... CORN LAWS A woman writer who was moved to write as a result of her experiences in Liverpool wa, Mrs. M. Oliphant, who was born in Liverpool and was vividly impressed by the great distress among the people which was aggravated by wide scale immigration ...

... THE CORN LAWS. short statement, published by Mr. Painter, in the btrand, has the following statistics and conclusions, that according to the census of 1831, there are in the united kingdom 2,470,411 persons above twenty years of age employed in agriculture ...

... CORN LAWS. Events and circumstances art- dally our conviction, that the l;.nd holders arc actinia short s»ght* d part in pressing their claims to protection t. r r ally amount the establishment rigid monopoly in the necessary life. would gladly convince ...

... proprietors. The law was altered in 1773; and that was the first corn law which was, he supposed, what the chairman alluded to as ono of their ancient institutions. The CHAIRMAN explained. Mr. SMITH then proceeded to give a history of the corn ...

... THE CORN eAwS. Wd DEARh BREAD AND LOW WAGES.' 7017Octh EDITOR of the ADBZEM ERN HERA LD, SIR.-You often give place o speeches and pragraphs absose 01 thte corn laws, Among theta therb~flal several rtimxesi appaed', th standcar~d argument let favour of ...

... ERlie ~i'rpooI: fr ,urP. - OB 1 I FlRA)IY, OCTOBER 6, 1526 THE CORN LAWS an *-,(ohjrog 1s so prejudicial to English Industry as the corn U 1a ?? dot more hrare titan all foreign prohibitietlt'- be co of if the people in this country had only fair play ...

... he felt, from tbe sauce cause, in our corn- Otth every other part of the world, unless 'we make . so to ear preeent s'nteni. The question then is, rtt deal the Governmeut to do for us? In reply, o al ree te Corn-laws, and to admit the intporta- 0tle, adun ...

... fairly represented, ioneof their first objects would he t obtitin repeal of - the corn law. (llear,hetir.) It was acicnowledged by to the woltkinn men themselves that the corn laws were a le gro soppresdio .iiit wit was ?? thitthey pressed on to chies heavier ...

... CORN LAWS. In the course of some observations which we had occasion to make in our parer the 22d ult., on article then under our notice, we stated our opinion that the relief which the repeal of the Corn Laws would give our manufacturing and commercial ...

... THE CORN LAWS. There can be no doubt, that whatever change Sir Rohert Peel contemplates in the existing corn laws, he means to adhere to the principle of a sliding scale of duties. And, until some more feasible scheme than has ever yet made its appearance ...

... meeting of. Deputies of the Natieonal le Anti-Corn-law Leagae, retard the rejection of the people's petli of tlons for the repeal of the Bread-tlax, or even ' to take into const- in deration the existing Corn-law,'vith regret and indignation, but r, wvithout ...

... that corn laws are chiefly regulations of currency and, viewed in this light, it will be evident, that our corn laws as they at present stand, operative, laws constituted on their principles, such Mr. M'hitmore re- commends, are, in point ...