The Cobden Club has just rec Intest of a succession of blows of Lord Farrer, who was elected President of the Club after the death of its founder, Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter, Cobden's successor in the representatitin of Rochdale. Although tie was eighty years old Lord Farrer had lost none of his vigour or tenacity of view. He imbibed his strong Free Trade principles from his long service in the Board of Trade of which he was for many years the permanent head. Afterwards ha was a prominent member of the Progressive Party: on the London County Council, and for a time its Vice-Chairman but-ho was always ready to oppose tothe uttermost the Trade Union section of the party when they advocated schemes opposed to the orthodox principles of political economy. On these questions: he never faltered, either as a County Coun-oiller or as one of the handful of Radical members of the House of Lords. He was an able.and lucid writer, on Free rade and his uncompromising adhesion to principle won him the esteem of his Political opponents.
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