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REPEALING THE CORN LAWS-1842-1852

... of historical interest. Mr John Benjamin Smith, the first chairman of the Corn Law League, also became, though not for some five or six years after the repeal of the Corn Laws, a Liberal Ml'. for Stockport. The position taken by the Advertiser was ...

THE COHN LAWS

... THE COHN LAWS. it Anniversary Study. 1111 l th there the lli anniversary 44 the Rets•al of the Corn Laws. and in view of present us,nulitions it way be helpful to the conditions prior It, 1846. Just ii. we regard 1917 as the period of agrieultnral soberly ...

Published: Friday 09 June 1922
Newspaper: Peterborough Standard
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: | Words: 503 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

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... conditions, but at the same time professing adherence to the policy of Mr. Canning, particularly as favouring the repeal the Corn Laws. ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1922
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 114 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... the walls a the Town Hallthere to be disposed of to the best bidder. . . . Finally, let the watchword be' Plenty and no Corn Laws.' Whether this hit Mr. Mundy too hard I cannot say, but at all events he dropped out of the fray. ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1922
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JUNE ¢,

... JUNE ¢, The Archbishop of Paris is killed by the Republicans while atiending the dying, 1548 Corn laws repealed, 1546, John Morleys's resolution censuring the (o-;arnmenl administration of Ireland is lost 88K, Massacre of Carnew, 1791, George 1V dicd ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1922
Newspaper: Galway Observer
County: Galway, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OF LABOUR

... of the Corn Laws!! How, . „then, could the Repeal of the Corn Laws mean cheaper food for the workers if it were calculated to send, up the price of corn? Let us remember that Marx delivered this address two years after the Repeal of the ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1922
Newspaper: Justice
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1491 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN BRIGHT’S BIRTH

... feelings in faultless English. The two most famous examples of his oratory are to be found probably in his speech on the Corn Laws in Covenfc Garden in the year 1845, when he spoke of The Recording Angel who noted the patient endurance of the suffering ...

Published: Friday 17 November 1922
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

4[‘ . population of Ireland decreased. Harold Spencer tells us how Protectionist Prime Minister Peel, turned ..

... Peel, turned Whig, abolished the. Corn Laws to save the Irish people from starvation ; the population of Ireland then was 8 1/5 millions, to-day it is 4 millions. Briefly, the principle of these important 1785 Corn Laws measures was that certain bounties ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1922
Newspaper: Dublin Leader
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

THE FOUR HORSEMEN, AT THE PALACE THEATRE

... all his whims I- =a The Reading of the Will to his French and German Sons=in=Law When the Centaur dies his estate is divided equally between the German and French sons-in-law; the former he had in his life despised, but his intention of leaving his whole ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 319 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs