... Corn Laws Incident The .great constitutional historian, Henry Hallam, always contended that it was an apparent deficiency in British constitutional security that no: reports were made as to the debates which occurred in the Cabinet. He argued that it ...

... BACK TO THE CORN LAWS. *TU Other tierce «nU> Mr mreai. U> revet! kw rpeech •velender, 'm »,kJviuJt fMenl tell te U>el the Ooeeremcel erne int ...

... NEW CORN LAWS Mrs J. R. Clynes writes: Something is happening which feel that the mothers of Britain should insist on knowing about. We hare read of the distraught days of the old Corn Laws and the terrible times they brought to health and home. secret ...

... Corn Laws, and the removal disabilities on the Jews. Lord Jeffrey was raised to the Bench in May 1834. The public were concerned about the need of accommodation for steamers, and the Duke of Buceleuch intimated his intention of providing funds for the ...

... HENRY FOWLER CORN DUTY. Addressing a meeting Wolverhampton, Sir Henry id the depression of trade and the lack of employment are as nothing beside the mifeery and destitution which prevail«S when the Corn Laws were existence. The Corn Laws ...

... resulted. The repeal of the Corn Laws was more a fluke than deliberate intention of the British Parliament people. The wut days of the summer and autumn of 1845. according Mr Morley in his Life of Gobdeij, rained away the Corn Laws. There was no sensible ...

... The Hungry Forties. Among the political events which Mrs Brims mentioned was the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and she made an interesting note of the state of matters prevailing at the time in the city of Edinburgh. She was in the house ...

... in regard to the Corn Laws, Factory Acts, and Franchise. But in the earlier stages, when the cause of reform was unpopular, the Bishops have been in all cases adverse, and in not a few instances tho most vehement of opponents. CORN LAWS, EDUCATION, AND ...

... Britain’s Large Import Britain has long forgotten '* the Hungry ’Forties,” when the corn Laws were in force, as a result of a misguided attempt to encourage British agriculture, and men like Cobden and Bright and the Manchester School ...

... could each contribute to others’ comforts. And then we would learn more impressively the absurdity of such laws as the Corn Laws, and all such laws as are made only for the benefit of the few to the hurt of the many; and in a word the duty of permitting ...

... not the result the Corn Laws. In 1846, when they were at their worst, and tbe Irish famine had put the people of Ireland into a condition of despair, the price cf wheat was 54s 8d per quarter, and after the repeal of the Corn Laws the price was 55s 4d ...

... tax upon the prime necessary life There was fitter place than Midhurst to raise the protest, it was Cobden'a borne. The corn laws robbed the working class. ...