... Leeds. She explained that the father of our host was one of the most energetic Parliamentary advocates of the repeal of the Corn Laws.” She might have added that he made The Leeds Mercury one of the greatest papers of Its time, and that both he and his son ...

... Lore—a fascinating subject. There I learnt—and the time is peculiarly apt—that when Free Traders were seeking to repeal the Corn Laws and establish the fiscal system now ended, rings to represent the word repeal were popular, the stones being set in this ...

... military were not called on fire, and the worst that happened was that a number of persons found themselves in prison. The L Corn Laws were repealed four years [later. .S Here York- the shlre Warship Week tale, not Pail-fnll taken as more than tale, but which ...

... there the quesuT° x VO discuss it you will find it impossible to avoid it, return those had times of Protection, of the Corn Laws, which were res|x>nsiblc for the destitution and the starvation wages from which your forefathers suffered so greatly.—Yours ...

... rather flat the palate, but it has body. He removes the lusual misconception that was man standing for the abolition of the corn laws and little else, and ho exhibits hini. with detailed evidence, modern pacifist born halt century before his time. Palmerston ...

... named Yorkshire. Whether not Corn Law have forgotten their History will doubt know that this the centenary period the repeal of the corn laws. A notable event Leeds 100 ago this week was the West Riding ApU-Corn ...

... before repeal of the Corn Law*. could welt remember seeing hands of workmen convoyed a* prisoners along Lee dr. highroad in in tl* days of what, urns celled Plug Riots, escorted cavalry Wakefield Gaol. Five yearr. later t't* Corn Laws had been repealed, ...

... Parliamentary strength would be considerably reduced, for they are very unpopular. It is they who are keeping up the Corn Laws, the antiquated laws of combination, the Church control over the schools Prussia, absolutism of the Emperor, thus forming the backbone ...

... effort large-scale cookery that we have had these parts, for Pudsey, city song and legend, celebrated the repeal of the Corn Laws by boiling a plum pudding which weighed I.ooolb. There Qiust have been something very ltke an odour of sanctity about this ...

... of recalls Mr. Delane’s great journalistic scoop of 1845 in giving to the world the first intimation that the repeal the Corn Laws was imminent. Sidney Herbert had just joined the Cabinet, and the story got about that in an unguarded moment he had revealed ...

... and losing its trade ? No, gentlemen, absolutely n«. The exact revorse was the case. the years preceding the repeal the Corn Laws, and I would take especially the years from 1830 to 1841, there was a time of great prosperity in this country under Protection ...

... farmers, seeing that relief was to be expected, found their own cure. They grew less wheat, the price naturally rose, and the Corn Laws became a political issue. Had the British. Government In 1&36 taken the trouble to think out a price-fixing policy instead ...