v.] INCORPORATION OF MANCHESTER. 139

nactus es, hane exorna, and did not quarrel with the society 188.
in which his lot was cast, because if preferred the echoes of Ar. 84.
its own prejudices to any unfamiliar note.
Manchester did not receive its charter of incorporation
until the autumn of 1838. Cobden’s share in promoting
this important reform was recognized by the inhabitants of
the new borough, and he was chosen for alderman at the first
election. The commercial capital + © Lancashire was now to
show its fitness to be the source and centre of a great national
lause,