Mr. Balfour demonstrated how impossible it would have been to
nominate Magistrates for the Tipperary inquiry with whom the Parnellite Party had not quarrelled, and quarrelled repeatedly and violently, and he brought out the strong support which the superior Court bad given to the Tipperary Magis- trates by justifying their proceedings. After a speech from Sir W. Harcourt urging that the grievancesooroplained of were not to be measured by the number of heads broken, but by the amount of law broken,'—which no one denies,—and one from Mr. Justin McCarthy of modest pretensions, Mr. Cunninghame Graham made a clever little speech complimenting Mr. John Morley and the Opposition on being much more concerned for the rights of Irish crowds than for the rights of English crowds. He himself had had his head broken with no interference, he said, in his favour from them. Ultimately Mr. Morley's motion was rejected by a majority of 75 (320 against 245) ; but Mr. T. W. Russell's amendment was obstructed, and the debate on it adjourned,—probably sine die.
