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AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL CHANGE

... America to-day gigantic scale in much the same general position England occupied during the vears leading to the repeal the corn laws. Just as England during those years bad gradually moved from agricultural to a manufacturing basis, so America has now passed ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1927
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

lAIIIED TO ACTRESS

... had the satisfaction of gaining a lieutenancy. lie i. the great-grandson of the Inniim, Sir Robert Peel who abolished the Corn Laws. and it was his father whose dispersal the celc prated Peel pictures caused such a sensa , tion in the art world in MO. when ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1927
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

MAUI I NEIL

... good r•bomeg P•r. Ranabin Avesae. Tudor Light' 0 PTO Aron 5 , P, pan err, or. Peeking Apply 202 lOU H.M. Hammon M Gregor Corn laws, ..d Grinder milt • .born ?mg me: toe lain to , —So. SlO3 R le. oa• Cittaler god Bogdan,. n 0 . ,. &war. 11•Hotg. NOW's. ...

Published: Monday 20 August 1928
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

JENIOR CLERK TO MANAGER

... huge pies, which have been served up in that village since i7BB. The last was made in 1896 to commemorate tho repeal of the corn laws fifty years before. This year's pie is to he made at a carnival in aid of the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. The Denby Dale ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1928
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 692 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Indian Secretaryship

... ever pieeided over the House of Common*, and that Sir Robert Peel whoao nam* i? prominently a-««iciated with the repeat the corn laws, and the establishment the police force celled Peel«r.-. bobbies.” Ilia Lordship new with, individual, the gf««l wishes oi ...

Published: Monday 20 March 1922
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GREAT FEAT OF NINETEENTH CENTURY

... abnormalities was almost loud ami persistent as that for reform of Parliamentary representation or for tho alWitiou of tests and Corn Laws. At that time the lowest charge for letter between London and Birmingham was ninepence, and if more than «a single sheet ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1929
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

OVER seventy years ago a Corn Exchange was established In Belfast. The big famine had sw-ept over the country, and

... where grinding was done for almost every parish. The corn laws and the famine altered all this, and there was a big importation of flour, wheat and Indian corn. Belfast merchants rose speedily to this opportunity of lucrative trade. Young aspirants to fortune ...

Published: Thursday 25 December 1924
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 331 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

GOLEM.”

... that the public can be hoodwinked into the .belief that the matter can disposed i»y the arguments which did duty when the Corn Laws re repealed, there is au unpleasant awakening in store for them. THE NORTHERN WHIG AND BELFAST POST, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1925
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHILD WHEN NAPOLEON DIED. LIVED UNDER SIX REIGNS. CENTENARIAN'S RECOLLECTIONS. Pittsburg has spoken to London ..

... Royal was with him, too. That was some time in the 'forties. What a crowd trailed along the pier after them! IN CORN LAWS PERIOD. The Corn Laws period stands out vividly In her recollections—l remember the poverty and distress. I say this notwithstanding ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 776 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A NON-POLITICAL VIEW

... The Protection policy represented the Corn Laws had previously held the field for sixty years, and eventually was washed away the deluge 1845—the rain which, says in his life of Cobden. rained away the Com Law*.” But. the man in the street in Belfast ...

Published: Tuesday 24 July 1923
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IND LABOUR PARTY

... abolished, and the first mild and thin instalment of Parliamentary reform took place. It was again 1846, when the lepeai Corn Laws was supijoaed, and believed, have laid (he lanned interest—that persistent and vital thing—in its grave. It was again—for ...

Published: Friday 18 January 1924
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LIVELY INCIDENT

... their progress an old man proudly exhibited to Mr. Cnurchill medal which was struck b commemoration of the repeal of the Corn Laws. Polling was very brisk throughout the day, and the return was expected show a much higher percentage of votes than at previous ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1923
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 7 | Tags: none