... how Free Trade would reduce wheat to 3ft». a quarter; how American corn was cheap, and Baltic corn yet cheaper; how at a pinch Jonathan would insist on Canada in exchange for his corn; how low prices made low wages ; and sundry other of the stock topics ...

... our corn laws i' a transition state.: ?? l markets and objects are opened to it. Practicallytwo new . counties, Sleswick anid aolstein, snd a large breeding coun- try, Jutlanfd, have recently been added to England, bythe I aboliuion oT r corn laws, ead ...

... which in 1817 was 97s., went steadily down till in 1822 it was 44s. 7d.; while in 1839 it was up again to 70s. 6d. The Corn Laws were finmlly repealed ia 1849. Since then the higbest price attained has been 74s. 9d. in 1855, and the lowest 2Us. 10d. ...

... the protective corn laws of 1815. Their avowed object was to benefit agriculture; but cer- tainly the condition of our agiicultural classes never fell to so low a depth of misery and despair as they did between tha. time and the Corn Law repeal more than ...

... the digmty of man. The principle of free trade had, by the abolition of the corn laws in England, obtained a.great victory over protection, and he hoped that that shameful law would never return from those nether regions to which it had been sent, and ...

... the north, from which came tho pressure that gave them tho Reform Bill, and tho movement which brought about the of the Corn Laws gave them cheap bread, beat the hearts of the Liberals of Southwark, and that they would never couseut to represented iu ...

... in humorous allusions as on thi. subject of the Corn-law. The latter port of the Minister', speech, though perhaps the most logical, was the least effectiv It argued the necessity of repealing the Corn-laws ori free-trade grounds; and entered into the other ...

... Dec. 16. Convicts, Transportation of, Dec. 3,14. Copyholds, Enfranchisement of, Dec. 15. Corn Laws, Dec. 14. County Courts, Nov. 25, 27, Dec. 1. Courts of Law and Equity, Fees of, Dec. 3. Criminal Cases—Public Prosecutor in, Dec. 18. Crime and Outrage ...

... social necessities which insists on being obeyed, even though it is protested against and screamed at. The repeal of the Corn Laws was implicitly contained in the first fiscal reforms of Huskisson and the development them by Peel, though KISSON certainly ...

... 1is lordehip was aconse. rbised vative in politis, and a zealous supporter of Sir tobeit Peel purpo until the repeal oftie corn laws, The xobld ikioount iince ?? a he came into possession of the Earl of Bridgewater's iarge lirgei prqperty on the death of ...

... 1846-7, the abolition of the corn laws, the dimninu. in tion of the population in Ireland, the repeal of the navigation laws and of the regullations in regard to fr the coaating trade, the assimilation of the Scottish df law of entail to that of England ...

... interests. In twenty years the prices of corn and other commodities were nearly tripled, and wheat bore the proportion of nearly 50s. a quarter for the next two I hundred years. Then came acts of parliament, corn laws, . followed by disputes, strikes, and ...