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GLASGOW CIRCUIT COURT

... o'clock. . MTEETISG ron uTnE REPEAL, or T'ri CoRN LAWS. -Fridray, ant two o'clock, a mecting of tie electors wvas held in tie Trades' Hall, Glasgowv, for tire pur- pose of petitiosing for tire repreal of tlre corn laws. Tie terminatiors of tile meeting of Saturday ...

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION

... po- Australia ; and Miss Becker, in the course of a me. short discussion, blamed those who led free aes trade ngainst the corn laws for resting on their victory, and not troubling to show the masses ar who had since grown up the results which had Ige followed ...

SCOTS APPEALS

... culled to the chair. Tihe meeting wvas then addressed by the Provost, who stated, that a petition on tite subjeet of ttte corn laws had been agreed to by the Town Council on the 11th of the month. The meeting %van also ail- dresced by Mr John Hardy, writer ...

Caledonian Mercury EDINBURGH

... actually in contemplatiov to re-enact the corn laws, to the extent of a fixed duty of 4s. or 6s. the quarter. But on this day the corn laws have evaporated from the statute book, and a nominal duty of 1s. is the law of the land. It is to be ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—FEB. 2

... the bar. GREAT ANTI-CORN LAWV LEAGUE. i EFFECTS Or TIlE COtIN LAW1S ON COMMNERCEI AND I MANOSr'uC~ttarES, Thre meeting of deputies to consider and receive statements reistisve so she effects antd injurious ope- ratioin of thre corn laws on the homne trasle ...

PUBLIC MEETING—PETTY CUSTOMS

... burgh and Leitl. Ile could not reconcile Mr Dun- can M'Laren's conduct in nlow enhancing the price of corn, with tile speech delivered against tile corn laws at Mr Macauley's diiter. Unless they could get one act of Parliament, and effect one commuta- tion ...

TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

... the New Town might tic entirely blown up. Thbe arguments against the corn laws were altogether fiallacious. What were the eorm laws but just a protective duty on the cultiva- tion of corn in this country, just as almost every ar- ticle of commerce wvas protected ...

EXTRAORDINARY BANKRUPTCY CASE

... We always thought, say the Star he had gained his great Place in English politics by his advocacy of the repeal of the Corn Laws, by his support of all Ineasures deatined to emancipate trade and spread education, by his having been the first to propose ...

JURY COURT—March 18

... Dean of Faculty and Alexander M Neil, Esq. advocate. Messrs Carnegy and Shepherd, W. S. Agents. MR IlUMtE'S MOTION ON THE CORN LAWS.- In a recent paper we gave a list of the Scotch Members who voted for and against the motion, and those who were absent ...

POLICE COURT

... others connected. with, agriculture in 'ti the northern district of Fife, praying that no alte- p ration be made in the corn laws in the present session. S y was numerously signed at Cupar, on Thtursday last', as - and it is expected that the other districts ...

MURDERS

... predictions, of :1 the general adoption of Free Trace which were cso constantly made at the time of the repeal of e the Corn Laws and of the negotiation of the e Commercial Treaty lwith France. COLLISION WITH A GOVERnXM-nu STEA-MER AT PLnvaxorTH.-A dangerous ...

LAW OF ENTAIL

... LAW OF ENTAIL. TIo TRB ZDfrolR O1 THE CALEDONIAY RilCrni-. SIR-The rise, progress, and successful termination of the Anti-Corn Law League, together with the princely reward to its talented leader, are now matters of notoriety and of his. tory. The declared ...