corn-law

The steps they took, after due deliberation -- viz., the proposing the new tariff and the new corn-law -- we shall presently refer to.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

There is a perfect identity of principle, both working to the same good end, between the existing corn-law and the new tariff.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

What we wish to fix attention upon, is this assumption of Mr Cobden's, many times repeated, that the known object and office of our corn-law, under all its modifications, has been to elevate the price of our corn; to sustain it at a price to which naturally it could not have ascended.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

Robert Peel for the total repeal of the use of bread by all operatives, and thereby tranquillising the present state of excitement upon the corn-law question; proving bread, once erroneously considered the staff of life, to be nothing more than a mere ornamental opera cane.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

We shall commence our review by the fewest possible words on the paramount nuisance of the day -- viz. the corn-law agitation.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

A price ruinously high; higher beyond comparison than could ever have arisen under a temperate restriction of competition; that is, in other words, under a British corn-law.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

Peel, Sir Robert, on the progress of Conservatism, 103, 104 on the causes of the manufacturing distress, 105 defence of his conduct on the corn-law question, 107.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

That seems to be the hinging point of this corn-law question; and it is one on which the "total and immediate" men are more evasive, _in public discussion_, than on any other, though privately such of them as understand the subject, are fully aware of its bearings.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

Cobden, Mr, on the effects of corn-law repeal, 125.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

And the way in which a corn-law -- that is, a restraint upon the free importation of corn -- affects the case, is this: -- Relieving the domestic farmer from that part of his anxiety which points to the competition of foreigners, it confines it to the one natural and indefeasible uncertainty lying in the contingencies of the weather.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various