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... Anti-Corn Law League used that fact. and so aueceeded in getting the laws abolished. The repeal of those laws hit the farmer and knocked him out, and nobody benefited by the change. We were suffering today from that repeal of the Corn Laws ...
... peace policy. And Free Trade in corn. Ile is remembered still (especially by the Protectionist Press) as the Apostle of Free Trade. What is not so often remembered is that his fight for the abolition of the iniquitous Corn Laws was due to conviction based ...
... ContinuPd from Pm.,lln. Column. of the war—the Crimean War—and of , the introduction of the Corn Laws and the riots that followed. On of her ambitions was to buy a little trap and go out to the old , places Mrs. Merriott described her first husband ...
... Miscellaneous FREE TRADER.-The Corn Laws were repealed in 1946. ROWLAND.- Penny postage was introduced in Britain in 1114 C. JIMMY THE ONE.- The year 1960 was a Leap Year, and Feb. 29 fell on a Wednesday. A. J.-The assassination of the Archduke Francis ...
... The Corn Law Peril SOMETIIING is happening about which I feel that the mothers of Britain should insist on knowing. We have read of the distraught days of the old Corn Laws and the terrible , times they brought to health and home. To-day secret discussions ...
... FROM MRS. J. R. CLYNES The Cern Laws LIOMETITING is happening which T feel 1, - , that the mothers of !trite)/ insist on knowing about. We have reed of the distraught days of the old Corn Laws and the terrible times they brought to henith and home. T4-day ...
... Her grandfather was a Speaker of the House of Commons, and her great-grandfather was that Sir Robert Peel who repealed the Corn Laws about a hundred years ago. Her mother was a daughter of Lord Ashton, Lancashire multimillionaire. Lady Doris has four children ...
... justified. FAVOURING LANDED INTERESTS The most serious objection to the Corn Laws was not that they favoured the landed interests, although they did this to an outrageous extent. The Corn Laws came into being in the 14th century and had persisted through the ...
... highland gathering at Balmoral, the Crimean War, the first V.C., the first night of Jenny Lind at the opera, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the Indian Mutiny, Disraeli announcing the acquisition of Suez. Gladstone reducing the Income Tax from sixpence to fourpence ...
... earnings Idler or bungler. or both. he is willing To fcrk out his penny and pocket your shilling. —Ebenezer Elliott. The Corn Laws Rhymer. ...
... a new Town Hall. It has become human We don't do that. says Authority. Whv not? says Joe We aren't living under the Corn Laws now. Let s be matey! ' So Manchester will be matey next November. Joe didn't call it a banquet He called do. I was ...
... Mazzini born, 1805. [lB4B. Battle of the Barricades, Paris, Window Tax abolished, 1851. [1912. Pd.-Marshal Sir G. White died, Corn Laws repealed, 1846. 111.rriet Martineau died, 1876. ...