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DAZZLING AND BEAUTIFUL

... name of this great statesman lives the nickname of policemen, and in his change of opinion on the great question of the Corn Laws. Anyone is not wrong in changing his opinion. Of coarse, it must not done arbitrarily or selfishly. but to change one's opinion ...

11Worod 29fOrV

... 11Worod 29fOrV Lambert 8 Butler, London. PAPYRUS'S FODDER. the Relaxation of U.S. CornLaws. WASHINGTON. Thursday.—The of Anierioan sportsmen fora relaxation of the corn laws to enable fodder to be import ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1923
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 199 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEVON VILLAGE WATER QUEUE

... water once a day, when the village pump is unlocked. The pump noted is Hstoric. It was erected to mark the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the names of the great leaders of that campaign are deeply cut in the granite.-—(Photo ;■ Sanders, Winkleigh.) ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1921
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 57 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BIJOU THEATRE

... power from the agricultural the industrial interests. The repeal the Corn Laws in 18til was a further indication this change power. The Corn Laws were passed in the interest the corn producers, who were anxious secure high price f-*r their ...

FREE TRADE OR SAFEGUARDING

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1929
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

LONG SIII•PON

... part ia the Midland Free Trade League's eekehrations of the repeal of the Corn Laws in The dessendants of the three statenraen who were mainly eonnected w'th the repeal of the Corn Lave placed wreaths upon the statue of I, Robert Peel at Birmingham. Cobden ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1920
Newspaper: Langport & Somerton Herald
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 501 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A HUGE PIE

... huge pies which have been served up in that village since 1788. The last was made in 1896 to commemorate the repeal of the Corn Laws years before. This year's pie is to be made at carnival in aid of the Huddersfiold Royal Infirmary. The Denby Dale pies are ...

MSPEROUS CANADA. Creditor Nations Become Debtors

... balance of £34,032.099 in her favour. other country in history, the !e--view, except Great Britain after the repeal of the Corn Laws, has shown such an amazing change. In this period, Canada, besides enormously expanding her trade with Great Britain and ...

ONCE A RARE BIRD

... common—are quesrons not jet satisfactorily answered. The flood-gates seem to have been onened the spread of farming after the Corn Laws and the extermination of its wild enemies, bur something more than immunity from persecution appears to be involved. great ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1925
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 159 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

. DEATH OF MS. PEEL. Grandmother of Mrs. Devenish, of Bath. Mrs. Peal, Bristol's grand old lady, ' passed away

... was the widow of John Entwisle Peel, tho first cousin of the second Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister, who repealed the Corn Laws. She herself was related 10 the Philipps, of Picton Castle. The baronetcy, on the death of Sir Roland Philipps, was Mrs. ...

BATH AUTHORESS'S WILL

... other who died on August 26, aged 8L of Judge Perronet Thompson, daughter of Thomas Perronet & (M.P. for Hull, a strong opp° Corn Laws), left estate of the £ tf>,''J. £29.254, witih net personalt? , She left:—£2so to her Mary Chandler; £100 fl £ fff Taylor; ...

100 YEARS AGO

... 1 given the idea of ail avcr prices their contempl-ated the Corn Laws. A protect* 12®. a quarter, it is said; laid on imported wheat, and 0 the same proportion on other lion of Foreign Corn. ® ® ® observe by an advertise 106 another part of this paper ...

Published: Tuesday 18 January 1927
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 6 | Tags: none