19 FEBRUARY 1876, Page 18

THE MANCHESTER ELECTION.

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you permit me to call your attention to an incident of the recent election at Burnley ? Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright wrote letters in support of Mr. Rylands' candidature, and that

gentleman announced his intention to vote for Mr. Butt.-'s motion, "To inquire into the Parliamentary relations of England and Ireland."

Are we to understand that these two distinguished leaders of the Liberal party intend to vote for this motion, or that they wish the Constituencies to return Members so pledged?—I am,