... THE CORN LAWS. For over a quarter of a century there were outcries in this country against the Corn Laws. After the Napoleonic Wars an Act was passed by which corn could not be imported until home-grown - corn ...

... the repeal of the Corn Laws produced isimedi• ately any reduction is the price of bread. The implications of this statement are so misleading that 1 venture to ask for a little space to recall some facts. The repeal of the Corn Laws, though dating from ...

... Anti-Corn Law League used that fact. and so aueceeded in getting the laws abolished. The repeal of those laws hit the farmer and knocked him out, and nobody benefited by the change. We were suffering today from that repeal of the Corn Laws ...

... The Repeal of the Corn Laws. The repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 is a notable instance of the Government taking action on a nonparty proposal. Sir Robert Peel became Prime Minister in 1841, and he, the Duke of Wellington, and the rest of the Conservative ...

... CONCERNING CORN LAWS. The pending- remission of the duty levied on corn makes it interesting to reflect that for a great number of years the Governnient of the country was chiefly concerned to prevent the exportation of corn, and heavy duties were imposed ...

... saia: Not that Corn Law repeal is wrongwhen we get the Charter we will repeal tre Corn Laws and all other bad laws. This speaker was a lecturer from Birmingbam, John Mason by name, and by trade a shoemaker. Again, at a large meeting of ...

... THE OLD CORN LAWS. SOME SIGNIFICANT DATES. Bill sed permitting the importamp;: oomp.when the price was 80s, O QUEPEE it nol o Sliding scale rmitting importation at a duty of &. Bd. when 'g(:at was under 625., declining to Is. when the price was 735. and ...

... AFTER THE CORN LAWS. Bright emerged from the Titanic struggle tbe moat powerful voice in England. Gifted incomparable eloquencean eloquence based upon the groat organ music of the Bible ami Milton—with courage that rose whii the tempest, with a passion ...

... REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS, There must be another reason, for for 30 years after the repeal of the Corn Laws the price of corn remained tfie same. The real reason for the reduction in the price of corn was the ...

... THE GERMAN CORN LAWS. (FROM OUK BERLIN, Thttmsdat Night. hear that the amount of the new German Corn Import Duties has not yet been fixed, but still under consideration, and that it will probably not exceed five marks Even high officials, who have hitherto ...

... n’s Corn Laws. far away, it was easy to shat out foreign | produce, and the ideal of growing every-( thing within a restrieted area was not so palpably foolish as it is to-day. But the last of Mr. Chamberlain’s points is perhaps the quaintest of all. ...

... of the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws. What is the largest cheque paid at one time to an English artist by a single client? Probably the amount—£lo,ooo l -whichhas just been rent to a portrait-painter by a connoisseur, who is also the father ...