In his defence of the Evicted Tenants' Commission, Mr. Morley
was not at all fortunate. He denied that the Com- mission was "packed," but he did not and could not deny that the President of the Commission gave on the very first day au
impression of bias and partiality which irritated every nerve in the Irish landlords, and rendered it almost a certainty that they would withhold their evidence, and so wreck the Com- mission. Apparently, this is just what has happened ; and though Mr. Morley expresses a faint hope that they may change their minds, we do not believe that he entertains any hope that it is not already on its deathbed. He appears to us to have shown that Lord Londonderry's comparison between the statistics of the graver crimes in Ireland during the last year of Lord Salisbury's Government, and that of the period from the resignation of Lord Salisbury to the present time, was inaccurate and not to be trusted.
