... , fate was entirely artificial. So real cb.pendeme could therefore be placed on had happened. With the abolition of the corn laws the frititious industrial life of the country was at once evident. When free trade began, for a time this land did not prosper ...

... QUESTIONS. 1. What British statesman repealed the Corn Laws 2. (a) What is the name of a tailor's smoothing trot? (b) Why is it so called ? 8. By what name was the Isle o f Man formerly known ? 4. When is the feast day of St. Anne? 5. What is the anniversary ...

... rents aggravated by devaluation of currency and the Corn Laws' repeal which reduced prices and involved much more in the payments of rents were the instruments that cleared out the plentiful harvest of corn, a record one for the period. and left millions ...

... Manchester has and spirit under all her blackness. What she does is done with a will. Hence the name she male in fighting the Corn Laws half a century ago. Far just the same remin she is to-day the chief centre protectionist feeling and expression. The Fair ...

... century was roster's Corn Lire. It is not perhaps an overstatement to say that no Act so profoundly modified (Air history as the fox -reaching measure brought forward by Fester in 1847. Its author modelled it on the Faiglisli corn laws as they existed since ...

... as the establishment of the Poor Law System, which net alono, added tremendously to local taxation in the poore,t districts, and at the same time manufactured and perpetuated ate,- perism, also the Repeal of the Corn Laws nmler a system of free import; ...

... by means of home pro_ duction, we can assist in enabling the country to overcome its' difficulties. 110 years after the corn laws were abolished we produced in this country twice as much wheat as we imported. Since then four or Ave million acres of arable ...

... and after declaring tie repeal of the con laws, and was said to me by O'Connell in presence of his son. He was a deter- customary dividen d et the rate of 11 j per Tr for I mined opponent of, the corn laws, sad with his follow- the half year there is ...

... future of that journal in respect to the Fiscal controversy, it is intenestmg to recall that Mr. Gitfard's attitude i on the corn Laws was . s selecteo for attack h John Irright'inlB4s. The Lord Chancellor's grandfather mos also a sort. of a journalist. ...

... assisted by the calamity of the Irish famine later. Although the corn laws were repealed in 1846, it was not until 1849 it took effect when the ports were thrown open for the importation ot corn, a registration duty of Is. per quarter being charged. This was ...

... 30 : or 30 years, and deprived of all its ablest _men. Sir Robert Peel came into olfice.as a Minister pledged to Main the Corn Laws. It is perfectly true be had indicated he bad a leaning towards Free Trade. but it never was, an open question in his party ...

... the fiercv passion of the time than even he vacelies of Cobden and Bright He schrionly spoke or wrote of anything but the Corn Laws. heart. he n - litM, Once soft as woman's team us In the gloating on the ills 1 cannot 'ore. It was inevitithle that the ...