Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-08-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AALFOTT.'S PARBARITTISS TO POLITICAL ralsowass. The Scotch debate, which had been carried eI in a very thin House until half-past seven: O'clock, was followed by a discursive brit towards 4t3 close an animated Irish discussion. The trievances of Roman Catholic jurors in Queen's County were first ventilated by Mr Macdonald, and in reply to the hon. gentleman's strictures the Solicitor • General for Ireland endeavoured to demonstrate that there could be no such thing 'lOl7 packing, for the Crown lawyers were ruled by regulations drawn up more than hvcrity years ago, which had no reference In. the religions opinions which a juror tight profess. The Irish members were tot convinced by the Solicitor- General's reP!v, and frankly told him so. Mr Sexton afteracquainted the House with some of the !tiguities heaped on Father McFadden while %Derry Gaol, called attention to the circumhances under which Mr Latchford had been released from prison on the order of the Court of Exchequer, and finally charged Mr Balfour with helng responsible for the death of Mr John ka•adeville and for Dr. Ridley's suicide, and Challenged him to put the House in possession a the instructions which Dr. Ridley received from It* Prisons Board while Mr John Mandeville Ras under his care at Tnllamore. Mr Balfour tisde extremely light of the stories as to Father .-‘•ei:adden's treatment. They had their oritun in the Irish Press, and were not Worthy of credit. Tie took up a pre. etiely similar attitude in regard to the ttal-mlettte contained in Mr Lane's letter to the L',Py News as to the Prison Board's instructions O? the late Dr. Ridley. The decision of the Voiirt cf Exchequer in Mr Latchford's case, n:ch has kiven the Opposition as much satisfscIv' tht decision in the Killesirn heYee/t4n  cases, it had boep thought would occasion Mr Balfour some dismay, especially- in view of his thovsughgoing defence of Mr Cecil Roche in that ease in the discussion on the vote on account on Friday night. But the congratulations of the Kent Conservatives and the Rank Holiday junkettings at Tbridge Wells had put the Chief Secretary in high spirits, and he was equal to meeting with apparent light-heartedness and unconcern another adverse decision from the Court of Exchequer, and another very practical condemnation of Mr Cecil Roche and his irregular and extraordinary judicial proceedings. Mr John Morley thought Mr Balfour's reflections on the Latchford case could not be very pleasant, and declared that when the right hon. gentleman admitted that one of his agents in the administration of the Coercion Act had made a aingle error of judgment, he would then believe that Mr Palfour's agenta were his servants and not his masters. So far from regarding the Chief Secretary as a tyrant and a despot, it struck Mr Morley that the Chief Secretary was a shave of his own agents. Mr Hooper, who was in Tullamore Prison with Mr Lane, corroborated Mr Lane's statements regarding Dr. Ridley, and stated that Dr. Ridley ()florid to surreptitiously furnish him with brandy, but that he declined to receive it, believing that if he did so, and it were discovered, the discovery would lead to the dismissal of some warder who was altogether innocent. A general dissuasion on the treatment of Irish prisoners occupied the House until the vote on account was agreed to, shortly after midnight.