... OF THE CORN LAWS: PEEL LOSES A PARTY BUT WINS A NATION. When ho had built up a new party and reached the summit of his, power as Prime Minister, 'Peel Set about converting his Cabinet to grant moderate reforms in domes-. tie affairs. The COrn Laws' : were ...

... PEEL, THE STATESMAN. THE GREATEST MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT THAT EVER LIVED. CONSERVATIVE PRIME MINISTER WHO REPEALED THE CORN LAWS ...

... Manchester School. It was who with Richard Cobden and Charles Villiers was the principal factor is securing the abolition of the Corn Laws. Bright had a strong vein of irony, and he originated among other caustic phrases the Cave of Adullam by which he poured ...

... in political work, receiving his training under people who knew a little about the hungry times before the repeal of the Corn Laws. v jßSS^^^^BSwiS^f-^-'.-: .. ...

... conditions and re- quirements of Great Britain, “It is possible—indeed we know it to be the fact—that after the repeal of the Corn Laws there were enthusiasts who not only hoped but believed that all the world was going to follow our example. “For the last ...

... moo threatened actively show their hostility by attacking the house. By contrast, on his defeat after the rqpeal of the Corn Laws, he walked home through a crowd which doffed, their hats as he passed, and silently accompanied him to ...

... attended to the cultivation of the land, the daughters would weave. At that time more corn was grown in the district. The abolition of the corn laws transformed the corn fields of Pcndle Forest into meadows and pastures, but the transformation resulted in ...

... Ltd., and so will still no doubt find plenty to no at the big desk at which Cobden wrote his famous pamphlets against the Corn Laws. Leaving Adelphi-terrace must have been a wrench for Mr. Unwin, for his place is rich in literary associations, and his private ...

... 1788. The Waterloo pie was their second effort mammoth oookery. A third pie was made 1845 in honour the repeal of the Corn Laws. And true their traditions they celebrated the Queen's Jubilee in this novel manner. The pie on this oooaston contained the ...

... failure. She married the Earl in Xa9s. REPEAL OP THE CORN LAWS. FAMOUS NAMES FREE TRADE A I. Y . Under the auspices Midland Free Trade League, tho seventy-fourth anniversary of the repeal the Corn I-aws is lie brated by a Free Trade rally in the Botanical ...

... remotest degree constituted a breach of that pledge.” (Anpl.nise.) Going back 100 years—to the days of the Reform Bill and the corn laws, and more recently to insurance, and last but not least Home Rule—there had never been a great measure which the Tories had ...

... Robert Peel is remembered chiefly for his repeal of the Corn Laws, laws which prevented the importation of grain urgently required as food, in order that the landed proprietors of England might grow corn and sell it at a profit. Under Protection England was ...