... Balfour said 60 years ago. repeal of the corn laws. the two* decided that beam/ord. development of this country must be man. lamming rather than raral. ...

... salver link with Corn Laws: Gift to Council ' On January I. 1847. Mr. James Fielding. of Mearclough. Sowerby Bridge, was presented with a silver salver. bearing the inscription: Presented to Mr. James Fielding. by the operative Corn Law repealers of Sowerby ...

... °free Ilat had agriculturists of a century ago listened to the commis of At a time when food was scarce In England. and corn laws kept wheat prices soaring, Oobbett wrote a book: - A Treatise on Cobbetth In alga he advocated the growth and of mains In ...

... born. It was he who, with Richard Cobden and Charles Valid's, was the principal factor in securing the abolition of the Corn Laws. Both Bright and Cobden spoke in Halifax, and on one oocasion appears.' together on the one platform. Two other of to.day'a ...

... addition to corn and fodder, be token to America if tho match between Papyrus, the winner of the Derby, and the best American oorse takes place at Belmont l'ark. The delay in making the final arrangements is caused by the American Corn Laws, which forbid ...

... SIEVENTY years ago to-day died Richard Cobden, the Apostle of Free Trade, whose tireless labours for the abolition of the corn laws attained their object in 1848 and swept away many of the horrors of the Hungry Forties. , By his own desire he was buried ...

... with such national figures as John Bright and Richard Cobden in fighting for the repeal of the Corn Laws, These Laws, which imposed a heavy impart duty on corn and proved a terrible hardship to working-class families, were repealed round about 1841. T. ...

... spot of earth. In the one you think of good crops, and from good crops go to money-making, and then follow in suooession corn laws, politics, and all the little heart-burning, spirit-souring aseoeiatiorui connected with them. is not the plans, and such ...

... News. 10.10: Music from Opera. 11.9: Dance Music. 11.30: News. TO-MORROW: 9.0: NPI%S, 9.10: Records. 10.0: Repeal of the Corn Laws ,SchooLo. 10.20: Rendezvous Players. 10.45: Current Affairs I Forces Educational . 11.0: Troise and his Ntandoliers. 11.30: ...

... 31 years, that Edward Akrovd began to take part in public affairs. He took a leading part in promoting the repeal of the Corn Laws; in the provision of railway facilities for Halifax; the obtaining of the town's Charter of Incorporation in 1848: the a ...

... BIRTHDAY OF FR= TRADE. TO-MORROW WILL BB THE FIFTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY. January 31, 1819: saw the final abolition of the Corn Laws. A bang:it was held et Manchester, which was prolonged past midnight to welcome the first day of Free Trade. Agee then of ...

... on the 8.8. C. Home Service to-morrow evening. The play. based on Richard Cobden's campaign which resulted in the of the Corn Laws a hundred years ago, was written by a young KeighleY man. There are dialect parts from all areas of the country and Mr. Harding ...