The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-01-14 00:00:00

MR. JUSTIN MTA.RTHY ON

HOME RULE.

Mr. Justin M'Carthy, M.P., delivered on Monday
night, at the Millwall Dock Institute, under the aus-
pices of the Cubitt Town Branch of the Poplar
Liberal and Radical Association, a lecture on Ireland.
Mr. M'Carthy, who was warmly received, explained
that he was not going to make a partisan or politica'
discourse. He proposed to tell the story of Ireland',
claim to Home Rule; but not so that anybody
could say he had presented the case un-
fairly. (Hear, hear.) Fulfilling this intention
the hon. member pointed out that the Irish demand
for self-government was not a novelty. Irishmen asked
not for the creation of a new institution, but for the
restoration of that Parliament which for hundreds of
years—almost from the beginning of England's con-
nection with Ireland to the first year of the present
century—had the right of managing Irish affairs. As
to the assertion that Home Rule would be dangerous,
he pointed out that the Empire went through the
greatest strain ever put upon it—the war of American
independence—while the Irish Parliament existed and
during part of the time when that body had i‘ta
greatest measure of freedom and power. Nevertheless
it was not necessary to detach a single regiment for
the purpose of keeping Ireland quiet.
The Irish Parliament, he maintained,
taken away because of the rebellion of 1798. Tha
rebellion sprang out of and was a protest against
the policy which denied Catholic emancipation and
meant to extinguish the Irish Parliament because it
willing to grant Catholic emancipation. (Hear,
hear.) The abolition of that institution was contrary
to the will of the people; and those who denied that
it was accomplished by force and corruption were con-
futed by the statements of Lord Cornwallis, to whom
the work was entrusted. There was not, the hon.
member contended, any chance of an Irish Parliament
Oppressing the Protestant minority. At the same time
Home Rulers were prepared to give every security
against such oppression that the wit of statesmen
could devise. Home Rule, instead of bringing separa-
tion, would bless both England and Ireland. (Cheers.)
DEATH OF PROF. BONAMY
PRICE.
The Professor of Political Economy at Oxford died
at his residence in London on Sunday afternoon, aged
80 years. Mr. Price was born in Guernsey in 1807,
and was educated at High Wycombe and Worcester
College, Oxford. He was an intimate friend of most
of the leaders of the Oxford movement. Having been
an occasional pupil of Dr. Arnold,when that gentleman
became head-master of Rugby he secured the services
of Mr. Bonamy Price as mathematical master. In
1850 the deceased resigned that appointment, and
served on several Royal Commissions between this
time and 1868. In that year he was elected to the
chair of political economy at Oxford, and several
courses of his lectures, delivered during the ensuing
nine years, have been published. He was married, in
1834, to Miss Rose, daughter of the vicar of Rothley,
and granddaughter of Mr. Thomas Babington, who
was godfather to Lord Macaulay. A family of five
daughters, all of whom are married, and the widow
urvive the deceased Professor.

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HUSBAND: "Now, I think that is going too- far. '
You promised me you would countermand your
order for that dress." Wife: "I wrote to the firm
that very day." "But hero is the dress and the bill
for it—enough to bankrupt me almost. How do you
explain that ? " "I gave you the letter to post, and
I I suppose you forgot as usual." - -
TEACHER "Yes, my children, remember there is no
human love equal to a mother's love." Little girl:
" Womens love their childrens better than their hus-
band, don't they ? " "Very often." "Yes, indeed.
When we get the hiccoughs mamma gets sorry and
tries to cure 'em, but when papa gets the hiccoughs
she gets mad."
THE word love in one of the Indian dialects is
chemlendamoughkunagogager. Fancy a sweet forest
maiden telling her copper-coloured brave that she
chemlendamoughkunagogagers him!
A CHEYENNE clergyman lectures on the subject,
"After Marriage. • What?' Sometimes, says the
Chicao Mail, it's poverty, occasionally divorce, but
inore frequently paregoric and soothing syrup, croup,
mumps, and measles. Indeed, there are ever so many
things after marriage—numerous old maids, for in-
stance.
• 3;A CONCEITED young gentleman, who stammeredvi
going up to a working man who owned a rnagpiew
kntrattling-the bars of the cage with his ' -
cane, said, "My man, can y-o-ti-r
t-t-t-alk." "Yes," said the man, "
better than you can, or I would wring nib the spot."
DOMESTIC life has no finer picture of confiding ._
than that of the husband wearing a smoking-jacket
of hia.v.ife's making and trying to mike believe that
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