The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-08 00:00:00

SANDWICH.

A deputation left Sandwich this morning with a
requisition signed by a majority of the electors re-
questing Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney C. Dacres,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet,
to become a candidate in conjunction with Mr.
Capper. Should Admiral Dacres decline, Mr. A.
C. Bruce, of 43, Queen's-gardens, barrister-at-law,
a nephew of the Lord Justice Knight Bruce, and of
the Rightpon. H. A. Bruce, Vice-President of the
Council, will be brought forward by the Liberal
Conservatives and ultra-Protestants, in conjunction
with Mr. Capper,

SHEFFIELD.
The rumour in the town yesterday morning was
that the Conservative-Liberal party were going to
bring out the Hon. James Francis Stuart Worcley,
private secretary to Mr. Gladstone, and brother of
Lord Wharncliffe, and in that case Mr. Hadfield's
seat will be considerably endangered. The opposi-
tion to Mr. Roebuck goes on, and there have been
two of the largest and most disorderly meetings
ever held in Sheffield—one in Paradise-square, to
hear Mr. foster, and the other in the Temperance-
hall, to hear Messrs. Roebuck and Hadfield. At the
former meeting, Mr. Foster taunted the friends of
Mr. Roebuck with his absence ; but he was an-
swered by the appearance of that gentleman in a
carriage with Mr. Hadfield. Mr. Foster accused
Mr. Roebuck of corruption in regard to the Galway
contract, he openly imputed that he had been bribed
to support the bill of the Water Company. Mr.
Foster made a very effective speech; but he spoke
so long, and the crowd (there were 20,000 present)
got so excited, that Mr. Roebuck could not obtain
a hearing, and there are conflicting statements as to
the division, one party claiming the victory for Mr.
Foster and the others for Mr. Roebuck. When the
confusion caused in the immense crowd had abated,
Mr. Foster proceeded with his address. He said—
Mr. Roebuck chooses to state to you that I have
the meanness, the sneaking sort of conduct, to come
before you for the simple object of getting a job at
sessions. (" Shame," and hisses.) I tell Mr. Roe-
buck to his face—as I told you just now, when as
far as I could find that he had not chosen to come
—that he belonged to those Sessions the same as I
did. He went the West Riding Sessions as I have
done for 20 years. (" Come to the question.") If
Mr. Roebuck says that I can do these things for the
purpose of getting a job at Sessions, I tell Mr. Roe-
buck—he sits there—he never found the man at the
West Riding Sessions who wanted him to do his
job. (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. Roebuck went to
the Northern Circuit. He wearsa silk gown. (The
1 Chairman—Who gave it to him ?) Now, in the great
Northern Circuit I have found in many towns clients
who have trusted me ; but during the whole course
of my experience never on one occasion did I
see Mr. Roebuck in any case whatever.
(Laughter.) He got his silk gown, but was that
reward given to him because of his merits on
the circuit ? No ;it was given to him because
you gave to him that position without which he was
nothing, and which got his silk gown. (Cheers.)
He accuses me of being capable of descending to
jobs. Was I the first to cast the stone ? When I
spoke last night I did not utter one syllable offen-
sive to either of the members ; on the cpntrary, I
expressed the hope that this contest would be con-
ducted as gentlemen ought to conduct it and with-
out personal allusions. (Cheers.) But when I
found that the style of language which has dis-
tinguished him ever since he was a public man, and
which is simply personality,—for except to be per-
sonally offensive he can be nothing. (Cheers and
prolonged disorder.) If he chooses to attack me,
I say to him, let him come on. He talks about jobs,
does he ? Has he never been guilty of a job ?
(Cheers and interruption.) We will see presently.
For what object did you send Mr. Roebuck to Par-
liament on the last occasion ? (" We'll send him
again.") Let us see what he did, to show you the
purity of his motives, as soon as he was returned.
I don't venture into this ; he has chosen to drag me
into this sort of thing. I don't shrink from it.
(" What made thee come ?") You returned him as
a Liberal, and you believed him to be one. The
Derby Government was then in office, and Mr.
Disraeli proposed a Reform Bill, which contained a
great many fancy franchises. The Liberal party
rejected that bill, and Mr. Roebuck said in the
hOuse that the Liberal party did not want the bill ;
that it was a deceptive measure, and pretended to
give the poor men something, while in reality it
gave them naught. (~ No, no.") He told Parlia-
ment, and he told them justly, " This measure
which you propose is a sham ; it is intended to de-
ceive; its object is to do away with the 40s. free-
holders ; it will take away the benefits which the
Reform Bill gave you in 1832." A majority was
obtained against the measure, and in the list of
that majority you will find the name of Mr. Roe-
buck. The Derby Government appealed to the coun-
try, and Mr. Roebuck came down here to solicit your
suffrages again. He repeated before you the decla-
ration as to the bill which he had made in the
house, and you sent him to Parliament to vote
against the bill. You sent him to do more—to try
to oust Lord Derby from office on the first oppor-
tunity. What did he do? I find in the Indepen-
dent of April 9, 1859, Mr. Roebuck boasting that he
was one of the majority which had driven Lord
Derby to appeal to the country. When the bill was
before the house Mr. Roebuck said it was a sham and
a retrograde measure. He was returned, and in his
speech of thanks—as I hope to be able to thank you
before long—(cheers)—he said he should go to Par-
liament to oppose Lord Derby's Government. When
the new Parliament met the Marquis of Hartington
gave notice of an amendment upon the Address. Mr.
Hadfield was true to his colours—(hear, hear)—and
he supported Lord Hartington's motion of no confi-
dence in the Derby Government ; but only a month
after Mr. Roebuck had given you his pledge a num-
ber of respectable old Tories found, greatly to their
astonishment, I have no doubt, that he was in the
lobby with them. (Cheers.) When he was asked why
he supported the Government which he was pledged to
oppose, he said he opposed the amendment in the be-
lief that if he had supported it he shouldAhave been
an accessory to the defeat of the Ministry, and he
would not assist in bringing in a Government thathad
lost his confidence. (Applause, and cries of " Per-
fectly right.") He voted for keeping in Lord Derby's
Government, and people naturally began to cast about
for the reason. Now, you know men belong to clubs
in London, and they talk a great deal about each
other's affairs, and it was not long before they found
Mr. Roebuck out. He became a director of the Gal-
way Steam Packet Company. (Laughter.) That
did not come out just then ; it took some time to
ascertain the real fact. But what happened ?
hope I am not misrepresenting Mr. Roebuck, because
at a meeting held here a month ago, and about which
he has taken to himself no small laudation, huwas
asked point blank the question which I will read.
He was asked whether the Galway contract was not