14 DECEMBER 1850, Page 1
The Protectionists have been meeting in the great room of
the London Tavern, and in the wake of the fat beasts at the Smith- field Show. Confessedly, the beasts were recognized as the deceys which enabled the Protectionists to make a gathering. As in the beasts obesity has ceded to symmetry, so in the men Protection has ceded to Financial Reform. Mr. George Frederick Young al- lows that the day for large prices has gone : improvement must follow protection as symmetry supersedes fat ; both changes being contemporaneous. But the residuary Protectionists " resolve,' that there must be divers readjustments of taxes, favourable to agriculturists. Assuredly that question is a better one for men of business to study than the antiquarian regrets of bygone protec- tion.
