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| | The Corn Laws in Victorian England |
 | | The Corn Laws were a series of statutes enacted between 1815 and 1846 which kept corn prices at a high level. | | | The artificially high corn prices encouraged by the Corn Laws meant that the urban working class had to spend the bulk of their income on corn just to survive. | | | The social impact of the Corn Laws on Victorian England. |
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| | The Corn Laws were the king-pin of protectionism and free trade had been a "stop-go" policy since the days of Pitt. | | | In 1828 the Corn Laws were revised by the Duke of Wellington's government. | | | The ACLL headed a nation-wide campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws which ended in success in 1846 when the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel repealed the legislation. |
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| | The Irish Potato Famine of 1846 was intensified by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. | | | Repealing the Corn Laws was supposed to benefit the Irish by allowing them to bring in more grain from Europe, but food was even harder to come by after the repealing of the Corn Laws. | | | In his speech given to the House of Commons on January 22, 1847, Sir Robert Peel tired to justify to both the Tory and the Whig Parties that the repeal of the Corn Laws would help elevate the problems that England and Ireland were having in food shortages. |
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| | Corn Laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Corn Laws, in reality, represented the power of the British aristocracy, who were the landowners and therefore the crop producers. | | | The Corn Laws, in force between 1815 and 1846, were import tariffs ostensibly designed to "protect" British farmers and landowners against competition from cheap foreign grain imports. | | | (In British usage the term "corn" means "grain", or specifically the primary grain crop of a country, which in England was wheat, not maize as implied by the North American usage of the term.) These laws are often viewed as a cornerstone of British Mercantilism. |
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| | Gale . The Making of the Modern Economy . Title Lists . List |
| | The question fairly stated relative to the revision of the corn laws, and a permanent measure suggested, to secure a moderate price to the manufacturer, without injury to the farmer. | | | First and second reports from the committee of the House of Lords, appointed to inquire into the state of the growth, commerce, and consumption of grain, and all laws relating thereto: to whom were referred the several petitions presented to the House in the session of 1813-14, respecting the corn laws | | | The question fairly stated relative to the revision of the corn laws, and a permanent measure suggested, to secure a moderate price to the manufacturer, without injury to the farmer |
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| | It has been sometimes urged as an argument in favour of the corn laws, that the great sums which the country has had to pay for foreign corn during the last twenty years must have been injurious to her resources, and might have been saved by the improvement of our agriculture at home. | | | Corn, in this respect, is subjected to the same laws as other commodities, and the difference between them is by no means so great as stated by Dr Smith. | | | It has further been intimated by the friends of the corn laws, that by growing our own consumption we shall keep the price of corn within moderate bounds and to a certain degree steady. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 309, CORN LAWS.: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | From the circumstance of corn forming, in England and most other countries, the principal part of the food of the people, the trade in it, and the laws by which the trade is regulated, are justly looked upon as of the highest importance. | | | An association, denominated the anti-corn law league, originally founded in Lancashire, but which subsequently extended its ramifications to most parts of the country, was set on foot for the express purpose of keeping up an incessant agitation against the corn laws, which, in consequence of these concurring circumstances, were assailed with greater bitterness than ever. | | | But supposing the total quantity of corn annually produced in Great Britain and Ireland to amount to 50,000,000 quarters, every shilling added to its price by the corn laws was equivalent to a tax on corn of £2,500,000; and estimating the average rise on all sorts of grain previously to 1846 at 3s. |
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| | corn laws on Encyclopedia.com |
| | CORN LAWS [corn laws] regulations restricting the export and import of grain, particularly in England. | | | Following a campaign by the Anti-Corn-Law League, the corn laws were repealed by the Conservative government of Sir Robert Peel in 1846, despite the opposition of many of his own party, led by Lord George Bentinck and Benjamin Disraeli. | | | The purpose of the laws was to assure a stable and sufficient supply of grain from domestic sources, eliminating undue dependence on foreign supplies, yet allowing for imports in time of scarcity. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Corn Laws |
| | Richard Cobden was one of the most prominent campaigners against the Corn Laws in the mid-19th century. | | | Corn Laws, regulations applied in Great Britain to the import and export of grain (mainly wheat). | | | The main purposes of the Corn Laws were to secure... |
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| | It also influenced working class radicals and the Corn Laws was one of the main issues that was to be addressed at the meeting that they had organised at St. | | | The Corn Laws had an important political impact on Manchester. | | | (2) Resolution against the Corn Laws passed by manufacturers in Manchester on 23rd February, 1815. |
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| | BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g) - Online Information article about BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g) |
| | repeal of the Corn Laws, and at a meeting in Manchester on 2nd July 1846 Cobden moved and Bright seconded a motion dissolving the league. | | | His first speech on the Corn Laws was made at Rochdale in 1838, and in the same year he joined the Manchester provisional See also: | | | annual motion against the Corn Laws Bright was heard with so much impatience thathe was obliged to sit down. |
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| | Corn Laws -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | The Corn Laws, in force between 1815 and 1846, were (additional info and facts about import tariff) import tariffs ostensibly designed to "protect" (The people of Great Britain) British (A person who operates a farm) farmers and landowners, against competition from cheap foreign grain imports. | | | They were eventually abolished in the face of militant agitation by the Anti-Corn Law League, formed in (A city in northwestern England (30 miles east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England) Manchester in 1839, which maintained that the laws, which amounted to a subsidy, increased industrial costs. | | | The Corn Laws, in reality, represented the power of the British aristocracy, who were the landowners and therefore the crop producers. |
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| | Corn Laws category on HistoryFizz UK |
| | Parliamentary Speech by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, on the succesful motion to abolish the Corn Laws. | | | In the early 1830s Peel had been well-known for his opposition to the repeal of the Corn Laws and in 1841 had promised not to repeal the legislation. | | | For a Repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel |
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| | CORN LAWS - LoveToKnow Article on CORN LAWS |
| | Apart from this general feudal germ of legislation on corn, the history of the British corn laws may be said to have begun with the statute in the reign of Henry VI. | | | This evil continued to affect the corn laws of the kingdom, varied, on one occasion at least, with the further complicati~n of bounties on import, until the I 9th century. | | | By a law of July 1889, as amended by laws of August 1891 and July 1899, importation is prohibited except in the event of the home-grown crop being insufficient, and even then permission is confined to millers. |
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| | Corn Laws category on HistoryFizz UK |
| | Parliamentary Speech by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, on the succesful motion to abolish the Corn Laws. | | | In the early 1830s Peel had been well-known for his opposition to the repeal of the Corn Laws and in 1841 had promised not to repeal the legislation. | | | For a Repeal of the Corn Laws by Sir Robert Peel |
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| | Greg claimed, however, that his interest in the issue pre-dated that of Cobden, writing in 1843: The fact is that no one in Lancashire some years ago thought anything about the Corn Laws except J. Smith and myself. | | | Between 1839 and 1841 Greg served as the Anti-Corn Law League Member of Parliament for Manchester. | | | The Corn Laws, William Greg declared in 1842, conspired To keep up the first necessary of life at a famine price. In 1846 the League triumphed and the Corn Laws were abolished, effectively ushering in the era of Victorian free trade. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Anti-Corn-Law League (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia |
| | The league won over Sir Robert Peel to its views, and the corn laws were repealed in 1846. | | | Anti-Corn-Law League, organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws. | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > British And Irish History > Anti-Corn-Law League |
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| | AllRefer.com - Anti-Corn-Law League (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia |
| | The league won over Sir Robert Peel to its views, and the corn laws were repealed in 1846. | | | Anti-Corn-Law League, organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws. | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > British And Irish History > Anti-Corn-Law League |
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| | Anti-Corn-Law League Anti-Corn-Law League, organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws. | | | corns and calluses corns and calluses, thickenings of the outer layer of skin where there is irritation or constant pressure. | | | Corns are cone-shaped with their points protruding into the dermis, or inner layer of skin. |
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| | CORN LAWS - LoveToKnow Article on CORN LAWS |
| | Apart from this general feudal germ of legislation on corn, the history of the British corn laws may be said to have begun with the statute in the reign of Henry VI. | | | All the means of select committees of inquiry on agricultural distress, and new modifications of the corn laws, were again brought into requisition. | | | The syatem of corn law established in the reign of William and Mary was probably the most perfect to be conceived for advancing the agricultural interest of any country. |
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| | Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League & the Reform Movement in Manchester |
| | Peel, under severe pressure from the League and its growing band of ever more powerful supporters, repealed the Corn Laws in 1846, thereby splitting the Tory party, and effectively ending his own political career in the process. | | | Due to fierce competition from cheap imported foreign corn in the early 19th century, wealthy and influential gentlemen farmers had lobbied the ruling parliamentary party, the Tories, to prohibit their import by the imposition of Corn Laws in 1815. | | | Free Trade, Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League |
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| | Alternatively, it could be interpreted as a parody against British apathy to the Corn Laws and the Catholic situation. | | | "Corn and Catholics" is a partly self- directed jab regarding the two hotly-debated issues of the day: the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Catholic Emancipation Act, both of which Moore supported and wrote much about. | | | In contrast, his poorer friend Thomas Malthus was a defender of the laws. |
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| | Extracts from Peel's Speech on Repeal of the Corn Laws, 15 May 1846 |
| | During the course of his second ministry (1841-6) he changed his mind and by December 1845 was considering repealing the Corn Laws. | | | In the early 1830s Peel had been well-known for his opposition to the repeal of the Corn Laws and in 1841 had promised not to repeal the legislation. | | | Extracts from Peel's Speech on Repeal of the Corn Laws, 15 May 1846 |
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| | Controversy. (from Corn Law) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Corn laws were regulations in England governing the export and import of grain, all kinds of which were called corn. | | | The best known of the corn laws were those from the 12th to the middle of the 19th century. | | | The laws became politically important in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, during the grain shortage caused by Britain's growing population and by the blockades imposed in the Napoleonic... |
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| | The Corn Laws aroused strong opposition and became a hotly contested political issue, as they were regarded by radicals as benefiting wealthy landowners at the expense of the ordinary consumer. | | | For centuries the Corn Laws formed an integral part of the mercantile system in England&; they were repealed because they became an unwarranted tax on food and a hindrance to British exports. | | | In 1838 the Anti-Corn Law League was formed to campaign for the repeal of the laws. |
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| | The Corn Laws, William Greg declared in 1842, conspired To keep up the first necessary of life at a famine price. In 1846 the League triumphed and the Corn Laws were abolished, effectively ushering in the era of Victorian free trade. | | | The political issue that most concerned the Gregs was, however, the promotion of free trade and opposition to the Coin Laws. | | | Between 1839 and 1841 Greg served as the Anti-Corn Law League Member of Parliament for Manchester. |
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| | Order in Council for allowing the re-exportation of foreign corn and grain, flour and meal, which is or shall be warehoused, and also the exportation of foreign and British corn, grain, &c. | | | Laws, etc. An act to permit goods the produce of any foreign colony in America, imported directly from thence … to be entered and landed without payment of the duty granted by an act of the last session of Parliament … [London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799.] [749]-750 p. | | | Laws, etc. An act to prohibit the importation of foreign wrought silks and velvets, for a limited time; and for preventing unlawful combinations of workmen employed in the silk manufacture. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Corn Laws definition |
| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - Corn Laws definition | | | Search for "Corn Laws" in all of MSN Encarta | | | former British laws regulating grain trade: a group of laws introduced in Great Britain in 1804 and repealed in 1846 that were designed to restrict the importation of foreign grain by imposing duty on it. |
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| | Founder of the Manchester-based Anti-Corn Law League with John Bright, which was largely responsible for the repeal of the Corn Laws by Peel in 1846. | | | The British Corn Laws had been strengthened in 1815 to prohibit the importation of corn (i.e. | | | Cobden was also responsible, with Michel Chevalier, for the 1860 "Cobden-Chevalier" trade treaty with France. |
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