12 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 3

he whole force of these violent and improper protests was

-due to the publication of the evidence on one side before the evidence on the other side could be given. To our minds, the inipiry should have been held with closed doors, and sections -of the report only published when the evidence on both sides was fairly balanced. We do not wonder that, considering the state of Irish feeling, the landlords object to the publication -of this sort of ex parts, and often hearsay, evidence against -them, before they have had any opportunity of replying. But it is absurd to claim, as an absolute right, that the inquiry of -every Commission should be held under all the formalities and with All the necessary restrictions of a Court of Justice.