Mr. Morley, in his Swindon speech, made a point against
the police for their treatment of Mr. Harrison, by calling him a "stripling." We have no doubt at all that all Mr. Harrison says of his own proceedings at Tipperary is as honest and accurate as a man who mingles in such stormy scenes can expect to make his subsequent recollections of his acts ; and we do not doubt that the police supposed him to have justified their attack on him more than he really had justi- fied it. But Mr. Morley's attempt to aggravate the heinous- ness of the attack by calling him a stripling, is evidently absurd, and a mere expression of party rancour,—at least, if the letter in yesterday's Times describing Mr. Harrison as considerably over six feet, and broad and strong in proportion, is to be trusted. A vehemently gesticulating man of such proportions might very well be regarded by the police with a kind of anxiety which would magnify gestures into blows.
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