Show for young men meiti the london review publishes an elaborate biography of richard cobden fiant which we gather that lie was born june 3 1804 at dumford a little english village about two miles from his father wasa was a small farmer who died while richard was young youn 0 and the lad was wag sent bent at a deiy early age age ad to london to earn ills his own living C he was first employed as a boy in a warehouse in tile city at the time lie had enjoyed but slender opportunities of schooling but by f faithfully aith fully availing himself of his opportunities port unities of leisure when the warehouse was closed and being endowed with a quick perception and ready inome mommy y tile the thoughtful warehouse lad becam 1 the architect of his hia own education as well as of his own fortune mr bright L in ht in ina a sketch which lie gave at ata a public meeting mechin 0 of mr cobbens Cob dens career says saya ilia eliat t by his intelli intelligence t tence liis his attention to liis his duties and his good conduct lio lie found himself gradually promoted until on some occasion or other I 1 believe rather by accident than by regular appointment lie ho was engaged traveling through the north of england t undertaking the business ol oj the lile house in whose service lie he was aio aie veterans still to be found in ill it commercial looms who remember mr cobden ou oil the roady road and who bear testimony not only to his tact ill in his calling klifto the clivie and original turn given to after dinn erand after supper conversation by the well vall informed london traveler t mr cobden was soon sent over tl the 10 best ground of the london house and in in lancashire distinguished him self as a statesman chemistry was beginning to be applied with brilliant success to the production 0 of f colored Patt patterns EIMS on cotton cloth and the young 11 ba bagman ginan C was not slow to see that a now and profitable field of enterprise pic itself in n this lie he induced two of tho ilia fellow servants in his london house to abandon then engagements ena ana gage a ke ments and invest their Y mutual s savings akings 11 in in a common fund with which they undertook tile the business of calico coliten settled int in manchester a n e liester and soon obtain obtained ea a largo 0 o 1 business 1 siness his new and tasteful patterns in the fabric called do DC laine which is is composed of cotton and worsted marked a now new era cra in business rio firm soon became prosperous and mr cobden became a man of note and influence in the capital of cotton |