... began 181-J. four years before the abolition of the Corn Laws. But what happened in 1842? That was tire year in which Sir Robert Peel began tire series which culminated in the abolition of tire Corn Laws. The tariff in 1312 iucluded articles, and Peel reduced ...

... better than study the history the old corn laws in England. Mr Cox then gave some striking illustrations of the distressed condition of agriculture in various English counties in the years 1833 and when high corn taxes were in existence. The labourer ...

... tive enactments of this later time are the now historical Corn Laws, Iu 1846, after much agitation, in which such men as Cobden and Bright figured covspicuously, c.ms the repeal of the Coru Laws, The of the potato crop of the Uuited Kingdom, and more ...

... saddled with poor rate unendurably heavy. The new poor law of 1834 struck at the very root of these evils, and the repeal of the Corn Laws was the natural corollary and supplement of the new poor law. If they wanted to* realise the condition the working ...

... under corn crop, now only 8,350,000 ac,es are under corn crops 4 million acres were under wheat, now 1,400 000 acres. ifadicals say this is due to the gresdy landlords, but as a matter of fact, of course, in the districts where wheat and other corn crops ...

... and to say that the circumstances of the present day offer no parallel whatever to the period before the repeal of the Corn Laws, Since then the whole conditions of trade have bean altered by railways, electricity, and other inventions. The working men ...

... 12s. a week. He vividly remembered the operatives being entertained sumptuously at the firm's expense on the repeal of the Corn Laws. Ile had sex children, thirty-nine grandchildren, and twenty-two greatgrandchildren. ENGLISHMAN'S SUICIDE AT NICE. A Paris ...

... Mr ol- Menzies at £42,050. A public meet he Cromarty condemned the Corn Laws. March 20.—The heritors and Commissio: Supply of the cointy of Inverness met sider the state of the Corn Laws. Tytier moved a resolution in favour ire exist stem. Lord Lovat mov ...

... passing of the Corn Laws, were as follows :—England 118 8d per gallon, Scotland 6s 2d, Ireland 5s 70. These duties were reduced in 1826 to 75 in England and 2s 1041 in Scotland and Ireland, whilst in 1845, just before the repeal of the Corn Laws, the duties ...

... sad • brighter day . will dawn over Britain, industry will receive an impetus greater than it did from the repeal of the Corn Laws, the civilisatore in obscurity and the industrious classes too busy to bother . with the affairs of other countries. will ...

... present King, and which announced the intention of the Government to deal with the corn laws. Lord Derby gave him an office in the Government in 1859 as President of the Poor Law Board, but he held it only for a few months. In 1867 he was taken into Lord Derby's ...

... They learned of the abolition of the Corn Laws in their school books, and the introduction of Free Trade. There was nothing human, however, but was subject to change. He was not against change in itself. It was the law of their nature. But when a momentous ...