The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-29 00:00:00

shoulders. They are " like June's mane linked eed
inseparable." •
The Stowmarket gathering was lathed forward to
with great expectation amongst the' protect***
circles. It was amildeatly reported that there Mr.
YOUNG, rousing himself froakkO wasted placid said;
was to make minus-meat of his newspaper eassilants.
Intense was the disappointment. Mr. Yonne tried
to soar, but, as Baku has it, he " rowed an it were
any nightingale." He was, indeed, ill-natured
enough to speak of "the untruths of the airorsick
bet when he tome to the Daily News he could find ao
harder words in his wallet than " vulgar abuse r sad
u for the Bores old flirtations recurred to his mind
as the same dropped from his tongue, and he weld
only sumac something about its sneer."
It was charainerktie of Mr. Youre, that moor
all the sharps whisk bare gravely or laughingly
been advanced against him, there was Italy one that
he dusted worthy el ea elaborate ref/natio& Mr.
Yonne stands upon his gentility. Some ill-natured
puma, or person., have asserted that Lewd STANLEY
lass kept r. Yonne at arm's length, that the noble
lord has three several times refused to see the ship.
owner at his house. This imputation has
toadied Mr. YOUNG to the quick, and a good part
of his Suffolk oration was devoted to dis-
prove it. *lt is totally and utterly untrue; it bar
not the shadow of a foundation." On the very last
occasion that Mr. Yonne " had the honour of com-
municating" with Lord STANLEY, he " had the grati-
fication of receiving an arouranee that he had only at
any time to present himself at his door, and admission
and a cordial reception would await him." Where-
upon Mr. YOUNG burst out into an "Io Poen " on his
own felicity in having earned such civility from a
lord. He told his auditors with exultation that
" he; had by the undeviating pursuit of the principle
of protection at all times been !actuate enough to
secure the courtesy of those with whom be has been
drawn into communication, as also from that noble
lord." Mr. Yonne admits that his protectionist
tabours have been toilsome and fatiguing, but the
r" courtesy " which they have procured him from lords
overpays all his &serums.
As hfr. YOUNG attributes so much importance to
this matter, it could have been wished that he had
made out his case a little more clearly. He has
proved, indeed, an far as his own single testimony
can go, that Lord STANLEY promised that whenever
he called in future he should be let in, bat he has
not poitively averred that be was so admitted io
time put. Besides, a free admission to Lord STAN-
LEY'S house when he calls on the business of the Na-
tional Association is no more than would be conceded
by the noble lord to his boot.maker, if he called pro-
fessionally to" take the measure of his foot," which
he profitably thought was the main purpose of
Mr. Yotnco s call. Mr. Your° must not expect us to
credit that his labours have won for him
the affability and companionship of the great—
his one ambition upon earth until he
can prove that his limbs have repostd beneath the
shade of Lord Sranutv's mahogany tree. Mr.
YOUNG ought to thank us for this hint, as it may sup-
ply him with matter for a speech at the next protec-
tionist meeting he holds forth to. _ _

Mr. OEORGi Yovso is the Jemmy jessamy of
protection; Mr. FERBAND is its Captain Pepperea.
Mr. YOUNG lime daintily about the lords who have
deigned to speak to him; Mr. FERRAND deals in
ruffian roaring and downright mendacity. When
Mr. FERRAND indeed, in the confusion of his ideas,
calls a petition to repeal the duty on starch a petition
for protection to the British starch maker, charity
compels us to assume that this is mere stupidity.
But when he states that the League paid Mr. COBDEN
and Mr. Batonr three guinea. a day for iti
agitation, he deliberately asserts what be knows
to be untrue. When Mr. FEW/LAND represenhe a
"copyright design bill," meant to protect inventors
against those who would nu their inventions without
paying for them—a mere guarding of the right of
property—as equivale .t to protection in the sense of
those who would prohibit foreign from competing with
domestic inventors in the market, this may be sheer
dullness and incapacity to understand. So when he
represents the anxie y of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce to increase the number of markets whence
a supply of cotton may be drawn as a movement
antagonistic to free trade. But when be exultingly
proclaims that in the manufacturing districts " the
English operatives will fight against the Irish
labourers," will "point to them a. the curse of Man-
chester," and will drive them back to Ireland, it is
sheer ruffianism and provocation to violence and
outrage.
To remonstrate or argue with Mr. Yenta/co would
be time and labour thrown away. While bawlieg
forth his mendacious and stupid rxhortatione to brute
force he is doing all that he was made capable
to do. The restless instinct of mischief within him
defies check or restraint. Still he has his nee : he
betrays the animal which his more specious colleagues
have tact enough to conceal. The uneducated pea.
sentry who are hounded out by their iandlords to
these protectionist gatherings, who are only capable
of " inexplicable dumb show and noise," cannot dis-
cern the untruths and the confusion of ideas which
pervade Mr. FeaRAND's harangues. They admire
him more, and cheer him more lustily than the other
speakers, on the same principle that, at a stage play
they would admire most the greatest ranter among
the actors. Bot the lords and geatlemen and clergy-
men who employ Mr. FERRAND to roar for the
delight and astonishment of these unfortunate and
ignorant men know better. Their own good taste
revolts at his coarseness; they have sufficient know-
ledge to detect his tripping. in point of fact, and
sufficient intelligence to see through his blundering
confusion of ideas. And yet they me him to mislead
the untaught multitude. They, in fact, are guilty of
all his misrepresentations and all hii excitements to
violence. At their hands the country will demand
redress for any mischief he may be able to do. The
disgrace of his ruffianism will cling indelibly to them.
It is curious to note the instinct with which oar
tory haters and dreaders of • frees press and
public discussion, when driven by necessity to
avail themselves of the services of either, always
prefer its abuse to its me. The men who, in the
days of the Regent, clamoured against the lien-
flouriness of the peer were the very men who estab-
lished and supported the John Bull, which, under its
original management, was notorious for Its gross
licentiousness—which no modest woman could read.
And now that the survivors of the same faction have
been unearthed, and compelled to have recourse to
public meeting., they imitate not the earnest, rational
and respectable reformers, but the O'CoNtroas,
OASTLERS, and RATNER &EPHESUS. It is with the
inventors of torch-light meetings, and with him who
promisedy to teach factory children bow they might
machinery with a needle, that they have
gone to school. The RENDLESHAMs and the YOUNGS
may protest that there is nothing of this sort to be
found in their orations, but this shallow pretext will
not avail them so long as they are found putting for-
ward declaimers like Mr. Pullin), and listening
with simpering equanimity to his bluster.