... CORN LAW REPEAL AND FOOD PRICES. Speaking at Lincoln yesterday the report of the Tariff Reform Commission Comroittoo Agriculture, Mr. Henry Chaplin said that agricultural depression had been the subject of constant inquiries at tho instance of many G ...

... rights as compensation for injury, which it was anticipated that the landed interest would suffer from the repeal of the Corn Laws. This examplo is very misleading, aa the only relief the landed interest got at the time was transferring from tbe local ...

... Cunningham’s Rise and Decline of the Free Trade Movement.” Many Tariff Reformers are sympathy with Mr. Cobden’s views about the Corn Laws: and would as soon re-establish the Heptarchy bring back the old Protective system. Where they part company with the Free ...

... place, the prophecies that the rest of the world would follow in our footsteps have been turned topsy-turvy. Repeal the Corn Laws.” said Cobden, and within tea years there nor Power Europe that will not be forced to follow your example.’ As a matter fact ...

... now submitted to judgment of the country is based tho taxation of bread, and is the first step in thero-enactmeat of the Corn Laws. If you again confide your interests to me, you may rely upon my uncompromising and continued resistance to policy which ...

... people, and all did was sit absolutely ouiet, twiddle our thumbs, and talk of virtues of Cobdenisra and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Every Englishman who loved his country ought to take the before was too late of joining still closer toe Mother Land and ...

... was written. The Government have pruned a financial scheme which rekindle the fires of the eootrovvrsy which abolished tho Corn Laws, and they have introduced L-.ocaUcn Bill which le«trov» the eetfement ot Tho «!uty of the Liberal Partv the present time ...

... Empire, as. indeed, anticipated his fiscal policy when in IKIS, speaking in the House the annual motion for the repeal the Corn Laws, said, in words of almost prophetic significance : The Continent will not sutfer England the workshop of the world.” At present ...

... Gladstone. Both were among the majority ninety which supported Sir Robert Peel. When that statesman’s change of front on the Corn Laws was announced Lord John was among his opponents. and at the General Election of 1847 he did not stand again. His chances ...

... flatly the description given by the recognised historian of the Club of the condition the country at the time when the Corn Laws were repealed. Describing the condition the country' in l*iS, Mr. Augustas lioogrediaa says in bis ‘History the Free Trade ...

... of all things, at any rate as the beginning of revolution. In 1846, too, the same thing was said about the repesi of the Corn Laws, but when the Tories came into office with majority in both Ileuses they did not raise a finger to tneropt out an end Free ...

... the agricultural industry were batter off than before the repeal the Corn Laws with the exception of the landowners, whose predoceasors had profited by the operation of the unjust laws. The changes which had occurred daring the Free Trade period were in ...