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LIFE OF COBDEN,

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1888. wards fireworks, and so went off the day at Tivoli, witho?
= clamonr, rudeness, or drunkenness. After Tivoli I looked ¥
at the two principal theatres, which were crammed ; and §
ended the day which to me was not a day of rest. If J”
think this is an improper picture of a Protestant Sund®f
on the other hand, the sober and orderly German think
the drunkenness, the filthy public-houses, the miserable oo
moping mechanic that pines in his dark alley in our Engl
cities on the Sabbath-day, ave infinitely worse features of !
Protestant community, than his Tivoli Gardens. Are ot
wrong 7” *
With one other and final contrast, we may leave th
memorials of the foreign tour of 1838 :—
“YT do hope the leather-headed bipeds who soak thet?
selves upon prosperous market-days in brandy and water ®
the White Bear, will be brought to the temperature 0
rational beings by the last twelve months’ regimen of Jo®
prices. And then let us hope that we may see them tryiné
at least to bestow a little thought upon their own interes?
in matters beyond the range of their factory walls. J
humiliates me to think of the class of people at home, wh’
belong to the order of intelligent and educated men th?
I see on the Continent, following the business of manuf®”
turing, spinning, etc. Our countrymen, if they were po?
sessed of a little of the mind of the merchants and msh”
facturers of Frankfort, Chemnitz, Elberfeld, otc. wou
become the De Medicis, and Fuggers, and De Witte g
England, instead of glorying in being the toadies of a clo?
pole aristocracy, only less enlightened than themselves Pr
In other words they would become the powerful as’
independent statesmen of the country, the creators od
champions of a new policy adapted to the ends of a gre"
trading community. Thrusting aside the nobles by for!
$ To Miss Cobden. Soph. 8, 1838. 1 ZF. 0. Oct. 6. 1858