. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. -s^m^iip SCENE DURING THE POTATO FAMINE. keen they could hardly be said to have reached their mark, for the bossesof progress were held between the speakers javelin and the targets atwhich they were aimed, and the hollow-eyed specter of the i^otato faminelooked sardonically into the face of the archer. The measure went stea
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. -s^m^iip SCENE DURING THE POTATO FAMINE. keen they could hardly be said to have reached their mark, for the bossesof progress were held between the speakers javelin and the targets atwhich they were aimed, and the hollow-eyed specter of the i^otato faminelooked sardonically into the face of the archer. The measure went steadilyon until it accomplished itself, and the Corn Laws were no more. The acthad a specific and a general significance. SjDecifically it signified that theparticular industry of producing the cereals in England should not beiurther favored at the expense of the manufacturing and commercial inter-est. Generally it signified that Great Britain was now on the high road tothe adoption of the permanent policy of free trade as against the wholeprotective theory and practice. Thus, by the famous Act 9 and 10 Vict. c. 22, the long-standing CornLaws of Great Britain were abolished. The policy of raising and maintain-ing at a higher than natural figure the price of grain went
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