MR BROMBY’S LECTURE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3157, 16 May 1883, Page 3

MR BROMBY’S LECTURE.

: [xo THE EDITOR.] • Sir,---I have seen with satisfaction from your leading article of last evening, that you are in accord with mo on the matter of which it treats, namely, Mr Bromby’s lecture. ,It .had been announced that that gentleman would take for his subject “The .English in Ireland.” A very comprehensive subject, surely! In fact, it seemed a puzzle to your htimble servant, hovir -he was to present it to his hearers. But, surpassing itrapge 1 from a portion, of the history of the English in Ireland he calls and eloquently narrates" to an audience mainly composed of the sons and daughters of the immediate sufferers, all that was most atrocious and galling in the treatment which Hibernians received at ’ the hands, of her mistress, -England. Now, it may, with reason, bo asked, mi bono? Why, I believe it to be undeniable that it has an evil tendency .The object of the lecture was indubitably good, the choice of subject was most decidedly unhappy. You speak, Sir, of Mr Redmond. Now, while I eUtcrtain a fear, to use moderate terms, that Mr Brombyls lecture will be calculated to produce rather a pernicious effect, I hesitate not in the least; to. assert that the mission of Mr Redmond, like thafrof the honorable gentleman of Tasmania, is grand, sublimely philanthropic, while its pursuance or method of woiking ia.roore proper or expedient than his. If Mr Redmond recounts and dilates upon, grievances or_ wrongs, they are those inflicted by Irish landlords. If in his addresses, he deals in denunciations, they are the Irish landlords who are Ho applies himself to something practical—to the extinction of universally admitted evils, to the relief oIE the starving poor, and the redress of bid laws. Therefore, sir, should we cry “all hail” at the advent of Mr Redmond; therefore should we give him a warm cead miUefalthe, —I am &c., A Reader.