Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-03-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CAREY, THE INFORMER'S, EVIDENCE READ.  Then the Attorney-General commenced what appeared likely to be a long interlude of speech and article reading from the Irish. World, but after proceeding with it for about half an hour, he stated that he felt so much time could be saved by conference and arrangement with the other side that he proposed to postpone it for the present. This was agreed to. The Attorney-General then said he wished to prove the truth of the statement made by Carey with regard to the furnishing of money to the Invincibles, and the supply of arms and knives to them for the Pluenix Park murders. Sir Charles Russell objected that this was intended not to prove the truth of the statement but to prove the source from which the Times got their information and on which they wrote the articles. Eventually the evidence given by Carey at the trial of the Invincibles in Dublin was read by Mr. Atkinson in extenso, after which Mr. Ronan proceeded to read speeches delivered by Mr. Forster and Mr. Gladstone in Parliameat in the years 1881-2-3, bringing to Mr. Parnell's notice the outrages that were being committed in various parts of the country. Sir C. Russell asked if it was gravely to be be forth that a Parliamentary discussion was to be taken as notice of a particular thing. The President, with a sigh of deprecation, said he was afraid he must deal with the matter only on legal grounds, and anything said in the presence of persons must be taken as notice; though he must add that in the present case lie attached very little importance to the particular point. Mr. Lockwood said he understood that the whole of the speeches were to be read. " Oh,'' cried the President, with a suffering look upon his countenance and a frown, " pray don't insist on your extreme rights." The Attorney-General, protesting that his only desire was to read what was material, proceeded himself with the reading of the speeches, quoting first Mr. Gladstone's speech of January 28th, 1881,in which he denounced the Land League, contending that the increase of crime had been contempora• neous with the increase of the power of the Land League. Subsequently Mr. Lockwood proposed to read tile speeches which were delivered in the House of Commons by members of the Irish party subsequent to the speech delivered by Mr. Gladstone on the 28th of January, 1881, and which had been already read by the AttorneyG enci al.  Counsel then read portions of the speeches delivered by Mr. Parnell, Mr. Sexton, and Mr. Biggar. The Attorney-General said there were two other allegations made in the presence of the members charged—Mr. Healy, for instance. They were contained in a speech delivered by Mr. Gladstone on the 4th of April, 1882, and had reference to the application of the Land League funds to the perpetration of outrages. The Attorney-General also read a letter from Mr. Healy, stating that the outcries raised in England about outrages in Ireland were simply hypocritical, and a speech which was delivered by Mr. Dillon on the 24th of May,lBB2, in defence of , boycotting, and which was extensively punctuated by approving cheers by Mr. Biggar. Mr. Reid said he would not trouble their lordships by reading extracts from the hon. members' speeches in repudiation of outrages if his learned friend would assent to his statement— that when charges were made in regard to complicity with outrages, the Irish members, or such of them as spoke, repudiated all complicity whatever with them. The Attorney-General replied that he could not make any assent to any statements of that kind. M. Reid consequently read extracts from speeches of Messrs. Justin M'Carthy, J. Redmond, and J. Dillon, denying all complicity with outrages. The Attorney-General then varied the monotony of the proceedings by calling Mr. Froterell, Clerk of the Crown, Dublin, to produce the true bills found by the Grand Jury of Dublin against P. J. Sheridan and J. Tynan, for the murder of Thomas H. Burke, in the Phoenix Park. Mr. Froterell entered the box and fumbled through some documents' but failed to find the true bills. Mr. Reid asked him if there was a true bill against I'atrick Egan, and the witness replied in the negative. The Attorney-General said his learned friend was confounding a true bill with a warrant. Mr. Davitt invired if there was a true bill against Thomas Brennan. The witness said he was certain that there was not. Miles Jennings, a member of the R.1.C., gave evidence as to outrages in Longford; and a little boy named Michael Walsh, of Ballinamore, and his mother, Mrs. Walsh, were examined with respect to the boycotting of the Walsh family.