After thekPrince had gone, Mr. Mtmdella addressed his consti- tuents.
The Tory party, he told them, had no capital of its own, but "carried on business with accommodation bills." Mr. Disraeli had to employ all his rhetoric and imagination to gloss over the incompetence of his Government. Even when the Bills were good, the Tories took the backbone out of them. The excuses made for the conduct of the Government on the Merchant Shipping. Bill were "fables." The Plimsoll ship had come in contact with the Government barque, and so damaged it that another such "ugly night" would sink it. Next year the Government would be compelled to bring in many of the Liberals' Bills, and heshould not care how many, if they would but bring them in without adulteration. The meeting gave Mr. Mundella a warm vote of confidence, and it is evident that in Sheffield at least the Government has lost ground. The Tories will reply that Sheffield is democratic, but the Prince of Wales says that is an unwarrantable aspersion,—and so, by sitting for the borough, does Mr. Roebuck.
