Parliament adjourned on Monday till Tuesday, November 6th. Mr. W.
H. Smith, in moving on Saturday last that at its rising on Monday the House should adjourn till.November 6th, took occasion to read a letter sent him by Mr. John Morley, enclosing one from General Sir E. Bulwer on the subject of Mr. Justice Day's bearing in the Belfast Commission. Sir E. Bulwer, who was on the Belfast Commission, says in that letter that though he was con- stantly alone with Mr. Justice Day, politics did not seem to interest him. Nevertheless, Mr. Justice Day was full of interests apart from politics. He was a strong Catholic, and appeared to hold that law and order must be main- tained under any circumstances and at any risk. "I have a distinct recollection of his frequently expressing his partiality for the Irish character and people. His personal feelings, how- ever, would never interfere with what he considered the course of justice." Sir E. Bulwer's strong testimony to Mr. Justice Day's impartiality and high bearing is much more than a set- off against Mr. Adams's diatribe, and Mr. Morley, who had received this letter early in the week, would have done better,
we think, to run the not very great risk of reading it himself to the Howie of Commons, even without Sir E. Bulweie authorisation. The hand that struck at Mr. Justice Day- should also have been the hand to yield him honour.
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