... THE .LAWS? What, I wonder, were the topics of conversation as the ladies and gentlemen promenaded to and fro, or reclined in the deck chairs' Doubtless the matter of the Corn Laws came in for animated discussion, softie arguing that English farmers would ...

... 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 ...

... passages in history as dull and confusing the jiggery-pokery that led to Texas joining the United States of America. It has the Corn Laws and Pragmatic Sanctions beat to a frazzle. Not even Clark Gable and Ava Gardner and all their fleshly delights can stir up ...

... cold and bitter debates on the Corn Laws which ended in 1846 with Peel carrying the day and losing his leadership. Minister. Disraeli’s constituency was the farmers of England, who lacked effective spokesmen. The Corn Laws were at least as emotive a subject ...

... and Mr. Macmillan knows it. Just as Sir Robert Peel put his career in pawn and split the Conservative Party over the great Corn Laws issue in the nineteenth century, Macmillan must press on, promising simply that Britain will do its best for the Commonwealth ...

... will go down in history as the greatest Tory Premier for more than 120 years. The greatest Tory since Peel repealed the Corn Laws and split his Party. ...

... bout of mental illness. • • After that there were giant pies to celebrate • victory at Waterloo, 1815; the rep e al of the Corn • Laws, 1846; and Victoria's golden jubilee, 1887. • • This last pie was so rotten it had to be b ur i e d • in quick lime, but ...

... A RECORD OF RURAL POVERTY HAT was it like to be a landworker in the days before the repeal of the Corn Laws changed By L. B. POWELL Bright, the actual profit of keeping a pia is very small. It is doubtful if there be any. A Pig is a sort of living aving ...

... place 150 years ago within a stone's throw of where the Library Theatre now stands. A peaceful demonstration against the Corn Laws was broken up by mounted Yeomanry and a number of folk killed and large numbers injured. Using this theme and other events ...

... their prosperity largely due to the railways, brought a brisk demand for the products of the farm. Despite the repeal of the Corn Laws, prices remained generally satisfactory to the farmer, and through various causes foreign competition was not These were ...

... meter reading and in particular of visiting No. 3 Lord Kitchen Street Play No. 3. The first playlet, named The lnquitous Corn Laws, is well played by Eve Shickle as Alice and Robert Peck her husband, Hector, at No. 3. Lord Kitchen Street. After 15 years ...

... hairdresser Lniftenee Drury Ms collected over 250 antique china &banns commemorate important occsaions from the repeal Of the Corn Laws to the Coronation of King William an Queen Adelaide. In his King's Read establishment Mr. Drury has 15 Of mgs displayed ...