The vote of censure moved by Mr. Justin McCarthy at
about three o'clock on Tuesday morning, and seconded by Mr. O'Donnell at the same hour in the afternoon, was not sup- ported by a single fact. Indeed, the latter speaker even half admitted the incitements to break the law uttered by Mr. Dillon and Father Sheehy, and justified them, devoting the vehement part of his speech to a bitter and rather clever attack on Mr. Forster for the Inspector of Constabulary's recent circular urging the Irish Police to greater vigilance iu detecting the authors of outrages. Mr. Forster's reply was very calm and masterly. He showed that Mr. Dillon was arrested for very atrocious and dangerous language, calculated to excite to violence and fol- lowed by popular violence ; that Father Sheehy had been a most successful firebrand in Kilmallock, and that to have left him at large would have been to announce that all Catholic priests, however violent their conduct, and however fatal its results, were to be at liberty to pursue that conduct ; and further, that a priest of less influence than Father Sheehy, who could not have been arrested without first arresting Father Sheehy, or else making Governm ent ridiculous, had actually invited the populace to break open a jail. And Mr. Forster frankly told Mr. Healy, who cheered that language, that if he agreed with it, and lot his agreement be publicly known, he, too, would be finding his way into jail, before long. Mr. Forster concluded a very able and manly speech by a spirited defence of the circular to the.Constabulary, and by pressing for a division on the motion of censure, which, of course, the Irish Members would not allow. The tone of the House, however, was enthusiastically with Mr. Forster.
