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NOTES BY THE OWL

... Christmas witnesses tens of thousands of our operatives in a worse plight than they have been since the repeal of the iniquitous Corn Laws, of which the preseut generation knows little or nothing. Happily the generous-hearted have not forgotten the poor or their ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1884
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3828 | Page: 8 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

LOCAL NEWS

... of some payment. ••Lord: says the author of the memoir, what is man i Corn Laws.—The present state of the money market exhibits the lamentableconsequences of our Corn Laws. We have all branches of trade disturbed, and the most serious calamities inflicted ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1839
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9208 | Page: 5 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

DIRECT TAXATION AND GENERAL FINANCIAL REFORM

... old cuckoo cry—it was the cry raised against Catholic emancipation, against the Reform Bill, and against the repeal of the Corn Laws ; but they must not be alarmed by it. (Hear, hear.) In the language of Shakspere, they must be determined to pluck from the ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1861
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5004 | Page: 3 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... oiolnied out that under the present state uS the law hardshipi of tax arse tinoegh iujuwries being sustained by woilkmetn in pursuit of their employment without their bhing able to Obtain colupesngation. Thle law, hes main- taincdl, was esrecially unjuast to ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1876
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5176 | Page: 6 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

GENERAL NEWS

... Chombm. warning that of the possibility that the Spanish Customs tariff of 1877 may altered In the course next year. Under the law 1877 values and of goods the tariff may be amended from time time, converted Into sped tic duties, the new standard being adopted ...

KNARESBOROUGH ELECTION

... of our empire. The colonists all managing their own affairs, yielding due assent to the laws made by the British parliament for imperial purposes and to the laws made by their local parliaments for local purposes, having no grievances, real or imaginary ...

MISCELLANEOUS

... the Jewess, a vessel laden with Indian corn, was boarded off the coast of Mayo. Ia a dead calm, two boats approached, the crews of which entered the ship, forced open the hatches, and began to fill out the corn with buckets, and put it in their boats ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1862
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 14692 | Page: 7 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

MISCELLANEOUS

... '° Xi This first duel at ! -td toff,i'r DBO -t a success, others are o r '* TKE AMa Laws.—At the recent ?' Alliance Ipswich, Mr. J. Mr. r after the repeal of the Corn '■''trie 1 , , • bright had promised the repeal hfig'ut hrt'l A' 1 , Malt Tax ; but ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1879
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8559 | Page: 7 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

local and other news. Tin SRNITTAMSMR TH* TOWN HiLL-Ytitridar was the lot day for receiving MiltaAllnt 10, >« ..

... weekly xsstlng the BraaLrd Board of WM hsli on cdneeday afternoon; Henry Patchstt A letter aas rrad frcm Mr J. tt. Davy, poor law Inspector, > tctinr out that there WM Increase of pauperism the district, result, held, to be attributed be of OLlforndty the ...

PONTEFRACT ELECTION

... riot one of those who thought that they could or ought to try to mike peoplo sober by law. He (lidnotthinktheycoutddo it; and he did not think that even if the law were so worded as to enable them to attempt it, they ought to do so. What they had to do ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6952 | Page: 8 | Tags: waterloo veteran 

GENERAL NEWS

... cannot long delayed. THE HEALTH OF M. THIERS. —M. Thiers is rv fatigued: much so, that Mdme. Thiers and l>o«ne, the sister-in-law of the President, consider that it would be imprudent for him to leave Versailles the present. change of air, under the cir ...