The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1885-04-18 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

EPISODE IN THE DYNAMITE WAR. —Pi/bushed by News. Brown d• Co., sqlisbury.—This is a brochure of 31 pages by an anonymous author. Whether the narrative is purely imaginative or founded on fact it is sufficiently sensational. It purports to be the recital of a commercial traveller in the employ of a Manchester firm. In the course of his business, he goes, accompanied by his little girl, to Dublin, where he puts up "at a small hotel, purporting to be a commercial house, in a street leading off from the right of Sackville-street." The establishment is the rendezvous of a number of dynamite conspirators, whose talk arouses his suspicions, and he adopts the somewhat unusual course of surveying their movements through a keyhole, While thus employed he is pounced upon by one of the gang, and dragged into the  apartment, where a knock on the head temporarily deprivea him of the power  consciousness he learns thatliii‘Fia-ug—h—te-; has been seized by his eaptors; who halt() determined to hold her as a hostage for his good behaviour, he being informed that unless he implicitly obeys their instructions she will be atonce murdered in cold blood. The commercial traveller being evidently a weak-headed individual—witness his delirium and the tears which he artlessly confesses to having shed in such abundance—this naturally makes him perfectly compliant and he submits himself to the direction of a "Captain Brooks." After this nothing particularly serious happens to him, except that he learns to have an overpowering dread of the omniscience and power of those of whom he is the unwilling accomplice. A number of infernal machines are packed in his baggage, which passes unchallenged on a journey to London, he being well-known to the boat and railway people, and he is forced to introduce Captain Brooks to the captain of the steam packet as his cousin. This is rewarded by Captain Brooks explaining that he has been on a debauch from which he has not recovered, and hence his unusual and distracted appearance. At London he recovers his child, dressed as a boy, being directed to seek her in the stalls of the Lyceum Theatre. Following on all this, comes the abortive attempt to blow up London Bridge. The story is told with a great deal of spirit, and is interesting from beginning to end. It must be admitted that nothing described is impossible, though much may be improbable. The following paragraph is a fair specimen of the author's style :  Turning with these words, my eyes again to the child, the blood stains shone out again with such startling effect that I forced myself upright, and maddened with rage and fear lest she might be fatally injurei, shouted " Devils!" but no more could I utter, for I was relentlessly forced back again by the fiends, whilst an upright brass candlestick was struck cross-wise over my mouth, effectually gagging me; this was tied at the back of my head and I felt cords rapidly being twisted around my body, making me as helpless as possible. During this time I remember hearing the wail of my child as she was being hurried from the room, to be murdered outright, as I thought. My anguish, my hopeless distress, I cannot attempt to describe; as I write, I feel so affected with the remembrance of the scene that it is with difficulty I can restrain my tears. I was on fire—raging mad—but unable to make the slightest movement of any use. One of the villains said to another, "You see I was right! we have chosen the right way of procuring his silence."  A