We publish elsewhere a letter which describes the action of
the Home Office in withholding exact medical information from Mrs. Bowen-Colthurst about the condition of her husband in liroadmoor Asylum as wanting in humanity. Many people for want of a satisfactory explanation attribute Captain Colthurst's long deten- tion to political motives. It is natural that in Ireland that feeling should be widespread ; but we prefer to assume that the Home Office has been guided genuinely by the belief that it was not in Captain Colthurses own interest or in the interest of others that he should be released. This decision for strictly medical reasons, as wo suppose it to be, is, however, in flat contradiction of the view of Captain Colthurst's relations and nearest friends, who think that he might now be retell/led with perfect safety to himself and to others.
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