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PAPYRUS AND THE CORN LAWS

... PAPYRUS AND THE CORN LAWS Still Awaiting the All-Important New York Cable.'. Mr. G. Fitzgerald, interviewed in London yesterday morning, in regard to the proposed between Papyrus and an American horse, said that no cable had yet been received from Nevv ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1923
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE ENGLISH CORN LAWS. THEIR AIM AND HISTORY

... 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. ...

FACTORY CHILDREN

... specially interesting to-day. speaking of the burden of the Corn Laws on industry, and comparing the respective conditions of England and Prussia. “Though the Prussians are not blessed with Corn Laws, or with paupers, great or small, they arc making scissors ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1926
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE HIE ORY OF FREE TRADE

... held up their corn, and the condition of the worlzing classes was one of ex- - treme hardship, Not only did the workers revolt, but Many others, including Ebenezer Elliott, the great corn law rhymer, of Masbro', who attributed to the Corn ...

THE CABINET AXD THER POTATOES

... more regularity. But on one occasion potato disease (which is said to have been instrumental in settling the repeal cf the Corn Laws) was prevaleat. in. the ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1925
Newspaper: South Bank Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CORN L4H'.y

... question of the Corn Laws. Sheffield 5D Years Ago ir, Orlohcr. /»;«] [Price Jd. ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1926
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COLONEL STEPHENSON

... your readers of that old bogy. Protection. In 1845 a famine broke out in Ireland. The restriction of the Corn Laws (i.e., the tax on imported corn) added immensely to the price of food, and before that famine was checked over 25 per cent, of the population ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1923
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A LESSON FROM THE PAST

... 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 ...

LXRIN HISTORY

... of Cora:nuns, annual Parliaments, universal male suffrage, vote by ballot, reduction of taxation, and the repeal of the Corn Laws. The Chartist movement had many active mattes in Calder Valley, and both F.rnest loner. and Fergus O'Connor were often is ...

DENBY DALE PIES

... ago, that the last of these pies was provided, and it was appropriately in celebration of the jubilee of the repeal of the Corn Laws. The first pie was said to have been made in the reign of George 111., in 1788, in commemoration of the recovery of the King ...