The New York herald., 1879-12-01

ber q At exactly the same hour the superintendent
of the detective force Mr. Maiin. Mr.. Davitt
at his residence similar charge. Both prisoners
were allow ed to dress and take breskf and were
then conveyed cabs to the depot for the Midland
Railway. Constables accompanied them in the cabs.
AT tile depot Colonel Bruce, the Deputy Inspector
General OF Constabulary. and Colonel Connolly
the Assistant Commissioner of the Dublin police
were already the platform waiting for the prison
ers. There crowd of policemen, some in uni
FORM many in plain clothes. Had 1t been the chief
OF the Russian nihilists who was expected more
elaborate preparations to do him honor could
hardly have been made. But il is easy to make II
estate prisoner in Ireland. The misfortune is that
any number OF captives, is singularly unac-
commodating in the matter OF classification.
A special hrst class compartment in the mail
train for Sligo had been retained for
the reception of the prisoners The seditious
speeches had been spoken in Sligo county. and the
prisoners must therefore be conveyed within that
jurisdiction to account before jury of Sligo men
for their evil deeds Mr. Killen arrived first and
was lodged in the compartment. Davitt arrived a
couple or minutes later and was placed along with
him. But SO dexterously was the thing managed
that very few even of the railway officials knew
what was gong on Indeed, one of the railway in
spectors VINO knew Davit., seeing him in the
riage. shook hands with him and said he feared he
suspected that the mild looking civilian sitting
by Mr.. Davitt really a police officer who
had him in custody. AT the last moment con
stabulary inspector and some consabies took their
places il the carriage. The train steamed away at
nine o'clock and arrived at Sligo at fifteen minutes
to three r. NJ. where. after formal 'examiuaton,"
meantime lodged in Sligo Jail.
DALY's ARREST
About the same hour az which the arrests
being made IN Dublin sub-nspector and large
force OF police surrounded the residence of Mr..
James DAILY, of Castlebar. the proprietor of the
popular newspaper, the Connaught Telegraph.
He was arrested under a similar warrant,
was likewise allowed to dress and breakfast. and
then conveyed, surrounded by large force of po-
lce to the railway depot. Hence he conveyed
by circuitous route also to Sligo As he passed
through the streets he was accom- panied by large
crowd who cheered him enthusiastically. At Sligo
the preparations to receive the prisoners ludi
crously pompous. Had Don Quixote presided or
some one desirous OF covering the whole British adj
minlstration Of the country with ridicule,
he could not have planned things better.
Three policemen could have escorted the prs-
oners; but instead. there was . larga body
of constabuary drawn up the railway
and hxed bayonets. Constabes similarly equipped
lined the streets through which they passed.
Mounted constables, with drawn swords. rode along
side the carriage which bore the dangerous mon to
jail, while large extra force had been collected
from all the surrounding districts and brought into
the town. OF course these preparations informed
the townspeople betimes that something unusual
about to happen. And so goody crowd
in waiting at the depot aud accompanied the escort,
and nothing daunted by the guns and bayonets,
they cbeered the prisoners heartily, encouraging
them to suffer for the cause Of Ireland.
THE GovERNMENTs MISTAKE.
Until the "pub!ic examination" Of the prisoners
takes place on Monday it will not be possible to
derstand the legal bearings of the case. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Monroe, Queens Counsel. one of the
chief legal officials Of the government. will go down
to Sligo to conduct the preliminary investigation.
How Butts eoquence will now be missed, as well
his powerful legal ability! How he would rejoice in
such opportunity Of exposing to the world
the justice OF the Irish cause. the cold
hearted cruelty and injnstice of its opponentsi !
The government will soon find that they have made
grievous mistake by making this arrest. The con-
dton of the people in the greater part Connaugh
is we'll nigh desperate. They will insist making
their condition known to the public. Speakers can
not pick and choose their words at such a desperate
crisis, and II the government choose to indict for
sedition every who speaks strongly ON the suf-
ferings of the poor they will only find their
hands full of treason and insurrectionary plots.