DEATH OF JOHN BRIGHT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 281, 2 April 1889, Page 2

DEATH OF JOHN BRIGHT.

AN EULOGIUM: THE FUNERAL. London, March 80. Mr Gladstone's eulogium on the late John Bright was a most impressive one. The funeral was very quietly performed. It was attended by representatives of Her Majesty and a large number of political dignitaries. Universal sorrow is expressed. Later.

Mr Justin McCarthy, in the House of Commons, in the absence of Mr Parnell, eelogised Mr Bright. It wa>, he said, impossible to forget th* splendid services he had rendered, and he claimed the right for Ireland of depositing * mourning wreath in the tomb. Her Majesty the Queen sent a wreath from Biaritz.

Mr Joieph Chamberlain was present at the funeral, the pall bearers being workmen. A memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey, at which the Marquis of Hartington, Mr Childen, and the Equerry of the Prince of Wales were included in those present. Dr Bradley, the Dean, eulogised the deceased, and regretted he had not been uried in the Abbey.

Mr Gladstone said that Mr Bright’s name would be indelibly written on the hearts of all Britishers—his private life had been unblemished, and hie political life had been guided by the loftiest standard that it wae possible for man to take, and which had caused him to be looked up to with pride and regarded with reverence. He deeply regretted the severance which had taken place between he and Mr Bright on the subject of Home Rule, but there had beeW - " nothing in this which could lead to din paragement of Mr Bright on their He had no doubt remained true to steadfastly believed to be the proper oouno, and though it had been disappointing to them they would not think the lets of him on that account. His old colleague had been removed from this busy scene just when Freetrade, the greatest achiT*m*nt of his life was in full career of triumph. ’

W. H. Smith and Morley only slightly alluded in tho House to the death of John Bright 1 Yes, because Gladstone to to deliver a formal eulogium on him 1 By Jov*, what wouldn’t I give to hear that I Ah, yon may well say that I It would be worth a journey to England i o get a front *eat in the gallery of the House ; to so* and to hear the greatest, the most polished orator in the world pouring out all his heart to give utterance for himself, for th* House, and for the British people of their yet unspoken grief for the loss of one of the nohlett of their statesmen, of one of th* trueit and one of the best of Enlishmen, who ha* adorned with his blameless lit* th* history of the century ! —Puff.