24 JUNE 1865, Page 1
Manchester has not yet selected its candidate, the moderate and
extreme Liberals being apparently unable to agree. It was re- ported yesterday, that the choice of several influential persons had fallen upon the man who would be perhaps of all men in England the most fitting representative for Manchester, Mr. Walter Bagehot, editor of the Economist, a keen and incisive writer, a leading county banker, and a man of just that peculiar intellect. which Manchester requires—intellect which can keep intellectual when dealing with commercial questions.
