... their hoctility free trade in corn. He could only say that application in the proper quarter had learued that th* steamer which brought the address iu quaatiea bad not reached Liverpool until after the debate the Corn laws in their lordships' Hons* was ...

... CORN LAWS. MEETING OF THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that a general meeting the shipowners, shipbuilders, and others interested in shipping, was called to be held in the Seamen’s Hall on Wednesday week ...

... CORN LAWS. Colonel SißTiiour desired to know whether it was intended to collect the im]>ort duties on foreign corn at the time when the corn was imported, or at the time when it was taken out of bond ? Sir Robert Peel stated that there would be alteration ...

... THE CORN LAWS. The number of signatures which have been appended to the petition from this place, for the total repeal of the Corn Laws is 2024. The signatures are entirely from that portion of the male population who are engaged in labour, or otherwise ...

... THE CORN LAWS. We understand that the petitions for total repeal of the Corn Laws will remain in town until Thursday next, and will lie for signature in Messrs Mackinnon's, Cistern; Kerr's, Murray Street; and Dempster's, John Street ; and on the evening ...

... in order to express their dissent from the principles of the Anti-Corn Law League, and to petition Parliament against any alteration in the present Corn Laws. In the prefatory remarks it is said, that from the long continuance of the late storm, and other ...

... THE CORN LAWS. The following letter has, we believe, been extensively'circulated in the county of Argylc : * To the Freeholders, Tenants, and Others interested in the • Prosper 'd}/ of the County of Argyle. * Gentlemen, —The repeal of the Corn Laws is ...

... THE CORN LAWS. To Wu. Jamesoxs, Esq., Provost of Montrose. Sin, Wl, the undersigned Inhabitants of Montrose, alarmed at the prospect of impending distress thronghout the Country, in consequence of the deficient Harvest, respectfully request you to call ...

... THE CORN LAWS To William Jameson, Esq., Provost of Montrose. Sir,—We, the undersigned inhabitants of Montrose, alarmed at the prospect of impending distress throughout the country in consequence of the deficient harvest, respectfully request you to call ...

... CORN LAWS. Mr Villiers brought »n his motion foracommittpe» to consider the duties on the import:ition of foreign corn, with view to their total abolition. The motion was seconded Mr Stewart. Mr Gladstone and Chkistophek opposed the motion. The debate ...

... THE CORN LAWS. The Duke of Newcastle presented a petition from the Commercial Association of Manchester, praying that the country might be relieved as speedily possible from the state of anxiety in which all classes of the community were placed with regard ...

... this fortunate effect could not possibly have taken place if an unrestricted trade in corn had existed ; and that it is the creation of the Corn Law, and the Corn Law alone. If free importation of grain were permitted between Great Britain ...