Full text : The life of Richard Cobden

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spesch at dinner given to him at
Genoa, 1847, 425; at Rome, Jan.
1847, 427 ; his description of Rome,
the Vatican, &c., 428 ; meets Prince
Broglie, Antonelli, &o. ; entertained
at public dinner; hears an Italian
improvisatore, 429 ; his life in Rome,
hunting, Roman Advertiser ; sees
Mr. Hemans, 430; life at Rome,
431 ; society in Rome, 431; paintings
 in Rome ; interview with Pope 3
his reception, 1847, 483; calls
Pope's attention to bull-fights at
Madrid ; dines with Count Rossi,
434 ; travels over the Campagna,
435 ; at Naples, March, 1847; at
Museum ; with king, 486; at Turin,
sees Count Revel, Signor Cibrario;
Colbertism, 437; attends meeting
at Milan, address to, entertained at
dinner, 438; sees Count Cavour,
438; at Lake Como, Desenzano;
Signor Salevi; the Italian lakes,
489 ; reception at Venice, 440;
reception at Trieste, 440 ; at Vienna,
dines with Prince Metternich, &ec.,
442 ; at Dresden; sees M. Falkenstein
 at Royal Library, 444; at Berlin
 ; visits Prince of Prussia ; meets
Humboldt, 445; goes to Potsdam;
dines with king, 447; attends dinner
 given to him by the Free-traders
of Berlin, 447 ; sees Mrs. Cobden off
from Hamburg, then starts for Stettin,
Aug. 7,1847, 449; af Stettin ; opinion
of the Baltic ports, Aug. 8, 1847,
449 ; at St. Petersburgh, Aug. 20,
1847; calls on Count Nesselrods,
451 ; description of journey from
Tauroggen to, 451; sees the grand
parade, 452 ; at Riga, Aug. 16, 1847;
journey from St. Petersburgh to
Moscow, Aug. 25, 1847, 452; from
Moscow to Nishmi-Novgored, Aug.
27, 1847, 453; description of Moscow,
 Aug. 25, 1847, 453; pays a
visit to Bogorodsk, 455 ; visits Moscow
 again, Aug. 81, 1847, 455; acgount
 of his stay in St. Petersburgh,
from Sept. 7 to Sept. 23, 1847, 457,
461 ; description of Lubeck, 462;
arrives at Hamburg, en rouie for
England, and reaches London, Oct.
11, 1847, 463 ; returned for Stockport
 and West Riding, 1847, 465;
speech at Aylesbury, relations of
landlord and tensat., 468 : business

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matters settled, 466 ; purchases Dunford,
 466; his brother Frederick goes
to live with him, 466 ; his deseription
 of Midhurst, 468; views as to
England and Spain, 472; on mismanagement
 of Ireland, 472; and
the revolution of 1848, 479 ; returns
again to national education, 481;
suggests direct over indirect taxasion,
 496; how seriously his attack
on expenditure was taken, 497 ; and
Bright's scheme for strengthening
the Liberal Party, 1849, 500 ; speaks
st Manchester on financial reform,
1849, 500; plan for international
arbitration, 508 ; supports the Oath
abolition, 508; accompanies the
Peace Society to Paris, 1849, 510;
riews on forty-shilling freehold, 516 ;
resides near. the Great Western
Jtation, Paddington, 1849, 522; on
temperance, 523 ; illustrations of
temperance, 526 ; speaks at Leeds,
Bradford, Manchester, and other
northern towns, during the autumn
of 1850, on Reform, 529 ; views on
lending money to Austria and Russia,
531 ; and the attitude of Englapd in
the struggle, 631; speech on the
Russian loan of 5,500,000L., Jan.,
1850, 532; powerful speech of, on
the Austrian loan, Oct., 1849, 532 ;
denounces war loan, 533; the root
of his feeling about war, 534 ; goes
to the Peace Congress at Frankfort,
545; and the Great Exhibition of
1851, 556; receives a challenge to
ight a duel, 557 ; motion for negotia
sion with France, 557 ; resolves not
to stand for West Riding again, 560 ;
and the land question, 561 ; opinion
as to renewal of war in favour of
Hungarian liberty, 571; views on
che Militia Bill, 578 ; on the impor-‘ation
 of grain, 577; military feel
ing, 678; urgency of a dissolution,
580 ; the Queen’s Speech, 586 ;
direct attack on Palmerston, 589 ;
speaks against tho Ministerial plan,
590; opinion on Whigs and Tories,
595; his alliance with the Peace
Society, 595; and the Catholic
Emancipation and Reform Bill, 596 ;
his pamphlet ¢ 1792 and 1853,” 597 ;
shows that the French Government
bad given no ground of offence in
1792, 599 ; quotation from his
            
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