... Tt of remark that the general ruin of the trades of frequently stated in the re ports to dated from the year in which the Corn Laws were pamed Before that time there erems to hare been general prosperity. Asan of the geoeral it 3 tated thet thirty taken ...

... a revolu- tion. He there to the workmen of tho land ‘The Corn Laws moant high rents for them and when a statesman of Mr. Cham- berlain’s position came forward and a return to the old Cotn Laws days lords and dukes and and squires and baronets were towards ...

... should have better facilities for buying their goods byshipping their own natural products our free ports The repeal of the Corn Laws was intended to confer, and did in effect confer, a bounty British manufacturers. The time had come to drop for ever the ...

... always when those great and good Tneasore: have been proposed which bave made the a, Le R form of Parlament abolition of the corn laws, abolition of slavery, of religious te-ts, abolition of Church rates, abolition of the Iriah Chorch freedow of burials, defenee ...

... voluc* i example, a member the Barrow vative Club read paper Uiore t , members in 1879, in which it was the rejieal of the Corn Laws ! entirely Liberal measure, and that it i intended to benefit the employers of bbt-. more than the workmen, as the latter ...

... may, we find that men dices, or things in are with preju- regard to of real value take to do away with ? How rid of the corn laws? must pre- val and, one by one, ‘prejudiees have away, and the path of the obstacles whi of truth and en- lightenment. One ...

... Sir William Hosldsworth osked tow birst Lord of the the Govorameut wookt be feroiratble tothe appomt mantel a Scleot Corn to the laws to the | sing am] contro! of the with a te th. ir amee!/ ment. Me, aad it was alinest 1m dest bde to appoint daria: the ...

... lives opposed, is an act of inscrutable retributive justice. Wellington passed Catholic Emancipation, Peel abolished the Corn Laws and inaugurated Free Trade, and Derby has passed the Jew Bin, and will have to pass a large and comprehensive Reform Bill ...

... hear, and laughter). Proceeding from the Army reform, tho speaker stirongly piotested against the corn tax, which he cauea the rehvtreduction of the corn laws, which showed figures bore hardly ihepooro«t of the poor. to the Education Bill. it was a farce ...

... philanthropists, aided country gentlemen seeking avenge the abolition of the Corn Laws. Part could only be defended the plea that labour ww unable protect iteelf owing to the conspiracy laws, and part. I have heard, never has been, and never could have been, enforced ...

... also charectertsed by sparkling wit and pun- sarcasm. gent He fearlessly erpresscd his convictions m regard to siavery. the Corn Laws, and evil drnnk, every thet carsed the land in his day What he the Mercury of 1811 might well have been wnitten to-day His ...

... fought mao when a young to chink thet Sur Daved could book beck qth gratif cation to the part he had played in the great the corn laws about years ago He was sure Sir David had seco with his own eyes how Pngiand had progressed, and how those prumciples af ...