Mr. John Morley moved on Monday that the action of
the Irish Executive in connection with the Tipperary prosecutionS and other proceedings is "calculated to bring the administra- tion of the law into contempt, and violates the civil and con- stitutional rights of Irish citizens," in a speech which, while full of strong language, gave little impression of either con- fidence that his case was a telling one, or of thorough- going conviction. He declared that till September last he had always been careful not to make attacks on the Irish Con- stabulary, but that after what he had seen himself at Tipperary he could no longer conceal his impression of the "unbridled rage, incompetency, brutality, and lawlessness, of the subordinate agents of the right hon. gentleman." He did not support this very strong language by any strong facts. Here was as strong a fact as any. The police charged the crowd, and "I myself was hustled by a constable in a state of uncontrollable fury." The lawful right of the citizens to enter the Court-House was resisted by the constabulary "with a brutal, ferocious, unnecessary, and absolutely unprovoked violence, of which I should expect any disciplined force in the world would be thoroughly ashamed." Of the accuracy of all this fierce language, no proof was given ; and on behalf of Mr. Harrison, M.P., and his broken head,—Mr. Harrison having since become an adherent of Mr. Parnell's,—not a word was said.
