The Evening Telegram

O'BRIEN THE MARTYR.

All Ireland is Aroused by his Cruel Treatment-People Surround the Jail.

DUBLIN, Nov. 8.-Mr. Thomas Sexton, M. P., at a meeting of the city corporation, of which he is a member, proposed that the council adjourn without the transaction of the ordinary business as a mark of respect for William O'Brien. He was horrified, he said, by the reports of the barbarous treatment to which Mr. O'Brien had been subjected in the Tullamore jail. The government had tried to break O'Brien's gallant spirit, and, failing in its endeavor, was determined to take his life.

In accordance with Sexton's motion, the council adjourned.

Eight thousand persons assembled in front of the Tullamore jail last evening, accompanied by bands of music playing "God Save Ireland."

Mr. O'Brien appeared at one of the windows and waved his handkerchief enthusiastically.

The Freeman's Journal says that Messrs. O'Brien and Mandeville have been put on bread and water as a punishment for refusing to wear the prison garb.

LONDON, Nov. 8.-Mr. Byrne, a magistrate of Mallow, Ireland, who was recently removed from office by order of Baron Ashbourne, the lord chancellor of Ireland, appealed to Mr. Gladstone, who has replied as follows: "I am unable to perceive any justification for your removal. The present arbitrary and illegal proceedings of the government, through their officers, require a jealous examination. Their conduct is affecting the liberties of the people of Ireland."

The governor of Tullamore jail yesterday refused the demand of Mr. Moorhead, a Catholic magistrate, to see Mr. O'Brien, but on learning that a magistrate had a legal right to hold intercourse with a prisoner, sent for Mr. Moorhead and informed him that the desired interview would be granted, stipulating, however, that he himself should be present.

Mr. Moorhead says that the atmosphere in O'Brien's cell, together with a bread and water diet, is likely to have a fatal effect on a consumptive person. The breaking down of O'Brien's constitution, he thinks, is only a question of time. Mr. Moorhead asked him whether he had any complaint to make regarding his treatment, and he replied that his system had not been excited by the undue severity of the officials.

Mr. Mandeville, Mr. Moorhead says, appeared cheerful and determined.