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Manuscript Draft of the Westminster Election of 1865 [2] (1865) II.: Manuscript Draft of Representation of the People [2] (1866) III.: Manuscript Draft of Women’s Suffrage [1] (1869) IV.: Manuscript Draft of the Education Bill [1] (1870) Appendix E: Missing Speeches Appendix F: War and Peace, By Helen Taylor (1871) Appendix G: Textual Emendations Appendix H: Index of Persons, and Works Cited, With Variants and Notes The Collected Edition of the Works of John Stuart Mill has been planned and is being directed by an editorial committee appointed from the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto, and from the University of Toronto Press. The primary aim of the edition is to present fully collated texts of those works which exist in a number of versions, both printed and manuscript, and to provide accurate texts of works previously unpublished or which have become relatively inaccessible. Editorial Committee john m. robson,General Editor harald bohne, j.c. cairns, j.b. conacher, PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/263 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIX - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II July 1869 - March 1873 d.p. dryer, marion filipiuk, francess halpenny, samuel hollander, r.f. mcrae, ian montagnes, f.e.l. priestley, ann p. robson, f.e. sparshott “Miss Mill joins the ladies” Judy, 25 November, 1868, pp. 46-7 PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/263 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIX - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II July 1869 - March 1873 [Back to Table of Contents] PUBLIC AND PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES 1869–1873 July 1869 To March 1873 143. The Cobden Club 10 JULY, 1869 Daily News, 12 July, 1869, p. 2. Headed: “The Cobden Club.” Reports (all in the third person) appeared in the Morning Star, the Daily Telegraph, and The Times. The annual dinner of the Cobden Club was held at 6 p.m. on Saturday in the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, with about 150 members and guests taken there by steamer from the House of Commons Stairs. George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyll, was in the Chair; Thomas Bayley Potter, Honorary Secretary of the Club, was Vice-Chair. Mill, “who was supposed to be in Paris, unexpectedly entered the room, and was loudly cheered.” Argyll, in proposing the health of the Queen, made reference to despatches to India, and mentioned his friend Mill, “who knows so much more of India than I can pretend to do, and who has taken, as we all know, the fair sex under his chivalrous and eloquent protection (laughter),” and went on to mention the death of the Begum of Bhopal, calling her state “one of the best governed of all the native States”—a comment that elicited “ ‘Hear,’ from Mr. Mill.” The other toasts to the Royal Family were followed by Argyll’s proposing the toast of the evening, “the Prosperity and Welfare of the Cobden Club,” to which G.C. Brodrick responded. Mill was then called on to toast “The Honorary Members and Guests,” and rose to loud cheers. when i entered the room I had no expectation of being selected, as the organ of this society, to propose the health of their distinguished honorary members and guests. Fortunately, it is the less necessary that I should say much on this topic, as your grace has already expressed the sentiments of this club with your accustomed skill and good taste. As to the gentlemen who are the subjects of my toast, it is quite superfluous that I should say much of them; for among those who desire and watch the progress of European opinion, where is it that Mr. Cobden is honoured and that M. Michel Chevalier1 is not honoured? (Cheers.) In him we recognise the Cobden of France; but for him it is very unlikely Mr. Cobden would have succeeded as he did in producing the great results he achieved. M. Michel Chevalier, at times when there were but a few enlightened men among Frenchmen who saw the advantages of free trade, was exerting himself in every way in which a man could exert himself to promote it. He is still a grand pillar of the cause of free exchange in France, and it is not in that only he has rendered service to his country and Europe. To see this one has only to watch his PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/263 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIX - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part II July 1869 - March 1873 conduct as a member of the Senate, where he has entitled himself to the highest praise which it is possible for a member of a legislative assembly to deserve, for on more than one occasion he has not feared to stand up alone on behalf of great principles.