... HOUSEHOLD FRANCHISE. The Chartist flag is rather more than a mere representation of a fight for the repeal of the Corn Laws, it marks the awakening of a townspeople to the realisation of their riglits as citizens of a country, and in the later struggle ...

... Monday night, Mr Samuel Storey, Radical ex-M.P. and Tariff Reformer, said that cheapness of transit, and not repeal of the Corn Laws, has made cheap food. A serious poaching affray took place last Friday night near Ganton, Scarborough. A gamekeeper was shot ...

... VOTE•MUNTING. In 1846, when the repeal of the Corn Laws was an accomplished fact, the weavers concentrated on a campaign urging the passing of the Household Franchise. The survivors of the Chartists. with their Bag flapping in the van, took part in the ...

... THEM ORATTTVIA PO HIS TIONS IN OBTAINING TIM REPEAL 01 THIC CORN LAWS. From the high ground of the Cemetery, the remarkable et mfiguration of the locality lying Eastwards may be studied. The (lilttrict is covered with hillocks and-. depressions, a succession ...

... as in the days of old? I notice th..re was a strong Liberal Association in Forfar in the days of the Corn Laws, who worked hard for repeal of these laws. Why not have one new when we live in the age of freedom I hope, Sir, by thir letter that will be done ...

... mystery. Dealing with how the Corn Laws bad affected the farm interests, Captain Sinclair showed that those laws had only benefitted the owners of land. Good times only came for the farmers after the repeal of the Corn Laws and after the ...

... year. He died on that date in 1862 and his life-span of eighty years covered the Napoleonic Wars, the Chartist troubles, the Corn Law agitations, the Reform Act of 1832, and the formative years of the new-type Town Council. A copy of a tribute written the ...

... will be a Cabinet Minister yet. I have listened to nothing like that since I heard John Bright and Richard Cobden on the Corn Laws. It is well-known that John Morley is not ambitious to enter Parliament; but let there go up from these Burghs such a call ...

... ended by saying that 1t imperative for the next Conserve Government to tackle the tion maze and, like Sir Robert 1 with the Corn Laws, repeal the ent day methods and start afresh. hanks were proposed by Mr [. ce-Gardyne, M.P. for S. Angus. ss Nicoll welcomed ...

... that - was imperative for the next Conservative Government to tackle the taxation maze and, like Sir Rober- Peel with the Corn Laws, repeal the present day methods and start afresh Thanks were proposed by Mr I Bruce-Gardyne, M.P. for S. Angus. Miss Nicoll ...

... and before the repeal of the Corn Laws, it now greatly improved ; while generally the condition or agriculture in this country was not worse thin in those countries where bounties and protective duties prevailed. The corn• mereral results of Free Trade ...

... Chorus : Stamp, stamp, stamp upon protection, No more corn laws in the land, Fur the cheapness of our bread, And the freedom of our food, We will make a►► undefeated British stand. When the children cry at home For the food they need to eat, Shall we ...