POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
At a Protectionist meeting, held yesterday, at Bromley in Kent, to con- sider steps forholding a county meeting—Earl Stanhope in the chair—Mr. George Frederick Young made some important statements respecting Mr. Disraeli's Colchester apaLAylesbury programmes. It bad beett.stated.by Sire.lohn Tyrell.that the propositions of Mr. Disraeli had the sanction of Lord Stanley, the Marquis of Granby, and Mr. Berries. Mr. Young had no opportuniey of gormounieuting with Lord Stanley or Lord Granby, aat, ea had with Mr. Herdee,(he held in his hand a confidential letter from him,) and he did not hesitate to say that Mr. Berries had had no communication whatever from Mr. Disraeli on the subject. Mr. Berries had given an opinion in perfect accordance with Mr. Young's own—that a sinking-fund, though good in itself, could afford no relief to the suffering farmere under the pressing exigency They now felt. It was his firm belief that none of the great statesmen to whom the honourable gentleman had referred had even yet given, or would give it, their concurrence. As to the Land-tax scheme, it was h hasty proposition, crude and andigeeted, into which the vivacity of Mr. Disraeli's imagination had drawn him without due reflection. It appeared to be abandoned and shelved.
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