... countries from contending on fair terms against the unembarrassed foreign competition to which they have been exposed since the Corn Laws were repealed, without any corresponding redress agricultural grievan9!t> _ ...

... remarkable voice, he made his maiden speech in a debate on foreign affairs. The following year he opposed the retention of the Corn Laws, despite the fact that he was a land owner and stood to gain by their retention. But the first of many personal tragedies ...

... greatly help the agricultural interests, and add very triflingly to the cost of bread. This is a great fallacy. When the Corn Laws were finally abolished a nominal duty of Is. per quarter was retained for facilitating registration of the quantity imported ...

... and there has been political gathering in the city invested with much interest since the agitation for the repeal of the corn laws. The immense assembly comprised all classes, and the proceedings throughout were of the most orderly character. the death ...

... not have sustained our ever-increasing population. It has reduced the price of food almost as much as the repeal of the Corn Laws, and it has equally helped clothe us. Scientific knowledge has saved life sea, by rail, and in the mines, also in the streets ...

... Tristram his old age recalled how in his boyhood's days had heard the great Tribune and Cobden speak on the repeal of the Corn Laws, and been introduced the former. On this occasion Bright, at young Tristram's request, begged with success a holiday for ...

... crowded every Sunday. Mr. Noel first became known to the general public by his vigorous denunciation of the injustice of the Corn Laws, His pamphlet was the more valued by the leaders of the Repeal movement, then much needing aid, from the certainty that would ...

... LOCAL SCENE The repeal of corn laws brought ruin to tenants and landlords alike. Unable to meet loan charges on tenants and landlords alike. Unable to meet loan charges on huge sums of money which had been borroweci the mortgages foreclosed and the Estates ...

... between working men and their employers. The majority of tho working men wanted the Charter; the employers tho repeal of the Corn Laws. Cooper supported the Chartists, because, as he says, he considered that side to the side of tho poor and suffering. He ...

... present in transition state, and that of a more chronic and permanent character than immediately after the repeal of the Corn Laws, when fourth of the farming capital of the country was temporarily swept away. Land has lately come, and continues to come ...

... which wae issued be maintained that one method of benefiting their condition would be the whole or partial repeal of the Corn Laws. He also took great interest in the reform of the Poor Laws, and was the chairman of the Irish Famine Commission of 1847 ...

... That in the opinion of this meeting the principles of free trade having been adopted by Government in the repeal of the corn laws and in the abandonment of many duties previously imposed on the use and manufacture of native produce, the tax upon barley ...