On Saturday last there died at Cork Mr. Murphy, a
well- known Fenian of the 1867 movement, who during Mr. Glad- -stone's period of coercion refused to give evidence before a Magistrate holding an investigation under the secret inquiry clauses of the Crimes Act, and was for that offence repeatedly imprisoned. His funeral on Monday was attended by the Mayor of Cork, Dr. Tanner, M.P., Mr. Lane, M.P., and Mr. J. C. Flynn, M.P. The oration made over the grave was remarkable, when we remember that it was listened to with- out protest—at least, no protest is reported—by such influential and representative members of the Parnellite Party. The orator, Mr. Doran, was very bitter in his remarks, both as regards England and the present. Nationalists, the whole tone of the speech, indeed, showing clearly that the Parnellites are only barely tolerated by the extremer men, and that the first result of Home- rule would be a faction-fight in which the Fenians would insist upon using for their own purposes the autonomy won under the name of Home-rule. It is curious to notice, also, that another victim of Mr. Gladstone's coercion died the day before Mr. Murphy,—a Mr. Hyde, whose death is reported in the Times of last Saturday. It is alleged, with as much or as little truth as in the case of Mr. Mandeville, that Mr. Hyde never recovered from the effects of his imprisonment. Mr. Gladstone, we see, has sent expressions of sympathy to Mrs. Mandeville, and has told her how deeply he was touched by her husband's sufferings. Surely he ought not to omit to send a similar message to the relatives of Mr. Hyde.
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