We note with especial satisfaction the release of Mr. A.
F. G. Bell, the correspondent of the Morning Post at Lisbon, who was arrested by the Portuguese police last week on the charge of defaming the Portuguese Government and participating in the recent plot against the Costa Administration. Mr. Bell, whose correspondence was seized by the police, frankly admitted that he was the author of various articles in the English press, and that through his efforts a subscription list on behalf of the political prisoners was opened, with the result that he was enabled to hand £62 to a Royalist lady who interests herself in the prisoners. The failure of this attempt to
silence Mr. Bell will be hailed not only by all who know him to be a chivalrous gentleman as well as a most accomplished scholar, but by all who wish well to Portugal, and recognize that she can never suffer from honest criticism.
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