Mr. T. B. Potter got the show of hands at
the Rochdale hust- on Thursday, and the poll between himself and Mr. Brett be taken to-day. Mr. Bright went down to speak on behalf of Mr. Potter, who has long been a frien I both of Mr. Cobden's and of his own, an I of extrse he spo%e ably, and also of course in very caustic terms of Mr. Brett, whom he accused justly enough of putting faith in Lord Derby for the future though ac- cepting all the reforms which Lord Derby had sedulously resisted in the past.. Neither party were very fair to the other. Mr. Bright accused Mr. Brett of wishing to get into Parliament for the sake of legal promotion by the help of " the Parlia- mentary ladder." Mr. Brett accused Mr. Bright of having never fought for Liberal principles till his pocket as a manufacturer was in question, and of not having contributed generously to the Lan- cashire distress fund. The Liberals, however, had the non-electors with them, for Mr. Brett's speech was drowned in jeers and re- quests to "shut up," which is scarcely the way for non-electors to prove their intellectual title to share in the representation.
