... that should rub up our history of those bad times before Mr. Bright and Mr Cobden succeeded persuading Parliament that the Corn Laws were an iniquitous tax. I wonder whether in this vast audience there are any people who have any conception of the state ...

... the fraud and injustice cf the Corn Laws, I verily believe, if you were bring forward the history of taxation in this country for the last years, you will find black a record against the landowners as even in the Corn Law itself. 1 warn them against ripping ...

... given cairdevment to an ocressing population, and Ireland might not have suffered very much more from the Repeal of the Corn Laws than lingland or &attend did (leant that an Irish Parliament not have prevented the English Parliament from pass,ng the Repeal ...

... in “ Realms of Gold.” Sir, —Thanks are due to you for republishing in Thursday’s paper John Bright’s telling speech the Corn Laws at Covent Garden Theatre December 19th, 1845. I was present at the first great meeting held at the same place in March, 1843 ...

... stationer who made a fortune out of Free Trade. and a farmer who (strange as Mr Chaplin may think it) sell-nigh ruined by the Corn Laws, represent my four great grandparents. Ms parental grandfather was editor of the Leeds Times, and fought side side with ...

... Astor. M.P. extreme Tories. A disciple of Peel, he THE BILLIARDS MATCH followed him in the struggle over the Jacob Epstein. Corn Laws, gradually becoming the leading exponent of Liberalism. Four times Prime Minister, he rendered incomparable service to liberty ...

... About half the verting strength the division is directly interested in agriculture, and it by promising re-enactment of the Corn Laws, purified by some mysterious process all their gri.dy horrors while retaining all their virtues, that Mr. Foxcroft hopes ...

... The End of All Things. Loud were the Jeremiads which attended the repeal of the Corn Laws. In 1844 people assured that Free Trade would be the ruin of English agriculture.' The landed gentry would be forced to sell their estates, and the farmers would ...

... his firm mind, and his sound sense should ever have meddled with corn all. (Opposition cheers.) Of all taxes, this is the one which provokes bitter memories—those of the days of the Corn Laws. right hon. friend Sir Henry Fowler demonstrated conclusively ...

... of refutation,the statement that “the price of wheat for the year was 545. Bd. per quarter, and after the repeal of the Corn Laws, which took place that year, taking the average ten years, the price of wheat was 555. 4d. P er quarter, Bd, dearer than ...

... unrighteous laws which tam- pered with the food of the people. Mr. Cobden at that time was reluctant to believe that the reformed parliament, as it was then called, would not repeal the corn laws, whereas the probability was that had the corn ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. AGAINST THE THIRD READINO A BILL to ! AV° laws relating to THB IMPOETATION op I CORN. Dissentient, —Because the bill for repealing the corn| laws is not accompanied, as justice it ought to haTe been, the following measures, viz. 1. The ...