... when addressing the annual meeting of the Gloucestershire the N.F.U. at Gloucester, j Dorinan-bmith said: In the of the Corn Laws marked the beginof the decline of agriculture, but he hoped that 1!136 would see the in ...

... stated to date back to the Hungry Forties. The Hungry Forties is a term applied to the period prior to the repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel in 1846, when, owing to the high price of food, distress was common among the working population. Another ...

... countrie of these peelers. Milton also used the word in his Paradise Regained. was Sir Robert Per! who in 1846 repealed the Corn Laws in face of tremendous opposition, but was defeated on his Irish Coercion Bill, resigned, and went over to the Opposition ...

... landlords. . . The sion of trade, the lack of employment, is nothing beside the misery and destitution which prevailed when the Corn Laws ware in full force.” I turn from this gloomy nictiue with sigh rslisf and fixed resolutions, and content ...

... “governing” class. His career English statesman was abnormal in almost every particular. He won his victory over the oppressive Corn Laws outside Parliament, and not in if. He conquered Parliament convincing the people. was a political apostle; a missionary of ...

... would look sooner or later to ll these things was the Liberal ,{irt s' fight would the most terrible the abolition of the Corn Laws W Cobden. It would devolve f resolute men in the near future Liberal Party, and in saving tl 1 r the Liberal Party they would ...

... had great heritage Liberalism, and it was unlikely that would revert to the traditions of the barbarism of the days of tho corn laws. The Labour Party the last election asserted that they had a definite policy for curing unemployment, and had the cheekto ...

... Lusiad? 5. is the Heptateuch? 6. —What period is known as a lu-trum? 7. —Who was Melpomene? What he not? 9. —Who repealed the Corn Laws? —Who was known as Old Hickory ? ANSWERS to PREVIOUS SET of QUESTIONS. I.—Who wrote Bright with names that men remember ...

... our commerce and industries collapse—hold the sort of posi* tion in the National economy that did before the repeal of the Corn Laws. And any attempt to set this particular humptydumpty up again can only result first in misery and starvation in the towns ...

... Sir, —Your correspondent Town Husband, objects to my statement that neglect of agrculture began with the abolition of he Corn Laws about 1848. It was from this time that the acreage of tilled land began decrease, that some of it was not prciperly seeded ...

... right of the lord of the manor to the best jewel, beast, or chattel of a deceased copyhold tenant. 9. —Who repealed the Corn Laws? —Sir Robert Peel. 10 —Who was known as Old Hickory Andrew Jackson (American). ...

... verge revolution when the Corn Laws were repealed. Chamberlain finished hit speech saying—” is well remember these things.” do remember them, and we want know why these things should have waited ' improve until the Com Laws were repealed I •* ?“*•. kora ...