... Blame the Corn Laws YOUR correspondent who - A. accused Sir Waldron Stnithers of wanting to return to 1820 shouid brush up his history. The evil conditions of that period were largely the result of grim protectionismthe worst examp:e of which was the ...

... of the Britain of those days : doubts about the monarchy, the trials of the hungry forties, with its potato famine. The Corn Laws repeal was Just around the corner. Revolution was in the air of Europe. The glory of the Victorian age was not even a misty ...

... be the biggest mass lobby in history. So far as I can check, the nearest approach to it was a crowd of 8,600 during the Corn Laws agitation in 1846. It seems to me all the more unnecessary, therefore, for the organisers to go In for publicity gimmicks ...

... ourselves with this Common Market: it will be a date in our fiscal history comparable in importance with the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1844, which inaugurated close on a century of free trade, and with the Iroport Duties Act of 1932 which beat the retreat ...

... buzzas or cat-calls. And by the time it had become plain that, say. the passage of the Reform Bill or the Repeal of the Corn Laws were occasions for rejoicing, peoVe had to search th&r memories to recall what it was they accomplished. It Is difficult ...

... Government should not be totally undone by the next. Fundamental changes like the Reform Bill of 1832 or the repeal of the Corn Laws were accepted by opposition parties. In these circumstances, the democratic system worked. ...

... still a partnership of crop and stock, of corn and horn. The point about that ancient. unimproved farming is that it is still modern farming for the greater part of the world. which the Repeal of the Corn Laws had left us no power 01 regulation. The arable ...

... there were dances and boxing._ _ The Anti-Corn Law League first erected a wooden structure in 1840, but a brick building soon followed, the first to be called the Free Trade Hall, and In it the repeal of the Corn Laws was ceiebrated in 1849. Twenty years ago ...

... years ago there was a preponderance of dry summers. But the previous decade there had been the type that rained away the corn laws, and 20 years afterwards a series of wettish summers that culminated in the agricultural disaster of 1879. _ _ 3.—The volume ...

... gold lace. On it. she wore the Order of the Carter and Order of the Garter Brooch. monopoly —a cry for abolition of the corn laws. At that moment. said the Daily News of January 23, 1846. her Majesty turned her head and. while bowing. smiled. The ...

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... said: Clearly In any system. a drastic overhaul of building I think it is right for us to society laws. and the company be ready to review the Corn- laws themselves, is now panies Acts. in view of any necessary. anxieties that may have been expressed ...