The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 3.

A ORLAT benefactor has passed away, and a
whole nation will mourn when it learns that
RICHARD COBDIN is dead. Nor will it be this
nation only that will lament his premature loss. It
was the distinction of his life that the good he
wrought had uo limit in the political boundaries of
states ; rather, it effaced these barriers, and spread,
more powerfully than any other modern agency, a
community of interest and of feeling over the whole
civilized world. So in our loss we shall have the
sympathy of the world; and while the best and
greatest in every land will most heartily recognise
the worth and greatness of him who has now done
his earthly task, there are millions who never
heard his name who have daily cause for thank-
fulness that he lived and wrought the work that
without him had been less speedily and leas tho-
roughly accomplished.
But we, who have first and chiefly derived the
benefit of his great achievement, owe to his name
something more than the common honour which
the world will bestow upon it. It was not the
expanse of growth among us that he guided, it was
in truth a revolution that he directed. What less
than revolution can we deem it when we look back
to 1835, the year when he published his first Anti-
Corn Law pamphlet, or even to 1845, the year
before Sir Rosser PEEL yielded, and compare
them with this year of 1865 1 Behind us, the war
of class with class, the hatred of the poor against
the rich, the terror of the rich because of the
poor, the jealouay between the manufacturers and
the landlords, the constantly recurring stagnatons
of trade, the perpetual complaints of the farming
interest, the machine breaking, the rick burning,
the riots, the fury of Chartist agitators, the star-
vation and ignorance and degradation of almost the
whole people. If we chance to turn back to the
writings of that era, we find in those of the beat
and most earnest thinkers and workers a feeling of
scarce concealed despair at the future they
saw before them. Our fields seemed blasted, and
no longer able to produce food for our children ;
our commerce was liable to fitful and inexplicable
periods of depression and ruin ; our manufactures
were a curse instead of a blessing, for they hard-
ened the hearts of the masters to think of men
and women, boys and girls, only as machines, and
the " hands " so dealt with grew day by day more
dangerous as they sank under brutal treatment to
the level of brutes. It was a time when the phrase
Two Nations was no figure of speech or mere title of
fiction, fur there were two nations among English.
men, separated bye wide, apparently an impassable,
gulf, and glaring at each other with suspicious,
hostile, and angry eyes. On this scene opened the
drama of the organised Anti Corn-law agitation.
Its institution was due in great measure to
RICHARD COBDEN, and from the first he became
iis leading spirit. His vigour, his earnestness, his
clearness of illustration and weight of argument
made him the chief agitator. What a conflagra-
tion, with such materials ready piled, and with an
unquestionable wrong to fan the flame, a man not
necessarily reckless, but merely intemperate or ill-
judging, might have kindled ablaze, we may now with
a shudder contemplate. It was Mr. COBDEN'S glory
that he restrained the passions while he compelled
the convictions of the public he addressed. Six
years of hard but peaceful struggle gave him
victory—a victory of which he made no other use
than to lay down his arms. But the twenty years
that have since passed have shown its greatness in
the value of the fruits which we have gathered from
it. Agriculture has progressed more within that short
time than in the century before. Our trade has
more than doubled itself, our manufactures have
received fresh life, and in the very arts in which
before we could not profess to compete with our
rivals we now surpass them. But, above all, the
Two Nations are now made one. A kindly mutual
interest has come in place of jealous suspicion ;
order has reigned uuinfringed through the terrible
privations which the unforeseen cotton famine pro-
duced ; and if men and masters still sometimes
disagree, they can now meet calmly to discuss
their respective chime, or agree to refer their dis-
putes to the decision of arbiters. All this happy
change has sprung from nothing else than the re-
moval of artificial rules which made enemies of
those whom nature made countrymen ; and the
hand that did most to abrogate them wee acknow-
ledged by all to have been that of RICHARD
COBDEN.

It were a bootless task, knowing this ranch for
certain, to ask how far the great result was cube-
sicely due to the peculiar abilities which Mr. 001-
Dix brought to bear upon the agitation. The time
was no doubt growing ripe for • change in our
mercantile system. The truth had been long
known to political economists, it was beginning toll
become known to practical men. Sooner or later,
no doubt, it would have made its way. But how
much may not have depended on the sooner? The
Corn-laws were only repealed in 1846, and 1848
was the year in which thrones fell on the Continent
like houses built of cards. How should we have
stood if the conviction and conversion of our

ins the
lastly di

statesmen and of Parliament Ban
by that time effected, and if Atar... We ,
were opened to meet the inner/ orths
famine they had been close 4i_ ttlireve
contingency of • fall of rept I OW ie a q
tion which we cannot answer, but which we can
well be thankful was not answered by the facts.
neee two years gave us security in the hour of
universal peril, sad the advancing of truth by two
years Wall the Gift to us of the genius of the man
whom we now mourn.
So much we owe him, and can now pay with
gratitude only. But how much more of admira-
tion is due to the simple greatness which achieved
so much, and did it all so gently, and so humbly I
This son of • Sussex yeoman, this cotton.spinner
of Manchester, who in six years reversed the
policy of the greatest State is Christendom, who
triumphed over the proudest ariatamay in Europe,
who conducted a bloodless revolution, who saved
and regenerated his country--surely there were
here matter for the pride of no lees than • Came:.
But RICHARD Cosoax was greater than • Caesar.
When he had done all this he accepted simply
the offering which the nation made him in lieu of
the fortune he had sacrificed, and without even
the false modesty of a pompous retirement,
he continued to render such services as an ordi-
nary member of Parliament can perform. Nor
did he ever shrink from either obloquy or labour
When he thought he could, by speaking or working,
be of use to his country. He opposed the univer-
sal feeling in favour of the Russian war ; he lost
his seat rather than give assent to the Chinese war;
be gladly accepted from his chief opponent a mis-
sion to France to negotiate a commercial treaty
which hie personal knowledge and the respect paid
to him rendered him better able than any one else
to accomplish. And if sometimes the fervour
and single-mindedness with which he adopted and
pursued an ides isolated him from some of his
friends, let it be remembered that he never made
an enemy, nor ever was the mark of a suspicion.
Perfect probity, absolute sincerity, an eager,
almost an impetuous desire to make truth tri-
umphant, a belief in the power of human honesty
and good feeling if it could only have fair scope,
an incapacity to recognise that rank or privilege
conferred dignity or desert—these were the con-
spicuous virtues, or the faults, of his character.
Whatever they were, they made him loved by his
friends, honoured and trusted by his opponents,
and a felt power in the State even after his health
made him little able to attend to business.
Among the thousands of sermons that yesterday
were preached it may be said with truth that there
was none so ennobling and so convincing as the
story of the life of the great man who that morning
entered his rest.

THE DEATH OF MR. COBDEN.

(From the Times)
Were it our object to write an indiscriminating
panegyric on Mr. Cobden we should atop here, and per
over in silence the put which he subsequently took in
public affairs, except, indeed, the negotiation of the
French treaty. After the repeal of the corn laws, however,
Mr. Cobden distinguished himself by a 'accession of
speeches directed what our tarots!" policy, by which he
came to be considered as the advocate of what is called
peace at any pries. We will not stop to examine how far
this criticism was just; it is certain that for a time, and
especially daring the days of the Crimean and Chinese
wars, these mamba; were • great drawback to his well-
was popularity. He also took great delight in foretelling
events, and as these Greets very seldom corresponded
with his expecitatioire, his reputation suffered some-
what by the failure of his pude:dims. We have
also remarked with regret that Mr. Cobden's later
efforts have been marked by a spirit of intolerance towards
those who ditYwed from him end an impatienee of contra-
diction which, it is only fair to say, did not manifest them-
salve' to the mow degree in his earlier days. Perhaps the
impatience arising from repeated attacks of illness may be
held to excuse these occuioual flaws of temper. We only
mention them now with the view to make our sketch com-
plete, and not to pass over anything which seems necessary
to the comprehension of the man such as be really was. Our
own lot has been for may years put to oppose those schemes
which Mr. Cobden had nearest at heart ; bat we do not
the less recopiee him as a great benefactor to the country,
nor regret the loss of a man who, though not exempt from
human failings, WWI pure and disinterested as well as ►ble,
and who has left behind him a name which, se Sir Robert
Peel in his celebrated eulog:um said of himself, will be ever
remembered by hie countrymen when "they recruit their
exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the
sweeter because no longer leavened by • sense of injustice."
(From the Morning Poet.)
It is probable that he will be found to have left nearly u
great a reputation in France se in his own country ; for
although the measures he recommended to the Emperor of
the French were carried out in spite of the fiercest °mend_
lion from the French industrial interests dependent upon
great monopolies, the magnitude of the change he so
largely contributed to being about could not fail to be re-
eagnieed and appreciated at its due worth by the reflecting
majority of Frenchmen. Even the commercial treaties that
have subsequently been concluded between continental
nations were indirectly the result of the example
he had helped to lay down in the treaty be-
tween France and England. Such were the Prue°.
Freach Treaty, the reorganisation of the Zollveraio
upon the bans of the tariff entered upon between Paris and
Berlin, and the modifications in the Franco-Italian cus-
tome dues. As a commercial statesman, Mr. Cobden's re-
putation noquestioaably extended the longer he lived ; and
he now dies in the zenith of a fame justly acquired for great
services and email led benefits to mankind.
It we pass so the persons! character of this great man
we shall find no ►eas of merit and originality than in his
public services. The phrase which has described him as
"the great unadorned and undecorated" is a very just and
significant one. No man was so indifferent to ha own ad-
vancement. He not only refused titles of honour : he
twice refused to be a cabinet minister. Although he'
was not wealthy, and official gaiety could hardly
have been a matter of indifference to him, he preferred the
iodepesde•t position of a priv►te member of parliament.
When be undertook his diplomatic mission to Paris is 1859 ,
it was so quietly discharged by him that it was a matter
surprise to the majority of us when his important mission
was accomplished, to learn that be had undertaken any
such functions. Considering the interest which he took in
American polities, one cannot but regret that he was not
"wed to see the termination of the ci►il war ; and we
might then perhaps have learnt how far thou events had
tended to modify the more pointed of his political precon-
ceptions. But be has now gone from us, and left us the
memory and the tangible fruit of his great services, with a
type of disinterested statesmanship which scarcely knows of
any parallel.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Mr. Cobden has the merit of having pursued a consistent
course throughout his whole life. What he was when he
entered parliament that he remained to the end. This may
partly be accousted for by the narrowness of his range of
vision ; for he neither saw far ahead nor on each side of
him, but no man excelled him in the marvellous clearness
with which he grasped the object that was directly io front
of him. He was also, upon the whole, honourably free
from indulgence in personalities. Whenever he spoke he
was so full of his subject that be had no room for notice
of his opponents, except as they were the advocates of
principles which he had undertaken to comb►t. Hanes he
has left behind him no acrimonious feeling, no personal
enemy, and his loos will be mourned ea sincerely by those on
the opposition as on the ministerial benches. There was
little in common between him and the conservatives—some-
times it was difficult to recognise him as an Englishman ;
but all parties will lamest in his death the quenching of a
light that has long been recognised ; the dieappeer•ace of
representative man ; the extinction of a leading spirit, a
class which grows rare: is the House of Commons every
day, and whose loss the country can ill spare.
(From the Star.)
In the achievement of one of the noblest revolution ever
accomplished, the Roseate' triumph of the patsy which

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industry and dlyeroad poen* front famlrit,. .
do bore the Ineder's pat. Illatory will lip,
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8. 'of having aseemplisbed the trovn-law refnMai.
and esor the triumph chiefly to the mai ingliah pa-
triot who now lies dead. Mr. Cobden's Isibotiani yea of
as narrow kind ; if he loved his own country beat, he loved
scarcely lean to help other peoples on the way of progress.
The world his sot hitherto shows itself unpaid:a to him ;
and is not likely to prove itself heediar of Ilia loss. Is
Fromm, in Germany, is Italy, in Spain, is Amino,
in India men will mourn for him sa for • lost friend and
leader. England has been well served by her greatest sous.
She can boast of citizens as patriotic and as devoted as any
ever known in the older days which men sometimes deem
most hereto. But she bad • son more faithful to her
host Interests than the one whom she has just lost. lio
personal ambition ever urged him on ; the mere restlessas
of energy and roles did not impel him ; rewards were for
him absolutely without temptation ; rivalries he never
I knew ; jealousy he never felt. His life was given to tin
service of his couotry sod of humanity ; his too early
death consecrates his labours and =sot lessen his renown.

gbe gouts.

WINDSOR °soul, Aran. I.

The King of the Belgians arrived at the Castle
last evening from Backlogbeen Palace, attended by General
Count de Moorkarke and Dr. Bobpi
The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday anemone,
accompanied by the Priaome Helena, and again this morn-
ing with Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice.
Princess Helena went out riding.
Prise* Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, drove to
Claremont, to visit Queen Norio Ainslie, and afterwards
visited Use Count and Countess of Paris.

dem. ?.

The Queen, the Prince and Prioress of Wales, Prince
Alfred, Princess Helena, Prioress Louise, and Prioress
&stria% and the ladies and gentlemen iu waiting, attended
Divine service this morning io the private chapel.
The Very Rev. the Deau of Christ Church preached the
sermon.
The Prise* and Princess of Wales and Prince Albert Vic-
tor arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon on a visit to
the Queen, attended by the Countess de Grey and Major
Grey.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll also arrived, and had
the honour of dieing with the Queen, the King of the Bel.
gime, and the Royal Foully.
The Doan of Christ Church likewise arrived at the Castle
yesterday.
The Queen did Mr. Deaanges the honour to inspect his
portrait of the Prioress of Wales last Thursday.
His Boyd' Highness Prince Alfred honoured Mr. Bristly
with a visit at his studio on Tuesday.

The Prince of Wales rode on horseback on Saturday
morning, attended by Lieuteaast•Colonel Keeps!.
The Prince sod Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert
Victor, attended by the Countess de Grey and Major Grey,
left Marlborough-house on Saturday afternoon for Windsor
Ceitle, on a visit to the Quo's.
Major Grey has succeeded Lieutenant-G:4m Heppe]. as
Equerry-in-Waiting to the Prince of Wales.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official reaideuce of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were—
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, SirGeorgeGrey,Earl
Russell, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Earl de
Grey Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderiey,
the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. Y.
Villiers.

Major-General Sir John Michell bad an interview with
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, on Saturday, at the
Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent, on Saturday, from the Colonial.
office to the Governors of the Nat India islands, British
Columbia, and the North American provinces.

VISIT OF THE QCEEN TO Lorrnosi.—Her Majesty
is expected to leave Windsor Castle on or about Wednesday
for Buckingham I'4u., and to return to Windsor Castle
after a few days' stay in town.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales return to Marlborough Huse to-d►y from visiting
her Majesty at Windsor Castle. On Saturday nest their
royal highnesses, accompanied by the infant Prince Victor
Albert, will leave Marlborough House for Sandriogbam for
the Hester holidays.