Mr. T. W. Russell illustrated from his personal experience, the
intimidation which pursues Irish tenants who are eager to pay their rent and most desirous to do so, wherever the
." Plan of Campaign" has been instituted. One tenant who had paid his rent entreated to have policemen sent to turn him out, and even that he should be allowed to defend himself against them. Mr. Russell got into a heated collision with Mr. Dillon for saying that the murderers of the Huddys were defended by the funds of the League, Mr. Dillon assuming that he himself was personally accused of having paid the counsel for these murderers, which was not Mr. T. W. Russell's meaning at all ; but the whole atmosphere was so hot, that offence is now as easily imagined in the House of Commons as in the French Assembly. Mr. Healy, who replied -to Mr. T. W. Russell, went very minutely into the plea of the Solicitor-General for Ireland that Mr. W. H. Smith's promise not to prosecute Irish Members during the autumn debate on Supply had delayed the prosecution of Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Harrington, and others, and appeared, we think, to prove that it could not at all explain the long delays which occurred before the Autumn Session began. These are the sort of points on which the Parnellites have scored petty successes in debate.
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