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... of free trade in li2ngland. What gravely affected Ireland since 1816 was not the potato famine, but the abolition of the corn laws. A student of eighteenth century Irish history at enee perceives that Ireland passed through many famflies. The emigration ...
... about ? Of course the potato-blight—bail seasons—and the depreciation of prices for Irlah• grain, through the repeal of the Corn Laws, have had their share in the melancholy change. But Mr. Hare, (the present Agent), can scarcely have believed that they did ...
... mourn our small farmers exterminated---he opposed with all his strength that ruinous measure, the Repeal of the Corn Laws. We curse the famine laws of Lord Russell—had O'Brien not been abeudoned by the Irish tnembers Repealer!! in name, Whigs in reality—Lord ...
... agitation against the Corn Laws, few thought he could succeed. The Corn Laws were enacted to protect the agricultural interest, and almost every landlord and farmer in the kingdom, thought they would be ruined, if the Corn ...
... AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. A BOUNTY FOR BARLEY GROWING. Sia—l often thought that when Cobden and Bright advocated the repeal of -the Corn Laws, and that by Free Trade for wheat, or bread—not for the purpose of getting in barley—that the masses could get beer and whiskey ...
... Ireland if we reflect what would have been the result in the North of England if during the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws Mr. Bright and Mr. Cobden had been sent for trial before a jury of infuriated Dorset farmers or, a charge based upon some ...
... of the laws relating to tLe poor. Mr. WM/MON proposed to reduce it by 1'30,000, the item included in it for the salaries of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses of Poor Law unions. He reminded the committee that on the repeal of the corn laws the charge ...
... connection with the repeal of the corn laws, at which time he bad frequent conversation with the Liberator, says:— O'Connell mid, this remarkable statement to me in the Reform C:uh in 1846 —' I would rather have the corn laws repealed than attain the repeal ...
... THE PEOPLE• REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. The past week gives the dote of January, with mild and spring-like weather so much so that the autumn sown corn shows a steady growth, while the preparations for spring tillage have only ...
... days of King John, nolumus lege: ANglia neutari—meaning (We are unwilling that the laws of England should be changed). Of course the Lords are unwilling that the laws wader which they fattened so long, at thepexpense of the people should be changed, but ...
... put down and destroyed by the English Government, and that he and others marshalled the mobs while shouting against the corn laws. That when these and such things are done at home, it is impertinent to attack Irishmen for setting aside a few days for ...
... (being sated for the time being with literary awards). Will I, he thinks aloud, go into sleaze, episcopal revelations, the corn laws, football or the secret diaries of Sepp Dietrich who may well have been married to a Ballyellis woman? The time for decisions ...