NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AIR. COBDEN, whose illness was not believed to be critical till Saturday night, died in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, from the weakness produced by bronchitis, on Sunday morning, at half-past eleven. He came up to town on the 21st March to join in the debate on tlie'defences of Canada, but the bitter north wind of that first day of (nominal) spring brought on an attack of acute asthma, which was followed by bronchitis, and within the fortnight he was no more. Be was buried yesterday at Lavington, near Midhurst, his country house, and the scene of his early youth, a large number of his priiate and Parliamentary friends attending the funeral. Of Mr. Cobden himself we have spoken elsewhere. He leaves a wife and several daughters, who will be, we believe, better provided for than at one time there was reason to fear. The greater part of the nation's liberal testimonial to his services was swallowed up in paying the debts of his firm, which had greatly suffered by his public duties. There is no individual—not even the late Sir Robert Peel—to whom the nation owes its wealth and prosperity nearly so much as to Mr. Cobden, and an expression of its respect towards his family, if called for by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, or any other representative body closely connected with his great reforms, would be heartily responded to by the nation's gratitude.
