... with a candle for illumination to read while his parents slept. Wigan was a hungry town at the time, in the grip of the Corn Laws, and Prince was determined to tramp from town to town in search of work. On one such journey to Hyde he met a girl, a weaver ...

... of free trade and the Corn Law repeal agitation, He was the trusted friend and agricultural adviser of Cobden and Bright, snd pre. #lled at several of their monster meetings which did so much towards the repeal of the Corn Laws, He was an acknowledged ...

... Acrelande) to consider the question of the Corn Laws. The meeting was held in the Town Hall, and was crowded, both the hall proper and the Couneil Chamber being packed. A petition to Parliament to repeal the Corn Laws was adopted with enthusinsm. The names ...

... wages and the repeal of the Corn Laws. But combinations were forbidden, and the Corn Laws were not repealed until 1850. The Government toak a course more in keeping with its mentality. The first thing it did was to&au the Poor Law Amendment ...

... flesh, as uphis great age and a sharp interest in d to the memories ith whom he was ng was convened by ¢ of Acrelands) to Corn Laws. The ywn Hall, and was er and the Council tition to Parliament 8 adopted with enprincipal citizens: some with interest. T ...

... very vivid recollection of the state of Barrowford previous to the repeal of the Corn Laws. Barrowford, at that time, was a centre of the agitation for the repeal of the laws, and a procession of all the local trades and workers was organised to celebrate ...

... remained at Cowling a number of old weavers who could remember the agitations for the first Reform Bill and the repeal of the Corn Laws. ‘Tt was on these political memories I was nurtured,” he said, in convérsation with a representative of “ The Observer,”” ...

... cheerfuluess. Edwin Waugh, as 1 have said, was born in 1817. About the year 1847, twelve months after the Repeal of the Corn Laws, he went to live in Manchester. Between those dates working folk in England suffered more, perhaps, than during any other ...

... occasions when the first and the later Reform Bills were passed, when civil and religious disabilities were removed, when the Corn Laws were repealed, when the Paper Duty was abolished, and even when the duties on tea and sugar were reduced in one case and ...

... upon corn. But this tromendous battling was not un-Quaker like. After all, John Bright was not a greater master of invee tive than George Fox. Looking back over the 50 years that have elapsed since the agitation for the abolition o 1 the Corn Laws began ...

... written.”” Every remedy that he sugg?ud has had to be applied: sanitation, better housing, shorter hours, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the care of children to reduce mortality among them, education. Nearly a hundred vears ago he wag an advocate of measures ...

... wild form of justice on the men who kept up bread at an artificial price ? If there are any left since the ru}?eal of the Corn Laws, the dedebate on-the above subject gives them a magnificent opportunity. We have not had such an explosion of undisguised ...