MONUMENTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 245, 11 January 1878, Page 15

MONUMENTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

We clip the following from the London Universe, as it may) be interesting to the Rev. Charles Clark when he again lectureron hi! mJybroteOHver Cromwell .-« We congratolate Mr. AldeWi Mac.Swmey tor his proposition, presented for-acceptance to the Corporation of Dublin to the effect that the two streets in Si, ci ? 4 hitherto known as • Cut-throat Lane ' and ' Murdering Lime,' should SK W?SSSSPfi? Te° history than that (so far as Ireland is in question) the Roundheads" were cut-throats and Cromwell a wholesale murderer. We shall feel obliged to a writer in the Daily News if he would inform us "whS he means by « the charities of history." '•' In 'alb probability he S not the remotest notion. Or does he think it would be « charitf ble '' to falsi^ history, and, for the sake of avoiding, a hard saying, to write down that the Calvinist Roundheads were thl most cclemen t of S>Z querors ; or that «the butaher of Drogheda' was not aToIS-b?ooded hypocritical, crop-eared villain? We fancy that history, as written