Mr. Roebuck on Thursday evening delivered a lecture to the
young men of Hull upon the science of politics, of which we shall probably hear more. The Conservative tone of the day seems to have taken the radicalism out of the member for Sheffield to an extent which his constituents will possibly not approve. He had been, he said, alarmed by the events occurring in America, so alarmed that he earnestly hoped the working classes of England might have a political education before they were entrusted with power. It was necessary to teach them that Government could not fix a minimum of wages, or divide property, and this knowledge he implied the people had not yet obtained. He believed that the time would very speedily come when the suffrage would be in the hands of the masses, that the " danger " was only postponed, and that it could only be averted by teaching the mamas in good time, teaching them not this or that, but everything they had time and ability to learn. It is sound enough all that, but if it is the opinion of Mr. Roebuck's constituency, Sheffield is changed of late years.
