The Herald of Wales. — 1888-05-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ADVICE FROM ROME.  The Tune. oorreepondent at Borne, telegraphing on Tuesday, says :—I would not advise the Catholic followers of the League to venture far on the hypothesis that the ttoly Office will be found unwilling or unable to enforce its deorees. The careful wording of the decree will be found to cover every point involved. The Home Rulers will find His Holiness' facts as carefully considered as his theology, and the indictment to be so well drawn that there is no escape from it. The Irish Catholics must choose between boycotting and the Plan:of Campaign on one side and obedience to the Pope on the other. Tertion quid non ut. I say this ander ' the impression of a conversation with two ecolesbuitics whose positions are such that no one can question their competence.  United Ireland says Iriah National Catholics realise that the Papal rescript has as much real application to the situation as the promulgation of Hid ten commandments. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy met on Thursday at Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, near Dublin.  The secretary of the Swansea Hospital begs leave with best thanks to acknowledge the receipt of £l7 12s Bd, kindly contributed by workmen in the employ of the Cwmfelin Tinplate Company. The town of Blackburn was es fete on Wed• nesday on the first occasion of Royalty honouring the borough with its appearance, and the weather was beautiful beyond measure. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, arrived at Cherry Tree Station at seven minutes to ten o'clock, 'IA proceeded in a carriage to Witton Park. About 11.30 they commenced their journey into the town, which was beautifully decorated, and never, during the whole history of the borough, haa it presented such a gay appearatiCe.  At the Memorial Hall, Faringdon•atrest, London, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Gladstone was presented with an address signed by 3,730 Nonconformist ministers. The address, after expressing sympathy with the Irish policy of Mr Gladstone, declared that the policy of the present Government displayed a spirit unworthy of the rulers of a free people, innoneistent with the best tawdithns of our public life, and calculated to exasperate the Irish Ipedpie. Among those present were the Rev. Guinness Rogers, Dr Parker, Dr. Clifford and other prominentNonoonformist diviner.Theßev Guinness Rogers presented the address, after t which Mr Gladstone replied at considerable length. An extraordinary suicide is reported from Bristol. A man named Arthur Win. Masters has committed suicide in an extraordinary manner at Horfield Goal. Masters was found dead in his oell, and on examination it was shewn that he lied forged a piece of cloth down his throat by means of a wooden spoon, thus producing suffocation. The medical evidence showed that the spoon could not have been forced so far as it was with the hand, and that the deceased must have obtained the necessary pressure by lying down and pressing the bowl of the spoon against the floor. A verdict of "suicide while in an unsound state of mind" was returned.  General Sir Evelyn Wood, who is about to leave the command of the Eastern Distriot to undertake a mission of military inquiry in the colonies, will be mach missed at Cotehest.r and In hie district, where, as • native of Essex, he is specially popular. Sir Elvelyn is lees loved, perhaps, among the officers of the Army than amongst the civilian population, for he is one of the few generals who work really hard, and he has a way also of making other people work. • small, restless, keen-looking man, deetply hubued with religion, full of anniroation, *taw with work and service, and last, but not last, a good Liberal, Sir Evelyn Wood is one of thfew general offloers of the British Army may be implicitly Wiwi upon in an' gluey.  lar