... present day that they repealed the Corn Laws is founded upon the consequences of the curry powder speech, or upon the speech itself. Do they mean that the Duke of Norfolk directly or indirectly repealed the C;>rn Laws? If this be the foundation of the ...

... imported in fact, eighty millions sterling 111 value were im- ported, nearly all of which it was the object of the corn laws and other protective laws to exclude from the country. More than half the working men of England, with their families, are fed on bread ...

... ominous significance for them. The Times would not be likely to suggest that a first step should be taken for a revival of the Corn Laws, or that im- ported bounty fed sugar should be taxed unless it was satisfied that such a pro- posal would harmonise with ...

... 1 *Q -J. I :„m for a free breakfast table as wed as_ he abrogation of all taxes on the necessaries of life. and 4. The Corn Laws are pretty well settled now I as a hoiue question. As between ourselves and foreign nations, Tories and Whigs are nearly ...

... of the Exchequer, following up the engreation recently made by Sir Robert Giffen, will revive the old Corn Laws in the shape of • la duty on all corn imported from countries not within the British Empire. Although certain members of Parliament who have ...

... their operative causes, and would not, like a political empiric, hastily jump to the conclusion that the abolition of the Corn Laws, which was an accomplished fact half a century ago, all but a few months, is the cause of the present depression of agriculture ...

... Tories posed as the friends of the British agriculturists, and in order to help them they brought in the Corn Laws, which enacted that no foreign corn should be brought into the country until British grain had reached 80 per nuarter. In the year 1817 grain ...

... Parliament which followed the general election of 1832 up to the iime of his death, and when Peel resolved to repeal the Corn Laws in 1816 the deceased nobleman gave him valuable assistance, in consequence of which be lost the support of some influential ...

... fought against Catholic Emancipation, the freedom of the slave, the rights of the Jews, the repeal of the paper duties, and Corn Laws, the abolition of Church rates, the enfranchisement of the people, &c., and now they ask for your votes. Cardiff has never ...

... when members of the opposite party, in their eagerness to obtain seats, stoop to seek- ing them by promises to restore the Corn Laws, as in Lincolnshire, or by engagements, as in Dur- ham, to vote for the liberation of persons whose action the Government ...

... of the predictions of the general adoption of free trade which were so constantly made at the time of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and of the negotiatioii of the Commerctal Treaty with France. An important alteration has been made in the plans of the ...

... limits of the Corrupt Pc:ictvses I Act. In that the people were told th,at the Tories passed the Factory Act, repealed the Corn Laws, passed the Ten Hours Bill, and the Truck Acts. What an abominable pervertion of the truth Speaking of the alleged decision ...