1 JUNE 1867, Page 3

Mr. Roebuck dined at the Mansion House on Tuesday, and

said he "took to himself no small glory" for aiding the Conservatives in forcing this Reform Bill on Parliament. A great thinker has said that "Egotism is an infirmity that perpetually grows upon a man, till at last he cannot bear to think of anything but himself, nor even to suppose that others do," and Mr. Roebuck is per- petually exemplifying the truth of this maxim. He has been sitting like the fly on the great fly-wheel of Reform, and cries out that it turns at last because he pushed. He has voted, we believe, against nearly every amendment which Mr. Gladstone and his party have engrafted on the Reform Bill, and of course the more glory he now takes to himself for what he has done, the more truly he grasps the situation.