air. W. O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, is not making
much of his campaign against the Viceroy of Canada. The citizens of Toronto, in an immense meeting, passed resolutions denouncing his conduct; but he persisted in visiting the city. Refused the use of all large buildings, he called a meeting on Tuesday in the Queen's Park ; but the meeting only jeered at him, and he was unable to make his voice heard. Mr. Kilbride, the great farmer who endeavoured to compel Lord Lansdowne to reduce his rent, was even more ignominiously treated, being assailed with cries of, "Thief, thief ! pay your rent!" which indicated a Canadian view of commercial morality foreign to his mind. The police, armed with revolvers, carefully protected Mr. O'Brien on Tuesday ; but on Wednesday he was, we regret to say, mobbed by a crowd of citizens, stoned, and compelled to run for his life to a hotel, where he was guarded by the police. Mr. O'Brien, who defends terrorism, will doubtless pronounce the atoning all fair—or is terrorising a privilege of Irishmen only ? —but he will feel the protection of the police as a deep humilia- tion. He is bound to be grateful henceforward to " minions of tyranny," and must be in a most mixed state of mind.
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