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... included the following :—!Hie refonn of the Penal Laws, eduction introduction ,g»s light, the Reform Bill of 1832, slavery emancipation, municipal reform, xefozvi of the . Post Office, the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the extension of the franchise. Mr Blackwood ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1881
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 228 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Greater Britain

... $165,396,000 (£34,032,099) in her favour. No other country history, says the review, Gre'i*' Britain, after the repeal the Corn Laws, lias shown such amazing change. In 1914, Canada was debtor nation, owing considerable sums of money many countries, including ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1926
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

UNIONISTS A PARTY OF PROGRESS

... means corresponds to the conservative and reactionary elements of Continental politics. A party whose leaders aibolished the Corn Laws in 1846, passed most of our factory acts and brought in household suffrage in 1867, and established local 'lemocratic se ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1926
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MAGAZINES

... article are asked consider The Real Obiect Corn Laws, Sir Guilford L. Molesworth. Sir Guilford's object may be stated briefly in his own words—to expose what regards the fallacy that the object of the oorn laws keep the price of wheat, whereas really ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1902
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERARY NOTES

... the Royal Commissioners on the Poor Laws, Professor Srrart, of Glasgow, felt himself mbch hampered the absence of accessible information regarding the economic end social evolution, from the time when the Poor Law came into evil promjnenoe during the ...

Published: Monday 20 December 1909
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SIR GEORGE YOUNGER

... the Conservative Party over the repeal of the Corn Laws, Mr Gladstone sundered the Liberal Party over Home Rule, and Mr Lloyd George divided Liberalism over Coalition. Sir George Younger, through Mr Bonar Law, has succeeded, by leaving his leaders high ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1922
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MAKING A RETREAT,

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1884
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEATH OF PRINCIPAL HARPER. The Rev. Dr James Harper, Principal of the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian ..

... of the minister of the Secession congregation Lanark, and was ordained at North Leith in 1819. He took great interest the corn laws and abolition of slavery agitations, and in movements tending specially to the benefit of the community among which he resided ...

Published: Monday 14 April 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MR SAMUEL CHAPMAN AT BANCHORY

... between this country and other nations. While admitting that there had been a great extension trade since the repeal of the Corn Laws, mainrained that this hati not been due to free trade, but rather the operation certain inventions, and the development steam ...

Published: Tuesday 14 April 1908
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF ENGLAND

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen People's Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Day* of BKMABKABLK DATS. M 1 Battle of Dnundog, 1679 2 Duke of Norfolk executed, 1572 W Richard Cobden 6

... gest day Tu 23 (21) Proclamation of Queen Victoria, W 24 Midsummer-day [1837 Th 25 Kensington Museum opened, 1857 Fr 26 Corn Laws repealed. 1846 27 (28) Coronation, 1838 28 4'A Sunday after Trinity M 29 (28) Lord Raglan d. 1855 Tu Fint Book printed in ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1862
Newspaper: Aberdeen Herald
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MR DILLON AT HAWICK

... P.. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said that Parliameut that was returned Protectionists carried the repeal of the corn laws, and bistory might repeat itself. Profoundly attached as he was to his leaders, and Parliamentary man as he was, support ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 5 | Tags: none