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THE CORNISH BISHOPRIC

... except te ‘ Permit me to say that i= Jane, 1845, uy Mr, Villlers’s motion in the fouse for tho repeal of the unrighteous Corn Laws, I beard Mr. Mitchell deliver one of the most We tical speeches I ever listened’to, and on the followin, ‘ednesday, namely ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1875
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TARIFF REFORM. ITS EFFECT OS AGRICCLTI'RE

... 1892 that ewng to the Corn Laws ant to the Protective then in fores agneutture wes nat aren tier wrest Teplying to @ statement evunmare? by Mr. Millman that the mort of was between 1850 ant 1875, after the repeal of the Corn Laws, Mr pointed ont that that ...

Published: Tuesday 14 April 1908
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1826 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

... matter quite plainly, the Corn Laws imparted a fictitious valuo to the price of corn, and, by so doing, enabled the landowners to pay the impests to which they weresubjected. Within three years from tho date when those laws were defined by the legislature ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1889
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5862 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NOTES IN THE WEST

... is taken of this fact. Stargazey Pie DRESENT food situation recalls the dishes our grandparents. Before the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, white flour' was very dear, and it was customary West Cornwall to have tarts with the upper crust of wheaten flour ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1946
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE DINNER

... it ought to do good in the tates, and if we wished to get any benefit from reci- procity, wesbould havo to return to the corn laws, No manafacturer in England would wish to have raw materials taxed, and if that was 80 wo could only indalgo in reciprocity ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1879
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FACTOUY ACTS

... modification of the Corn-law of 1815 having been proposed, this great reformer —Lord John Russell—wrote as follows (Huntingdon letter): —“You are about to give up the question of trade in com to a party amongst us who wish substitute the corn of Poland and ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1885
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 534 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SUMMAJIY OF TODAY’S NEWS

... the im: provement in the position of the wago-earving class of late and years, which he attributed to the abolition of the corn laws, the free trado adoption of principles. Ho considered the jothenburg = some good. features as a plan of temperance reform ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1877
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TOWNS' DEPENDENCE ON AGRICULTURE

... cunning calculations of certain politicians with regard the industry were misciliiievous. Ever since the abolition of the Corn Laws some politicians had tossed the farmers up and down like tennis badl. had been staying in the essentially farming district ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1923
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHERS

... warmest hampton, father -ip-hw of Pearson, Wolver- after the of the the Corn Laws a division forget offered tn recognition of bis services (for his motion for the repeal of the Corn Laws was made him before Cobden and took ap the question) to emdeavour to ...

Published: Wednesday 06 January 1897
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TIVERTON DIVISION

... forties would again Buxton: Yes, the greater part of those evils would te re] How is it that it took 30 vears after the Corn Laws for_the of f w as baa oa the reasons are we had bad harvests, ond the Crimean war om greet pal of supply. ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1909
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 512 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE Liters- the Editor cannot considered unless ' accompanied the name and (Marta Ihe A norn plh'vic ..

... the able leading article yesterday. Not only has agriculture in tm* country been unsupported since the repeal of the Corn Laws, but competing countries have received such support through subsidies and manipulation of currencies from their respective ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1936
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 11 | Tags: none