The only other speech of much mark on Monday night
was Mr. Roebuck's,—and that was of mark only for its Tory tone and rancid temper. Mr. Roebuck began by saying that, as a legis- lative assembly, the Howse of Commons is already perfect ; that Reform is needed—not to improve it, not to do more justice to all grades and classes in the nation, but only to make the substan- tial justice actually done seem justice to classes now unjustly prejudiced against Parliament. "Justice is not justice unless it. is thought to be justice,"—that is Mr. Roebuck's only reason for Reform. Mr. Roebuck, in referring, we suppose, to Mr. Glad- stone's too minute but exhaustive speech, said, "There is no use mincing the matter, or going into those minute, pettifogging questions which we have heard discussed," and he was so delighted with this polite word "pettifogging," that he reiterated it later on in his speech, calling the objections to the Bill "pettifogging cavils." Mr. Roebuck himself Was not pettifogging, he was broadly and violently Tory. To his own party he was simply vicious.
