETING

... MR. GHAMBERUIN AT HOME. REMARKABLE MEETING. POINTS IN THE FISCAL FIGHT. THE HISTORICAL ARGUMENT. Working Classes and the Corn Laws. ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1903
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The Fall in Corn Prices

... The Fall in Corn Prices. Proceeding to discuss Mr. Chamberlain s contention Oiat the repeal the Corn Laws bad no effect on the price corn, and that the prosperity which followed the adoption of free traae was not da© it, the Club quotes statistics as ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1904
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE ONLY

... read it. What was it? In the books recommended by the Northern Ministry you might read of the Corn Laws and the Wars of the Roses, but nothing of the Corn Laws behind the Irish famine of '46. or the various insurrections which had marked this country's ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1937
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

SIR ROBERT PEEL

... Belfast Hippodrome. Descended from an illustrious Prime Minister of Great Britain, who is remembered as the repealer of the Corn Laws and the founder of the modern police force, Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and Ins Harmony Band appears this week at the Hippodrome ...

Published: Monday 17 November 1930
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Our Well-tried Pills

... led you to believe that this state of things was due wholly to the corn laws, the liigu price of breaa, and to f protection, and then they have led you to beieve that when the corn laws were repealed everything changed as though magic, that onoe there ...

Published: Thursday 05 November 1903
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1114 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DEATH OP A D 1

... late Mr. William Cripps. M.P. for Cirencester, and Lord of the Treasury Sir Robert Peel's Government which repealed the Corn Laws, was distinguished archseologist, and loading authority on old English plate, which subject had published some standard works ...

Published: Tuesday 27 October 1903
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CHANGE LIFE OF MILLIONS

... Council, Mr. Lloyd George Arid so problem which had been submitted by • Government to the country since the dive of the Corn Laws would hare so pm. an effect opon the condition of the as the programme which the Prime' Illaister submitted on Tuesday. It ...

Published: Monday 15 December 1913
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BELFAST EVENING TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1904

... well extracts from Cobden’a own speeches. Discussing Mr. Chamberlain’s contention that ihe repeal of tlie Corn Laws hod no effect on the price of corn, and that, the prosperity which followed adoption of free trade was not duo to it. the Club quote* statistics ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1904
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none