DEATH OF RICHARD COBDEN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 8, Issue 616, 27 May 1865, Page 2

DEATH OF RICHARD COBDEN.

If there is interest and excitement in the receipt of the latest news from England •by the electric wire, there is also the opposite. The brief missives from the near yet far off laud come sometimes, as on this occasion, burthened with a message of startling grief. Our readers, who can appreciate the nobility of a true-hearted aud earnest man, will mourn with us today over the death of one of England's greatest sons — her most unselfish of statesmen. Richard Cobdeu's name will be immortal in the annals of England, as the man who combated with an energy which flagged not till success crowned his efforts, those inhuman laws which condemned the poor Briton to eat a small and dear loaf, while the Ukraine and the Valley of the Mississippi were teeming with au overplus of corn. He took the terrible sting from the lives of his fellowworker, Elliott the Corn-law Rhymer — 0, God ! that bread should bo so dear ; And flesh and blood so cheap 1 A man of the people, Cobden was content to receive all his honors aud rewards from tho people he had so well served. Independence of thought, aud speech, and action, was dear to this greatest of popular tribunes ; aud to preserve the privilege, he repeatedly refused the highest honor the Queen of Britain can bestow — a seat iv her Privy Council . au influential place amidst her immediate aud responsible advisers. — Colombo Observer.