corn-laws

He talked about crops, corn-laws, politics, with the best country gentlemen.

Vanity Fair 2006

We had but one candle lighted, but it was in a magnificent old silver candlestick, and after a very few questions from my lady, I had my choice of amusement between a volume of sermons, and a pamphlet on the corn-laws, which Mr. Crawley had been reading before dinner.

Vanity Fair 2006

But it was necessary, his apologist will say, that the corn-laws should be repealed; he saw the necessity, and yielded to it.

The Three Clerks 2004

But let us give him credit for the expression of a true belief; of a belief at first that the corn-laws should be maintained, and then of a belief that they should not; let us, with

The Three Clerks 2004

It was essential that the corn-laws should be repealed; but by no means essential that this should be done by Sir Robert Peel.

The Three Clerks 2004

Then, as to the corn-laws, is the new minister to adhere to his last manifesto, or has he used it merely as a lever for opposition purposes, to be laid aside, like some implement of housebreaking, when an entry into the premises has been effected?

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

We know nothing of the causes that have led to this memorable and momentous event, except that apparently differences of opinion prevailed among the members of the Ministry in reference to the corn-laws.

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

Independently of the corn-laws, what is to be their policy as to Ireland, as to foreign affairs, as to domestic finance?

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

Metternich, the condition of the Papacy, the growth of Dissent, the proper mode of dealing with the spirit of democracy which was the epidemic of European monarchies, the relative proportions of the agricultural and manufacturing population, corn-laws, currency, and the laws that regulate wages, a criticism on the leading speakers in the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

-- Very good, Mr. Punch; but I should like to know what the Tories mean to do about the corn-laws?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various