The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF SHEFFIELD.

On Saturday Mr. Roebuck issued the following
address to the electors of Sheffield
Gentlemen,—The iawitation that you have bees so kind
as to send to am, requesting me to become a candidate for
your suffrages at the semi g election, I at once accept—
th you meet slaserely for this signal and unexpected
mark your esteem sad approbation.
I my approbatios, Imam I thus construe your invita-
tion. Of my pathud lift yea bare taken note—and noting,
have appoved. You say that my past actions ham been
such as to win your seaddruse. 1 o those acts I must refer
yea, sa the hest and most complete evidence of my political
opiates. Eighteen peen ego, when, for the firm time, I
was about to solicit the maws of my countrymen, is the
hope that they would place me In the proud position of a
=Wive of the people I stated at come length the
es which would raid; my conduct upon all the great
questions of policy which then occupied the attention of the
autism To that statesman I could now refer, sad for the
mass perms ; I meld refer to it, not (July ran gspositten
tf my parest orthicon, but as a test by whisk to try the
isonsisteney of my iormos and my pethenker. The
experience of many years hes, I hope, made me wiser, and
taught see the mode meet madusive to the preetiml
appliee-
tics of the primiples whisk I prefses—but from the via&
piss themselves I have net imied.
The years that have depoth shies 111:12 have Mod settled
valw af ths imagism which at that pasted falsonted add
the while people. We ham rimmed, sad an ad-
en/Ng, but sa every step the contest M *Moss is mewed,
end we lave isl
etnary day le rewiate the agemeats by
whisk seek mamas therrq hes beat 'beaked.
Oa the gnat eat qnsedsue of coutftntimal
'slam though mask bus less &me, math remise te be
aesmapithmi. The meal easseethe el Ma drama system
have yet to be pasamed—a fear seep must be gloss to the
popular will—end ammo= aims wise are sew oawlealy
excluded caws be thought ortthis the pile of the ermadtai-
ties. Every steassma who melts airs hmeafter to pre-
side for the sta.'s** of the pasgle will rake* **NW/
the question of this eeailaege, in WIWI le Wag about speedily,
though cautiously, a large Marks et li,
ejgoloseepialea as to the best mode of taking the votes at
I have men se ream to dime. Ia order that
Lemma :zetsafeW impressed, the ballet seems to me
tr..= sor:it step
do
amide, gad wth Ns proper time attain, a ;ere am
of the
Rehm Act.
Although we mast baps to win sad tits& mark& good
greatmema ENV without portholes la the mane, yet we
lama am gmtpes• el new mikes mall them of the ms-
sandal are sthethed. Our eadeavoure at the lime
time be dieseted Ile may skiers, and I to
Muth same whisk appear at Om pretest momentproved
of the
WC., is my raisin, a government mama do much
aloft to proem wealth end anion ler a people, it can,
sod anfamenately dem de math Ithltolootl to dillototi
their sabasuse, and =lris *man. Unnecessary
reserietiens apes the in-
oduszrises•—samgaglibe geggio, hew is sE ages Won tau
Ago of u. Ilot the *Gra et the popular
Meats must aim be &sold to mob this evil—not only
mina wa, this, Wares a rigid maw, but we mast re-
gales that a.e re
free trade sherd give full mope fee
dm mare emigre ale imiumthas mdse.
Comesaii with this sallied le many ways, and with the
welithelng of mealtinil Is 11118 ff mom is the great subject of
aisafinfirm. Ns missals ef aqthiad hem been plasma la
idle dem abilerse Wedmore, mod sot by the aid of