... issue that they were contesting. He reminded his hearers that hundred years ago the Corn Laws were operation. Those laws meant thai foreign countries could not send corn into this country without paving heavy tax The result was that the landlords got rich ...

... Lusiad? 5. is the Heptateuch? 6. —What period is known as a lu-trum? 7. —Who was Melpomene? What he not? 9. —Who repealed the Corn Laws? —Who was known as Old Hickory ? ANSWERS to PREVIOUS SET of QUESTIONS. I.—Who wrote Bright with names that men remember ...

... our commerce and industries collapse—hold the sort of posi* tion in the National economy that did before the repeal of the Corn Laws. And any attempt to set this particular humptydumpty up again can only result first in misery and starvation in the towns ...

... right of the lord of the manor to the best jewel, beast, or chattel of a deceased copyhold tenant. 9. —Who repealed the Corn Laws? —Sir Robert Peel. 10 —Who was known as Old Hickory Andrew Jackson (American). ...

... time of the Crimean War and the sending of puddings to the troops in Russia, and often spoke with peculiar knowledge of the corn laws and incidents connected therewith. Mr Taylor died in • April, 1893, so that she survived him exactly 28 years. Her home and ...

... word amusement 4. —Who described. Oxford as the home lost causes ? 5. —What was the immediate cause the repeal of the Corn Laws? 7. —Whence does sherry gets ' its name? 7. —Why is the. gallery of a theatre referred to as being among the gods ? 8. —What ...

... 4. —Who described Oxford as the home of lost causes? Matthew Arnold. 5. —What was the immediate cause the repeal of the Corn Laws? A famine in Ireland, in 184 G. 6. —Whence does sherry get its name? —From Xeres in Spain, its principal place exportation ...

... electric telegraph, werei making themselves felt, and all this was combined the benefit resulting from the abolition the Corn Laws and the general movement towards Free Trade. so-eailcd inflation of that period (of which Air Johnston approves) forced prices ...

... British national finance had always i.ad to depend. * It was the' adoption the Liberal policy' that led tq the repeal the Corn Laws, and the putting of national finance a sound level Saving had always teen the Liberal line at the Exchequer; retrenchment ...

... yet corresponds not unfavourably with Dorset where the lowest daiiy wage was quoted at sixpence. The Poor Law Act of lS34,the abolition the Corn Laws, the Gangs Act, allotment legislation, and the Education Acts 1870-1576 mark the beginning of recovery in ...

... authority of the country in legislating for the relief of 1-} millions of unemployed now in our midst. R. S. G. W. Sin, —The Corn Laws were the direct result of the demonetisation of silver by England 181G, which caused the hungry forties. 1849 new gold ...

... ment had opened exactly live 1 '* earlier, and .that the Coin Laws w be abolished. The Editor of the 'C° preceded the detailed announcement eloquent passage part which h« quoted: The Corn Laws are ' abolished, and the whole taiilT ' s (I fl revised, the ...