In the very newspapers in which we read of the
sacking of Balbriggan we also read of the attempt to lynch three negroes in the highly civilized City of Chicago. The negroes bad killed a. man in order to rob him, and nothing was more certain than that the negroes, having been arrested, would be properly tried and properly punished. Nevertheless, they were pursued by a large crowd into a church, and when the doors were shut the crowd besieged the building shouting for vengeance. Only the resourcefulness and courage of the police saved the negroes. The mob, thwarted in this adventure, then began a hunt against negroes generally, and beat into unconsciousness a few who were pulled out of tram-cars. The editor of the New York Nation informs us that he is constituting a Commission to sit at Washington next month and inquire into the " atroci- ties " alleged to have been ordered by the British Government in -Irekuid. We suggest that the terms of reference should be extended to include the treatment of negroes, and.to compare the . conditions under which " atrocities " in Ireland and America occur..
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