Colonel Saunderson, M.P., sends to the Times the following letter,
which, he says, has been addressed by a county inspector in the West of Ireland to a sub-sheriff r-
" 29-9-92.
" Sta,—In all cases where you require police protection in
future, whether for carrying out of evictions, seizures, or other purposes, I beg that your requisition for same may be furnished me on the usual requisition form, and I have also to ask that fourteen days' notice be given me in every case where you require police protection. I should mention that I shall be unable at any time to afford you protection except in the daylight.
" Your obedient servant,
" COUNTY INSPECTOR."
This letter, in Colonel Saunderson's judgment, bands over the county to the " moonlighters," and certainly that is the mean- ing of the words italicised, which, if authorised by the Chief Secretary, and deliberately intended, would justify his dis- missal by a vote of the two Houses on the meeting of Par- liament. We believe Mr. Morley, however, to be utterly incapable of such a decree, and presume it to be a blundering local version of an order directing that any eviction that requires support from the police shall be preceded by fourteen days' notice, and take place by daylight. Mr. Morley has, of course, no legal power to refuse to protect anybody by night.
