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ing as the negotiation of a tariff. The commercial class 16861.
Were compelled to forgive what they called his crotchets, to Zr. 57.
One who had opened for them new channels of wealth. The
Lord Mayor entertained him at a banquet. In the House of
Commons he received a hearty welcome, but a short speech
on the repeal of the paper duty was his only contribution to
its proceedings before the end of the session. He had never
8ven in the darkest times lost the ear of this assembly.
It seldom refuses to listen to anybody who can furnish it in
moderately few words with aptly chosen fact, or substantial
ind unsophisticated argument. Everybody understood that
beither he nor Mr. Bright took up a question for the sake of
having a question. Their subjects were put into their minds
by actual circumstances from without. Their habit, as I think
that Cobden himself said, was only to step out and join the
debate when they saw that it was passing their door. It was
always known that whenever Cobden spoke, he really sought
to have something done or loft undone. A speech with him
Was a means of accomplishing something, and always referred
 to practical performance of some kind. You know
gentlemen, Inever perorate.”” hesometimes said to great meetings
 of his constituents, ‘“ und when I have done, I leave off,
and sit down,” This abstinence was in itself an enormous
recommendation. Then as a debater, so fine a judge as Mr.
Disraeli pronounced Cobden to have few equals ; asa logician,
he described him as close and eompact, adroit, acute, and even
Subtle. Even the politicians who most disliked what one of
them called Boanerges-Liberalism, found nothing to offend
them in a man who was mever either declamatory or
Passionate ; and who never lost sight of the sympathies of
those whom he addressed.?

! Mr. George Hope, the well-known tenant-farmer (of Fenton Barns),
Bives an acconnt in one of his letters of the way in which Cobden used to
b8 veseived in the Honge —