On Saturday, Mr. Balfour dealt with the attack on the
Tipperary proceedings of the Government. He denied posi- tively that Mr. Shannon, who is Bitting on the Bench at Tipperary, is engaged in the executive duties of controlling the police, and he pointed out that even if it were so, it is a very strange charge for Mr. Morley to bring, when he un- doubtedly sanctioned the action of Belfast Magistrates who had been engaged in similar executive duties, in sitting on the Bench to try those charged with the Belfast rioting in 1886 Mr. Balfour attacked Mr. Morley for quoting Colonel Caddell's letter inaccurately as to the street at Tipperary being blocked, —Colonel Caddell having said that it was completely blooked, while Mr. Morley quoted him as saying that it was " nearly " blocked,—but to this Mr. Morley replied sufficiently a day or two later by saying that the only versions of Colonel Caddell's letter to which he had access at the time he spoke, gave the word as " nearly " and not as " entirely," which was the word used in the letter published (a day later) by the Times. Mr. Balfour quoted Mr. Butcher's evidence against
Mr. Morley's and Mr. John O'Connor's evidence (evidence which, he said, did not at' all agree), and he pointed out that Colonel Caddell, who had to deal with a population that had quite recently used dynamite explosives, was well warranted in not allowing a disorderly crowd composed of such elements to rush into the Tipperary Court-House.
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