Mr. Mundella's great triumph in Sheffield is the more satis-
factory, that he has strongly expressed his determination to put .clown all sorts of coercion by Trades' Unions. The Pall Mall Gazelle, which has recently been devoted to Mr. Roebuck, said on Wednesday that he had been defeated in Sheffield for " de- nouncing the abuses of Trades' Unions," and that the working- man who did this had also distinguished himself by turning out Mr. Hughes for giving unwelcome advice to his constituents. Both remarks are curiously blundering. Mr. Roebuck was sup- ported by the great friend of Trade-Union murders, Mr. Broad- head ; and though, of course, Mr. Roebuck could not help this, and probably loathed the support he got, that was a very curious index of the feeling among the violent party that Mr. Mundella is a far more formidable, because a juster, foe to coercion than Mr. Roebuck. Mr. Roebuck was turned out for general political in- -sanity, and for malignant opposition to his leader. Mr. Hughes was driven away from Lambeth by the small shopkeepers for denouncing their false weights and measures, and was enthu- siastically supported by the whole masa of working-men in his district. The Pall Mall may hate working-men as much as it likes, but it should take some little trouble to be accurate when it solemnly states facts about them.
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