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... Ho was ever the strenuous opponent of tho disastrous policy of free imports and indifference to our Dominions . When tho Corn Laws wore repealed lio prophesied the diro conseauciiccs which would follow . Ho also boliovod in Colonial Preference . In * rgreat ...
... sonzs by the Northern Stfidelter’ and Hageman in 7-30. io Orchestra’s concert at At 840 a speech on the ¢t Aholition of i}le Corn Laws,’’ originally made by Richard Cobden, M.P. for Stockpart, in the House of Commons on March 13, 1845, is to be T¢ delivered ...
... April 19. 1541. and ha: riot of local and . When she horn the young ()oven Victoria hail I ri g only four years. and the Corn Laws not repealed until live years later. Site has a reinarliabl• clear 4of the Crimean 'War. which beaan h- was 12, and later ...
... °free Ilat had agriculturists of a century ago listened to the commis of At a time when food was scarce In England. and corn laws kept wheat prices soaring, Oobbett wrote a book: - A Treatise on Cobbetth In alga he advocated the growth and of mains In ...
... tcveral ith the aid vour allies, you will win. but to the can tell you this, that just as the ram washed Ir. Hob ay the Corn Laws, so unemploymnot wui away this ~ became ten then was Com- ...
... Like his father, the first Viscount Peel, famous Speaker of the House of Commons, and his equally celebrated grandfatner. Corn Laws Peel, Viscount Peel devoted his whole life to public work. To all his tasks he applied a calm, cool mind. His apparent blandness ...
... Government were leading the country . backward [ and downward .: At the moment tho Government . was : in effect re-imposing the Corn Laws arid . all the Protectionist taxes . which . existed before 1840 , * and with Colonial- preference taxes super-added . ' ...
... enjoyed unequalled prosperity , I wish that I could agree with him , but surely he realises that prior to the repeal ol the Corn Laws the poverty of tbo inhabitants was unparallellcd in tho history of this land , It was during tho early Victorian days that ...
... England from a Protectionist into a Free Trade country: it has taken three weeks to reverse the process. Yet the repeal of the Corn Laws, which set the Tory squires of the 'forties of the last century shouting night after night against the traitor Peel, is ...
... would exclaim in dignantly, his left eye twitching with anger. You have the impudence to offer me a bribe to repeal the Corn Laws Come, come, my man You have mistaken your Member! Oh, yeah? the other would answer, very abashed. Utterly mistaken him ...
... lkiddies. It is fashionable these days In decry Cobtlenism and all it stood for. Let us not forget that the abolition of the Corn 'Laws broke I down one of the most sinister monopolies the country has ever seen. Protection or no Protection, we cannot dragoon ...
... the soil, and was accompanied by the steady enclosure of the commons, causing a vast increare of rents. Reinforced by the Corn Laws, the squirearchy was put thoroughly on ' its feet. We're still living down those all too characteristic days of huntingscenes ...