The wilder Irishmen of New York have been making threats
of vengeance for the execution of O'Donnell, and the Home Office believes them to be serious. At least, the most elabo- rate precautions have been taken under orders from London to protect Mr. Gladstone. Hawarden Castle is full of armed police, and all arrivals are carefully scrutinised. The better Nationalist papers warmly denounce any threat against Mr. Gladstone, but the opinions of the better Irish, even when strongly hostile to England, seem to have no influence whatever on the Irish Enrages in any of the three countries. It should not be forgotten, however, that 0 'Donnell could not read, learning even his alphabet in prison, and that most of the money subscribed to the secret societies comes from exceedingly ignorant persons, who are under a permanent belief that accused Irishmen are always condemned before trial. There seems no limit to popular credulity. Not a fortnight ago, twenty grown men of a hill tribe in India—not savages, but ordinary Mussnlmans—flung away their lives by rushing on British guns to prevent a survey- ing party from carrying away the Tukht-i-Suleiman, or "Throne of Solomon," a conical mountain more than 7,000 feet high.
