The sentence of three months' imprisonment on Mr. O'Brien for
inciting resistance to the law, has been confirmed on appeal by the Recorder of Cork. When the judgment was delivered on Monday, the warrant for Mr. O'Brien's removal had not been made out, and he attempted to leave the Court, with the per- mission of the Recorder. Captain Stokes, Divisional Magistrate, however, detained him, and he was conveyed to prison. Great excitement has been caused by Captain Stokes's firmness ; but it is said that the law is with him, Mr. O'Brien being, from the moment sentence was confirmed, a prisoner legally in custody of the police. True to their policy of representing every sen- tence as a martyrdom, the Nationalists had resolved that the prisoner should not obey prison rules or wear the prison dress, and the Mayor had agreed to attend the prison every day as a Visiting Justice, "in order to see that no unnecessary force was employed." As this was intended to excite the populace, Mr. O'Brien was quietly removed, under a strong escort, to Tullamore, where the prison is far from any city, and where the law will be steadily carried out. The Nationalist journals are perfectly incoherent with rage, and declare that they will hold all Irish landlords responsible, and "slice off their rents in order to avenge O'Brien." The threat, made in a passion so deep as to be nearly inarticulate, reveals exactly the true object of the veiled rebellion. It is to be free of rent not to be free of Parliament, that the Irish people desire.
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