The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1882-03-11 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

FORSTER IN IRELAND.  Mr. Forster has been making a tour through the disturbed districts oflreland. At Tullamore he addressed a large crowd from the hotel window. He was listened to with respectful attention, and delivered a speech which, for earnest manliness and natural eloquence, will take a very high rank. Talking like a sincere and feeling patriot, on whom the responsibilities of office pressed heavily, but who as righteously determined to do his duty to the end, he pat the case in a most forcible and convincing manner. Having argued that the Irish people owed it to themselves not to be bullied and tyrannised over by the skulking midnight assassin and maimer of men and cattle, he described a most pitiful scene. "I have," he said, "just come back from Clare, and I will tell you what I saw there. It will stick to my memory for the rest of my life as an eviction which I saw thirty years ago will stick to my memory for the rest of my life. I went when I was atiTalla to the workhouse and there I saw a poor fellow lying in,bed, the doctors round him,with a blue light over his face, that made me feel that the doctors were not right when they told me that he might get over it. I felt sure that he must die, and I see that this morning he has died. But why did that man die? He was a poor lone farmer. He had paid his rent. He had committed that crime. He thought it his duty to pay. Fifteen or sixteen men broke into his house in the middle of the night, pulled him out of his bed and told him they would punish him. He, himself, lying in his death agony as it were, told me the story. He said "My wife went down on her knees and said, Here are five helpless children : will you kill their father? They took him out : they discharged a gun filled with shot into his leg so closely that it shattered his leg. Perhaps they did not mean to kill him. They mast have known that they meant to main him for life; they must have known that they meant to make it impossible for him to earn his living, and give him days or weeks of agony. I may charitably hope that they did not quite know that they would kill him." He went on to make a pathetic appeal to those whom he was addressing; "I call upon you to do what you can to stop these things. Join any constitutional agitation for any change you like, but do try for the honour of Ireland, or that feeling of patriotism which, I believe, you have strong within you, to wipe off this disgrace from her name. Let me tell you one word about the English people. There is no ill-feeling in England towards Ireland. We know well that you have been a miserable country; that you have been a badly governed country; that the English Government in past days has done many very cruel and very unjust things to Ireland, and allowed many things to be done. We wish to undo that. We wish to make you prosper; we wish to make you as rich and as powerful as we are ourselves. But when we have these terrible outrages coming before us we hardly know what to do." In reply to an inquiry respecting the imprisoned suspects, he said, "As soon as we can fairly say that outrages have ceased in Ireland and that men are not ruined, are not maimed, and are not murdered for doing their duty, or doing what they have a legal right to do, the suspects will be released." Of course, Mr. Forster's speech will be more or less misrepresented by the agitators, to whom Ireland owes so much of her misery, but it ought to create a good impression on the country generally.  BIRKENHEAD GENTRY v.