... CORN LAWS. MEETING OF THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. It will be in the recollection of our readers, that a general meeting the shipowners, shipbuilders, and others interested in shipping, was called to be held in the Seamen’s Hall on Wednesday week ...

... CORN LAWS. Colonel SißTiiour desired to know whether it was intended to collect the im]>ort duties on foreign corn at the time when the corn was imported, or at the time when it was taken out of bond ? Sir Robert Peel stated that there would be alteration ...

... in order to express their dissent from the principles of the Anti-Corn Law League, and to petition Parliament against any alteration in the present Corn Laws. In the prefatory remarks it is said, that from the long continuance of the late storm, and other ...

... their hoctility free trade in corn. He could only say that application in the proper quarter had learued that th* steamer which brought the address iu quaatiea bad not reached Liverpool until after the debate the Corn laws in their lordships' Hons* was ...

... this fortunate effect could not possibly have taken place if an unrestricted trade in corn had existed ; and that it is the creation of the Corn Law, and the Corn Law alone. If free importation of grain were permitted between Great Britain ...

... great loss but if, under the Corn Laws, mills had been built and found profitable till lately, the Corn Laws could hardly be the cause of their late depreciation. Lung, too, did the labourers enjoy good wages under the Corn ...

... CORN LAWS. In answer to Lord Whaknclife, the Earl of Fitzwilliam said, he found it would not convenient to bring forward the question the corn laws to-morrow, and, on Friday, he understood that the noble Duke opposite (the Duke of Wellington) could not ...

... CORN LAWS. There is a wide distinction between deference to public opinion and flattery of the intelligence of the public. Some journalists will have it that Statesmen are taught by the public. Biography shows that they have very different instructors ...

... met a crisis ofthe Anti-Corn Law movement; for the London morning Papers of that very day ha found that, owing to tho disagreements among tho Cabinet, the Government was broken up and dissolved on the question of the Corn Laws. (At this announcement the ...

... CORN LAWS, On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Villieks rose to bring forward, as an amendment, motion for a Committee to consider what he termed the enormous grievance of the corn laws. He did not wish to into the details of the subject ...

... certain known laws which govern both the production of corn and the relations of trade, which are not only independent of, but superior to, all legislative enactments. The real and permanent good derivable from the repeal of the Corn Law will twofold ; ...

... CORN LAWS. Mr Villiers brought »n his motion foracommittpe» to consider the duties on the import:ition of foreign corn, with view to their total abolition. The motion was seconded Mr Stewart. Mr Gladstone and Chkistophek opposed the motion. The debate ...