MR. COBDEN acted with his usual courageous-
ness in the matter of the Crimean War. He dif-
fered with the mass of the English people about
the policy of entering upon it, and he, with equal
manliness and clearness, put the grounds of his
difference from the prevailing opinion upon rec-
ord. These grounds we regard it our incumbent
duty to reproduce in his own words, or, at all
events, in a summary of the few speeches and the
pamphlet which proceeded from him during the
war, which shall be as faithful a transcript as the
necessary brevity of our undertaking allows, of
Cobden's ipsissima verba; and we also incorpo-
rate with our narrative a citation from Mr. Kinglake's
great work, "The Invasion of the Crimea,"
as representing with tolerable fairness the object-
ive view--the view held by Mr. Cobden's fellow-
citizens--of his conduct at this very important
crisis of the nation's history. We must, howev-
er, interpose the caveat -- which, indeed, the pre-
vious context of our remarks would almost make
unnecessary -- that we can not agree with Mr.
Kinglake in his estimate of the doings of Mr.

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