... advocated a scheme of I'iscal reform on the lines of Mr. Chamberlain’s proposals. He detailed the history of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and showed how utterly wrong Cobhden’s proposal had been. He quoted from the chairman of the Cobhden Club’s remarks on the ...

... some measure the seceding Tories who ran; themselves under the eadership of Lord Bentinck at thetime of the repeal of the corn laws. am informed, has already made an extensive canvass t country Tories, and it is said that he -elf well satisfied with the ...

... hard times which undoubtedly existed when harvests were bad in those days were due to the existence of the Corn Laws, how is it, when the Corn Laws were repezuied, the price of corn did not fall for years and years afterwards, and, indeed, rose higher. ...

... n, the large towns, to the and the result Pa He did net blome the corn laws, Dor did he derire to turn their minds back to protection ; all he wished to shew was that the re; corn laws was not sole cause which had led to the =. of the classes. Critici: ...

... anti-British Government. Mr. Wallis remarked ‘‘ If Protectionists would Tead and see what happened in the days before the Corn Laws were repealed, he believed they would stop short, and mot go on preaching this fearful curse.” Mr. Wallis clearly imagines ...

... adult labour. The Factory Bill was carried by com- themselves a portion of the Tories, who wished to avenge ugainet the ‘Corn Laws, and a large portion of the who wished to in the House of Commons wished to keep the of bread at double its price. I was ...

... fault with pau%ejrism. In 1851 there was a population in ngland of 27.700,000. That was three years after the repeal of the Corn Laws, and prior to that things were worse. The number -of paupers was 1,307,000, that was to say, there was one pauper 1n every ...

... of tho contagious diseases that have for so many years seriously interfered with this branch of English farming. When the Corn Laws were abolished English farmers had still another string to their bow— the production of meat; and') as corn-growing became ...

... Cur.non Street Hotel, on the 24th instant, that he had reccn'iy soid land adjoining the Hal rate of £2,800 per acre. Thb Corn Laws 1815.—The army and navy were, during that struggle (the war with France), largely provisioned from home, and as had seriea ...

... are absolute necessaries for the poor, and that their total abolition is only second in importance to the question of the corn laws. The cheaper these three articles are obtainable, the greater, it is also argued, will the sobriety of the nation. If the ...

... the repeal the corn laws was not for wan t of knowledge, for in a book written in 1832 he di scussed the question of the corn laws with a more offensive representation of the ascendancy of the land owners than those of the Anti-Corn Law League ever ventured ...

... Act. mitigation in the crimes punishable by death, Repeal of tbe Paper Duty, Introduction of the Penny Post. Repeal of the Corn Laws, Abolition Sugar Duties. Repeal of the Navigation Laws, Introduction of the Ballot, ...