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London, England, 1861-04-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 4.

Fos downright, debonnair simplicity, and guile-
lees loving-kindness commend us to the enlightened
electors of Sheffield. Familiarity with edged tools
has certainly not filed the mind of that favoured
constituency to a temper of extreme severity. The
highest quality they admire in a representative is
a tenacity in representing no opinions but his own,
and an absolute conviction that all who differ from
him are rogues or fools. This has been the first
and last article of his public creed, from the time
when he was the parliamentary agent of rebels to
the day when he has lived to affirm that the Yana
tians are " well governed" by Austria. The
Sheffield people love to be bullied by a bitter old
gentleman who leans on a stick, and protests
with a shrill shriek of virtuous anger, that be was
poor and honest before half of his hearers were old
enough to "do" or to be done, and that he is poor
and honest still, in spite of offers of power and
place, and a heap of bribes, and solicitations to
which nes of common parliamentary stuff must
have soccumbed. Who does not know the tyranny
of weans= in a household I--of peevish infancy
or smile petulance f If the Member for Sheffield
were a big, burly Radical, with a loud voice and an
ample waistcoat, he would never have persuaded
his Sheffield audience that the negative virtues of
honesty and poverty were sufficient to cover the
positive sins of a renegade who had plunged into
bad company as anon as he found himself too old
to be tempted. Mr. Rossi/cc "thought he knew
" his countrymen." And he knew that their love
of fair play was apt to degenerate into a facile sym-
pathy for infirm sourness and cynical conceit.
It is a curious reflection upon the character of the
present House of Commons that Mr. Rossocx has
obtained from his electors an enthusiastic vote
of confidence on the ground that he is "honest"; •
qualification which at Sheffield is evidently re-
garded as the rarest and most unexpected. To
people out of Sheffield the trick which their
amiable Drone-yea has played them seems stale
enough. It was simply to set up a sham issue,
and escape the real one under • cloud of his
own raising. No man in that audience knew
better than Mr. Roasoca, that the accusations he
pretended to bring against himself in order to
demolish them triumphantly, had nothing to do
with the dissatisfaction of his constituents. Ye)
responsible speaker or writer that we know of
has ever so much as hinted that Mr. Rosstxx had
been "bought and sold." On the contrary, the
world in general agreed with his sincere well-
wishers in regretting that in the decline of a
career undistinguished by practical success, be
should have carried the eccentric unacquisitivenees

of his political habits into commercial enterprises
which were doomed to borrow the lustre of
conspicuous failure from his unrewarded name.
Had the inauspicious ventures with which Mr.
Rossct•e, with the candid generosity of his nature,
has allowed his good fame to be mixed up, achieved
the slightest success, we are fully persuaded that
an honourable disdain of lucre would have saved
him from the contamination of profits, whilst his
reputation would have been held more sacred by •
world which judges commercial men and things by
a commercial code of right and wrong. The poli-
tical world calls that independence of character for
which Mr. Roarer takes credit "disappoint-
" ment ;" the commercial world that singu-
lar passion for tuiremunerative enterprises in
which Mr. Roxsoce has recently indulged, " un-
" business-like eccentricity." In either case
the political and the commercial world
are unjust ; if we set down the political
and the commercial failures to the credit of
vanity, and balance the account with " vexation
" of spirit," we shall probably do Mr. !Waseca
justice.
Not a word, however, that we can discover in
Mr. Roaseux's speeches at Sheffield goes to the
point at issue between him and his Liberal con-
stituents. He has triumphantly absolved himself
from injurious charges which ho certainly need
never have descended to notice. But the fact
that his opinions on the most importantquestions
of foreign policy at a momentous crisis in the
destinies of Europe have undergone a somewhat
sudden change, and that as the radical and re-
nowned representative of a radical and renowned
constituency, he has imported from Vienna opinions
which even in Vienna are scarcely extant among
the public ;—this startling fact which suggests one
of two consequences : the resignation of his seat, or
the stultification of his constituency :—Mr. Ros-
sw•t passes by without explanation or excuse. If
his electors are content, why should we complain I
We make no complaint: we simply point to the
terms of the Resolution carried at the close of the
meeting, beginning with a declaration of confidence
in Mr. Rossocx, and ending with a declaration of
opinions which Mr. Roarer repudiates and ab-
jures, and we ask whether the electors who passed
and carried that Resolution have not written
themselves down Pundits worthy of celebration by
the Comic Muse I The electoral wisdom of Shef-
field deserves an Aristophanic immortality. We
trust Mr. Romance will present every one of his
hearers with a copy of that " Austrian Constitu-
tion," splendidly bound, which he has already depo-
sited in the house of the "honoured Mayor." Mr.
ROIIIICCIK, however, with all the nervous eagerness
of an aged lover, piuceeds to justify his new faith
in Austria, and we beg to assure his Austrian
prompters that there are not half • dozen born
Tories in the British Parliament who would have
dared to own such a passion in such a place. Bat
aged lovers are afraid of losing time, and like
young advocates, do sometimes exceed the in-
structions on their brief. It appears, then, that
Mr. ROZIWrit found " perfect liberty springing
ne in the Austrian dominions under the auspices
of " English governesses ;" for Mr. Rossi:cc has