Mr. Roebuck addressed his former constituents of Sheffield on Wednesday
in the Music Hall, his sole topic being the wicked- ness of Mr. Gladstone, whom he evidently regards, as "Dr. Slop" regarded Napoleon, as the cause of the blue-bottles in the butchers' shops. Mr. Gladstone had plotted to be in England what M. niers is in France, had egged on the IIyde-Park rioters, had destroyed the Irish Church to catch the Noncon- formists, had passed the Tenant-Right Act to attract the Irish farmers, had called in question all the grand principles of the British Constitution, and was now leagued with Dilke and Odger for further mischief to the country in which it is still impossible to shoot Mr. Roebuck in the street for his political opinions. Mr. Roebuck, who, one would think, means to stand for Sheffield as the Tory candidate, apologized for his youthful pamphlet against the House of Lords, thought himself too old for that body, "though some gentlemen have been kind enough to shadow out a way in which I might obtain a seat in it," but admired it as a checking assembly." He abused the Collier appointment, censured the use of the preroga- tive to abolish purchase, and said he did not mind being called a "suspicious old man." lqr. Roebuck will hardly get into the House of Lords, but we venture to suggest that he will henceforward be known by a very distinctive title,—as Hew-Gladstone-in-pieces- before-the-Lord Roebuck.
