Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1889-11-30 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RASTRIOK HABITATION OF THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE.  LECTURE BY AN TRISEI LAWYER.  On Friday evening (last week) in the Schoolroom, Church-street, Ras riek, Mr. T. Booth-Barry, of London, an Irish lawyer, gave a lecture on "Ireland," before the members of the local Habitation of the Primrose League. There was a moierately large audience, the majority being ladies. Mr. J. W. Clay, of Rastrick douse, otcoupled the chair, in the absence of the damc-preslient, fr )m whom a letter had been reoeiyel saying thtv she regretted her inability to be present, and trusting they would have an enjoyable evening. The Chairman confessed that he kne v nothing of Ireland; he had been all over the Centinent almost, but had never been across to Ireland. The Lecturer illustrated his remarks by the exhibition of a number of transparent slides, proj ecte 1 on a', screen by limelight, and commence 1 by shoring some important oersonages well known in royal circles and political life, These were the Prince and Prinoess of Wales, the Marquis of Salisbury, John Bright, the Marquis of Hartington, Mr. Gnsohen—Chancellor of tne Eleheqaer,— Mr. 0 c ecnberlain, Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Balfour, and several portraits of the late Lord Beaeonsfield. Sp making of Gr ettan's Pirliarn nt. the lecturer said that it was not an Irish Parliament, because Irish people were not allowed to eleot members for that Parliament, ant such a Parliament was not calculated to reach the Irish pecple. The lecturer then threw upon the screen scenes of murders which took place during the Grattaa Parliament, and came to a more modern perio 1, showing what hal oeourrel during the last ten years in the regime of tbe National League. There were severally exeibited the mur tars of Jane Q iirm, for getting turf in a boycotted bog; Peter Vl'Carthy : a schoolmaster named Robinson; Patrick Qeirke ; John Ilea le ; and the scene of the Phceaix Park murders. Of Mitohelatown. he said that if the people tborouehly understood the facts of what took place at Mitolaelatown, they would, in spite of what Mr. Gladstone sail, support the candidates that would maintain law and order. He appealed to them to give Ireland the same fair play they had in Yorkshire, and they would never bear of Home Rule. l'he Irishmen would never be satisfied with the Home Rule oZ 1886. He also did uot see why Ireland ghoul' pay four or five million pounds for the maintenance of the army and have no voice in the spending of the money. He would give Ireland a measure of Local Government similar to that enjoyed by the oonuties of England. In legal mat'ers, there was one thing that might be altered. Under present circumstances, when any public works were to be oartied out, the witnesses had to go to London in order to be examined, and English (counsel had to be retained. His suggestion was that there should be a committee of the House of Commons, constituted half of Segliati and half of Irish members appointed : that committee to meet in the district where the works were to be carried out. Mani times, the expense of the enquiries was nearly one-third of the cost of the works. He would tell them, on behalf of his fellow Loyalists in Ireland, that if they forced Home Rule upon the Irish they would take up arms in their own defence and never lay theta down until they , had driven the rebels out of the country or shed their last drops of blood. It was for them to decide which it should be at the next election. He asked them to remember that there were some 500,000 men in Ireland who khew how to handle a gun. everyone of wbom was prepared to bleed or to die in defence of the honour of their Queen. It was for them, as electors of England. to decide whether these men were to be engaged in a deadly, civil war with their fellows.  _ At the conclusion of the lecture, a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Booth• Barry on the motion of the chairman and the Rev. W. Purvis.  To DARKEN GREY aart.—Look roes Sulphur Heir tiestorer is the quickest, best, safest, and idiespest,— %ergo bottles ii• 64 Sim wlterA