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LIFE OF CUOBDEN.,

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1846. Paris.’ Afterwards Horace Say called, a noble-looking mak
Xr.42. —a rare phrenological and physiognomical development.”
“ August 15th, Soturday.—~French lesson, Went with
Léon Faucher to call upon M. Thiers; walked and gossip®d
in his garden, and talked without reserve upon Free Trade:
[ warned him not to pronounce an opinion against 18 hu
to fall into the same predicament as Peel did. He sett’
never to have thought upon the subject, but promises fairly"
A lively little men without dignity, snd with nothing *
impress you with a sense of power.”
« Barcelona, December 8th.—Reached Barcelona at ball
past five o'clock; as it was half-an-hour after sunset the
health officers did not visit us, and we were shut up in O%
floating prison till the following morning. This gyste™
of requiring pratique at every port for vessels in the const
ing-trade is most useless and vexatious, and would 1
submitted to by nome but Spaniards. They shrug the”
shoulders like Turks, and say, ¢ It was always so. The
waiter on the steamer told us that the best part of h°
profits of his situation came from smuggling, and that the
smuggling was all done through the connivance of the
government employés; he stated that the contraband goods
conveyed by him ‘were generally carried on shore by hy
custom-house officers themselves. This agrees with sl
that I heard from the consuls and merchants on °°
Mediterranean coast. The French consul at Carthag®
remarked whilst speaking of the universal corruption 0
the custom-house officers, ¢ With money yon might pas® 8h
bower of Notre Dame through the custom-house without
observation, but without money you could not pass thiss
holding up his pocket handkerchief.

§ By his diligent use of this opportunity Cobden succeeded in aoqu*
a really ood command aver the Frenoh language for ovllowuial sud oth?
DRIDONGE-