CHAPTER XVIIL

TOUR OVER EUROPK.

J ouranizD by his wife, Cobden landed at Dieppe on the 1848-7.
of Angust, 1846. He arrived in the Thames on his Zr. 42-8
turn on the 11th of October, 1847. He was absent,
therefore, from England for fourteen months, and in the
Werval he had travelled in France, Spain, Italy, Germany,
"ud Russia. His reception was everywhere that of a great
Yiscoverer in a science which interests the bulk of mankind
Wich more keenly than any other, the science of wealth.
5 had persuaded the richest country in the world to revo-Uionize
 its commercial policy. People looked on him as a
Man who had found out a momentous secret. In nearly
®Very important town that he visited in every great country
2 Europe, they celebrated his visit by a banquet, toasts,
“0d congratulatory speeches. He had interviews with the
Pope, with three or four kings, with ambassadors, and with
ull the prominent statesmen. He never lost an opportunity
of Speaking a word in season. Even from the Pope he entreated
 that His Holiness’s influence might be used against
bull fighting in Spain. They were not all converted, but
they al} listened to him, and they all taught him something,
Whether they chose to learn anything from him in return
Or not,
The travellers passed rather more than eleven weeks in
Spain, and st the beginning of the new yesr found themselves