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REPRESENTATION OF MAN-
CHESTER.
._ . _

Mr. Bright has issued the following address to the
electors of the borough of Manchester
" Gentlemen,— The sudden but not unexpected coali-
tion of a small section of the Liberal party with the
Tories has been followed by an attack upon me in the
columns of the Guardian newspaper this morning, which
I feel bound to notice, not so much from any influence
it may have upon the approaching contest, as from a
feeling that the character not of myself only, but of Mr.
Cobden also, is at stake. The charge may be briefly
stated to be, that Mr. Cobden, having no intention to
keep in Parliament beyond the last session, had con-
curred in a scheme concocted in the rooms of the League,
that I should be brought forward as a candidate for
Manchester ; that circumstances arose which entirely
changed Mr. Cobden's position and views ; and that I,
from motives of personal ambition, stood in the way
of his accepting the offer of the representation
of the borough, and refused to release him from
an implied engagement to me. The true circum-
stances of the case are these : when it was first
rumoured that Mr. Mark Philips intended to retire,
Mr. Cobden suggested to me the probability of my being
asked to succeed him, declaring that, though his own
name had been often mentioned, he would not, under any
conceivable circumstances, become a candidate himself.
In answer to my objection to his decision, he urged that
gratitude to the people of Stockport, his many pledges
to them, and considerations of his own greater freedom
and leisure to act upon great public questions, if not bur-
dened with the heavy private business inseparable from
the representation of Manchester, all determined him to
remain in his present position. I can honestly say that
I have combatted these views on many occasions, but
without success. During Mr. Cobden's temporary resi-
dence in Wales, just before he left England, I received
a very pressing invitation to stand for the Stirling
burghs. Before giving a reply, I wrote to Mr. Cobden
on the subject of Manchester, intimating my feeling
that circumstances had changed, and re-stating my opi-
nion that he was the most natural representative of the
borough, and urging him, if any change in his views had
taken place, to let me know it privately, as a friend,
and I would then accept the offer of some other con-
stituency willing to accept my services. To this Mr.
Cobden's reply was in exact conformity with his pre-
vious declarations; and afterwards, when I saw him in
London, his statement was most positive and emphatic
to the same effect. I declare solemnly that I have ho-
nestly and repeatedly pressed Mr. Cobden to accept the
seat offered to him, and that it is my firm conviction
that, were Mr. Cobden here, he would be the very
foremost to contradict, in the most explicit manner,
the unfounded charges which the Guardian of this
morning has put forth. I feel now, however, that the
contest, so far as I am concerned, is as nothing com-
pared to its importance to your great and hondured