But  I  must  say  with  unfeigned  sincerity  that  I  can  now  perceive  I  have  Ixjen  appropriat-
ing no  small  share  of  honour  that  is  really  due  to  the  labour  of  others  :  of  Jlr.  Cobden
as  to  the  French  treatv,  and  of  the  distinguished  men  who  have  in  our  day  by  their
upright  and  enlightened  public  conduct  made  law  and  government  names  so  dear  to
the  people  of  England.'  '  Indeed,'  says  a  contemporary  journalist,  '  if  Middlesborough
did  not  do  honour  to  Mr.  Gladstone,  we  don't  know  who  should,  for  the  French  treaty
has  been  a  greater  boon  to  the  iron  manufacturers  of  that  young  but  rising  seaport,
than  to  anv  other  class  of  commercial  men  in  the  north  of  England.'— A'eucoif^e  Daily
Chronicle  Oct  11,  1862.
