o6 Life and Times of " The Druid.' 



his allegiance to the great principles of com- 

 mercial liberty, to which right, fearlessly pro- 

 mulgated by Richard Cobden and endorsed 

 by the hand of his own son, those very men, 

 no longer aliens in heart, at once set their 

 seal. To watch the career of that son from 

 the day when he heard him rehearse the 

 praises of the sunny skies and fabled roses of 

 Paestum from the very same Oxford rostrum 

 whence Reginald Heber had breathed forth 

 his ' Palestine,' and to read the anxiously 

 looked for letter announcing that Lord 

 Morpeth had appeared in the honours list 

 as a first-class man, served to cheer his sick 

 pillow through many a night of weariness and 

 many a suffering day. The public part of 

 that son's career began in 1830, when by the 

 verdict of all Yorkshire, he was returned at 

 the head of the poll, and joined hand and 

 heart with Henry Brougham, who was one of 

 his colleagues in the great struggles of that 

 stormy period. Eight times was it his lot, as 

 a newly-elected Knight of the Shire, to have 

 the sword girded to his side, until at last the 

 men of the West Riding heard him, as lowest 

 on the poll, take an affectionate farewell of 



