The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 4.

"NOT yet :"—this is confessedly the KUM and sub-
stance of Lord STANLEYN elaborate address on Wed-
nesday lust, in Merchant Tailors' Hall. Within had
gathered all the hungry, all the hopeful, and all the
hesitating adherents of protection. They had been
by various assurances decoyed into participating in
the scene, and each no doubt cherished his own an-
ticipations of what their common leader was going
to say. Dukes who had been in dudgeon because
a Milder course was not avowed, consented to leave
their sulkiness at home, and to cat one more City
dinner in honour of a re-united party. Marquises
whom this same Lord STANLEY had helped to snub
and to foliaxser from offices of public trust,
condescended to drink his health as though
he had never insulted them. Jobbing earls,
whose near relatives the whigs but yesterday
had made bishops, rejoiced in having such an oppor-
tunity of laughing in the face of their dupes; and
not a few might he named whose personal adhesion,
through the vaunted freemasonry of family con-
nection," we have often been told, constituted one of
the principal claims of an exclusively aristocratic
cabinet to bear rule.

But whatever mar have been the diversity of mo-
tives that brought to the same table so many hete-
rogeneous nonentities, in their disappointment, at
least, they must have found themselves agreed, when
after an hour's oration they heard their chosen chief
conclude without pronouncing the long promised
words for which during the last two years they have
so watchfully waited. Other leaders have carefully ab-
stained until the eve of action the choice of an
appropriate signal. Many considerations render such
merve politic and wise. But forethought is not
Lord STANLEY'S forte. To give vent to his own
impetuous and irritable temper, and to afford excite-
ment for the moment to his exigent followers, seems
to be at all times his governing impulse. And ac-
cordingly, we all remember the marvellous harangue
which he delivered, in one of his fits of excitement,
to a collection of agricultural delegates, many months
ago, and which contained the sober and statesman-
like declaration, that whenever he saw his way to
drive the free-trade party from office, he would give
the word—" Up, guards, and at them!"
Anxiously were these ill-omened words waited for
on Wednesday night. Audible were the palpitations
of many an elderly and foul ll ill c heart as the would-
be Per? Seemodus laboured to prove that the liberal
party never were so disorganised, that the adminis-
tration never was so weak, and that they, the
elderlies and feminines of the good old tory school,
never were so indispensable to the salvation of the
state from impending ruin. Now then, if ever,
must the watchword be given. The opportunity had
presented itself in the disunion among reformers.
The sense of duty," at whose instigation alone all
men in this country profess to take office, never was
more urgent or imerative. Surely, surely the day
of reaction had conic at last. " Up, guards, and at
them ?" Unhappy men and Merchant Tailors—Lord
STANLEY still exclaims—" Not yet r