Mr.Chamberlain is not a man to whom people are inclined to make concessions; he is so little inclined to give up anything himself; and, accordingly, there arose a very serious question as to the first seat on the third bench below the Gangway, which he had taken all defiantly for his own.

He counted without one of the oldest and most respected, but also one of the firmest, men in the House.

Mr.T.B .-- or, as everybody calls him, Tom Potter--sits for Rochdale; he was the life-long friend, and for years he has been the political successor of Cobden in the representation of Rochdale, and he is likewise the founder and the President of the Cobden Club.

Every man has his weakness, and the weakness of Mr.Potter is to always occupy the first seat on the third bench above the Gangway.

Everyone loves the good, kindly old man, the survivor of some of the fiercest conflicts of our time, and everybody is willing to give way to him.