To the men and women of Boston and New England who love the cause of Liberty: At a meeting held in Union Hall, Boston, on the evening of February 16, the undersigned were appointed an executive committee and empowered to issue an address to the liberty-loving men and women of New England, in aid of the five-dollar parliamentary fund voted to be raised at the above meeting to uphold the constitutional efforts of Charles Stewart Parnell and his patriotic coadjutors in the British House of Commons, and their grand struggle for home rule for Ireland. To the native and adopted citizen alike we appeal, and earnestly request that in every town and city of New England immediate action be taken to make this fund a success, and that the proceeds be sent through one common channel to Mr. Parnell. We hope the fund thus created will prove worthy of New England, whose people are largely composed of the Celtic race, and that free New England's tribute to struggling old Ireland will be such that its example will be followed in other sections of the country. Let us make the five-dollar subscription list of New England to the Irish parliamentary fund famous in the history of this struggle of the Irish race. We request that all who sympathize will add their names to the patriotic list, and that committees similar to that of Boston be formed in every town. Asa P. Potter, president of the Maverick National Bank, Col. Charles H. Taylor, editor of the _Boston Globe_, and J. B. Hand, Esq., have been appointed trustees of the fund, and we request that all moneys collected be sent to Mr. Parnell through them. We further ask that all newspapers in New England in sympathy with this movement kindly copy this address, and that those who wish to subscribe shall send their five dollars to the trustees or to either of the undersigned. HUGH O'BRIEN, _Mayor of Boston_, EDWARD RILEY, JOHN E. FITZGERALD, JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, DOMINICK TOY, T. M. BRADLEY, PATRICK MAGUIRE, JOHN R. MURPHY, JOHN MILLER, W. W. DOHERTY, _Executive Committee_. T. J. MURPHY, } _Secretaries._ WILLIAM FERGUSON, } * * * * * GRADUALLY FALLING INTO OUR HANDS.--There is not a diocese in the Union which has not profited by sheriff's sales of Protestant educational property. The great seminary at Troy was once a Methodist college. Last month Archbishop Ryan bought out a Protestant college building and gave it over to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. For thirty-five years it had been the _Alma Mater_ of a local Protestant body. The Baptist College at Chicago will soon have a cross upon it. So the story goes--Protestantism receding and the Church making progress on every side. Next? Many of the school houses.