... CORN LAWS. _ A letter has been sent from Mr. Fletcher, ofJ City, to H. L. Bulwer, Esq. in which he infor him that a- vote of thanks had been passed to hin his conduct in supporting Mr.. Hunt’s motion, fo repeal of the Corn Laws ; and that the trade ...

... THE CORN LAWS. Petitions were presented from the inhabitants of Sunderland, praying that the ports be opened for the admission of fareign grain; and from a place in the county of Warwick, in whieh the petitioners attributed the present state of distress ...

... THE CABINET AND THE CORN LAWS, (From The Times of Thursday.) The decision of the Cabinet is no longer a secret. Parliament, it is confidently reported, is to be summoned for the first week in January ; and the Royal Speech will, it is added, recommend ...

... TIHE EARL OF ESSEX AND THE CORN LAWS. Our readers will perceive from a report of the proceedings at the Watford Farmer’s Club, which is given in another column, that the Earl of Esskx, who recently advocated the Corn Laws so warmly at St. Alban’s, has ...

... prececeding Sir Robert Peel’s Corn Bill and the 20 years immediately after is so infinitesimally small as absolutely not to alter that average. g The average price of a 4lb. bread-loaf, 1756 to 1784, before the repeal of the Corn Laws, was 5d.; while the average ...

... RDINARY EXPRESS. —_— SULT OF THE Iy o~ e CORN LAWS. ————— E OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. opened the debate, and spoke at ainst the measare, vt supported the measure. anstox g opposed it, and was followpEN, who occupied the House a eon:i then rose and spoke amidst ...

... to 1814 that is to say, before the enactment of the Corn Laws, when ihere were practically free imports of grain—the average price of wheat in the United Kingdom was 90s. 7.46 d. In 1815 the Corn Laws came into operation, and the average price during the ...

... election of 1852, Mr. Preston said another important date was six ;ears earlier when Sir Robert eel repealed the Corn Laws. The Corn Laws had protected cereals. But about this time, Britain was becoming an industrial nation, and the industrialists wanted ...

... point at issu is whether they wer Laws or whether hunger. To the ard doubt seems possible. of statistical record this hunger and mi Corn Laws. Mr. N showing the absurdity that during the period that is to sav. be Corn Laws, when i} imports ...

... hostile to the Corn Laws. Henry, however, retorted that it would have been political baseness to have joined in a censure on men with whose policies he had generally concurred. | Henry Handley became convinced that, so long as the Corn Laws formed “the badge ...

... ns only to the agriculturists, They would redound quite as much to the advantage of the other elasses.—M'Culioch on the Corn Laws, “ Encyclopedia Britannica.” vol. 7, p. 294, ...

... NOT SATISFIED “Now, for the first time since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, the British Government is trying to control imports of food. This is a great tribute to the leadership of our Union,” said Mr. Cornwallis. “We must now see that this new ...