... DSON OF CORN LAWS [ ‘NEVER-MERRY PEE ...

... THE ENGLISH CORN LAWS. THEIR AIM AND HISTORY A lecture oil 44 Modern History of English Rural Life: Agriculture under the Com Law a, 44 *as given Dr. A. G. Ru.ton, of Leeds University, before the Darlington Chamber of Agriculture yesterday. Mr. H. L. ...

... the abolition tho Corn Laws, ignoring the application of steam power to ships and machinery ar.d the extension of railways throughout the world. had what all the world required, and Free Trade or Protection, Com Laws or no Corn Laws, our ...

... with him, and noticed that in spite of his vast Falstaffian figure he did not look strong. His two great topics were the Corn Laws and Hermit’s Derby. The story of that Derby is one of the greatest romances of the Turf, and even in his 82nd year Viscount ...

... 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celebrate the peace-after the battle of Waterloo, and another—the first really big one—in 1846, when the Corn Laws were repealed.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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... for a large number of rats from near and far. Drawn by Horse Team. A huge pie was made to commemorate tho repeal of the Corn Laws, on August 29, 1846, and was drawn through the village by a team of thirty-one horses, headed by three brass bands. was baked ...

... its feet was a policy of protection. tinkering could put agriculture back to the position it held before the repeal of the Corn Laws. The Government had done all it could for agriculture. It had not done everything asked for, because there were reasons against ...