... and it is now prapoced to sell it, as was done in the case ot the Philadelphia State The repeal of the corn laws, and subsequently the naviga- tion laws, gave an impetus to the New York Central Rail- way, and to the shipping of New York, which was the iual ...

... approved, in which that gentleman replied to a letter of inquiry into his political opinions. On the present question of the Corn laws, Mr. Blackett's sentiments are in accordance with those of the great body of the liberal party. If he were now in parliament ...

... deputy-lieutenant for Bucks, was unanimously voted into the chair. —Colonel Wood explained his reasons for abandoning the corn laws, and said he would vote against the repeal of the malt tax and the taxes on tea and tobacco ; would not pledge himself to ...

... ASHWORTH thought they little expected to be called- together again on, a subject which so essentially con- corned the efforts of the Anti-corn-law League as this did, but the events of the last few days had brought the question of protection before them ...

... at every turn, were enough, one would have supposed, have convinced the British people of the folly and iniquity of the corn laws, without listening to the early appeals of Villiers and , or the late but authoritative words of Sir Robert Peel. But with ...

... admitted, on the part of the tenant farmers, that they had been much more frightened than hurt by the alteration in the corn laws, and the following resolution was passed : That this society should continue to exist, and be readiness to forward, whenever ...

... After tying population down by stringent laws for quarter of a : cen u row its own food under circumstances most disadvantageous, and accumulating a mass of , hopeless inhabitants localities where nothing but such laws would ever have brought them together ...

... raised wages, but in the same breath they complain that it has depressed prices. As wages are higher than they were under the Corn Laws, the very cheapening of nearly everything that Wages buy, even if it stood alone, would be I equivalent to a rise. It is ...

... to bring the whole building down about his ears. (A laugh.) The corn laws having been totally repealed, they would now proceed to the sugar laws, which were the colonial system what corn was the ''.omestic. (Hear.) It was iu fact the kcy-stono of the ...

... practically unanimous in regarding this transmutation of the tax as a boon. There has never been a time since the repeal of the Corn Laws in which the whole agriculture of the .countrywas subject to so severe a strain at the present moment. A good or a bad harvest ...

... leave him without any more votes than those of his mere personal followers and friends. At no time since the repeal of the Corn Laws has this Liberal union been more essential than the present moment. have had six years of Conservative administration, with ...

... patriot, to his fellow-country- t men, by prprsiig finat repeal, though somewhat re- spectively, of the corn law. That the repeal of the corn t law has only now taken effect; and, therefore, during the last three years we have not possessed that freedom ...