... water once a day, when the village pump is unlocked. The pump noted is Hstoric. It was erected to mark the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the names of the great leaders of that campaign are deeply cut in the granite.-—(Photo ;■ Sanders, Winkleigh.) ...

... Memories Important to the Farmers.—The debates on Mr. Villiers' motion for repealing the Corn Laws were adjourned on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the result of the division is not yet known. Lord Howick and other members of the Cabinet have spoken strongly ...

... farm products. Mr. needs reminding that agriculture this country was unsupported for eighty years after the repeal of the Corn Laws, and that no one was the better for it. Behind the dim unknown, Standeili God within the shadow, keeping watch above His ...

... was ubjected to a great deal ridicule. He made his name, however, when he attacked Sir Robert Peel on Uie question of the Corn Laws. was at this juncture that his political life really commenced. ...

... following. Sigur by da Corn Lawa than hefare te end wheat wero cheaper after = from T9908, i gil give the mean bi price for the 4ib. loaf the averaze price for the Care Laws period to wes — of penay under the free imports be THE CORN Laws, FREE | He owe es ...

... judgment, will do more to hinder or to assuage human than any bill carried by the Legislature cince the abolition of the Corn Laws, The three principal causes of poverty and destitution in the homes of the industrial popula- tion of the country are ill-health ...

... Like his father, the first Viscount Peel, famous Speaker of the House of Commons, and his equally celebrated grandfathe Corn Laws —viscount Peel devoted his whole iif e to public work. He sat Conservative M.P. for Taunton from 1909 to 1912. when he ...

... the subject of the Corn Laws, when he took the chair and read a letter from Mr. Sandford, one of the county Members, worded in a similar style of doubt as is Mr. Buller's address, and recommending, not the repeal of the present law, but an alteration ...

... a just measure of protection? Perhaps a small fixed nominal duty 5 or 6 shillings per qtr. If he thought the present Corn Laws good, why seek an alteration or inquiry? Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, February 16-23, 1839. A recent occurrence ...

... shows the interior of a farmhouse and the family consultation about the prospects of its younger members, ltepeal of the Corn Laws was then ba sight—it came two years later—and the farmer, who is the speaker, made to declare his intention of giving farming ...

... fiscal reform, with the original “demand for inquiry” st on May 15th lest, and ending with ot he chanted coven ahi of the Corn Laws,” detivered elo in Birmingham on November 4th, is today as Richards at the price of one serite form a complete demand for ...

... founding a century ago by Charles Dickens of the Daily News and the momentous events of that epochal year, Repeal of the Corn Laws, birth of Free Trade and of Liberalism and expansion the railways with the dawn of the atomic age and the arrival of a Socialist ...