We are very glad indeed to notice that the Westminster
Gazelle has changed its captious tone in writing about the meeting which Adeline Duchess of Bedford is organizing on behalf of the political prisoners in Portugal, and now generously gives its own support to the movement and appeals for that of Liberal and Labour Members of Parlia- ment. This is a cause of humanity, and should be, and safely can be, entirely above party. Very different from the latest comments of the Westminster Gazette is the tone of a series of articles which is being published by the Daily News. The effect of these articles, which are entitled " Portugal and the Pharisees," can only be to make Portuguese statesmen think that there is, after all, no clear voice of indignation in England as to the sufferings of the unhappy Royalists and Republicans who, whether guilty or not guilty, are kept indefinitely in prison without trial. This is sorry work for the paper which rejoiced perhaps more than any other in the noble anger of Gladstone in similar circumstances.
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