Mr. Justin McCarthy has made an appeal for funds for
the support of the Irish Parliamentary party, which no longer receives the large subventions from the United States which had poured in upon it in recent years. But this appeal has mot been received in Ireland with unanimous approval. Father Humphreys of Tipperary presided on Sunday at a meeting at which a vehement protest against Mr. Justin McCarthy's -appeal was adopted, on the ground that the evicted tenants have the first claim on Irish generosity, and that everything which goes to Mr. McCarthy's fund will be drained away from -the Evicted Tenants' fund. That is a very pretty quarrel, and is likely, we think, to remain a very pretty quarrel, in spite of the efforts of all the mediators who try to conjure money out of the pockets of Irishmen, and who do conjure a little, though .only enough to make the various Irish martyrs miss the more grievously the rich streams of American gold which used to elow so freely into their pockets.
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