"FRANK FUDGE" SPEAKS A MANLY WORD.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4435, 22 March 1883, Page 4

"FRANK FUDGE" SPEAKS A MANLY WORD.

The Hbri. C. H. Bromby, ex» AttorneyGeneral of. Tasmania, and a son of the late Anglican Bishop- of Hobart, has delivered a couple of lectures in Dnnedin on ?' The English in Ireland.'-. The lecturer'dealt with his subject in a scholarly style, and displayed a thorough knowledge of Irish history in his remarks. He , went to the root of the present discontent in Ireland, and exposed : the means which successive'governments .had adopted in order to . tantalise the people of that unhappy country. As Mr Bromby is an - Englishman, ?he cannot be acoused of . taking a partial view of Irish affairs, and his observations on the Irish question ' ought to carry more weight than should be attached to the opinions of men who are natives of the Green >.<-, Isle, and who therefore may be •■"-' pardoned for having a leaning towards their country. For my own part Ido not care a pin's point., where a man comes from. So long as he behaves like a man I respect him, but no longer. At the same time I have a thorough contempt for the individual who has no love for his native land, and therefore, I can sympathise with; those who, because they are in a minorityin this colony, have to submit to the. sneers and insults which are continually heaped on their country by journalists who know as much about Irish affairs as Biddy Moriarity knew about the " bisection of a vortex." Before news* paper, writers begin to rave and howl anent the frightful crimes which have of late yeais been perpetrated in Ireland, they should read up and get at the fountain whence the polluted stream flows. Let them read what such eminent and impartial Englishmen as Matthew Arnold and. John Morley have to say upon the subject, or if they are too lazy to peruse the writ-, ings of those able critics, they might take the^rouble to attend one of Mr Bromby's lectures before they attempt to deal with Irish affairs. Every lover of justice, be he English, .Scotch, or Irish, would be glad 1;, to hear, .that all bloodthirsty assassins, wherever they hail from, bad met.: with due punishment for ~ their crimes; but it is a cowardly proceeding to' blacken the character of a gallant nation oh account of the murderous deeds of a few miscreants.. The tone of some of the articles on affairs, which have appeared in two or three New Zealand papers during the past few weeks, may be characterised,, as simply execrable.—,.Saturday' Advertiser.