Identifier: youngpeopleshist01towl (find matches)
Title: Young people's history of England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
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Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shephard New York, C.T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t leaders, be-came too formidable to resist. Sir Robert Peel, thoughthe Tory chief, resolved that the corn laws should be abol-ished. Some of his colleagues would not agree to this,and resigned. But Peel, aided by the Whigs, carried hispoint. By his proposal, a law was passed which imposeda fixed duty on bread-stuffs for three years, after whichthe duty on bread-stuffs should cease to exist altogether(1846). Thus the anti-corn-law league triumphed. The mo-nopoly of the English land-owners in corn was done awaywith, and the extreme distress of the working Triumph . , f of the people was almost at once relieved. But Sir eague. Robert Peel had served his country at the ex-pense of his own ambition. The discontented Toriesjoined with the Whigs in driving him from power. Inthe same year that the corn laws were reformed, his cabi-net resigned, and the Whigs came into office with LordJohn Russell as prime minister (1846). The Irish hadmeanwhile engaged in a vigorous agitation, under the lead
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VICTORIA. 355 of the eloquent OConnell, for a repeal of the union be-tween Great Britain and Ireland ; but with OConnellsdeath (1847), this agitation for the time subsided. TheEnglish government, however, made one concession to theIrish. A Catholic college at Maynooth was endowedwith national funds. It was during Sir Robert Peelsministr)^, too, that Jews were allowed, for the first time,to hold municipal offices in England. A danger to the peace of the country arose when LordJohn Russell had been two years in power. The ReformBill and the events which had followed it, the dis- The char-content of Ireland, the impulse given to politi- *^®*®-cal thought and discussion, and a third French revolutionwhich now upset King Louis Philippe and established aFrench republic, had encouraged the rapid growth of apowerful society in England called the Chartists. Thisname was derived from the fact that the society demandedthe adoption of a peoples charter. The charterwas intended to be nothing mor

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