text:  We know a good deal of the real state of opinion among the mercantile classes of the City of London; and believe we correctly represent it averse to further changes in our tariff-system and coincident with the views expressed by Mr Baring in his address to the electors when he deprecated "a constant change unsettling men's minds baffling all combinations destroying all calculations paralysing trade and continuing the stagnation from which we are recovering;" and declared his belief "that the minister who applies the principles of free-trade with the most caution deliberation and judgment is the statesman who merits the confidence of the commercial world