An anti-malt-tax meeting was held inIpswich last week, in which
Sir. Fitzroy Kelly used his usual exaggerated language about the benefit not only to the farmer—which is in some degree real —but to the consumer of beer to be derived from a repeal or reduction of the malt-tax. The only hit of the meeting was a sneer of a Mr. Tomlin•, M.P. for Shrewsbury, against Lord Stanley,—whom the Conservatives evidently regard as an open foe, whatever Lord Stanley thinks of himself,—and whom Mr. Tomline described, not quite unhappily, as having got a fancy for " going about to inaugurate dog-shows and that sort of thing." Mr. Tomline was in this particular case wrath with Lord Stanley for having said, " What Lancashire thinks to-day England will think to-morrow." He thought, in view of the favour shown to Lan- cashire wishes in our financial reforms, it ought to stand, "What Lancashire' spends to-day England will have to pay to-morrow," and so he revenged himself by confounding the Liverpool Gym- nastic Institution, which Lord Stanley lately " inaugurated," with a dog-show, and affecting not to see the distinction. Lord Stanley might, however, take a hint from the sneer. He is too apt to despise the haute politique, and to make a fuss about petty social reforms in its place.
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