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... THE FAILURE OF THE CORN LAWS. Now a glance back at the history of those days will show that in two respects the Corn Laws were a conspicuous failure. First of all, they did not succeed in keeping up the price of wheat. The Corn ...
... OBJECT OF THE CORN LAWS. To begin with, what was the fundamental idea of the Corn Laws which existed from 1815 to 1845. It was to fix by Act of Parliament the price of agricultural produce at a certsin permanent level, so, that (1) the farmer might be ...
... THE CORN LAWS AND LUXURY v. STARVATION. To the Editor of the Prestatyn Weekly. SIR,--Mr Scott, in your last issue, correctly surmises that my object in your issue of the 18th ult. was to show that the price of corn was raised to starvation limits by ...
... THE CORN LAWS. To she Editor of the I'restasyss Weekly Strt.—The object of Mr Garside in his yuur issue of the 18th inst. appears to be. by showing high prices for corn in England .ttid low out , in other countries of Europe. to prove that it jrr in ...
... of the contentions of the advocates of Free Trade that the price of bread would fall as soon as the Corn Laws were repealed, but the average price of corn remained practically the same for thirty years after Free Trade was established. Free Trade made no ...
... town, furnished the audience with some of hi. recollections of the '• Hungry Forties. Mode:scribed how the repeal of the Corn Laws be and *then, then living in a country district near Holywell, had as their staple diet BLACK BARLEY BREAD. He descibed the ...
... speaker pointed out that while corn sold at 6os. a quarter when the Corn Laws were repealed in 1846, the price did not decrease until t 855, when corn cost 4s. less per quarter. To say, therefore, that the repeal of the Corn ...
... pclitioa, aod while in Huddersfield assisted Cobden when waa oonteating the aaat aod worked tor him daring campaign against the Corn Laws Ha waa format'y a frequent vlaitor to Denbigh, being eoanerted with kfaeara A A T Ashford, and in Ihia way known to number ...
... 21 vV Kight H.. n . W.H. Smith 345 3.13 y^u - 5 25 Th Kensington Museum :>.46 sl9 vis opened. 1857 3.46 8.19 ll ?? 26 F Corn Laws repealed, ?? ?? 27 ■* Karlcf Clarendon d., 1870 3.4'J 8.19 li In June the Moon's changes are:— New moon aft. ; first quarter ...
... defence cf Free Trade. In the opening paragraph, ie declares that The fifty years that have elapsed .•nee the Repeal (of the Corn Laws) in furniobing ibnndant proofs of the wisdom of that policy, con- ?? as powerful an ally to Free Traders of to-day, as was ...
... Commerce, which, at his instance. passed a motion advocating the repeal of the Corn Laws: and in the saute year, with six other Manchester merchants? , he inaugurated the Anti-Corn Law League. To it he devoted himself body anti soul, stumping the whole country ...
... one of a small number of medals which were struck in commemoration of the triumph of the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws. JUNE 28, 1902. ...