her
surprise.--_Baltimore Catholic Mirror._

Massachusetts has done more than that for the colored race. Several of
them have been elected to the general court; one has been on the bench
for some time; and there are several practising lawyers in our courts.
Can Maryland say as much for our colored brethren?

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THE POPE CONGRATULATED.--Emperor William of Germany and Queen Christiana
of Spain have sent telegrams to Pope Leo, expressing their thanks for
his services, and for his equitable decision as arbitrator in the
Carolines controversy.

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OUR MAGAZINE.--This hearty notice is from Father Phelan's _Western
Watchman:_ DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE, for January, came to us last week as
bright as a new shilling, much enlarged, and, as usual, overflowing with
such original and interesting reading for Irish-Americans as is to be
found in no other paper or magazine published on the planet. We predict
for the publisher many years of prosperity to continue the good work.

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NEW ENGLAND MEN AND WOMEN are dying out, or they are not producers. Even
the fisheries no longer breed American seamen for the naval service.
Three-fourths of the crews that man the fishing fleets are Portuguese,
Spaniards and Italians.

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_Boston Herald:_--Ireland would be better fixed politically, if its
condition should be made like a State in our Union, rather than like a
province the same as Canada. Canada has no representation in the
imperial Parliament. Great Britain ought to have a Parliament for
imperial purposes, with representatives from her dependencies, and
another for her local affairs. It has long been apparent that the
British Parliament cannot properly consider both general and local
matters.

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It appears that the reported wholesale boycotting of Irish workingmen in
England stated in a dispatch of the New York _Sun_ to have been resolved
upon at a meeting of a Liberal Club, was entirely without foundation in
fact, not even heard of at the National Liberal Club or at the London
Office of the _Freeman's Journal_, the chief Nationalist organ.

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PARNELLITE MEETING.--A day or two before the opening of the new
Parliament this month, a general meeting of the Irish parliamentary
party, including as many of