Mr. Applegarth made a very effective speech against Mr. Roe-
buck, and in favour of Mr. Mundella, in Sheffield, last week. He fully sustained, by individual instances, the charge which we have always made against Mr. Roebuck, that his conduct on the Trades' Union Commission wes that of a prosecuting counsel, not that of a judge,—that while he was anxious to bring out everything reflecting discredit on the men, he showed no anxiety, rather re- luctance, to bring out what was favourable to their case, and dis- crediting to the capitalists' case,—in fact, that he regarded the exposure of the faults of one class, not of the faults of both classes, as his work, and did it with a certain malicious delight. This is certainly a good reason why Mr. Roebuck should not be chosen by the working men as their representative, and why Mr. Mun- della, who has really done much to heal the strife between capital and labour, should. When you add to this that Mr.- Roebuck is a furious and mad politician on most subjects, and an egotist on all, and declines to support any vote of want of confidence in Mr. Disraeli, because he cannot trust Mr. Gladstone, though he would vote for the latter's Irish policy, we think there is every reason a Liberal elector can have for preferring Mr. Mundella.
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