France has not been slow to add her tribute of
respect to the one which is coming up from every town in Great Britain. La Presse appeared in mourning, all the papers published warm eulogies on the deceased statesman, and Le Moniteur devoted a leading article to his career. The official praise is warm, Mr. Cobden being declared to be " one of those men who will do the nineteenth century most honour," the man " who drew up the creed of the new doctrine of free trade," " a man of remarkable moderation, of sagacious slowness," the " type of the true econo- mist, the citizen of the commercial universe." But Le Moniteur could not of course lose the opportunity of praising Cresar, and finishes its Iloge by declaring that " Richard Cobden in dying has had the joy of seeing the economic task, so grandly understood by Napoleon III., spread its rays through the whole of Europe under the impulse of a French statesman. In this France was faithful to her initiative mission. Richard Cobden knew how to under- stand her ; he loved France. France will not forget him."
