MUNSTER BANK.--In reply to a letter from Mr. T. N. Stack to the
liquidators, inquiring when the sum of L500,000 now in their hands would
be distributed amongst the creditors, the liquidators of the Munster
Bank have written to say that there is L650,000 in hands, that the mere
routine work of arranging for a dividend occupies a considerable time,
but that they expect to pay an instalment in March.

PRIVILEGES FOR MAYNOOTH.--In reply to a petition from the Irish
Episcopate, the Holy Father, through the Sacred Congregation of
Propaganda, has granted to the Superiors of St. Patrick's College,
Maynooth, the privilege of presenting students for ordination to the
Diaconate and Subdiaconate on days which are ordinary doubles. This
important concession, however, can be made use of only once in the year.

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GRANT'S EVIL GENIUS.--The enemies of the Catholic Church should get up a
big purse of bright new dollars as a testimonial to Parson Newman,
as--only for the influence of his evil genius--it is very likely that
General Grant would have died a Catholic. The _Saint Joseph's Advocate_,
in a brief notice of the death of General Grant, says that Grant was not
a bigot--his Indian Agency policy and Des Moines speech to the apparent
contrary notwithstanding. Parson Newman was, in matters of religion, his
evil genius; and the evil genius had this apology (though no excuse)
that he was pushed at him from _behind_. It is our sincere opinion that
if the Catholic side of this great man's family had possessed a Newman
in zeal, eloquence and polish, Mount McGregor would have witnessed its
most historic _Catholic_ death, July 22, 1885.

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THE CHINESE MUST GO.--_San Francisco Monitor:_ There seems to be a
general determination among the people all over this coast that the
Chinese must go. Already they have been forcibly expelled from several
towns in Washington territory and Oregon, as well as from towns in this
State. Self-preservation is the first law of nature, and the laboring
portion of the white race will not suffer their right of life, liberty
and happiness to be destroyed by the interference of Chinese coolies.

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FOREIGN MISSIONS.--A large and commodious seminary for the Foreign
Missions is about to be opened in Bavaria. In the latter country a grand
old abbey has for years stood empty and deserted. Fathe