Mr. Morley has very properly and very courageously 'refused to
interfere in the case of Twiss, the Glenmara murderer, and he was accordingly hanged in Cork gaol on Saturday last. -Unless all men who protest their innocence -to the end are to be deemed innocent, there need be no fear that a miscarriage of justice took place. When Twin was tried, Chief Baron Panes, one of the ablest and most careful of Irish Judges, fully concurred in the verdict. The Nationalists, however, seem inclined to set up Twiss as the victim of a judicial murder organised by the English oppressor. The jury which sat on the prisoner's body, and on which the Mayor of Cork acted as foreman, added a rider to the verdict on the cause of death, expressing belief in "Twiss's innocence. The Twiss Reprieve Committee also sent the following telegram to Mr. John Morley :—" Twiss Reprieve Committee in meeting assembled, representing all classes and :creeds, strongly protest against judicial murder of an inno- cent man. Hold you primarily responsible for this gross mis- carriage of justice." We wonder whether Mr. Morley con- siders Irish public opinion quite so safe and reasonable a _force as he evidently used to consider it in Mr. Balfour's time.
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