The Times of Tuesday published a letter from Adeline, Duchees
of Bedford, announcing that a meeting on behalf of the Portuguese political prisoners will be held in the first week of February under the thairmanthip of Lord Lytton. The Duchess of Bedford says that the meeting will be addressed by both Unionists and Liberals, and, "judging from the recent series of excellent articles in a Liberal paper, will be supported by the Liberal Press" We are at a loss to understand why the IVestminster Gasette, after reading this letter, should have taken it upon itself on Tuesday to lecture the Duchess of Bedford. The Westminster ()Lucite writes as though the Duchess of Bedford had exaggerated the con- dition of the prisons. Yet everyone must know that she has had the experience of many years in visiting prisons not only In England but abroad. She holds an appointment under the Government. It Was almost entirely owing to her brave and adventurous visit to the Portuguese prisons that Englishmen generally became aware of the system under which people are arbitrarily arrested by Carbonarics and held in prison without trial.
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