How England Rewards Patriots

The Irish World says: "The openlig of the year founïi several of the eading men of Ireland in jail, amonnst hem the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M. P.; William O'Brien, M. P ; Father Ryan, and numemus others. These men were put in jail for speeches on public plalfurms or writngs in the nnwspapers. Mr. Sullivan ïad printed in his paper reports of suppressed branches' of the league, and Mr. O'Brien had used strong words about the famous or infamoufl Mitchelsown murders by the pólice. The savagiries perpetrated upon O'Brieu in Tulamorf jail, the stealing of his cloihes rom his cell while he was aleep, the solitary confinements, the bread-andwater punishments, belong to the events of 1887, and need not be repeated here. similar brutalilies, if not worse, were uflicied upon the heroic John Mandeville. Mandeville, like O'Brien, had refused to put on the convict uniform. On the night of Nov. 22, 1887, at a time when the unfortunate maD was sufferng from a severe attack of diarrhoea, ie was dragged from his bed and from lis t-leep by six jailors, and his clothes, which he wore night and day to prevent their being stolen, were roughly -om off his body. From eight o'clock hat night until iive o'clock next evenng he was left in his cell without any clothing whatever. This in almost mid-winter, and in a dungeon with tone floor. A few months after his reease John Mandeville died (July 9, .888). That his death was the result of lis treatment in pni-on, was proved by uncontradicted evidence at the coroïer's inquest, and the verdict was to that eflect.A notible and signiücant incident in connection with the inquest was the suicide ot Dr. Ridley, the medcal oflicer of Tullamore jail during Wandeville's imprisonment. Dr. Ridey had, of course, been summoned to give evidence at the inquest. On the norning of the day on which he was o appear in the witness chair he was "ound dead in his bed with his throat cut. The man destroved his own life rather than face the terrible ordeal of exaniination as to the methods he was compelled to, forinally at least, assent to in the killing of John Mandeville."