x] PEACE OONGREHSS AT FRANKFORT. 547

the day. Te number of delegates and visitors to the Con- 1850.
Stes is about 500 or 600; bub by far the largest portion” ir. 46.
Sr English, However, we have some good names from
France, Uormenin (Conseiller d’Etat) and Bmile de Girardin
3 hoth here, and spoke yesterday. Cormenin read a speech
ful of point, as everything is which comes from his pen.
Among other ‘spiritual’ things, he said, ‘there is one
thing Which ell will admit to be far more impossible than
the Putting an end to war, viz. to put an end to death,
aud Why should we not use half as much exertion to escape
Far a8 to escape death ?’
. “ Strange to say we had Haynau, the Austrian general,
ting in the meeting. He is staying at a hotel here. I
tool the opportunity, in my speech, of alluding to the fact
of having met him and Klapka at the two last peace meet-8
 I had attended. He is a tall man, with a pair of white
Joustaches, which come down to his shoulders. His aspect
'S not Prepossessing. I suspect there is some truth in the
"Mark of g lady of Pesth, who expressed an opinion that he
"a8 not always in his right senses. Upon the whole, I am
"ory well satisfied with the meeting, We are gaining
round,”
“Nov, 9, (To GQ. Oombe.)—I am afraid you overrate the
"portance of our Manchester educational conference. The
Tiffin) ting in the wav of success are not much diminished

z Cobden had no sooner returned from the Peace Congress than he threw
birnge Once more into the long and intricate struggle for National Edution.
 He went to the mogt important centres of population, where he
Soughy Private interviews with bodies of men who were interested in the
estion, procuring & full and free discussion of vexed topios which were
8ually conducted with the heat and bitterness peculiar to sectarian quarels,
 The Churchmen had moved a step forward ; they no longer claimed a
Monopoly of grants from the State: they now proposed that all the deno-Ninationg
 should receive public money for their religious teaching. It was
: Proposal, as Cobden said, by which everybody should be called upon to
Pay for the religions teaching of everybody elze. This lod to the conference
 Manohester, January 22. 1951.