... greater vacillation, and in the policy of @ great party than had been recorded since Catholic Emancipati was given or the Corn Laws repeated. (Cheers and laughter.) The Prime Minister claimed that the policy was fixed, ascertained, and immutable. Well, ...

... pie in 1815 to celebrate the peace-after the battle of Waterloo, and another—the first really big one—in 1846, when the Corn Laws were repealed. Proudly it is related how thirty-one horses drew this pie through cheering crowds, and how the platform on ...

... crashed the feudatory lords who claimed the right of private war, and did it in the common interest. The abolition of the Corn Laws affords a striking instance in our own history. To attain this end the peotde of England deliberately crushed their landed ...

... Another adverse factor to the fanner had to pay relatively more for the things essential to the farm. OLD CORN LAWS, A careful analysis of corn laws passed in England from the 13th century those responsible for the government of tho country would result ...

... conditions of the unem: ployed hand-loom weavers in Great Britain and Ireland, in which he advo- cated the repeal of the Corn Laws. ...

... His ideas have made their way with ever more compelling power since his death, as Disraeli foretold his last speech on the Corn Laws. “ With spirits softened by misfortune, have recurred to principles which alone can keep England great. Neville Chamberlain ...

... potatoes. The price .of flour at that period was very high, which caused great distress under the Corn Laws, and it was not until 1849 that these laws were abolished. I well remember the time when flour was much dearer than at present, and to have had ...

... Herrick, Chaucer, and many other poets and historians have been worked into the programme. A speech on the Abolition of the Corn Laws, originally made by Richard Cobden in the House of Commons on March 13, 1845, is to broadcast to the North on May by Mr. ...

... J. Fitzgerald stated to-day that no word had been received as from Major Belmont as to the question of obtaining per- e Corn laws for Mission to waive the benefit of Papyrus. A telegram signed by a lar; number of leading sportsmen Great Britain has despatched ...

... celebrating the prospect of a cheaper loaf and abundant supply cheap flour. This followed, of course, the repeal of the Corn Laws which had been brought into effect in June of the same year. The tendency to regard the State a universal provider had not ...

... granddaughter of a former Speaker of the House of Commons, and a great-granddaughter of Sir Robert Peel, who repealed the Corn Laws. She Is charming, competent and wise. She will do well on the London County Bench to which, with 34 other women, she has ...

... Gladstone in the Old Clotji Hall and Chamberlain in the Coliseum, when men hit with the gloves off, heard the echo of the Corn Laws and the Crimean War. My dear lads, nowadays if you say anything you have to apologise for hurting the feelings of your opponents ...