5 MAY 1888, Page 13

MR. DILLON'S ARREST.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,-I have not argued against a law of treason. Even the gentle polity of the United States needs such a law. I dealt rather with the nature of the punishment under the law.

Jefferson Davis rebelled. It was well for him that he was not an Irish rebel. Louise Michel spoke sedition and "incited to pillage." It was well for her she was not arrested in Trafalgar Square. Why are we, amongst the great free peoples, so exceptionally cruel in our treatment of political 19 Connaught Square, Hyde Park, W., April 30th.

[We arc, with the exception of the Americans, the most lenient.—En. Spectator.]