30 JULY 1887, Page 2

The elevation of Mr. J. G. Hubbard to the Peerage,

under the title of Baron Addington, left a vacanoy in the City of London, which was filled up on Wednesday without a contest by the election of Mr. Thomas Charles Baring, eldest son of the late Bishop of Durham, and a member of the firm of Baring Brothers, the bankers, of Bishopsgate Street. Mr. Baring is a Conserva- tive, but was supported by the Liberal Unionists and a former Liberal Member for the City, Mr. Crawford. We hope that Mr. Baring will prove himself worthy of Liberal support, and especially that he will discourage Lord Salisbury's evident bias towards retaliatory duties on the manufactures or products of protectionist States. For that, however, we may implicitly trust Mr. Goschen.