The Cork jury in the Tipperary case acquitted some of
the accused and disagreed about others. Hence Mr. John Morley maintains that, in fact, they found the official charges false. They found no such thing. What they did find was, that there was not sufficient evidence to 'convict on the official charges,— an exceedingly different matter. If the jury had had to decide whether the Government were warranted in bringing these charges, and had decided against them, Mr. Morley would be justified in what he says. But the jury had to decide no such matter. Mr. Morley might much more plausibly assert that when. Mr. Lyddon was acquitted the other day of the murder
of his brother, the Coroner's jury which found a prina-facie verdict against him was condemned as guilty of an un- warrantable libel. But it is obvious that even such an assertion as that would have been wholly unjustifiable.
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