On Monday, the Rev. Father Kennedy, who was some months
ar convicted of promoting the " Plan of Campaign " on the Curras estate of Mr. Leader, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment, was also arrested, and lodged in the Cork County Gaol. Father Kennedy had appealed to the Exchequer Court, but his appeal was dismissed. He had, therefore, been daily expecting imprisonment. The Nationalists have been bitterly indignant because the arrest was conducted very quietly, and the brass bands, Members of Parliament, and the Mayor and Corporation of Cork, who had several times fruitlessly attended at the railway-station to welcome the victim, were thus baulked of their serenade. The Daily News' correspondent, indeed, talks of the action of the police in disappointing the crowd, as if it were the most atrocious outrage. In England, the arrest of Members of Par- liament and of a priest, as usual, caused no excitement. The man in the street is not expected to become indignant when a peasant is arrested, and he does not take kindly to the notion
that the better the coat, the greater the wickedness of a prose- cution.
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