To set against the very decisive verdict of the county
of Dublin, we have Mr. F. H. O'Donnell's return in the Home-rule interest for the borough of Galway. Mr. O'Donnell polled 579 votes against 358 for Mr. Joyce,—majority, 221. The Irish papers, wishing, no doubt, to injure Mr. O'Donnell, have for- some time been maintaining that he is one of the editors of this journal, which laughs at Home-rule, resists eacerdotalism, and probably hardly shares a single important conviction on any public topic of the day with Mr. O'Donnell. But we are some- what amazed as well as amused to find an English contemporary copying this romance,—if it be true, as we are assured, that a. Liverpool Courier of this week repeated it. No doubt 'copy' is useful to a daily paper, and it is not essential for printers' pur- poses that what is stated should always be accurate, but it should at least look as if it might, perhaps, be true,—or else a little more spacing out' would answer the purpose even better.
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