RELEASING PRISONERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9157, 25 March 1893, Page 5

RELEASING PRISONERS.

MR. JOHN" MORLEY AND THE

DYNAMITERS.

ANOTHER CONVICT SET FREE. Press A association. — Electric Telegraph.—

London, March 23. Mr. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has released Foley, the dynamiter.

In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. D. J?. Barton, member for MidArmagh, moved the adjournment of the House as a protest against the action of Mr. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in releasing Foley, the dynamiter, who was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in 1891.

During the debate, the Opposition members who spoke urged that such an act on the part of the Government was a prostitution of the clemency of the Crown.

Mr. Morley, in replying, justified the prisoner's release on the ground of humanity, and also because affairs in Ireland were now in a peaceful condition.

The motion for adjournment was negatived by a majority of 40 votes. After the division was taken, Mr. Gladstone invited the Opposition to bring down a vote of censure on the Government for their action, and Mr. Balfour at once gave notice of such a motion. He condemned the Government for condoning serious offences, and said that their failure to enforce the law was calculated to provoke terrorism, and_ bring the administration of justice into contempt.