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... . FREE TRADE. COMPARISON WITH CORN LAW DAYS. Bditor of the “Shields Daily News) %&mu.m the life of John Bright (Trevelyan), one of the great leaders with Cobden in the .ghlha for the repeal ol the Corn Laws in the early years of last century, and have ...
... situation which had called forth these new proposals oi the Government. Long ago—as far back as 1846 in point of fact—when the Corn Laws were repealed, this country abandoned the idea of protecting agriculture, and thereby gave up all hepe for the future of ...
... wages and the repeal of the Corn Laws. But combinations were forbidden, and the Corn Laws were not repealed until 1850. The Government toak a course more in keeping with its mentality. The first thing it did was to&au the Poor Law Amendment ...
... State Benefit. - ‘““We have never had such a state of things in this country since the days before the repeal of the old Corn Laws. In that time thousands of men had to go to the Guardians for relief to supplement their wages. “I cannot think that the ...
... very vivid recollection of the state of Barrowford previous to the repeal of the Corn Laws. Barrowford, at that time, was a centre of the agitation for the repeal of the laws, and a procession of all the local trades and workers was organised to celebrate ...
... remained at Cowling a number of old weavers who could remember the agitations for the first Reform Bill and the repeal of the Corn Laws. ‘Tt was on these political memories I was nurtured,” he said, in convérsation with a representative of “ The Observer,”” ...
... cheerfuluess. Edwin Waugh, as 1 have said, was born in 1817. About the year 1847, twelve months after the Repeal of the Corn Laws, he went to live in Manchester. Between those dates working folk in England suffered more, perhaps, than during any other ...
... him and passed the resolution of protest. One hundred years ago this week a Horncastle petition against a repeal of the corn laws was forwarded to the county members of that day. It contained 847 names, and was considered at that time to have been signed ...
... corpses to be buried in woollen shrouds,—& penalty of £ (equal to about £lOO to-day) for breach cf the law to b enforced against the Jamily. The Corn Laws passed vy the Leg. lature (largely landowners) for the supposed benefit of agriculture, resulted in ...
... written.”” Every remedy that he sugg?ud has had to be applied: sanitation, better housing, shorter hours, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the care of children to reduce mortality among them, education. Nearly a hundred vears ago he wag an advocate of measures ...
... Test and Corporation Acta?—SBir Robt. Peel and the Duke of Wellington; and the -nni::zn d : repealed th. Ooic om ; and wl e Corn Laws but Sir Robert Peel’ Who fought for the working dfi when the Factory Acts wore passed? as it not John Morgan Cobbet, Mr. Disraeli ...
... occurred in her lifetime: the abolition of slavery, the first Factory Act, Rir Robert Peel’'s ministry and the repeal of the Corn Laws, the Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, American Civil War, and many others, ending with the Great Furopean War Wonderful is the ...