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The Corn Laws and Food Prices

... The Corn Laws and Food Prices. Mr. Chamberlain stated at Birmingham, and challenged its refutation, that it was a mistake say that the repeal of the Corn Laws produced immediately any reduction in the price of bread. In proof of this statement, he pointed ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1903
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CORN LAWS AND THE PRICE OF FOOD

... THE CORN LAWS AND THE PRICE OF FOOD. the Editor The Yorkshire Post Sir.—ln the recent- elections the opponent* tariff reform have often cited high prices of 1839, 1846-7, and in 1868, as example* of the effect corn duties. The public are not aware that ...

LAST LINK WITH THE CORN LAWS REPEAL

... WITH . CORN LAWS Lord Stanmore’s death at his Londom residence de- stroys the last link in public life, except in the person of the venerable Earl of Wemyss, with the period of Corn Law repeal, He was a younger son of the Earl! of Aber- deen, Sir Robert ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1912
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ENGLISH CORN LAWS. THEIR AIM AND HISTORY

... THE ENGLISH CORN LAWS. THEIR AIM AND HISTORY A lecture oil 44 Modern History of English Rural Life: Agriculture under the Com Law a, 44 *as given Dr. A. G. Ru.ton, of Leeds University, before the Darlington Chamber of Agriculture yesterday. Mr. H. L. ...

Days of Richard Oastler and the Corn Laws Struggle

... Days of Richard Oastler and the Corn Laws Struggle From Our Reporter HUDDEitSFIELD. Friday •4o 1813 book of maps the turnpike roads uf England and Wales. A 124-yearold draft fur £! oil the Huddersfield Commercial Bank, Ltd. An J844 appeal to Yorksliiremen ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1937
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 612 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

MB. CHAMBERLAIN'S COMPARISONS. A CRITICISM BY MR. ASQUITH. THE CORN LAWS AND PRICES

... Mr. Chamberlain's statement to tlte effect of the repeal the Corn Laws on price of wheat, said he thought every school boy knew that although the Act- of Parliament, repealing lite Corn Laws was passed 1846 the repeal was not take effect and did not take ...

SIR HY. FOWLER ON TARIFF REFORM

... was nothing beside the misery and destitution which prevailed when the* Corn Laws were in existence. In the new Tariff Reform the first step was the re-enactment of the Corn Laws. ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1906
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A PAGE OF HISTORY,

... That I can well understand, hut the potato famine was not result of the Corn lAWS. (Laughter.) Nor was the price of bread the time of the potato famine the result the Corn Laws or of the legislation which followed. (Cheers.) I ask you now to consider ...

Men of That Time

... of the Corn Laws, forced on by the failure the potato crop and the Irish famine; the old Duke of Wellington, always obeying that the repeal of the Corn Laws would mean the ruin of the landed interests. There was Cobden—the leader of the Corn ...

MR. C. H. SEELY, M P., AT LINCOLN,

... statement that it was a mistake to say the repeal the Corn lawn produced immediately any reduction in the prico of bread. investigation, however, lie found that the averago for the five years repeal the Corn Laws was Sd. per quarter, and the average of j the ...