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Flag of Ireland - Saturday, April 13, 1895
Flag of Ireland - Saturday, April 13, 1895
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Evening Herald - Monday, April 8, 1895
Evening Herald - Monday, April 8, 1895
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Mr. Carson, Q C, has been very much lionised over his remorseless cross-examination of Mr. Oscar Wilde. He has been successful,
undoubtedly, in turning that notorious person from the position of a plaintiff in a court of justice to that of a prisoner in the dock, and denouements of
that kind are most entertaining to the John Bull fraternity. We have little interest in Mr. Carson’s success, and we cannot admire very much the methods
by which he has grown into prominence as a lawyer. He was one of the most offensive and intolerant of the gang of unscrupulous law-hacks who did the
odious work of Mr. Balfour in the days of his coercion, and he is one of the bitterest enemies to legislation in favour of Ireland of any that sit on the
benches in the House of Commons. But, perhaps, this is all with an eye to business, and it may be in reality he is a friend of Ireland in disguise. The
opinion gains confirmation from the fact that when he returned to the House of Commons, after turning the tables on the great genius Oscar, among the
first to congratulate him on his triumph were Mr. Tim Healy and Mr. Swift M’Neill, and surely they would not pour felicitations upon him if he were not
Irish of the Irish. Strange that the Evening Telegraph, in giving the account of the reception accorded to Mr. Carson that appeared in other papers, left
out all mention of Mr. M’Neill and Mr. Healy.
Mr Carson, says a Parliamentary reporter, far from joining in the general chorus of approval which has greeted his masterly display of
cross-examination, says that he never had a much easier case; and with the generous instinct of a successful man rising rapidly to the top of the ladder,
he declares that Sir Edward Clarke’s statement in the opening part of the case was, under the circumstances, and in face of the tremendous difficulties
under which he laboured, a real masterpiece. "I have never heard anything to equal it in all my life," was the way in which he worded his tribute to his
learned friend. One member remarked that "Carson is the coming Russell of his day so far as cross-examination is concerned."
Mr Carson, says a Parliamentary reporter, far from joining in the general chorus of approval which has greeted his masterly display of
cross-examination, says that he never had a much easier case; and with the generous instinct of a successful man rising rapidly to the top of the ladder,
he declares that Sir Edward Clarke’s statement in the opening part of the case was, under the circumstances, and in face of the tremendous difficulties
under which he laboured, a real masterpiece. "I have never heard anything to equal it in all my life," was the way in which he worded his tribute to his
learned friend.
Irishmen were pretty much en evidence in this remarkable case. Mr. Wilde and Mr. Carson are Dublin men. Mr. Gill, who appeared for the
Crown on the criminal charge, is also an Irishman. So is Mr. Justice Henn Collins. He is a graduate of both Dublin and Cambridge. Mr. Wilde’s father, the
late Sir William Wilde, was the leading oculist of Dublin, and Mr. Justice Henn Collins father, the late Mr. Collins, Q. C., was one of the leaders of the
Irish Bar. Mr. Edward Carson and Mr. Oscar Wilde were undergraduates together in Trinity College, upwards of twenty years ago, and were, indeed, members
of the same class. Oscar Wilde was a scholar of Trinity, and one of the best classics of his year. Mr. Carson’s academic career was, comparatively
speaking, undistinguished. It is worth mentioning perhaps, also, that in those early days there was a marked antipathy between the two men.
The only thing of any importance that can be said of the Marquis of Queensberry, who was defendant in this remarkable trial, is, that he
is a genuine Home Ruler, but that covers a multitude of sins.