... the year 1841—this country was subject to destitution and to famine, and it is only since 1846, since the abolition of the corn laws, since the general change to a free trade volley, that there has been continually growing up that prosperity which is now ...

... SESSION. The Daily New anticipates that the approaching session will be the most important since at least the passing of the Corn Laws. It can hardly fail to have momentous results and to win a memorable place in history. The Government have a task before ...

... who has ea t en th e £500,000,000 worth of corn and flour And all the other things which have come in, and which the corn laws were intended to prohibit and did prohibit Of course the repeal of the corn laws fo . .md out the very poorest ...

... to our comfort, but to their infinite shame, that every good measure, from the abolition of slavery, to the repeal of the corn laws, found in these right reverend gentlemen its bitterest opponents. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS Made at the ?Aristech Library ...

... and the repeal of the Corn Laws. With the latter event more particularly, Mr Cobden's name was closely connected. In fact, it is questionable whether he was not, as far as one man could be, the moving spirit of the Anti-Corn Law agitation, and whether ...

... authorities that before many weeks it will even be as high as tenpence a loaf. Such an event has not happened since the Corn Laws were repealed, and we may well have misgivings as to the effect which scarcity is likely to have upon the poor and needy ...

... greatly help the agricultural intereets, and add very triflingly to the cost of bread. This is a great fallacy. When the Corn Laws were finally abolished a nominal deity of Is. per quarter wu retained for facilitating new tration of the quantity imported ...

... London ; Lord Clifford the chair. Mr. Buchanan traced the development of the importation of food since the repeal of the Corn Laws. Since 1860 the value of our grain imports had doubled, that of live cattle had increased five-fold, that of dead meat and ...

... as much as the repeal of the Corn Laws, and it has equally helped to cloths nu Scientific knowledge has laved life at sea, by ran, and in the mines, also in the streets and in our moss by Its application to sanitary laws. It ham also almost made war too ...

... domestic occu r _ senor than is evinced by Etna and Vesuvius ; but, nevertheless, during the period of the railway mani a widths Corn Law agitation of 1845, Heels WAS in a very disturbed state ; indeed, it had a most disagree. able eruption, which began in September ...

... prove that be was a Liberal in the true sense of the word. His name will also be long associ ited with the repeal of the corn laws, on which measure he was from the first an able partizan. Nevertheless, he was opposed to violent change, and no man know ...

... provision being made for the thorough instruction of every working man's child in the kingdom. (Cheers.) SUPPOSE WE HAD PRE CORN LAWS NOW But there was another argument that was very often used in the House of Commons which is even more extraordinary, coming ...