24 JULY 1875, page 9

The Prospects Of Free-trade.

T HE Cobden Club must, of course, take a couleur-de-rose view of the future of a doctrine which they hold to be both true, and identified with the reputation of the great man......

The Inconsistencies Of Tory Legislation.

I T would never do to rank consistency high among the politi- cal virtues, but there can be no prudishness in expecting that a statesman or a government should not have more......