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LIFE OF OOBDEN, [om Vik

1841, of England beheld the first serious attempts of a new clas
Ar. 27. to assert its claim to take a foremost place. Many years
after the fight began, when Mr. Bright was unseated 8b
Manchester, we shall find that Cobden laid most stress OF
the ingratitude of the manufacturers of the northern capite!
in forgetting that Mr. Bright had been the “ valiant defende’
of their order.”