Mr. Roebuck has a very high opinion of women. In
the debate on the Law of Evidence Bill on Thursday, introduced by Sir Fitzroy Kelly to permit the parties to a breach-of-promise suit to give evidence in their own case, Mr. Roebuck ventured on the confession of the sublime avowal that—" he did not believe in such an article as a designing woman." With such views he must have meant ' being."Beings ' cannot be designing. Nevertheless even Mr. Roebuck did not venture to assert it as an a priori truth that women could not deceive, for he felt an even stronger h priori belief in Sir Fitzroy Kelly. "If a young woman said that his honourable and learned friend had made her a promise when he was alone with her, no jury would believe that young woman on her oath." Mr. Roebuck's nature, one sees, is even at his advanced age, " unspotted from the world."
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