The first specimen of it was on the following Thursday
night, when Mr. T.W. Russell took advantage of an harangue by Mr.
Justice O'Brien--those Irish judges are all shameless political
partisans--to move the adjournment of the House. Mr. Morley was in
excellent fighting form. T.W. Russell is a man peculiarly well
calculated to draw out the belligerent spirit of any man, and the Chief
Secretary, though he holds himself well under restraint, has plenty of
fire and passion in his veins. He let out at T.W. Russell in splendid
style, and the more the Tories yelled, the more determinedly did Mr.
Morley strike his blows. Russell, he said, had spread broadcast
phylacteries, and used his most pharisaical language. At this there were
deafening shouts from the Tory benches of "Withdraw! Withdraw!" Mr.
Morley's reply was to repeat the words "pharisaical language"--at which
there was another storm. Then Mr. Morley quietly observed that if he
were out of order, the Speaker was the proper person to call him to
account; and as the Speaker made no sign, the Tories were reduced to
silence. In a few sentences, Mr. Morley made mince-meat of the whole
attack: showing that crime, instead of increasing, had actually
diminished in Clare since he had come into office, and that Mr.
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