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The Repeal of the Corn Laws A TWO YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF FREE TRADE

... The Repeal of the Corn Laws A TWO YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF FREE TRADE. A correspondent forwards us a copy of the resolution passed at the Drury Lane Theatre, Tondon, on April 29th, 1851, vn the motion of Earl Winchilsea, seconded by Mr., Bull, Q.C., with ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1912
Newspaper: Farnworth Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE NEW CORN LAWS, the the old ones, will enri,h the and irnpoverish the people. increase when all the mutable

... THE NEW CORN LAWS, the the old ones, will enri,h the and irnpoverish the people. increase when all the mutable is cheep and Se get. Taxation of cheapen land. Write for explanatory literature to Land, Vsluee League 5, _Croeistreat, Manchester, or to Values' ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1917
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 147 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

hare had an analogous system before in the corn laws enacted and 182 ft, providing .‘tiding scale of duties, which

... hare had an analogous system before in the corn laws enacted and 182 ft, providing .‘tiding scale of duties, which hi I pric rose prices fell ami the law*. Tailed to achieve the objects they were ostensibly designed for. The cardinal fallacy of the bounty ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1912
Newspaper: Bolton Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 497 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... Reformers. The abolition of the Corn Laws was not carried Cobden'e speeches. It was carried by the Irish famine, and what the Irish famine did for the Corn Laws two had winters would do for the cause of Fiscal Reform/’—Mr. Ronar Law, after a ...

A COBDENITE LEGEND DESTROYED

... abolition the Corn Laws. Taking the averago price corn decennial periods throughout last century. Dr. Cunningham shows that, after rapid drop 1816, the price only very gradually declined until the eighties, in spite the repeal of the Corn ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1911
Newspaper: Preston Herald
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Great Liverpool M.P. Liverpudlians may note with interest that ninety years ago to-day the great George ..

... Liverpool must always be verv proud of its association with his memory. He did great deal to pave the way for the reform of the Corn Laws, and very unfortunate that difference of opinion between Peel and himself prevented these two eminent men being members of ...

Published: Tuesday 10 April 1917
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PROTECTIONIST GERMANY

... debate the increased cost living was reamed the Reichstag to-day. Count Kanitz said that in Great Britain the repeal of the Corn Laws brought agriculture standstill, and Germany would sutler the same it the duties were removed. Dr. Belbrueck said that Great ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1911
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

POST-WAR STRIFE

... active unrest. If you reckon from 1815 to the Reform Act, it was 17 years, but .the real climax was the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846. Reconstruction after the American Civil War took a very bitter form. It was seven years after the close of the, ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1919
Newspaper: Widnes Examiner
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NELON LIBERAL CLUB BAZAAR

... of Barnoldswick. described the Insurance Bill as the greatest Act of Parliament passed in England since the repeal of the Corn Laws. He believed its influence on the social life of the country would be greater than they had had any (xmception of. The receipts ...

Published: Thursday 09 October 1913
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF LORD WEMYSS. THE END OF A NOTABLE CAREER

... Lady Wemyss was present. Lord Wemyss, whose public career covered a rn'od of 73 {:u's. played a part in the repeal of the Corn Laws, nndv the modern controversies of Tariff Reform. A Minister in the Crimea Cabinet, he lived to move a vote of confidence ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1914
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOLDEN WEDDING

... Blackpool. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were born within a few days of each other in May, 1846, the vear notable for the Repeal of the Corn Laws and Irish Potato Famine, and _they were married at the Westgate Chapel, Burnley, in March, fifty years ago. ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1918
Newspaper: Blackpool Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 8 | Tags: none