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London, England, 1863-07-01 00:00:00

THERIIIOMETER.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1863,

An adjournment of the debate upon Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S motion was a matter of course. That ad-
journment, it will be seen, has been set apart for
Thursday. Yesterday's discussion, however, of the
important problem now submitted to the House of
Commons for solution (thanks to the impetuosity,
or the indiscretion, or whatever else may be the
motive power actuating the hon. and learned mem-
ber for Sheffield)—last evening's discussion, we
say, was sufficiently protracted not merely to admit
of Mr. ROEBUCK himself relieving his mind of the
whole argument prepared by him upon either side
of the Channel in favour cf the recognition of the
Southern States of America, but to allow of that
argument being followed up by the more or less re-
markable speeches, delivered, among others, by
the hon., right hon„ and noble representatives
respectively of Birmingham, of Oxford University,
of Stamford, and of Huntingdonshire. Mr. ROE-
BUCK—aII things considered—perhaps never before
addressed the House of Commons at such enormous
disadvantage to himself. Every one who listened
to him last evening must have had almost pain-
fully in remembrance the thought that Tear'em
had been over very recently, at his own free will
and pleasure, to Fontainbleau, there to be very de-
licately and adroitly muzzled by the astute ruler of
the French nation. That very potentate, at " the
bright particular star" of whose good fortune, this
same Tear'em has hitherto been baying as the mad
dog bays the mcon. Hearkening to Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S speech last evening, the effect of
his words at times was almost ridiculous.
" I know certain things about the state of mind of
the Great French Ruler which I am authorised (by
his MAJESTY) to lay before this House." The
House being--the British House of Commons !
The speaker of these courtly words about, and at
the instance of,
the Great French 1.-!uler being
—of all men in the three kingdoms
—Mr. ROEBUCK
Again Mr. COBDEN might have asked, as he once
asked on the title page of a famous pamphlet,
os What next and next." Perhaps Next we
shall be having a panegyric pronounced by Mr.
KINGLAKE upon the valour of NAPOLEON III.! Or by
Mr. WHALLEY upon the system of education carried
out at the College of Maynooth. Or of open voting
in contradistinction to the ballot by Mr. BERKELEY/
At any rate here was the member for Sheffield, the
synical, stifforeked, cantankerous member for
Sheffield, talking by the hour, in words the most
honeyed, in phrases the most courteous, with
epithets the most courtier-like and complimentary,
about that same identical man of men, the Emperor
of FRANCE, against whom he has heretofore alone
emplo3ed language of the utmost possible scnrr

lily. No wonder the opportunity, presented
to him by the recognition of this astound-

ing transformation, was altogether irresist

ble when contemplated by the member for
Birmingham ! N)t one of the foul terms Hung forth,

in the most reckless of his vituperations of the Em.

peror NAPOLEON 111., by the hon. and learned mem.

ber for Sheffield, but what Mr. BRrnHT found them
clinging tenaciously to his own remembrance—
thereupon following up the immediate instinct of his
constitutional pugnacity by hurling them back upon

—the Reviler turned Panegyrist ! " I have no faith

in the Emperor of the FRENCH !"—"Nothing but
enmi►y and bad faith can be looked for from the

French EMPEROR ! "---" His perjured lips touching
that hallo wed cheek!"—every scurrilous phrase of

Mr. ROEBUCK'S was faithfully echoed back to him

laet night by Mr. BRIGHT. Ail those brutal vitu

perations indulged in by the member for Sheffield,

whenever he had occasion to make any reference

directly to the potentate whom he now mentions.

forsooth, only with such overwhelmingly protbaild

respect, all Own rhttoricai biudgeonicgs, as we may

call them, were yesterday showered down upon the

biudgeoner himself vicariously, by the uncompro-
mising and pitiless member for Birmingham.

Amidst the loud laughter of the House of Commons
Mr. ROEBUCK not only had, as patiently as might

be, to hear himself denounced by Mr. BRIGHT as a

" co-conspirator" with the Emperor NAPOLEON 111.,
but, worse than that, as a touch of poignant ridicule,

to hear himself and his associate, Mr. LINDSAY,

spoken of by the member for Birmingham still
more sneeringly as the envoy extraordinary from
Fontainbleau,uay,theenvoyB"most extraordinary !"
Viewing the whole of the vitally important question

Lord SHAFTESBURY is not a man to let a subject
drop. If once he has ascertained its importance to
the welfare of any class of the community, he is
sure to use unremitting efforts towards accomplish-
ing the desired end. Last night, in the Rouse of
Lords, he rose to move an address to her MAJESTY,

" praying that an inquiry into the physical and
moral condition of the dressmakers and milliners
be made by the Royal Commission now sitting, and
the state of children and young persons in trades
and manufactures not regulated by law." His lord.
ship added that he had no doubt that the commission
would find means to arrange some system that would
lead to a discontinuance of the abominations of
which they had lately heard so much. Earl
GRANVILLE said that the Government had already
referred the subject to this Commission, and that,
therefore, there was no necessity for the address.
It is to be trusted that no efforts will be spared to
make this inquiry as full and fair as possible, and
that if the reports communicated are unsatisfactory,
as they are sure to be, some alterations will be
speedily devised to check the deleteri( us influences
of the unhappy plans now being .?tuployed, which
on all sides are so condemned as alike militating
against the health and often the womb o this I