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figure in the matter, wae not ne-essary until the following
spring, he resolved *- fo “word On the 22ud of
October he sailed fret "emousk He arrived in Falmouth
harbour, on his return, on the 21st of April, 1837.
The ship touched r* Tishon end Cadiz, and Cobden wrote
lively accounts to his friends at home of all that he saw.
Hig description of Cadiz was stopped short by recollecting
Byron’s famous account, and the only subject on which he
permitted himself to expatiate repeatedly and at length was
the beauty of the ladies and their dress. “ At Cadiz too,” he
writes to his partner at Sabden, “you may see the loveliest
female costume in the world—the Spanish mantillal All
‘he head-dresses in Christendom must yield the palm to
this, It is, as Jou may see in the little clay figures of
Spanish ladies which are sold in England, a veil and mantle
combined, which falls from a high comb at the back of the
top of the head, down t~ the elbow in front, and just below
the shoulders behind, fan, which is universally carried,
8 twirled and brandished about, with an air quite murderous
"0 the hearts of sensitive bachelors. Black silk is the
nations] costume, and thus these sable beauties are always
seen in the streets or at the promenade. Judge of the
climate, judge of the streets, end of the atmosphere of their
tities, where all the ladies rrmear in public in full dress!
Sorry, however, am i - | that the demon innovation
is making war unon the mV ip the shape of foreign
fashions—Frenc} ~nnets cr- keginning to usurp the
throne of the bla: mani). twformer as I am, I would
ain be a conserve + «I that ancient and venerable institudon,
 the mar The French will Lave much to answer
for, if they Wroreede with their frinpery and finery this
beautifi’ |
Now, as in the busiest d-v.

Cobden was a
- Foster, from Alexandria, Nov. 28, 1838.

1838.
Ar, 32.