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Distress prevails !

... light that they (the petitioners) regard the evils which spring out of the present Corn Laws and it is in a commercial pojgit of view that they connect with the Corn Laws the distress which now unhappily prevails. says one passage from the speech. Lord ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1955
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 138 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 04 February 1955
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 255 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

sold

... represent the people at all, and after the Napeolonic Wars there was an outcry from the citizens of Manchester when the Corn Laws sent the price of bread up to Is. a loaf. But their grievance could not be heard in Parliament, because they had no M.P.s ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 299 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ANSWERS Strange cargo

... in each case.) suffering from seasickness. measure for the repeal of Fit the completed roller Two unusual animals are the Corn Laws in 1846. inside the cigar -box and among the cargo. There is • The heaviest bell in screw at each end through the trap-door ...

Published: Saturday 13 March 1954
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 350 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Crop failure

... 1845 and 1846—a disaster which had severe repercussions in England and was the chief factor in causing the repeal of the Corn Laws, which had been successfully keeping grain out of Britain and maintaining high prices for home agriculture. For the Irish ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 387 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

' MUTE SWAN IS NOT SO DUMB

... situation of the day deepened. especially so far as the corn laws were concerned. From time to time he addressed public meetings. In 1838 an important event. for him. occurred At a lecture on the corn laws the appointed speaker - proved himself unequal to the ...

Published: Thursday 08 January 1953
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1655 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'LUMP OF OLD IRON' MAY BE HISTORIC RELIC

... fascinating Interest. When the And of the old, print a poem celebrating the Iron was made, Mr. Spencer Repeal of the Corn Laws in recalled an old newspaper cutting, a Procession In Colne. ,000 any event, the press dated 1889. In which a Mr. dlsapp€ared ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1953
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 585 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Mr. Manchester's Diary

... of the Central Library. Mr. Laski writes. The speech was made when Lord Clarendon presented a petition in 1840 about the Corn Laws. signed by nearly 1.600 businessmen and firms of Manchester and Salford, representing a capital of at least £3OM.' copies ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1955
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1017 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

.FT Liverpool Gentlemen n. And Manchester Men

... materialistic outloollt, nor to discard laissez faire economics. Memories of Peterloo and the pool incubus. Manchester would Corn Laws were slow to fade. nourish again. for as John Bright had reminded It so happened that a London them, they had discovered ...

Published: Monday 07 April 1952
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LUCK Clin ClT f( Y ANKLES as The T’hE FANS wifn The m MISSUS R£ forgive if oe’d GRASS IF

... Although MCC and Australia agree that the law should be re-examined they have been unable to come to any satisfactory solution for this season Therefore the umpires will have the sole responsibility to interpret the law as it now stands For Chester Cup Stanley ...

Published: Friday 04 May 1956
Newspaper: Manchester Evening Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1271 | Page: 31 | Tags: none