On the subject of Mr. Justice Harrison's unfortunate phrase concerning
Lynch-law, Mr. Gladstone was very eloquent. No one denies that the phrase was a dangerous, and would have been a most mischievous one, if there were any popular faction in G-alway at all inclined to take the law into their own hands against the National League, instead of as instruments of that League ; but as such a faction does not exist, the mis- chief ended with the blow the unfortunate words gave to Mr. Justice Harrison's personal authority as a Judge. Unless it were a case for an address to the Crown to remove him from the Bench, we do not see how the House of Commons could possibly intervene further, and not even Mr. Dillon himself proposes such an address to the Crown. Why the Government should be assailed for not finding a night for one more utterly barren debate, we cannot imagine, any more than we can imagine why Mr. Dillon should be called " courageous " for asking for such a night. You might as well call a cock courageous for crowing in his own farmyard.
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