Mr. Roebuck has been elected Member for Sheffield, on the
most honourable terms by which any man can be elected: not only free of cost—that is a small matter—but at the spontaneous invitation of the constituency, and without pandering or yielding to its opinions, nay, with the most distinct and uncompromising statement of the candidate's own opinions. He distinguished his declaration by an avowal of error : formerly he advocated " uni- versal suffrage" ; now he finds that a political suffrage cannot be "universal," and had better be limited to persons of ascertained residence. He refused a pledge not to take office. It has been thought degrading to be the nominee of a great man : Mr. Roe- buck refused to make his opinions the nominees of other men. And it is for his courageous vindication of his own independent opinions, not less than forhis clearheadedness and active ability, that the Sheffield men have sent him to Parliament.
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