... Memories Important to the Farmers.—The debates on Mr. Villiers' motion for repealing the Corn Laws were adjourned on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the result of the division is not yet known. Lord Howick and other members of the Cabinet have spoken strongly ...

... farm products. Mr. needs reminding that agriculture this country was unsupported for eighty years after the repeal of the Corn Laws, and that no one was the better for it. Behind the dim unknown, Standeili God within the shadow, keeping watch above His ...

... Like his father, the first Viscount Peel, famous Speaker of the House of Commons, and his equally celebrated grandfathe Corn Laws —viscount Peel devoted his whole iif e to public work. He sat Conservative M.P. for Taunton from 1909 to 1912. when he ...

... the subject of the Corn Laws, when he took the chair and read a letter from Mr. Sandford, one of the county Members, worded in a similar style of doubt as is Mr. Buller's address, and recommending, not the repeal of the present law, but an alteration ...

... a just measure of protection? Perhaps a small fixed nominal duty 5 or 6 shillings per qtr. If he thought the present Corn Laws good, why seek an alteration or inquiry? Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, February 16-23, 1839. A recent occurrence ...

... Brauntonians who have never read its inscription though most are aware the tower wa s erected to commemorate the repeal of the Corn Laws. B»cc*ds of the monument are scanty, but it WAS probably erected between 80 and years ago- Nature Jotting August 14.-Rabbits ...

... the able leading article yesterday. Not only has agriculture in tm* country been unsupported since the repeal of the Corn Laws, but competing countries have received such support through subsidies and manipulation of currencies from their respective ...

... has been exceptionally large and important— more important than all the agricultural legislation since the repeal of the Corn Laws. Yet no one would think of pretending the results are satisfactory. In spite of the legislative effort there has been a ...

... electors enables them to take a much wider and more generous view of it than any Government has had since the repeal of the Corn Laws nearly a century age. If it has not entirely lost its force the taxation of food is no longer the Isaiah lv.: vv. 1, 2. Ho ...

... authors the theory. It is now nearly century since Cobden made his famous confession of faith: believe that if you abolish the Corn Laws honestly and adopt Free Trade in its simplicity there will not be a tariff in Europe that'will not be changed in less than ...

... nice if he would, but that thought iwe could manage. He has a habit, of i delivering dissertation on the stage on, say, the corn laws in Denmark or what happening Mongolia, and it is so interesting that all the actors just sit down and listen. The hours go ...

... Under the auspices of Tywardieath branch of the Workers' Educational Association, | Mr. F. L. Harris lectured I of the Corn Laws on Friday. itev. Hoare spoke at Foundry Wesley Guild on Fuday en Powei song.'' j Mr. (Townthend: was the soloist and Mr. ...