Widnes Examiner. — 1882-03-11 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SPEECH BY THE CHIEF .SECRETARY.  Mr. Forster, who has been visiting the West of Ireland, went down to Tullamore on Monday, and, after moving freely about the town without an escort, and inspecting the convent school, made one of those straightforward, manly speeches with which the right honourable gentleman occasionally varies the even course of his ordinary utterances. His theme was his visit to the West of Ireland, the object of which, he said was to see if outrages were as bad as he had bees told they were at Dublin Castle, and whether he could not find a way to mend matters. He had to confess that the state of things as he found them was terrible, and that it was true that men were terrorised over by a vicileut minority, and maimed and murdered for doing what before God and man it was their duty to do, and he called upon the Irish people to rise against this tyranny and say that it should no longer be allowed to exist. Mr. Forster, with much pathos, described his visit to the workhouse where the poor man murdered by Moonlighters at Tulla lay dying, and told how his wife went on her knees to his murderers and and prayed thorn not to kill the father of five innocent children. The Government, Mr. Fcrs.ter said, was determined, and he was determined, to put a stop to such outrages as these, which disgraced the name of Ireland; and he implored them, though they might join whatever constitutional movement for ihe redress of grievances they pleased, to purge the country of these villainous crimes. In answer to a cry to release the suspects, he said that as soon as the Government could say that outrages had ceased, and men were not maimed and murdered for doing their duty, this would be done. The Chief Secretary was quietly listened to throughout, and His speech, in the circumstances under which it was delivered, must be regarded as the strongest appeal yet made to the Irish people in the cause of law and order.  The Quebec Legislature met on Wednesday, and elected Mr. Tailion as Speaker. _ _  On Thursday -morning the parish church of Sun(lricige, near Sevenoaks, was netrly destroyed by fire. Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, the Liberal member for Carnarvon Borough, died on Wednesdavnight. He was 8,5 years of age. _ _  —A correspondent telegraphs:—The repeal of the Indian import duties has given great satisfaction in Oldham, and a s ciety foimed for the purpose of agitating the repeal is now dissolved.  Mounted police, armed with cavalry swords, are now employed after dark on the Thames EmOnkment. The terror excited in the public mind in consequence of the outrages recently committed I.T gangs of roughs has been such that the Embankinent is now practically deserted by the public after nightfall. The Sultan of Turkey, being slightly indisposed, has postponed the final reception of the German special mission, which had been fixed for Thursday at Constantinople, and it is now arranged that the mission shall have an audience to take leave of his Majesty on the 14th inst. . An old man named Pickard, aged SO years, an inmate of the Alms Houses at Bedworth, near Coventry, has disappeared in a remarkable manner. He has recently been under the impression that.othe Queen had granted him a large sum of money, but from some cause or other he was prevented obtaining possesSion of it. He left home in search of the supposed fortune a week ago, and has not since been heard of.  On Thursday three boys, named Henry Clarke, John Thomas Price. and James Halliwell, were charged with breaking into the Earnwortl4 Theatre on Sunday. The prisoners effected an entrance by the removal of some boards from a side door. They broke open six boxes, strewed some 9cwt. of ctage properties about Eh* floor, and stole three pistols, two 'daggers, and a purse of " flash " sovereicrns. Prisoners were all committed for trial.  <