... amongst the I people. At last a climax was reached. Cobrlen. Bright, and other* of the Anti-Corn Law i League appeared upon the scene. Agitation for Cora Law repeal intense and general. Peel surrendered. Foreign animal 1 food, dead and admitted duty free ...

... to the whole people, and that is the continuation of our Free Trade policy. The success which attended the repeal of tho Corn Laws, and the prosperity which has followed the abolition of Protectionist duties on imports, seemed to have given Free Trade ...

... revenge themselves upon the manufacturers, who were opposing the Corn Laws, and not a few_ of the Whigs supported it a means of injuring the Government of Sir Robert Peel. If the Corn Laws had not been repealed the Factory Bill would have brought great ...

... bv giving a of the wars of the century, ch began with war and ended with war, and touched on taxation and franchise, the Corn Laws. he. ...

... But, convinced that he had been wrong in defending Protection, and especially the Corn Laws, he followed the dictates, not pride, bnt nonscience. He swept the Corn Laws away, and he endured the bitterness of the reproach of inconsistency. Time has brought ...

... seemed have taken ol the people. Molesworth in his •‘History declares that “war*, national debt, increase of population, Corn Laws, maladministration the Poor I.aws, and other legislation, hindrance legislation had reduced the great mass the people, and ...

... Good Templars Mr Blackwood, agent of the Scottish Permissive Bill Association, delivered a lecture on '* The Repeal of the Corn Laws; Its Bearing Present Reforms,” in the Good Tern* Hall last Saturday. In the Free Church on Sabbath evening he preached on ...

... from the principles of Free Trade. But what would Rickard Cudoe.v have said to-day if, forty years after the repeal of the Corn Laws, every nation in tho world, instead of following Britain in Free Trade, is growing more and more Protectionist. The Continent ...

... than any Empire in human history. Some Striking Point*. Il is popular delusion that cheap food followed the repeal of the Corn Laws. Free Ttade does not necessarily imply prosperity. The Chartist riots were directed agamat Manchester roannfacturera, who ...

... says would like to ask ** Old Radical if the agitation for the repeal the Corn Laws by Cobden and Bright was not agitation against both political parties? The repeal of the Corn Laws, Ac., was only step towards an object, an instalment of still greater reform ...

... •''d until the Corn Laws were repealed in 1816. Suffering dulled the edge of sorrow, a~d men. grown desperate, faced rifle and bayonet as an escape from the miseries of a porerty-strieken life. The erildoers had the protection of the law and the forces ...

... 1836-7 onwards, perplexed the Huns. of COMMODS with his annual motion on the Corn Laws. It wars madness, said the Whig .Prhue Minister, Lord Melbourne, to repeal the Corn Laws; but t in 1846, the late Sir Robert Peel saw that it were madness not to repeal ...