RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ST. LOUIS.-On the 20th of November, the Office of the Dead was chaunted and immediately afterwards a Solemn Pontifical Mass was celebrated, for the repose of the soul of the late Bishop of this Diocess, a prelate venerable for his many virtues, and endeared to all who knew him by the fondest and holiest recollections. See Obituary Notice.

Episcopal Appointments.-On the 18th of September, the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, in a solemn meeting, concurred in recommending to his Holiness, the approval of all the nominations made in the late Provincial Council of Baltimore, excepting that of the Vicariate Apostolic of Oregon Territory, who, being of the Society of Jesus, was unwilling to accept the Episcopal dignity. Vacant See of Charleston, Very Rev. Ignatius Reynolds, Vicar General of Louisville.

New See of Hartford Conn., Very Rev. William Tyler, Vicar General of Boston.

As Coadjutor to the Bishop of Boston, Rev. John Fitzpatrick, Pastor of St. Mary's Church Boston.

As Coadjutor to the Bishop of New York, Rev. John Mc Closkey, Pastor of St. Joseph's Church, New York.

New See of Milwaukie, in Wisconsin, Very Rev. J. M. Henni, Vicar General of Cincinnati.

New See of Chicago, Ill., Rev. William Quarters, Pastor of St. Mary's Church, New York.

New See of Little Rock, Arkansas, Rev. Andrew Byrne, Pastor of Nativity Church, New York.

For the Apostolic Vicariate, Oregon Territory, Rev. Mr. Blanchet, Indian Missionary.

IOWA TERRITORY.-We understand, with pleasure, that two Priests of the Diocess of Dubuque, labour with great zeal and signal success among the Sioux Indians, on the St. Peter's river. A new female Academy under the charge of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin, has been opened in Dubuque. The new Church of Iowa City, the Capital of the Territory, is nearly completed: two city lots were granted for the purpose by the Legislature.

OHIO.-According to the Catholic Telegraph, our Holy Religion is very flourishing in this State. Many new Churches will be erected during the next year, and several small Catholic settlements have been discovered by the Missionaries. At Piqua, on a visit of a clergyman, one lot was obtained for a graveyard, one for a new Catholic Church and one thousand dollars were subscribed for the erection of it. The Rt. Rev. Bishop of Cincinnati, was daily looked for from Europe, with a new supply of Missionaries.

VIRGINIA. A new Catholic German settlement has been laid out in the Old Dominion by the Redemptionists, or Priests of the Holy Redeemer, of Baltimore. A Church and schoolhouse are forthwith to be commenced in the

centre of the new town, called St. Mary's. Already twenty-five families have removed to that tract.

NEW-JERSEY.-Two new Catholic Churches have been opened for divine service in this State. On the 29th of October, the Church of St. John the Evangelist, at Lambertville, and on the 12th of November, the Church of St. Elizabeth, at Port Elizabeth.

BOSTON. A new Church was consecrated in this diocess on the 1st. of October, at Cabbotville, by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Fenwick.

NEW-ORLEANS.-The state of things here is truly lamentable. On the death of the late Pastor of St. Louis' Church, the Bishop required the Trustees to concede to the future Pastor, certain rights which these gentlemen had either usurped or were in the habit of invading. This they refused to do; and not content with refusing to comply with demands, which the Bishop felt himself bound to make, before proceeding to nominate a successor to the late Rev. Mr. Bach, they actually named a Pastor, and presented him to the Bishop, afin qu'il y fasse droit, i. e., that he might do what they schismatically asserted he was bound to do-give him canonical installation. It is not necessary to say that this was not done. Not only was the Trustees' right to present a Pastor formally denied, but they were informed by the Bishop that thenceforward all relation between the clergy of that Church and the board of Trustees was to cease. It is obvious that this was the only course left for the Bishop, whose patience and condescension evinced in his correspondence with persons so unhappily disposed as are the Trustees of his Cathedral, are equalled only by that firmness with which he has resisted their schismatical pretensions.

CALIA.-If we had reason to rejoice, a few years ago, at the erection pper and Lower California into a Diocess and at the appointment of its first Bishop by his Holiness, Gregory XVI, we have no less reason to be afflicted now at the unhappy fate of those beautiful "Missions," which have been for centuries the happiness of the Indians, the wonders of Catholic zeal and the example of the best organized Society and Government. California was divided into four principal Missions, of Loretto, of St. Francis Xavier, of Our Lady of Sorrows, and of St. John, on whom several others of minor importance were dependent. These Missions, formed as early as 1698, by the Jesuits, and continued by the Dominicans and Franciscans, till 1842, have become the victim of vile persecution.* Some profligate and inhuman beings, with envious and

• "The first Missions of Old California were formed in 1698, by the Jesuits; under the management of these Fathers, the Savages had abandoned their wandering life. In the midst of arid rocks, of brush-wood and bramble, they had cultivated little spots of ground, had built houses, and erected Chapels, when a despotic decree. came to banish from every part of Spanish America, this useful and celebrated Society. The Jesuits were accompanied to the place of their embarkation by the whole body of their parishioners, in the midst of sobs and exclamations of sorrow. The Franciscans immediately succeeded them in Old California, and in 1769, extended their pacific conquests over the New. Still later, the Dominicans obtained the Government of the Missions in the former of these Provinces." -[MALTEBRUN.]

speculating eyes, have encroached on the rights of the Missions, seized their beautiful improvements, and dispersed their happy inmates. The Indians are said now to be in a wandering condition without Priests. It is with no little satisfaction, that we are informed, that it has entered the benevolent designs of the Jesuits of Missouri, to collect again that unfortunate and persecuted race, and to make them once more, happy in the profession of practical Religion. We hope that the necessary arrangements will have been concluded between the Sacred Propaganda at Rome, the Bishop of California and the Jesuits of Missouri. In a late letter from London, received in the City of St. Louis, we are informed, that the Apostolic Missioner, Father De Smet, was expected in that Metropolis with ten Jesuit Fathers for the Rocky-Mountains, Oregon and California Missions.

CENTRAL AMERICA.-Gautimala.-The Rt. Rev. George de Viteri, Bishop of San Salvador, has returned to his See with several Priests from the Seminary of Foreign Missions in Paris. Their zealous labors are destined to embrace the hundreds of small Islands in the Bay of Guatimala, inhabited mostly by Savages. One of the Isles, St. Thomas, was some time ago, purchased by the Belgian Government, for the purpose of forming a new Colony. Three Belgian vessels, having on board the Belgian Consul, the colonists, various tools and materials, arrived in the port of St. Thomas on the 20th of May, the 7th and the 9th of June last. They were kindly received by the inhabitants, and they soon selected a beautiful spot for a new city. Two Belgian Jesuit Fathers were in company, and one of the vessels carried a large and beautiful frame Church, which is easily taken to pieces and had been prepared for the purpose in Belgium. Previous to their departure, the new Church was put up in Brussels, and solemnly blessed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines. According to the latest intelligence the new Colony was flourishing: the Jesuit Fathers, without neglecting the colonists, had already extended their labours among the indigenous Caraibes, several of whom had offered their children. for Christian Baptism, and attended the instructions.

WEST-INDIES.-St. Lucia.-The Catholic Religion flourishes in this beautiful Island with extraordinary success. A few years ago there were but two Priests employed here; there are now eight active, zealous and pious Missionaries. There are nine fine Churches, four of which have been erected by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Smith, Bishop of Agna, in part., who arrived in the Island on the 27th of May last. There are at present 1500 young people attending a regular course of instructions for first communion. The population consists, almost exclusively, of emancipated negroes, among whom the seed of the Gospel was so successfully sown during the few years of its subjection to France. There are scarcely three hundred Protestants of all denominations on the Isle. Granada.-The Bishop of Olympus, in part., was eminently successful in his visitation of this Isle in May last. He confirmed between eight and nine hundred persons, well instructed in the principles of our Holy Religion. This

Island, now under English sway, formerly belonged to France; when its inhabitants were blessed with the religious influence of French Missionaries.

ENGLISH GUIANA.-It appears that our Holy Religion is struggling here, at present, with a great deal of adversity. Death has swept away some of the most efficient Missionaries, and Rt. Rev. Dr. Clancy appears to have resigned the Vicariate Apostolic of this Colony. We copy, however, with pleasure, the following, from the Freeman's Journal: "We are authorized to announce, that in compliance with the urgent request of the Sacred College of the Propaganda at Rome, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Hynes, Administrator of the united Diocesses of Zante and Cephalonia, has accepted the office of Apostolical Visitator and Administrator of the Vicariate Apostolic of British Guiana, vacant by the resignation of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Clancy."

DUTCH GUIANA.-This Mission, like every other under the Dominion of Holland, is in a flourishing condition. There are now 4,000 Catholics in the Colony, assisted by four Priests and the Prefect Apostolic. A new Church was opened on the sea coast on the 20th of March last, and four new stations were lately commenced.

ITALY.-Rome.-Cardinal Pacca, who is 87 years old, Dean of the Sacred College, opened the Academy of the Catholic Religion this year, by an eloquent dissertation, in which he reviewed the state of Catholicism in the principal countries of Europe, during the last sixty years, being the period of his own. public career. We shall insert it in our next.

On the 8th of June, the learned Father Perrone, S. J. author of a celebrated work on Theology, read a dissertation before the same Academy, on the title of Catholic, as claimed by Communions, separated from the Catholic Church. He showed that it is incommunicable, belonging exclusively to the Church, of which the Roman See is the head and centre.

On the 25th of June last, the Pope, by the advice of the Congregation of Rites, signed a commission for the introduction of the cause of the beatification and canonization of the venerable servant of GoD, Monsignor Vincent Maria Strambi. He was born in Civita Vecchia, January 1st, 1745, and died in the odour of sanctity in Rome, January 1st, 1824. He was a member of the Passionists, so called from the symbol of a white heart with the words Jesu Christi Passio, worn on their habit, and from their special devotedness to the honour of the passion of our Lord.

ENGLAND.-Statistics of the London District, from the year 1835, to the year 1843, both included. Churches and Chapels.-Six Chapels considerably enlarged in accomodation, at Hammersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, Gosport, Portsea and Southampton. Four new Churches built, instead of four old small Chapels, at Bermondsey, Brighton, Reading and Jersey. Eight new congregations formed, and eight new Churches erected in the following places: St. John's Wood, Colchester, Brenwood, Islington, Tunbridge, Wells,. Dover, Crogdon and Crayford. Ten new Missions formed, at Wimbledon, Wandsworth, Parson's Green, St. Leonard's Saffron Hill, Deptford, Graves

and, Hackney, St. Alban's, Deal and Chelmsford. Priests.-The number of Priests in the London District in the year 1836, was ninety-one, the number in 1843, is one hundred and thirty-five, giving an increase in seven years of fortyfour. Convents.-Four Religious communities have been established in London and its vicinity within the last four years, to adminster religious instruction to the rich and poor, and to recall the profligate and abandoned sinner to the paths of innocence and industry. The Sisters of Mary, at Bermondsey, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, at Hammersmith, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, at Acton, and the Nuns, at Isleworth.

Conversions.-Mr. Segur, a Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, has recently abjured Protestantism, and entered the Catholic Church. In Derby, lately forty-nine adult converts were joined to the Church on one occasion. The Superior of the Brothers of Charity of the house of Loughborough, received seventy-five Protestants in the Church at Sheephead, and sixty-one at Loughborough, in the present year.

IRELAND. The Catholic Missionary College of All Hallows, Drumcondra, has at present thirty-nine students, preparing for Foreign Missions. Eleven for Asia, one for Africa, fourteen for America, five for Europe. The destination of the others is not known.

SPAIN. The Cardinal de Cinfuegos, Archbishop of Seville, in the 78th year of his age, an exile at Alicante, has authorized the Bishop of the Canaries, who is in Seville, to dispose of his Crosier, emerald ring and cross, for the relief of the victims of the recent siege of that City.

HOLLAND.-The Very Rev. M. T. Niewindt was consecrated, on the 24th of August last, Bishop of Cytrum in partibus infidelium, and first Vicar Apostolic of Curacao. The ceremony was performed in the Ecclesiastical Seminarie of Warmond by Mgr. Van Wykersloot, Bishop of Curium in part. assisted by two other Prelates. The new Bishop is a native of Holland, and was soon expected to sail for the West Indies, with a good supply of means and Missionaries.

BELGIUM.-The Belgians have followed the example of their Irish brethren in the faith, by organizing a Belgian Emigrant Society, for the purpose to aid in providing for the temporal and spiritual wants of their brethren in foreign

countries.

NORWAY. By a late decree of the Government, the Catholics of Christi. ania, have been permitted to build a Church, to have their own Pastor, to assemble publicly for Divine Worship, and to have the Sacraments of Baptism and Matrimony performed according to the rites of their own Church. They are under the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Vicar Apostolic of Sweden.

HINDOOSTAN.-Calcutta.-This Vicariat continues to be administered by the Most Rev. Patrick Joseph Carew, lately created Archbishop of Edessa. Dr. Oliffe, for many years Vicar General of Calcutta, and a native of Cork, Ireland, has been appointed his coadjutor, and was consecrated on the 8th of October, at Cork, by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Murphy, assisted by Rt. Rev. Dr. Barron, and