In was certainly a dull week' at home in which the Evicted Tenants Commission was the principal topic, and Mr, Justice Mathew must have prayed for sume. sensition that would withdraw the publ from his unfortunate proceedings in Dublin, hat with -resiguations of the Guiminissioners,. withdrawals of Counsel, and the refusal of the landlords to assist the enquiry by giving umiasion seers to be expiry iti, but it is fox thuately anew thing, and aw unfortunate dication of the bitterness of the atvife between landlords and tenants in Ireland, that the Opposition papers do not hesitate to'agcuse an Evilish judge, who his the misfortune to be an Irish Romair Catholic Home Rater, of gross-partiality, Accord ing to the Times the tenants also were holding back from the Commission, It cays The unfortunate dovtrinaive entangled in the intriewcies of practice," who now, as Irish Secretary, illustrates the' admirable des tion hie penned as mau of letters, can scarcely served by the most callous adveraaty t some faint movement of c i and original ts Commission, which he proudly de:
ed as the Work of a man intent upon 36," apparently cannot tind avy business to'transnet, Ib lids heard a certain amount of the leesest and least valuable kind of say evidence, which was ut the commun Mr. Morley ov anybody else in, sny quantity jot any Comiission what But the evicted teuants, in whose interests it might by the unwary to have been pear with one" accor to stay With that quick wit ich we are 40 often called upon to admire i character, they have probably pere the Commission is only a little arrangement between Mr, Morley and his Parliamentary dictators. Or, perhaps, they have shrewdly reckoned up the chances of Mr. Morley's retention of office long enough to confer upon them any substantial favours, and have con-eluded that upon the whole it ly not worth while to run up any more es between themselves and the more abie In any' case they show both by act speech that for some reason or other "the pedant cursed with the ambition to be' a leader of men"—again we have to thank M Morley for the phrase—is very fat' from con manding their confidence. cee 'Dhe resignation of Me, Murphyy any of the Commissioners, is said ty be due tu the refusal of Mr. Justice Mathew to, allo cooss-examina he paper points out e thing was done Justice Daysin' the Belfast Nuts sisson. As to.this resignation the Duity News snys Mathes and' Mr, Fahnund Murphy, which The correspondence between Mr. Justice was read yesterday by the President of the Commission, shows: that Mr. Murphy. rethe President's opening remarks, itt on the ued, not only beau-c he disapproved: of arrow and technical. ground that otuss: examination of the witnesses, wag: not maltted.; This ground tactic abandoned by Mr. Murphy's political friends in this country, who cannot maintain it
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