... in the history of those times; the European Crisis of Octoher, 1848, the Ministerial Crisis preceding she Repeal of the Corn Laws in December, 1845. and the question of Spanish Marriages in 1847. ...

... support. Us advocated the extension of representation to the Colonies in the Reform debates in 1831, moved the repeal of the Corn Laws, and in 1835 and 1836 was active in attacking the Orange So! catty. to which was imputed a design to alter the sooesesion ...

... but the first quarter of last tentary was period daring which land valoes varied good deal. The Napoleonic wars and the Corn Laws created an artificial price land one period, price that has no( been maintained since. This was «r peeially true of certain ...

... Changes from one economic system to another, however, always involve some loss and inconvenience. The abolition of the Corn Laws, one of the alleged motives of which was the admission of cheaper food to a starving Ireland, was supposed to have hit Ireland ...

... the instinctive repulsion which the very name of food taxes has aroused in England since the great agitation against the Corn Laws. Labour has no doubts on the subject, and within twentyfour hours Mr. Arthur Henderson glee- accepted the Prime Minister's ...

... Minister's speech goes further even than the guarantee in what it foreshadows. lie poilito.d out that twenty years after the Corn Laws had been repealed these countries produced ice as much wheat as they imported, Sine. then four or five million acres of land ...

... opinion that Mr. Baiky exaggerated the immediate effect of the Repeal of the Corn Laws Irish agriculture. It wee an entire delaeioa to suppose that the Repeel of the Corn Laws had dmatrons effect on the tillage industry of Ireland. regards the emigration ...

... Britain has increased by nog per sent. and lie population by 64 per ant. But the heal policy which followed the repeal of the Corn Laws, until the advent! of the Liberal Goverment to power in the! present century, compelled the mass of I the people to pay the ...

... ef the Do yon object to Irish people being brought •«cr to England? coder similar eiremn■tacoes 1 would. The Repeal the Corn Laws did not have (be effect you mentioned in England for practically generation? Witness said there could be doubt as to what ...

... know, sad her commercial and in. dustrial intermits constantly differ from those of Ireland. Free trade, abolition of the Corn Laws, the inequitable taxation of Ire. land introduced by Mr. Gledatons in 1863, which, according to a Royal Commission, resuited ...

... the famine and Cobden came. For long years Cobden made no difference. The average price of corn daring several periods subsequent to the repeal of the Corn Laws was higher than before the repeal, and the Irish people tied from their country at the rate ...

... unjust saddle the whole reapon| sibility the Irish Famine its shoulders. I maintain that Free Trade, the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846, if not the mam cauae, was least powerful rontributury agent in bringing about that calamity, and I think rolerence ...