Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-07-07 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HONEYED LANGUAGE OF MR. BIGGAR. A meeting of Irishmen has beef) held in the Mantheater Free-trade Hall, in aid of "The Parnell National Tribute." The proceedings opened with the presentation to Mr. O'Brien. M.P., of an address of welcome and recognition of the efforts he had made in the cause of Ireland, and the support his journal had given to the National cause. Mr. O'Brien In reply stated that he was only too proud to follow where men like Mr. Parnell and Mr. Bipgar led. After some remarks from the chairman, Dr. Howard moved a resolution expressive of the utmost confidence in Mr. Parnell and of a determination, in view of the bitter calumnies which have been heaped upon him by the English Press and people, "to make the Parnell National Tribute Worthy of the cause, and of the man." The resolution having been seconded, Mr. Biggar, M.P., in supplrt, ing it, said that the testimonial was inaugurated, first of all, because a dishonest and unfair attack was made upon Mr. Parnell by the late Chief Secretary for Ireland. (Groans and hisses. Then it was also very much supported by the action of Mr. Errington in his dealings will the Papal Court.. One of the leading attributes of the present English Governirert, he asked them to remember, was falsehood. (Applause.) That was the leading chars°. teristic of the English Government. Mr. Gladstone, when questioned as to why Mr. Errington had been sent to Rome, denied over and over again, that he bad sent him, but he had at last acknowledged that Mr. Errington had authority to tell the Papal Court the real facts of the case. Mr. Era ington, however, did not tell the Papal Court about the packed juries, nor did he enlighten the Papal Court about the Innocent men who had been hung recently. Neither did he think Mr. Err ington had been instructed to tell how the Poor Law was administered in Ireland, and how people on the verge of starvation were told they must either go into the worhhouse or be shipped across the Atlantic. Mr. Errington was not told to tell the truth with regard to affairs in Ireland. He was told to "lie, and lie, and lie." (Cheers.) Mr. Errington was told to say that Mr. Parnell and Mr. Parnell's followers were in league with murderers and cot-throats. (Applause.) Mr. Errington warn told to say that the people of Ireland had no grievances, and that the English Government in Ireland was the best Government under the sun. The present Chief Secretary for Ireland was little better than his predecessor, and in replying to questions as to the way in which Ireland was governed he gave a dishonest and untrue idea as to the way in which it was governed. g Cheers.) Only the other night Mr. Trevelyan— roans)—lied with regard to the paupers who were being shipped across the Atlantic to America. He suppressed the truth, and pretended that there was no cause of complaint in New York with regard to those paupers. He shuffled and wriggled, and took very great care that he did not tell the real facts of the case. The leading principle of the English governing classes at present was to drive the Irish race out of Ireland. He did not think they would succeed, but the leading principle of the Land Act of 1881 was to depopulate Ireland. There was only one good clause in the Act, and that had been inserted at the instance of Mr. Parnell. In conclusion ha • warned the Irish people against joining with either of the two political parties in England.—Mr. O'Brien followed declaring that the fact of the matter was that both political parties in England were beginning to discover that Mr. Parnell and the Irish "rebel Oirty " had the fate of English Ministries and of .English parties in the hollow of their hands, and they were beginhing to discover that it was becoming Impossible to govern Ireland without Mr. Parnell. The resolution %, as carried, and a collection was afterwards made, the proceedings terminating with a vote of thanks to the chairman.  An artificial flower maker, named Gil Hard, who occupied a cellar in St. Luke's, London, not havin; been seen for some days his residence was broken into and his body was then discovered suspended (poll a door, where, according to medical testimony, it must have been hanging for a fortnight. In the cellar was also suspended the body of Gilliard's doe, which he had hung before committing suicide. It is stated that the deceased had been in a desponding state of mind owing to his having little work. The infant daughter of a labourer named Dalton, living at Leyland, while with some other children gathering roses fell into a brook. One of her co:npanions tried to pull her out, but could not succeed. The screams of the other children attracted a woman to the spot, who on taking the little girl Dalton out of the water found that she was dead.  Sir George Burnett, as Feudal Superior of the lands of Crathes, has sought in an action in the Scottish Supreme Court to compel all passenger trains on the Deesicie Railway to atop at Crathes station. This claim affected the Queen's mest-engers' trains and a special train on Sundays while the Court is at Balmoral. The railway company pleaded that thes trains were beyond the obligations undertalcen ji their charter, and Lord Kinnear, adopting this view, found for the defendant with expenses.