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England, Ireland, =v = “1 been published, as 1 have
already mentione?. = “77 and within twelve
months had gone thr--- "1s, ab what we shoul”
now consider the bh’ +» “lings and sixpence;
it had in An" 77 ¢Jition ab sixpences
The newspaper: * its praize, and its
author had bean o-oo? - c~norous style of the
nonventional leas 2 «vi? © * liberal and comprehensive
 mind, =n acut- ar "‘aker, a clear and
interesting writer. “-nd ia it~ host F---nse not an exclusive
sense of the torm— tru» + T- Ridgway, the
publisher, informe” 77-1 *hat nobody ought to print a
pamphlet unless he Lad svmo ~ther object in view, besides
publication. I have another chir+t "Cobden adds, “in distant
 and dim perspective.” ” “Ve may assume that, whep
he said this, he was thinking, with nataral ambition, of the
pedestal from which a place in Parliament enables a mab
to address his audience. These two pieces are important
snough in Cobden’s history t» deserve a chapter of their
own, but it will be convenient before dealing with them 0
complete the travels which f-llowed the publication of the
1836. second of them. Shortly afterwards the strain of s¢
Fo many interests affected Cobden’s health. He had suffered
severely from an illness at the end of the previous year, and
the doctors counselled a winter abroad. As the business
was in good order, and the mainspring, to use Cobden’s ow?

1 Mamchester Guardian, May 28, 1835. The London Times, May 5, 16%
desoribes the pamphlet as having * some sound views of the true foreig?
policy of England, and some just and forcible reflections on the canses whicl
keep us in the rear of improvement,” &o.
The Manchester Guardian—we may notice as a point in that important
matter, the history of the periodical press—was from Jan. 1, 1830, t°
Bept. 15, 1836, published once a week, and sold for sevenpence. After the
duty on paper wus reduced (Bupt. 15, 1836), it was published twice n wal
ad its price brought down to fourpeuoce,
t To F. Cobden, March 81, 1835.