Deanery of St. Bede.-Appleton, Rainhill, Warrington, Croft, Sutton, St. Helens, Ashton-in-Willows, Rixton, Blackbrook, Portico, Birchley, Woolston, Bedford Leigh. Rev. George Fisher, Dean. Priests, 165; Churches, 94; College, 1; Religious houses (of men), 4; Convents, 16. VI. DIOCESE OF SALFORD. Comprehending the Hundreds of Salford and Blackburn.-Population, 1,165,918. PATRON SAINTS OF THE DIOCESE. Our Blessed Lady of Mount Carmel, 16th July. St. John Apostle, 27th December. St. Augustine, B. C. Apostle of England, 26th May. Right Rev. WILLIAM TURNER, Bishop; consecrated July 25th, 1851. Very Rev. Provost Croskell, Vicar-General; Very Rev. Peter Canon Benoit, Bishop's Secretary. CATHEDRAL CHAPTER. Very Revs. Robert Croskell, V. G. Provost; James Boardman, Thomas Irving, Matthias Formby, John Rimmer, John Kershaw, Lawrence Toole, James Wilding, Edmund Cantwell, Peter Benoit, Theolog.; Edmund Carter. Penit.; PRESIDENTS OF CONFERENCES. St. Augustine's, Manchester, Very Rev. Provost Croskell; St. Alban's Blackburn, Very Rev. Canon Irving, Rural Dean; St. Mary's, Bury, Very Rev. Canon Boardman, Rural Dean; St. Patrick's, Manchester, Very Rev. Canon Cantwell, Rural Dean. Priests, 85; Churches, &c., 54; College, 1; Religious houses (of men), 4; Convents, 11. VII. DIOCESE OF SHREWSBURY. Comprehending Salop, Cheshire, and North Wales.-Population, 1,082,617. PATRON SAINTS OF THE DIOCESE. Our Blessed Lady, Help of Christians, 24th May. St. Winifred, 3rd November. The Right Rev. JAMES BROWN, Bishop, consecrated July 27, 1851. Vicar-General, Very Rev. Michael Trovell. CATHEDRAL CHAPTER. Very Revs. John Hall, D.D., Provost; Edward Carbery, Michael Trovell, Richard Colgan, Eugene Egan, James Pemberton, Ambrose Lennon, Randolph Firth, E. F. Browne, D.D., Robert Chapman, John Reah. RURAL DEANERIES. Deanery of St. Mary.-Shrewsbury, Acton Burnell, Aldenham, Bridgnorth, Madeley, Mawley, Newport, Plowden, Wellington.-Place of Conference, Shrewsbury. Rural Dean-Very Rev. Canon Trovell. Deanery of St. Alban.. Bollington, Congleton, Crewe, Macclesfield, Northwich, Stalybridge, Duckinfield, Hyde, Stockport, Errwood, Altrincham.-Place of Conference, Stockport. Rural Dean-Very Rev. Canon Frith. Deanery of St. Alphonsus. - Chester, Birkenhead, Lingdale House, Neston, St. Beuno's, Puddington, Runcorn, Liscard, Holywell, Talacre, Wrexham, Bangor, Pantasaph.-Place of Conference, Birkenhead. Rural Dean-Very Rev. Canon Lennon. Priests, 66; Churches, &c., 52; College, 1; Religious houses (of men), 3; Convents, 4. VIII. DIOCESE OF NEWPORT AND MINEVIA. Comprehending Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, and South Wales. PATRON SAINTS OF THE DIOCESE. Newport, our Blessed Lady, conceived without sin, 8th December. Of Menevia, St. David, 1st March. Right Rev. THOMAS JOSEPH BROWN, Bishop (O.S.B.); translated September 29, 1850; consecrated October 28, 1840. Very Rev. Joseph P. Wilson, of Uske, Vicar-General. RURAL DEANS. Rev. Lewis Havard, Rev. Peter Lewis, Rev. Samuel Fisher, Rev. Thomas Austin Rolling. Priests, 34; Churches, &c., 35; Convents, 2. IX. DIOCESE OF CLIFTON. Comprehending Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Wilts.-Population, 1,116,715. PATRON SAINTS OF THE DIOCESE. Our Blessed Lady, conceived without sin, 8th December. SS. Peter and Paul, Apostles, 29th June. The Hon. and Right Rev. WILLIAM CLIFFORD; Consecrated at Rome by his Holiness Pope Pius IX., February 15, 1857. Very Rev. Frederick Canon Neve, Vicar-General; Rev. Edmund Knight, Bishop's Secretary. CATHEDRAL CHAPTER. Very Revs. Monsig. Brindle, D.D., Provost; John Williams, Leonard Calderbank, Thomas Shattock, T. F. Rooker, C. Parfitt, Monsig. Ferdinand English, D.D., Can. Theolog.; Frederick Neve, Can. Penit.; Thomas M. M'Donnell, Lewis Maes, John Mitchell. * * * * * Prests, 56; Churches, &c., 35; College, 1; Religious Houses (of men), 2; Convents, 5. X. DIOCESE OF PLYMOUTH. Comprehending Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall, with the Scilly Islands.Population, 1,106,466. PATRON SAINT OF THE DIOCESE. St. Boniface, M. P., 5th June. Right Rev. WILLIAM VAUGHAN, Bishop; consecrated September 16, 1856. Very Rev. Herbert Canon Woollett, Vicar-General. CATHEDRAL CHAPTER. Very Revs. Ralph Brindle, Provost; Robert Platt, Herbert A. Woollett, Penit.; W. S. Agar, Theolog.; John R. Shortland, Richard Mansfield, Edward Windeyer, James Dawson. RURAL DEANERIES. 1. Devonshire: Dean, Very Rev. Provost Brindle. 2. Dorsetshire: Dean, Very Rev. Canon Woollett, V. G. Place of conference, Exeter. 3. Cornwall: Dean, Rev. P. Walsh. Place of conference, Camborne. * Priests, 28; Churches, &c., 33; Religious Houses (of men), 1; Convents, 3. Comprehending Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Rutlandshire. Population, 1,202,609. PATRON SAINTS. Our Blessed Lady, conceived without sin, 8th December. S. Hugh, B. C., 17th November. Right Rev. RICHARD ROSKELL, Bishop; consecrated September 21, 1853. CATHEDRAL CHAPTER. Very Revs. James Jones, Provost; Francis Cheadle, D.D., Canon Penit.; John Gascoyne, James Waterworth, Theodore Fauvel, Thomas Sing, Joseph Daniel, James Griffin, Canon Theolog.; John Joseph Mulligan, Sec. to the Chapter; Joseph Bick. * Priests, 52; Churches, &c., 47; Colleges, 2; Religious Houses (of men), 3; Convents, 7. XII. DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM. Comprehending Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire.-Population, 1,407,510. PATRON SAINT OF THE DIOCESE. Our Blessed Lady, conceived without sin, 8th December. Right Rev. WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE, O. S. B., Bishop; consecrated June 21, 1846; translated September 29, 1850. Vicar-General, Very Rev. George Jeffries. Very Revs. CHAPTER OF THE DIOCESE. Provost; Edward Huddleston, Penit.; Rodolphus Bagnall, Henry Richmond, George Morgan, Theolog. D.D., John K. Dunne, James Jeffries, James F. Jones, George Jeffries, V.G.; Thomas Flanagan, Edgar Estcourt. Priests, 141; Churches, &c., 94; College, 1; Religious Houses (of men), 3; Convents, 23. XIII. DIOCESE OF NORTHAMPTON. Comprehending Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Population, 1,290,439. PATRON SAINT. St. Thomas of Canterbury, 29th December. Right Rev. FRANCIS KERRIL AMHERST, Bishop; consecrated July 4th, 1858. CATHEDRAL CHAPTER. Very Rev. F. C. Husenbeth, Provost; Seth Eccles, John Dalton, Thos. Quinlivan, Thomas Seed, John Morris, Mark Oleron, Theolog.; Stephen Longman, Penit.; Bernard Smith. RURAL DEANERIES. Deanery of St. Thomas of Canterbury.-Northampton, Weston Underwood, Weedon, Aston-le-Walls, Aylesbury, Great Marlow, Shefford. Rural Dean-Very Rev. M. Oleron, D.D., V.G. Deanery of St. Wilfrid.-Lynn Regis, Oxburgh, Wisbeach, Peterborough, Cambridge, Oundle. Ely, Rural Dean-Very Rev. Stephen Canon Longman. Deanery of St. Feliz.—Norwich, Cossey, Thetford, Yarmouth, Bungay. Rural Dean-Very Rev. F. C. Provost Husenbeth, D.D., V.G. Deanery of St. Edmund.-Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Coldham, Stoke by Nayland, East Bergholt. Rural Dean-Rev. Matthias Lane, M.R. Priests, 27; Churches, &c., 30; Convents, 3." THE SUMMARY of Churches, Chapels, and Stations, at their page 161, gives: "Grand total of Catholic Churches, Chapels, and Stations in England 767 Colleges in England Religious Houses of Men Convents 1077 10 37 118" Popish spiritual statistics are worthy of some attention. In 1829 it was predicted with all that confidence by which mere declaimers are ever distinguished that "There would be more conversions in one hour after the removal of the Catholic disabilities, than in a century of agitation and degrading restriction.” We were to win Papists to the love of Christ's truth, by the concession, as the matter was then expressed, of mere “civil rights"! In 1850, the same class of defenders of the faith told us that "the Pope had done the worst thing for himself that he could have done", that "they rejoiced that he had acted as he had”, that “ he had now certainly sealed his doom"; with much more of such profound nothingness, which cost only utterance, and was not worth its cost. Let us see how these prophecies have been fulfilled. At the opening of this century there were, it is said, but sixty Romish mass-houses in England; and Sir Walter Scott, that magician so potent in resuscitating a taste for mediæval superstition, republished the life of the Jesuit Xavier : "As a curiosity; and considering that the creed and character of the Roman Catholic faith were then, popularly speaking, forgotten.” But we need not turn to the unrivalled imagination of the novelist, to imbibe an idea of the genius of Popery. England, Wales, and Scotland have now experienced its recent steady advance. Subjoined is a scale of its progress: Not that we confide in these numbers; accounts may be "cooked" in things spiritual as well as in those temporal, and there are some proofs that in this species of culinary art Popish agents are not inferior to its mercantile professors; but these figures will serve to exhibit the folly of that empty declamation which, in 1850, was welcomed with "renewed cheers", with "enthusiastic cheers ", " with deafening and prolonged cheers"; while a solid argumentative indication of the actual facts, Even. Mail, Nov. 25, '7, page 2, col. 2, was scouted with "a storm of hisses and groans"! Yet let us assume the statements to be true to the letter, that it may be argued how truly contemptible in point of numbers is this organisation; and that upon our sense of contempt there may be based a conviction of the depth of our national guilt. What are all these bishops, priests, chapels, and convents to 18,000 bishops, priests, and deacons, with the vast aggregate of 10,000 parishes, their churches, and their thousands of chapels ? Were the foe of Christ our superior in corporate aggregation, there might be some palliation of our submission; but, when the whole community is not a tithe of the population which professes the true faith and holds the reins of temporal power, it will most surely tend to our greater confusion that we have not long since again ejected Antichrist from the realm. But numbers are not the subject of our argument; we are concerned with a question of principle. If we appeal to these statistics of progress, the plea is but a means to awaken attention. Our oath of non-supremacy was devised in order to uphold the principle of the most absolute exclusion of the Pope's jurisdiction: the renunciation of this principle in bare profession would of itself have been fatal to its truth. The State having said to the Papists, The Pope may rule you in spirituals; supposing them not to have taken a single step towards developing the concession, we being required still to swear that he "ought not to have any authority", such oath is manifestly false. At the same time, it must be added as a question of fact, that though this organization exists, yet not a candidate for Orders is admitted deacon; not a deacon raised to the presbytery; not a presbyter licensed to minister nor raised to the episcopate, who is not required to swear by the God of all truth that, omitting mention of the laity, not one bishop, priest, monk, or nun, within the realm, is in spirituals subject to the Pope-that the Pope neither has, nor ought to have, within the realm, any manner of ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdiction. Our immediate point is the exhibition of practical details of the development of the new organization, and to this we return. Сс THE CONSECRATION OF MASS HOUSES. "DIOCESE OF BEVERLEY. SOLEMN OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH OF ST. PETER AT SCARBOROUGH. 'Scarborough is usually full of excitement at this time of the year, crowded as it is |