11 MAY 1867, Page 3

Poor Mr. Young, the Orange poetaster, is to keep his

402. a year. Mr. Disraeli admits it was an " inadvertence " to give it him, but he says he will not cancel it until he and Lord Derby have read all his poems, a new and very humorous equivalent for the Greek Kalends. Mr. Young, too, has found an unexpected friend.. Mr. Bright, one of whose mental peculiarities is a thorough comprehension and enjoyment of English poets, whom he quotes with the adroitness and more than the poetic feeling of the late Mr. Fonblanque, and who does not therefore believe in Mr. Young, on Thursday put the matter in its right light. The money