The Herald of Wales. — 1887-05-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BRIEN'S CANADIAN  VISIT MR. GOLDWIN SMITH CENSURED.  B. O'BRIEN CALLED HO.  The special correspondent of the Freeman's Journal says: —The streets of Quebec were Roanned by Irish and French flags in honour of Xr. O'Brien. The Mayor of Toronto having oourvemed a meeting to demand the prohibition a Mr. O'Brien's meeting, Mr. O'Brien has telegraphed to him that he bhonld esteem it a privilege to be allowed to attend and explain the objects of his visit. The mayor sent a reply, bait is he did not prepay it, the telegraph company have not delivered it. A Tana telegram from Philadelphia says : A telegram from Ottawa states that Mr. O'Brien will not be interfered there, and that the Govern. anent has decided not to interfere with him during his Canadian visit. A Daily News telegram from New York on Monday, says :—Significant, in connection with Mr. O'Brien's Canadian visit, is the rebuke in the Maltreat Gazette, to-day, for the intemperate speeches of Mr. Goldvnn Smith and others at the Toronto meeting, to express sympathy with Lord Lansdowne, on Saturday evening. As the Gazette article is believed to be inspired by Lord Lansdowne, it is very significant that Mr. Ooldwin Smith has L..,ng been completely out of sympathy with Canadian opiniol on the question of Home Rule, and made a mistake, en Saturday, of confounding Mr. O'Brien's attack on Lord Lansdowne with the general question of Home Rule. The Gazette censures this needles' blunder. The Times correspondent at Philadelphia, on Monday, says :—Mr. O'Brien visited the offices of the Irish National League of the Irish Society and some Catholic houses at Montreal in the course of yeaterday and to-day, and left this evening for Toronto. No positive arrangement is yet announced for the delivery of hi, address at Toronto. Mr. O'Brien has received an argent message from Ireland calling him home, and stating that the position of affairs is most (official.  The death ie announced of Sir Peter Van Notten Pole, baronet. A moat horrible case of obEd murder is reported from Linz, where a peasant boiled kis illegitimate child in a large cauldron for four boars.  A fearful triple murder and suicide has been committed at Zehlendort a village half-way between Berlin and Potsdam, the wife of a atone-cutter hanging her three children, and finally killing hertelf.  London was enshroudi d in darkness for Nome hours on Tuesday morning, owing to a thick Log which hung overhead, giving aypear. sane of November weather. Artificial fight had 0 be used.  %T._ilat four men were engaged in repairing a boiler, in working order, on Saturday, at Tunbridge Wells, a plug flew out, and the workmen were severely sealthd by the recaps steam. Three of the men were frightftlly injured, and they are not expected to recover.  Considerable excitement has been caused in Knowle, near Birmingham, in consequence of the mysterious deaths of three children, of a groom, named Amber. The lives of the two eider ones were insured, a fact which somewhat increases suspicion that foul play has taken place. The country analyst is busy examining the stomachs of the children, and it is anticipated that at the inquest some startling disclosures will be made.  A Times telegram from Alexandria, on Tuesday, says :—A petition, which is to be presented to the French Cloverronent, praying them in the event of an evacuation, to occupy the country, is likely to receive considerable support from the Syrian and Levantine community, and leading members of the British colony have also expressed thsizntention of signing it.