Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-10-13 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

LIBELLOUS SPEECH BY MR. HEALY.  An extraordinary speech has been delivered by Mr. Healy, M.P., at a National League meeting held at Dundrum, county _Dublin. He said that if the metropolitan county had elected as their Parlitunentory representative a less impudent, lying, offensive and insincere man than Colonel King-Harman, who was the bully and 2orner boy of the Tory party, the National party would probably not, have awakened to their duties. He urged the meeting to carefully register, so that when the occasion arose they would be able to put out Colonel King-Harman and Mr. lon Trent Hamilton, and place men of the character of Parnell and Sexton in their stead. Referring to the revision court held by the Recorder of Dublin, he said there was nothing more indecent than to see Mr. Hamilton sitting on the bench when the business transacted was such as to vitally affect his own in. threats. It was in the dock Mr. Hamilton ought to have been, because by the chicanery and trickery of the Tory party the eople of Dublin lia.l been deprived of the free exercise of the franchise. Was a pickpocket honoured with a seat on the bench by the Recorder? Nothing of the kind, but he permitted to sit there that man whose position was affected by every vote unregistered in that indecent fashion. Further, the Recorder in the most shameful manner furthered the interests of the Tory party, while he hindered and frustrated those of the Nationalists. The Macdermott, Q.C., in the city revision court, did his work properly and well, and he was sure the people of the country would prefer to have hint as Recorder. In the city the Nationalists had registered 1,500 votes. How, he asked, would Dr. Lyons and Mr. Brooks like to hear that? They would work next session for a radical change in the registration, and if the Tories opposed them they would have every Tory member in Ireland squeaking and howling for a Registration Bill. It would only cost 3d. to serve an objection, and the National party would in the course of a year or two serve objections on every Tory in Ireland. The meeting was largely attended, but a great proportion of those present were women and children.  Arrangements are being made for the formation of an Irish court, to be thoroughly representative of Irish manufactures, at the International Exhibition to be held at the Crystal Palace in 1884. The late Mr. William Galignani, founder of G07,,,,viani's Messenger, left some property the procetds of which were to be spent on the oonstruction and maintenance of an asylum for old people of both sexes, at Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. This property has now been realised, and is found to be more valuable than was at first supposed. It fetched no less than 3,140,000 f. An oil and colourman, of St. Luke's, London, whose premises are also used as a poet-office, has lately been frequently robbed, and consequently, a policeman was set to watch for the offender. At night a lad, named Cohen, living next door, entered with a candle, and proceeded to abstract some money from the till when he was arrested, whereupon he remarked that he had "only been three times." He has been comniqted for trial..  Isaac Ciark, a titiarcl•qrian at Windsor, has been Sent to prison for six months for an assault upon n young woman. He had heen formerly a sergeant in the same battalion, but had been reduced to a private for a military offence, regaining subsequently the rank of corporal. Speaking at an agricultural dinner at Bridport, Mr. Floyer, M.r., remarked that the exertions of Mr. Forster, when Chief Secretary for Ireland, were opposed by those who ought to have supported him. The Irish question had been mailed by crime, outrage, and murder, and the policy of the Irish wty was now the dismemberment of the empire. The Bradlaugla questlkn would have to be decided by the country. The Agricultural Holdings Act left too much to the valuers, and in its framework the Beaconsfield Bill was to be pceferred.  The action to recover damages for detamation brought by Miss Pigot, of the Scotch Church Mission, Calcutta, against the Rev. Mr. Hastie, of which we save particulars a fortnight since, terminated in judgment being declared for the plaintiff, Mr. Justice Norris assessing the damages at one arms andordering each party to pay their own costs. His lordship held that Miss Pigot had been guilty of adultery with Mr. Wilson, a lay member ;of the Mission, Babu Kdi Churn Banerjee, a native pleader, and Dr. Chandra.