The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

THE SVN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1865.

a venerable member of that University—(a laugh)—for it
was 23 years since he had pulled a Cambridge oar—he had
felt the sense of defeat keenly at the moment ; but then, on
reflection, he could not help thinking that the qualities dis-
played bythe Cambridge crew this year afforded an earnest
of many victories to be won by Cambridge men in years to
come. (Cheers.) 'With the latter part of the toast he begged
to couple the name of Mr. Chambers. (Cheers.)
Mr. MortnrsoN, who on rising to return thanks was loudly
cheered, said he hoped that their chairman, who seemed to
think he was fast becoming a venerable man, would become
awfully venerable before he had seen his last University
boat race. (Cheers.) As to the victory which the Oxford
crew had that day achieved over their gallant opponents,
he was of course naturally very proud of it, and he thought
it was but right to say that he believed it to be mainly due
to that slow stroke which Mr. Brown had had the courage
to row. He could not of course expect the Cambridge crew
to concur with him on that point, but he felt assured he
should have their sympathy when he complained of the
ever recurring inconvenience caused by the steamboats.
(Hear.) But be that as it might, he felt very grateful to
the Thames Subscription Club for the kindness which they
had shown him and his crew, and he trusted he stood in
his present position not for the last time. (Cheers.)
Mr CHAMBERS, who was also very warmly greeted, said
he felt some diffidence in rising to return thanks for the
Cambridge crew, inasmuch astheir opponents had now been
victorious on the Thames for five successive years. How
that came to pass he could not tell, although some expla-
nation of the circumstance might be found in the fact that
the Cambridge crow laboured under the disadvantage of
having to go through the process of training on a river
which was very narrow, and sometimes so devoid of water
as to be almost a complete ditch. Then, again, Oxford was
enabled to pick her men up to their fifth year at the Univer-
sity, while the choice of Cambridge was limited to four-
year men. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, however,
no pains would be spared on the part of Cambridge to
bring a winning crew to the post next year, when he hoped
the captains of steamboats would behave better, for he
quite concurred with Mr. Morrison in thinking that their
conduct that day had been most shameful. (Cheers.)
The health of "the Thames Subscription Club and its
officers," "the Rowing Clubs of the United Kingdom," and
one or two other toasts followed.
The company broke up shortly after 11 o'clock.

THE UNIVERSITIES' BILLIARD MATCHES.
The annual billiard matches between the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge were played on Saturday at St.
James's-hall. The first contest was a double game of "500
up." The players on the part of Oxford were Mr. W.
Stokes, of Queen's, and Mr. Watts Russell, of Christchurch.
The representatives of Cambridge were Mr. A. G. Payne,
of St. Peter's, and Mr. Arthur Smith, of Trinity. Upon
the commencement of the play the Cambridge men led off,
marking the first 100 to their opponents' 77, the latter
scoring but slowly, and apparently not having as yet ac-
quired a knowledge of the table. During the next 100, how-
ever, Mr. Russell made some very pretty strokes, but
either from over anxiety or some other cause did not suc-
ceed in scoring any very large numbers from a single
break. Mr. Stokes also improved in his play, and
with his partner obtained the lead at 203 to the Cantabs,
136. Mr. Payne by some excellent breaks managed to keep
the score in the same relative positions, scoring 202 to their
opponents 267. The play proceeded cautiously with few
breaks of any length until the marker called " Cambridge
300 to Oxford 370." From this point the game proceeded
very equally, Mr. Smith by bold play contriving to add
considerably to the score. Mr. Russell vastly improved in
his play, making some excellent breaks. Oxford marked
401 when Cambridge had obtained 364. The betting, which
had begun at 7 to 4 on Oxford, and had during the progress
of the game advanced to 3 to 1, was now almost any odds
on Oxford : but Mr. Payne andhis partner, who had fought
a losing game with great spirit, put forth additional ener-
gies, the former gentleman by some admirable play making
two breaks of 20 and 16 respectively. Mr. Smith was for-
tunate, and assisted in bringing the game up until the
marker called 459 all. The contest then became extremely
exciting, and great caution was displayed on both sides.
Mr. Stokes, by some beautiful cannons, and Mr. Smith, by
bold and successful play, brought up their respective scores
to 493 and 486 respectively. Mr. Smith, however, made at
this point an unfortunate mistake, and afforded Mr. Stokes
an opportunity of scoring the game, which, therefore, re-
sulted in favour of Oxford by 14 points. -The play occu-
pied 2h. 55 min.

After an hour's interval the single match, "500 up," was
begun, Mr. Stokes and Mr. Payne being the champions of
the rival Universities ; the betting was 3 to 2 on Ox-
ford. The latter gentleman led off, and marked 101 in
the first quarter of an hour, Mr. Stokes having mado
33. The play continued in the same manner, Mr. Payne
scoring well and rapidly, and Mr. Stokes displaying a
complete knowledge of the game, but not having the good
fortune to secure good breaks. Oxford scored only 100
when Cambridge had marked 186. Mr. Payne, who was
still playing very freely and making some very fine
hazards, brought up his total to 200, but Mr. Stokes very
speedily reduced the balance against him until he had
to his credit 200 to his opponent's 217. Mr. Payne again
led off, and in one magnificent break marked 29, until his
score stood at 302 to Mr. Stokes's 258. The latter gentle-
man continued to play in the same calm, quiet manner that
had distinguished him throughout, and obtaining a chance
of paying the "spot stroke" made use of the opportunity.
His play, however, was not seconded by what in the bil-
liardroom is known as "luck," the balls seldom breaking
favourably for him. The betting had now fallen to even,
but when Cambridge had 344 to the 301 of Oxford the
latter again became the favourite. Mr. Payne continued
to score his long hazards and made some excellent screws,
but when the game was called " Cambridge 451, Oxford
401," a more cautious style of play was adopted by that
gentleman. Mr. Stokes played a beautiful game considering
the disadvantage under which he laboured from the judi-
cious tactics of his opponent, who by giving frequent misses
availed himself of his majority to prevent any opening for
continuous breaks. In this style the play proceeded, until
Cambridge was called 497, and Oxford 474, when Mr. Payne
secured a white losing hazard, making his score 499, and
immediately played his own ball into the pocket, leaving
the red ball fixed under the cushion, with little chance of
scoring from it. Mr. Stokes played, and succeeded in placing
both balls in a hopeless position for his opponent to score
from. The latter then repeated his coup. Mr. Stokes again
played at the red, succeeded in bringing it into baulk, but
left his own ball between the middle pockets, which gave
Mr. Payne the chance of making a losing hazard, and thus
securing the game for Cambridge. The players were loudly
cheered for their admirable play. The game occupied 2
hours 35 minutes.
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Channel fleet, now lying at anchor in Port-
land roads, are ordered to sea on the 17th inst.,
and the Hector, iron frigate, Capt. G..W. Preedy,
C. 8., now in dock at Portsmouth, will be un-
docked on the 13th inst. so as to be enabled to join
the fleet prior to the departure from Portland.
Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. H. S. H. the Prince Leiningen, is ordered to
be prepared at Portsmouth dockyard, to convey the
Prince of Wales to Kingstown, Ireland ,on the occa-
sion of his visitito Dublin, to be present at the open-
ing of the Exhibition. The Victoria and Albert will
leave Portsmouth about the 4th proximo, for Holy-
head, where his Royal Highness will embark for
Dublin.

The screw corvette Menai, 22, in frame at
Chatham dockyard, but the work on which has
been discontinued for some two years, is to be taken
to pieces as soon as the required number of hands
can be spared for the work. The frames will be
used in the construction of the improved 4-gun ves-
sel Blanche, one of the Amazon class of ships, from
the designs of Mr. E. J. Reed, which will be com-
menced on the slip on which the ironcased frigate
Lord Warden, 24, 1,000-horse: power, is building,
as soon as the latter vessel is launched. The partly
constructed wooden ships Belvidere, 51, 500-horse
power, and the Reindeer, 17, 200-horse power, now
on the stocks at Chatham dockyard, are also to be
taken to pieces, and the timbers and frames used
in the general service.
A committee of naval officers--viz., Commodore
Ryder, Capt. Sir J. Hay, M.P., Capt. E. Sotheby,
C.B:, Capt. Englefield, Capt. T. Miller, Capt. D.
Miller, and Mr. W. Hickman, has just been formed
to collect a fund for a memorial to the late Admi-
ral Sir Henry Bruce, K.C.B. The memorial will
take the shape of an endowment of one or more
scholarships at some school or institution where the
daughters of naval and marine officers are boarded
and educated, and the scholarships will be called
the " Bruce Scholarships."
The Bristol, 35, 600 horse power, fitting for the
first division of the Chatham Steam Reserve in the
place of the Arethusa, 35, 400 horse power, intended
for commission, has received her first instalment of
the new pattern 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled
Armstrong guns, from the Royal Gun Factory,
together with a supply of the 110 pounder breech-
loading Armstrongs, which have been sent to her
from the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, in lieu of eight
of the 40-pounder Armstrongs previously ordered.
The Undaunted, Newcastle, Arethusa, Forte, and
other frigates of that class, are all to have the 110-
pounder Armstrongs supplied them instead of the
40-pounders, which, it would appear, are to be gra-
dually withdrawn from the navy.
The 75th Regiment will arrive at Portsmouth
this morning from Aldershot. The headquarters of
the regiment will be established in Fort Grange,
one of the advanced forts west of Gosport, and a de-

tachment will be forwarded on Portsmouth to Wey-
mouth and Portland in her Majesty's screw troop-
ship Urgent, Capt. S. H. Henderson.
The appointment of Sub-Lieut. E. R. Mathias was
not to the Formidable, as stated in The Sun of Fri-
day, but to the Research ; that of Mr. Fredk. Bunn,
paymaster, was not to the Adventure, but to the
Mutine at Woolwich.

The models and drawings for the new machinery,
the invention of Mr. E. J. Reed, for working and
training the large 12-ton 300-pounder Armstrong
gun which the ironclad frigate Bellerophon, now
building at Chatham, will mount, have been pre-
pared in readiness for the manufacture of the model
at Chatham dockyard instead of at Woolwich dock-
yard, as previously ordered. The whole of the ma-
chinery will be placed on the lower deck, below the
gun battery, and therefore securely protected from
injury from shot or shell,, while the apparatus will
be easily worked by a 'couple of men, the whole not
being unlike the steering apparatus on board our
ships of war.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Blake to the
Mutine; Henry Bond,
_master, to the Tribune ;
Dr. Bernard, staff-surgeon, to the President ;
Dr. Alex. Watson, staff-surg., to the Racehorse,
convict ship ; Dr. George Moore, surg., to the Hast-
ings; Abraham J. Bolton, assist.-surg., to the Fre-
derick William ; Francis W. Raikes, second master,
to the Fisgard ; Robert S. Evatt, second master, to
the Orontes ; Robert M. Bryant, master's assistant,
to the Black Prince; Henry Backler, master's assist.,
to the Mutine ; John B. Keast, master's assist., to
the Sutlej ; George Kent., chief engineer, to the
Mutine; Thomas G. Purmett, first-class assist.-en-
gineer, to the Mutine ;- Benjamin Carr, in the Blen-
heim,-promoted to engineer; George W. Robins, in
the Gibraltar, promoted to acting engineer; Henry
Meredith, acting first-class assist.-engineer, to the
Mutine ; and Granville Fordham, second-class as-
sistant-engineer, to the Fisgard,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE " LONDON REVIEW " ON DEATH IN THE
SENATE. —A gloom overspread the House of Com-
mons at the hour of meeting on Monday. A " great
man in Israel" had fallen, and there was a large at-
tendance drawn together, partly, perhaps, by a na-
tural desire to see the vacant place of a statesman
so suddenly snatched away, and still more to hear
words of generous sympathy from friends and foes
befitting the dignity of the house, the eminent ser-
vices of the deceased, and the public sorrow for his
loss. Mr. Cobden's personal friends thought and
said to each other that the compliment of an ad-
journment which had been paid to Lord Campbell
and Sir G. C. Lewis ought not to have been with-
held from one who left a stronger and deeper mark
upon his age and time than either. It was whis-
pered, however, that the Prime Minister alleged,
with some reason, the state of public business as his
hustification for not moving the adjournment of the
ouse. Monday is a Government night ; the Easter
holidays had almost arrived ; and the Treasury were
driven to ask for votes " on account" of the Civil
Service Estimates. The Navy Estimates had only
progressed as far as the second vote, and altogether
Supply might be said to be a month later than
usual. There was some force and truth in these
suggestions ; yet they were not quite satisfactory, it
was said, to the members accustomed to sit with
Mr. Cobden on the benches below the gangway on
the Ministerial side. Mr. Bright sat in the place
which he usually ceded to his deceased friend when
present, and occupied when he was absent. Around
him were Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. Latham, Mr.
Bazley, Mr. White, &c., with sadness on their faces,
not unmixed with a shade of disappointment. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Milner Gibson,
Mr. Villiers, and Sir George Grey took their seats
on the Treasury bench at the usual hour, but the
Prime Minister did not enter the house until the
preliminary business was over. The hum of con-
versation was arrested, and the house became
hushed with solemn expectancy. The Clerk read
the order of the day, a few members cried " Pal-
merston,"and the noble viscount rose, and delivered
a noble tribute to the memory and services of the
deceased. Remembering that Mr. Cobden was not
a personal friend of the Premier's, and that it is not
the habit of the stout old statesman to manifest
much emotion on public occasions, it was sufficient
that Lord Palmerston's sympathy was hearty and
unaffected, that he spoke with emphasis, and that
many passages were marked with pathos.
The earnest attention and gathering feel-
ing of the house broke out in cheers,
often renewed, at the close of each sen-
tence. But Mr. Disraeli's speech appeared
to give even greater satisfacton to Mr. Bright and
his friends below the gangway than that of the
Prime Minister. The Opposition leader has often
spoken more effectively and with less hesitation ;
but his appreciation of -a politician from whom he
differed so widely was so generous and so catholic,
his eulogy was so discriminating, and there was such
a cadence in his musical and eloquent sentences,
that the plaudits of his hearers were as continuous
as their gratification was unrestrained. The house
cheered loudly, but the warmest cheers came from
below the gangway. All eyes were turned with
sympathy to Mr. Bright, who rose to utter a few
broken words of sorrow. The tones of his voice he
mastered, but there were pauses in which a sob was
audible, and then the hand was raised to the brow,
the speaker became overpowered by his recollections,
and the strong man sat down and wept like a child.
It would have been well if the house had passed to
no other business, and had adjourned to another
day. But it had been otherwise determined, and it
was like a note " jangled and out of tune" to hear
one of Mr. Cobden's friends and admirers compelled
to discuss the constitution of the Board of Admiralty.
The reaction was too much. The house rapidly
thinned, and general regrets were heard that the
opportunity had been lost of paying a just compli-
ment to one of the most. distinguished members of
the Senate. Mr. Disraeli alluded to the mournful
obituary annals of the present Parliament. " When
we remember how many of our most eminent and
valuable public men we have lost," he said, " I
cannot refer to the history of any Parliament which
will bear to posterity so fatal a record." This is
certainly true. In 1859, after the new Parliament
met, we lost the great engineer, Robert Stephenson,
The year 1860 was saddened by the loss of Lord
Macaulay; the Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., the late
Prime Minister; the Marquis of Dalhousie, one of
the ablest Governor-Generals that India ever had;
Admiral Sir C. Napier; the learned and most Rev.
Dr. Musgrove, Archbishop of York ; the veteran
diplomatist Lord Heytesbury ; the pious and charit-
able Duke of Norfolk ; the gallant Field Marshal
Earl of Strafford ; Lord Elphinstone, late Governor
of Bombay; the. Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P.
for Leeds, late President of the Poor-law Board ;
the somewhat eccentric but intellectual and accom-
plished Henry Drummond, M.P. for West Surrey;
Mr. Wilson, Finance Minister of India ; Mr. H.
Ingram, M.P. for Boston; Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P.,
the civil engineer, &c. Death was more than
usually busy in 1860 in the ranks of politicians. In
1861 the Queen and the nation suffered a sudden
and terrible blow in the death of the Prince Con-
sort, nor have we yet fully appreciated the magni-
tude of the loss we sustained. In the same year
Lord Chancellor Campbell passed suddenly away in
the morning, after attending a Cabinet Council the
previous day, and entertaining a dinner party at
eight. In Lord Herbert we lost one whom tature
had intended for a Prime Minister ; and in Sir
James Graham, one who stood in the first rank of
our politicians and orators. That year was also
fatal to the Duke of Bedford (brother to Earl Rus-
sell), the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Abinger, the
Duke of Buckingham, the Right Rev. Dr. Villiers,
Bishop of Durham ; Earl Fortescue, the popular
Earl of Eglinton, ex-Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ;
Major Sibthorp, M.P. for Lincoln : Mr. Tom Dun-
combe, M.P. for Finsbury ; Mr. J. H. Foley, M.P.
for East Worcestershire; Dr. Noble, M.P. for Lei-
cester; Mr. G. G. Harcourt, M.P. for Oxfordshire;
Lord Braybrooke, &c. In 1862, Sir Charles Bur-
rell, father of the House of Commons, began the
list of conspicuous deaths, which was by comparison
unusually scanty. Lord Canning fell a victim to
the Indian climate shortly after his return to Eng-
lan 3 ; the Most Rev. Dr. Bird Sumner, the good
Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord J. G. Beres-
ford, the princely and apostolic Primate of Ireland,
were gathered to their rest that year. The benevo-
lent Mr. Slaney, M.P. for Shrewsbury, met his
death by an accident at the opening of the Great
Exhibition. Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P. for Stokes,
Mr. Deedes, M.P. for East Kent, Mr. Cayley, M.P.
for North Riding, Mr. H. B. Coles, M.P., Mr. J.
Boyd, M.P., Colonel Wynne, M.P., Mr. Wilcox,
M.P., the Earl of_ Gifford, M.P., and the Earl of
Yarborough, were among the losses of 1862. . In
1863 the Marquis of Lansdowne, one of the rapidly
lessening links which connected the statesmanship
of the last century with that of the present, was
taken from the House of Lords. Sir George Corm-
wall Lewis, the Minister of War, died suddenly at
his family seal in Herefordshire, and the House
transacted no public business on the day the sad
news arrived. Lord Clyde, whose military achieve-
ments spanned half a century, and whose last
services shed a new lustre over her Majesty's
arms and consolidated her Indian empire, slept
in peace by the side of Lord Canning and Sir James

Outram in Westminster Abbey. The ex-Lord
Chancellor Lyndhurst died in his 92d year. The
Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of India, fell at
his post, as a soldier falls in the trenches or on a
field of battle. The once liberal Marquis of Nor-
mandy died, and Lord Seaton and Lord Hatherton
also passed away, to the regret of the elder genera-
tion that knew them. Lord Sinclair, aged 95, father
of the House of Peers, the Earl of Claremont, Earl
Beauchamp ; the ancient Whig Nestor, Mr. Edward
Ellice, M.P., Mr. Western Wood, M.P. Mr. Ald.
Cubitt, M.P., the Marquis of Townshend, Lord
Sandys (better known to the House of Commons as
Lord Marcus Hill), and Mr. H. T. Hope were car-
ried away. Dr. Whately, Archbishop of Dublin,
was also among the not least distinguished dead of
a year saddened and rendered memorable by the loss
of so many eminent statesmen, soldiers, and divines.
In 1864, the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State
for the Colonies, followed his friend Lord Herbert
to a premature tomb. The Earl of Carlisle, late
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a worthy representative
of the highest type of English aristocracy ; Sir W.
Atherton, 11.1. P., late Attorney- General ; Mr. Richard
Spooner, who earned so much celebrity by his at-
tacks on the endowment of Maynooth, and whose
fair fame has since been clouded by the failure of
the bank at Birmingham ; Mr. W. J. Fox, one of
Mr. Cobden's most eloquent colleagues in the agita-
tion for Free Trade ; Mr. Puller and Mr. Ker Sey-
mer, two valuable and respected members, who were
lost to the House in 1864 ; Lord Ashburton, Lord
Aberdeen, and the Earl of Cadogan fell before the
sickle of the great reaper last year. The Easter of
1865 has not yet arrived, but we have already lost
Field-Marshal Lord Combermere, Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby, Lord Great Chamberlain, the princely
and benevolent Duke of Northumberland, the Earl
of Bradford, Mr.Gregson, Chairman of Committees
on Public Petitions ; Sir Henry Willoughby, one of
the few amateur financiers of the House, &c. ; and,
lastly, Mr. Cobden. The " dance of death" has
thus been unusually active in the British Senate
during the present Parliament. Yet it would not
be easy to point out the name of a single statesman
in the fatal roll who has conferred such solid and
enduring benefits upon his country, or who has set
an example of more singular modesty and disin-
terestedness, than the great man whose remains
have been committed to the grave in a quiet rural
churchyard in Sussex.
THE " EXAMINER" ON RICHARD COBDEN.--No
loss has been in our time more truly or deeply de-
plored by the industrial heart of England than that
which it is our painful duty to record to-day.
Richard Cobden was, above and beyond all other
men of his day, the man of his order. Sprung from
a yeoman's stock, trained in the discipline of com-
merce, and early raised to a position of indepen-
dence and influence as a manufacturer by his own
sagacity and energy, he laid aside the pursuit of pri-
vate wealth while yet in his prime, to enforce the
adoption of a change in national policy which has
been of inestimable benefit'to all who live by labour.
Philosophers had preached free trade as a theory,
and statesmen had timidly and tentatively taken up
the cause when it seemed to suit the occasion of the
hour. But with the friend whose death we mourn
it was not merely a conviction, but a faith—a faith
which never slept and never faltered until it had
seen the realization of things hoped for, and the evi-
dence of things unseen. It was in no random mood
that he forsook the honourable pursuit of wealth as
a merchant, and devoted all his energies to what
many deemed the desperate enterprise of reversing
the traditional policy of Protection. Even those of
us who were old enough in 1841 to comprehend the
strength of the hold that policy had upon the govern-
ing classes of the nation, find it difficult to recall
fully the deterring influences of the time and the
diversity and magnitude of the impediments that
stood in the way. And by those who were then too
young for much personal knowledge of them, it
would be hardly possible to make their nature or
their multiplicity well understood. From the
Whig Prime Minister who was with difficulty
persuaded to sanction the proposal of an Bs.
duty on corn and a modified differential tariff
for timber and sugar, as the extreme of conces-
sion to commercial needs, to the Tory parson who
used to denounce from the pulpit the cry of cheap
food as incendiarism and sedition, all that esteemed
itself polite in England, with exceptions, few in
number though not of small mark, believed absolute
free trade to be a fantastic dream. It was vile and
vicious in the opinion of Conservatives ; vain and
vulgar in the judment of the Whigs. Even many
of the Radicals,. while they voted for it, feared that
its attainment was impracticable. Even the work-
ing classes, who ought to have been its readiest ad-
vocates, at first threw difficulties in the way, and
never cordially lent their aid. Richard Cobden
began his life-toil for their. good and that of their
employers with being scoffed at and ridiculed as an
upstart by his neighbours, and being hooted and
pelted by the mob at Manchester. But this was a
man who did not work for mere popularity. his
true reward, the only true reward of a true nature,
was within lifm,—the hope of being able to accom-
plish a good work, while it was doing, and the calm
satisfaction of having accomplished it, when it was
done. A more courageous and a more modest spirit
never dignified the frail tenement of clay. Nobody
ever heard him in the early days of the warfare he
led against Protection sigh over his want of advan-
tages or:ack of odds. Nobody when the battle was
won, and Ministers and mobs concurred in paying
homage to his worth, ever heard him descend to the
utterance of a syllable of self-laudation. There

never was a man so thoroughly self-centred and
self-reliant for all good uses and good purposes, so
thoroughly free in private and in public life from
egotism. His faults, such as they were, had their
root in the temper whence his virtue sprang. He
was too single-minded himself, and went too straight
to the aim he believed to be just, to make sufficient
allowance for the not dishonest pliability of others,
and for the purity and earnestness of convictions
that distinctly differed from his own. Not that he
was uncharitable or ready to ascribe base motives :
quite the contrary. No man was more ready to for-
bear, to forgive, and to forget. But he could not
imagine his antagonists to be beyond the reach
of a logic to which on more than one •great
occasion he had found them yield after a
certain amount of resistance ; and he some-
times betrayed impatience amounting almost
to petulance at the manifestation of obstinacy which
he could not regard as other than a waste of time.
He had seen ponderous and portentous systems of
error crumble down before his persistent attack, till
he grew sceptical as to the durability of anything
that he had persuaded himself was unsound. But
what is this except to say that he was human, and
that humanity is liable to err ? It would be well
for us if all our public men were as unselfish in
their objects, or as indefatigable in the service of
their country, as that most honest servant of the

truth by whose new-made grave his friends stood
yesterday. It is not necessary for us here to dis-
claim assent to some of the opinions recently put
forward by Mr. Cobden ; but this is the place per-
haps, and this the time, to say how sorely against
the grain has been for us the task of differing from
him when we have thought it our duty to differ.
We have never done so, we say frankly, without
many misgivings, because we knew the value of the
man as a fixed quantity in English political life ;
and because we shrank instinctively from saying a
word that, however intrinsically true, might have
the effect for a moment of detracting from that
value in the eyes of men. He was so careless in
this as in other respects of all that related to him-
self, so outspoken, so unreserved, so plain, that we
flinched from the necessity of sometimes separating
ourselves from him. But all the more carefully
and cordially do we join in acknowledging his pre-
eminent worth, not merely as an economist, a
negotiator, a senator, or a tribune of the people,
but as one whose stainless life and character has left
us an example priceless and inestimable. We feel
with the eloquent leader of the party to whom he
was opposed in Parliament, that we are bound to
refuse to regard his spirit as having passed away
from amongst us. Mr. Disraeli has done himself
true honour by the manner in which he has borne
his testimony on the present occasion to the worth
of a man who, like himself, owed nothing to the
accidents of fortune, but everything to thepersistent
courage of his own nature. There is,peeper down
than any voice of party conflict can reach, a sym-
pathy of noble ambition which it is well should find
speech on occasions like this. The qualities on
which an Englishman most prides himself were
united in the man for whom by the whole country
party distinctions are forgotten and all grudges laid
aside when respect is paid to hismemory by a unani-
mous Commons. Nor is it less affecting or instruc-
tive to observe how the event of the week has been
received in France, where, with almost as general
an accord as in England, the death of Mr. Cobden
has drawn forth the warmest expressions of admi-
ration for his character, and regret for the untimely
loss of his most wholesome influence in the affairs
of men.

THE " SPECTATOR" ON MRS. THISTLETHWAITE.--
' WC have not yet been fortunate enough to meet
with George Eliot's " Dinah," or anything at all
like her. Twice the present writer has heard a
woman preach--once as a boy, when an amiable old
Quaker lady accustomed to address assemblies got
herself unfortunately into a pulpit, and was so put
out by that novel position that she lost, we will not
say the idea (for there was none), but the state of
mind, whatever that was, which was essential to the
production of hortatory periods, and her husband
had to:ascend visibly into the pulpit before the eyes
of the congregation to extricate her by comfortable

assurances of conjugal affection from
that intellectual or unintellectual dilemma. Again,
last Sunday we had the privilege of witnessing ap-