Last night, too late for our impression, Dr. Kenealy was
to propose his motion for a Royal Commission or Select Com- mittee to inquire into the complaints which be had to bring against the conduct of the Tichborne trial at Bar. This tardy , resolve d Dr. Kenealy's was probably hastened by a debate in which he took part yesterday *week, when Mr. Whalley
drew attention to a petition signed by Thomas Biddulph and others, asking for the free pardon of Castro, alias Tichborne. Dr. Kenealy, who stated in that debate that "he had seen women weep, and had seen tears in strong men's eyes when they thought of the tragedy of that trial,' and that the states- men of the House were dancing on a volcano which might at any time "emerge in fire and ruin," evinced at first no dis- position to put his case before the House. Mr. Bright, however, renewed the appeal to him to do so, assuring him that his own sharp condemnation of his delay on the previous evening was purely hypothetical, and not absolute ; and Mr. Waddy (M.P. for Barn- staple) having delivered a very brilliant speech on the shadowy character of Dr. Kenealy's supposed wrongs, and having shown by the citation of revilings of honourable Members, taken from the Englishman, that no man had ever been treated with more forbearance than Dr. Kenealy, that gentleman appears to have thought better of his Fabian policy, and to have agreed to bring his case before the House on the first available evening,—which turned out to be yesterday. Whatever Dr. Kenealy may turn out to have effected, or failed to effect, the House has certainly gained an orator in Mr. Waddy.
