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... would exclaim in dignantly, his left eye twitching with anger. You have the impudence to offer me a bribe to repeal the Corn Laws Come, come, my man You have mistaken your Member! Oh, yeah? the other would answer, very abashed. Utterly mistaken him ...
... all his whims I- =a The Reading of the Will to his French and German Sons=in=Law When the Centaur dies his estate is divided equally between the German and French sons-in-law; the former he had in his life despised, but his intention of leaving his whole ...
... worthy of his growing reputation in the world of letters and politics. As the leader of the Opposition to the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, Disraeli had well and truly made his mark, and when he came to Hughenden in 1847, at the time of his election to ...
... intention to repeal the Corn Laws which she had been told by Sydney Herbert. The story owes its continued life to an incident in Diana of the Crossicays. It has been enpie'y discredited. Sir Robert Peel's intention to repeal the Corn Laws was revealed to Delane ...
... much in poli tics, and the story goes that she gave away to The Times the secret of Sir Robert Peel's intention to bury the Corn Laws, and the late Mr. George Meredith made use of this idea in his book, Diana of the Cross- ways. Mr. Richard Norton has four ...
... result of his tours was two pamphlets advocating free trade. Then came the Anti-Corn League in 1838 Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) was compelled by the power of the Anti-Corn Law League and the Irish potato famine to give way on the question of tariffs, although ...
... °cl- 28 1 1 pi Mr. Gladstone President of the Board of ||p Trade 1845 |P Mr. Gladstone retires frcm the Ministry pf The Corn laws abolished |P End of the war in Scinde |p Continued fighting in New Zealand pp Sikhs invade our territory war Franklin starts ...
... himself in Farm Street. His political memory goes back to a speech which he heard Peel deliver in defence of his repeal of the Corn Laws. That was before he himself had a seat, and the experience is one of which he is probably the only surviving possessor. Now ...
... and check the corn. The farmer is a suspicious man, and, owing to the variety of his crops, he is always justified in being grieved about the weather. Dry weather is bad for his root crops and good for his corn wet is bad for his corn and good for ...
... Knight of the Garter. He held offices of state, framed and carried the first Reform Bill in 1832, and then repealed the Corn Laws in 1846. And his nephew, LordOdo Russell, was a man of parts, an ambassa dor, and a noted diplomatist. He was created Lord ...
... during all these years their friendship never ceased. These two gentle men did much for hunting at a time when Cobden's Corn Laws were terribly affecting agricultural interests, and when farmers were no longer generally able to enjoy hunting. Thanks, ...
... author. It deals with that critical period of English f/ history, when Sir Robert Peel's sudden change of policy over the Corn Laws broke up his party. The story turns on a disputed j succession, the disappearance and discovery of old documents relating ...