Again, speaking of colonization In this country as opposed to Canada and other English colonies, he writes (page 88):—­“Certain adventurous persons, the ‘pioneers’ of civilization, wishing to make new settlements beyond the boundaries of Pennsylvania and Virginia, upon wild lands belonging to the United States, made formal application to the Government of the United States at Washington, who, being bound to afford all possible facility, thereupon take steps to have the land surveyed and laid out into counties, townships, parishes.  The roads are also indicated, and at once the law exists; and security, guarantied by the authority of the United States, immediately follows, both for person and property; and all the machinery known to the Common Law, and needed for the maintenance of this security, and the enforcement of the law’s decrees, is at once adopted.  A municipal authority comes into existence; a court-house, a jail, a school-room, arise in the wilderness; and although these buildings be humble, and the men who exercise authority in them may appear to be in some degree rude, yet is the law there in all its useful majesty.  To it a reverent obedience is rendered; and the plain magistrate, who, in a hunter’s frock, may, in the name of the United States, pronounce the law’s decree, commands an obedience as complete and sincere as that which is paid to the Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court at Washington, or to the ermined judge who presides in the courts of our Lady the Queen in Westminster Hall.”

This in 1849; but what a very different tone has he thought fit to adopt now!  Was any agency then expected which has not been forthcoming?  Or, having degenerated from being a supporter of liberal opinions in his youth to being the fond and fatuous admirer of autocrats in his old age, does he think that it is absolutely necessary that the firm friend of Austrian despotism should be the malignant assailant of the Government and people of the United States?  The man is consistent in nothing but his spiteful vindictiveness and love of mischief.  He is now the general object of deserved ridicule and contempt for his flunkyistic attendance at the Tuileries.  At the time of Louis Napoleon’s visit to London, Roebuck raved and ranted about his “perjured lips having kissed the Queen of England.”

He has, on some occasions, put himself prominently forward, and in such a way as to make himself an influential member of Parliament.  He moved the vote of confidence in the Whig Government in 1850, when the great debate ensued in which the late Sir Robert Peel made his last speech, and they were kept in office by a poetical majority of nine.  But the speech with which Roebuck introduced the motion was entirely eclipsed by the magnificent declamation of Sir Alexander Cockburn, the present Lord-Chief-Justice of England.  On another great occasion, in January, 1855, he brought forward in the House of Commons a motion for inquiry into the conduct of the Crimean War.  Lord Aberdeen’s