Mr. George Dawson and Richard COBDEN.

Evening Post, Issue 176, 31 August 1865, Page 2

Mr. George Dawson and Richard COBDEN.

— .Mr. George Dawson, of Birmingham the well-known lecturer, delivered an address on " Richard Cobden," in Hope Hall, to a numerous audience. Mr. Councillor Picton presided. Mr. Dawson gave a complete resume of the life of Cobden, and was frequently applauded. In quoting the tribute the Chancellor of the Exchequer paid to Mr. Cobden in the 11 ouse of Commons for his labours in the matter of the French Treaty, he said that no two men looked so graceful side by side as Gladstone and Cobden. — (Applause.) Gladstone, the political educated, scholastic, and academic who was familiar with Homer and tobacco, with classics and the tea duties — a man keeping accounts and translating from the Greek ; to see those two men together was lovely, and to see Gladstone lost in true grief over the grave *of Cobden, the commercial traveller and scholar, nothing could be wanting to add to the greatness and the goodness of each. — (Applause.) The speaker next pointed out the glorious qualities of this peculiar man. Although a middle class man, Cobden escaped the nonsense of the middle classes. He taught the nation how to be rich, but he lived simply, manly, and plainly — he was simple, uudecorated, and unadorned. — (Applause.) The rage for frogs is growing in Paris. Alsace sends them to the capital in large baskets. « A General Election in England costs two millions of money, which allows about three thousand pounds for each member. It is estimated that in the New and Old World there are 8258 Masonic Lodges, with 500,000 active members. Four Archbishops aud other high authorities have framed a new declaration, in which a general assent to the Prayer Book is propounded, and it has formally been received by the House of Commons. In the year that comprises the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, England is prostrate at the foot of Fran^. The French horse " Gladiateur" won tbTp' Derby. -