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A CUMBERLAND FARMER ON THE HIGH PRICE OF BEEF

... agriculture from 1810 up to the present time, Mr Gibbons said that all classes of the community had, since the repeal of the Corn Laws, advanced ii the social scale, and the country had' increased in wealth. He coma recollect when no fat cattle were fed in ...

ations of their national life daring the last 200 years. The obligations of England to the Dissenters were ..

... passing of the Reform Bill, and were tire foremost leaders and largest subscribors in the greac movement for the repeal of the Corn Laws, and in all the great religions enterprises too,—Bible societiw, missionary societies, and Sunday Schools, they had played ...

DR. IIEiCEALY

... and the dawn of the agitations against the new Poor Law Bill, for the extension of the franchise,:and the tepeal of the Corn Laws. Into the movement :or the enfranchisement of the people Mr Walton threw himself heart and soul. Even as a young man he was ...

litaltwhistie Siattings

... debate and newspaper leader-writing. But was Sir Robert Peel lees popular because he was inconsistent enough to repeal the Corn Laws? I read in the Times, apropos of the new member for Ennis, Of Mr Finegan, it may be said without offence, little or nothing ...

AGRICULTURAL POLITICS

... of the people than any which has been stirred since the repeal of the corn laws. I ant not sure that, in some respects, even that question was equal to it. The repeal of the Corn Laws untaxed the food that is grown abroad. To antrammel the growth of food ...

Sondon Sossip

... set up his image in stone in the market place, to commemorate his early efforts to procure the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was an anti-Corn Law agitator long before Cobden and the Manchester League were known and he has survived nearly all the old Liberals ...

jiiital

... Commutation of Tithes, though it hes since had to acknowledge the Act a great benefit ; it was against the Repeal of the Corn Laws and of the Navigation Laws : it we against Free Trade generally; it was against all Education beyond the simplest elements ...

THE ALSTON HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 18M

... wrong—plenty about gates destroyed and land cropped without manure. When free trade was brought into this country, and the corn laws were abolished, then was the time that tenant right should have been placed upon a proper footing ; and instead of asking ...