The Master Cutler at Sheffield has afforded Mr. Roebuck but
a meagre and unsatisfactory revenge on the " brazen roar of one portion of the press and the penny whistle of another," for their assaults on his Austrianizing views. He gave Mr. Roebuck's adver- saries the first innings, and when that gentleman rose to vindicate the character of "Tear 'em," we are assured that the wine had already done its work. It was ill barking at convictions thus forti- fied, and accordingly Mr. Roebuck, with a passing sneer at "tile thin& Punch"—the graphic picture of the imperial dog-stealer- simply threw himself dramatically into the position of his august master. The Emperor of Austria, he tells us, had said, "Here I am ; there is nothing before me ; I have no constitution to consider, but I will give you the best I can." Francis Joseph may, no doubt, have presented it thus to his own imagination; but if he did, he must first have abstracted the Hungarian history and constitution, which is certainly a more difficult and daring feat than abstracting Mr. Roebuck.
