... that machinery, not the Corn Law, was the cause ot distress anti encouragement to native industry its cure. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was not prepared either to say that the Corn Laws should be at once abolished, or that the existing law should be ...

... CORN LAWS. THE PREMIER'S STATEMENT.—THE By the attention of our Liverpool correspondent, we received, on Thursday last, the Times of the previous morning, containing the Premier’s State- 1 ment of Tuesday night, which, together with liis explanatory speech ...

... that the result of a total and immediate repeal the coru-laws would produce irretrievable ruin throughout the country (cheers.) Gentlemen, it is all very well to agitate for the repeal the corn-laws as a party question, or to use it as an election cry ; ...

... 184 a. HUMOURED resignation the mi NISTRY.—REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS. A rumour was current London, on M tliat, in consequence of a refusal the Duke of Wellineflon to consent any change in the Corn Laws. Sir F. Peel had watted upon her Majesty, and tendered ...

... hosti.ity to a free trade in corn. could only say that applicu'ion the proper quarter he had learned that t ic steamer which brought the address in question had not reached Liverpool until alter the deaate on tile corn laws in their lordship's house was ...

... STANLEY’S PROTEST AGAINST the corn bill. The following the protest of Lord Stanley against the corn bill, which was laid on the table of the House of Lords on Thursday night Dissentient 1. Because the repeal of the Corn Laws will greatly increase the dependence ...

... Coastabnlnry. sort ef compenaotioa fur the injury which it was supp 'sed had bean inflicted on Ireland by tbs repeal ef Corn Laws, which, it waal thought, would operate injuriously on the eanntry, purely agrienltarsl one. Ur- Marrow, who said similar ...

... of the motion quoted from a speech of Cobden's. I believe, said Cobden at Manchester in 1846, that if you abolish the Corn Laws honestly, and adopt Free Trade in its simplicit there will not be a tari ff in Earope that wi ll not be changed in five years ...

... conviction that no injury would arise from repeal of the corn laws, were it not for the panic which he apprehended would ensue. The government of the country were at a stand ; and seeing that the corn laws were doomed, he felt no shame, either in change of ...

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... in the sincerity of their conversion. Mr. Walpole contended that the repeal of the corn laws was too precipitate be just. He believed in the policy of the corn laws much as the strongest Protestant did in that of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, or highest ...

... bven led entertain by discussions which have recently appeared in the E.igli h newspapers, pointing strongly to change the corn laws, I induced their earnest desire, even with no better founda- I t ; bring the subject under your consideration by the mail ...