Hulme certainly was more than delighted. It was electrified by
Mr. O'Brien's happy thought of breaking away from the police at Carrick-on-Suir on Thursday, in order to reappear at Hulme on Tuesday. It cheered wildly for many minutes, and Mr. Jacob Bright had to pour forth the "emotion" with which he had witnessed this remarkable scene. Indeed, from being a principal actor, Mr. Jacob Bright fell to a mere political auxiliary ; but he was far too disinterested to object to that. He expressed his "emotion," and Mr. O'Brien made his boast how he gave the slip to the constabulary ; how thousands of Irishmen knew his secret, and held it sacred; how he came to Manchester an outlaw, "almost with a price upon his head ;" and how he was about to be handed over of his own free-will to Mr. Balfour's tormentors. The comedy was very curious. We wonder whether any of the hard-headed, non-Celtic Man- chester artisans partook of Mr. Jacob Bright's emotion ? We should think not. Mr. O'Brien, however, knows his fellow-countrymen well, and has studied to-some purpose how to go to prison in what seems, to them at least, a blaze of ,glory.
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