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1839. or bad language in the vewspapers, because they had beco™
ir. 35. fired by the conviction that what they were fighting agsi®®
was not merely a fiscal blunder, but a national iniquity.

Cobden lived at this time, along with his brothers and
sisters, in a large house in Quay Street, which he had bough
very shortly after settling in Manchester, and which wit
known to the next generation ss Owens College. Hs
business was in a flourishing condition, and it would ba"
saved him from many a day of misery if he could have be”
content to leave it as it was. It was from no selfish *
personal motive that he now proceeded to make a chang?
in the arrangements. The reader has already seen how at
the beginning of his career Cobden affectionately insisted
with his brother, “that you will henceforth consider your
self as by right my associate in all the favours of fortune.
And it was in the interest of Frederick Cobden and his tW°
younger brothers that he now broke up the existi’§
partnership. The firm had previously consisted of fiv?
members, carrying on business under three titles, one ab
the warehouse in Watling Street in London ; the second st
the print works at Sabden; the third, specifically known #
Richard Cobden and Company, at Manchester and Cross
Hall, near Chorley in Lancashire. Frederick Cobden W8°
not a member of any of these allied firms, and there seem
to have been no willingness to make room for him, At th°
end of July, 1839, Cobden withdrew from his old partners
He left them to carry on the London warehouse and the
Sabden print works on their own account. He then pro
ceeded himself to form a new partnership with Frederick
Cobden, to carry on the Manchester warehouse and th
print works at Crosse Hall. This wss the arrangemon?
of Cobden’s business during the six years of agitatio?
sprainst the Corn Laws,