The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-11-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF MR JOHN MOSLEY, IT. In the mum of • speech at Dublin the other day, Mr JORTM MCCARTHY related the following anecdote of Mr John Morley :—I wan possibly prejudiced in favour of Mr Morley—l admit it—in consequence of his being • close friend of mine for twenty-Ave years, beginning long Lefore the time be or I had the faintest intention of being moralises of Parliament. Well, I am strongly of opinion myself, anti have always been, that the position of an Irish Chief Secretary tinder the present system of Imperial Government is practically an impossibility; that no man, whatever his desire, whatever his gifts, can so administer the kind of position as to give just satisfaction to the people of Ireland. I am not saving that I do not see defects in Irish administration now, as I have seen them always; I am now speaking of the intentions and the prin. ciplee of the man. Many of you will remember that when Mr Morley came into Parliament he was editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, then a very powerful publication. You will remember that all the time his _great personal friend, the late Mr Forster, was Chief Secretary he was coercing Ireland; and you will remember that on every day of his life Mr Morley published articles in the Fall Mall Gazette condemning and decounaing the administration of Mr Forster, and calling on the Government to deprive Mr Forster of his position as Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant. Well, shortly afterwards IMr Morley AM asked to stand for NewI castle, and our position was very critical. We wore welt aware he had made a ' gallant struggle for on by his time and influence. hut at the same time he was going to be a supporter of a Government which was forcing an intolerable Coercion Bill on the Irish people, and it came to be a very acute question amongst us whether we would advise the Irish voters in Newcastle to support Mr Morley or vote again st him. Some of us were inclined to makean 1 exception in his favour, others were inclined to I pursue the firm principle of opposing every ran ! who was a supporter of the then existing Govern ment. I talked about that subject to Mr Morley I myself, and Mr Morley said to me, 'lf the Irish voters in Newcastle should vote against me on the ground that I will support the present Government, I have no word of blame to say to them, and I believe that if I was an Irish voter in Newcastle, and a man like myself came under such conditions to seek my support, I should refuse it to such a man under such conditions." I think you will say that there is something manly about one who at such a crisis and under such conditions could approve a policy which would advise the Irish voters of Newcastle to vote against him. (Applause.) I am saying this merely as a proof -from my own personal knowledge, which I think the general public do not know, of the straightforwardness and the high principle of Mr John Morley. (Applause.)  The Inarriare O Lady Manton* Grosvenor is She death of Primer Claudine At Llundalk on Tuesday an i the body of a - named =y, murdered in , March there a young - named s by.udden it of lusanity,  A Trade, kseem of coal of great untie. mid Welcome e receiving hae bens dietoyered near Tokod, in the dietiriee d Proteetion Gltitungary. MAMMA' of Zetlend and the Doke_ I Pint lend enjoyed r.OlllB good sport in salmon ealideir ha tbe over the week end. Meted lave _ to be item.th. abut* 'cal fie James V Pritttion e 'Deese lA*. improved , Harry Hoilgeot '‘at Teignmouth him.