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Mo the minds of the people” He met a friend in the 185%
eos, who said to him, “ You have come here ab a very Zi 4°
opportune time for your Peace meeting, for everybody is
4 8 panic, and thinks that you are wrong.” Cobden manlly
 replied, that this was the very reason why they were
here, Precisely because there never was a time yet when
b was so necessary for the Peace party to redouble its
forte,
While he was at Manchester, Cobden found satisfaction in
he reception which his pamphlet had at the hands both of
8 friends and of the public at large. If it did not work a
Sreat national conversion, at any rate it did not fall dead.
Opinion decided against him for the hour, bub that the
Lesion ghould have been regarded as an open one, was
‘ho first preliminary condition of the world coming round to
1S view,
“ Manchester, Jan. 27,1853. (To Mrs. Cobden.)—1 am
Writing this in the Corn Exchange. This morning’s meet-Ug
 is only moderately attended, but I suppose we shall be
Satter supported in the evening. Bright has been speaking
"ery well, Brotherton is now speaking a very good sermon.
By the way, Bright came up to me to-day when we met, and
Xelaimed, ¢ What a glorious pamphlet you have written!’
Henry Richard, of the Peace Society, tells me that he sat op
“Wl two o2clock this morning reading it, and is delighted.
trelang, of the Examiner paper, tells me he sat up to read
lt, ang gives also a good account of it. Bright says it must
be Printed for twopence, and got into every house in the
Singdom, I seo the Standard paper has commenced
busing it, and is contending that the war was begun by
‘he French and not ourselves. But the Whigs will be
“bliged to stand up for Fox and their party, and show the
Poutryry,” }
“ Manchester, Jan. 31, 1853. ( » =I can’t tell