The only other speeches of note were Mr. T. W.
Russell's and Mr. Balfour's, for Mr. Gladstone, who was not well, and overcome by the heat of the House, made a speech whieh for him was singularly ineffective. Mr. Russell spoke to his own amendment, which asserted that the Tipperary prosecutions had been rendered necessary by the conspiracy against the civil rights of citizens of Tipperary. He showed what cruel persecution those Tipperary citizens who would not fall in with the conspiracy to abandon the old town by way of punishing Mr. Smith-Barry, had suffered ; and he accused Mr. Morley of standing outside the doors of cruelly boycotted shops without even crossing the threshold to inquire into the significance and character of the conspiracy. The daughter of Mr. Hume, the Presbyterian minister, had even been assaulted for visiting a boycotted member of her father's con- gregation, and Mr. Hume had been under police protection ever since. But even this 'the Nonconformist conscience" would not, it appeared, resent. Mr. Russell's speech was crammed with facts showing how thorough an anarchy existed at Tipperary, and how essential the intervention of legal authority had become.
