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 John — by the Grace of God and the appointment of the Holy 
 See, Bishop of London. 
 
 To the Clenjy and Laity of the Diocese Healtli and Benediction 
 in the Jjord. 
 
 Dearly Beloved Brethren, 
 
 You are doubtless aware that we have at length proposed 
 building a Cathedral in this city of London, for the glory 
 of God, the honour of the Church, and for the purposes of 
 our holy religion. We have already begun the work, having 
 built the foundation at a cost of six thousand dollars. 
 Although for several years past we keenly felt the need of a 
 cathedral, still we postponed commencing its construction in 
 the conviction that it would be more prudent to wait until 
 such time as the various missions of the diocese would be 
 suflticiently supplied with priests and churches to meet their 
 spiritual wants and to promote the sacred interests of religion 
 in their midst. We thank God that such is the case at present. 
 The building of a suitable Cathedral is a most serious under- 
 taking and will task to the utmost limits your generosity and 
 means, but it is an unavoidable necessity, and with the 
 blessing and assistance of God and your united and hearty 
 co-operation, the task, though extremely arduous and present- 
 ing formidable difficulties, is not however beyond the financial 
 capacity of the diocese or your power of accomplishing it. 
 
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 Faith can remove mountains, and your faith in God and your 
 love for His holy Church will enable you to remove the 
 mountains of difficulties that may beset this work, and will 
 urge you to accomplish wonders of labom* and self-sacrifice 
 in erecting in this city a splendid Cathedral, which will be in 
 some measure not unworthy of the Divine Majesty, and will 
 be to future generations a noble and enduring monument of 
 your faith and piety. For this is the light in which we 
 should regard the proi)osed undertaking. We should look at 
 it with the eyes of faith, and should enter on it solely for the 
 glory of God, the honour of our holy religion and the salva- 
 tion of our souls. In the language of Holy Writ, ** The 
 house which we desire to build is great, for our God is great 
 above all Gods. " 2 Par., 11, 5. We j)urpose building i house, 
 not for man, but for God ; not for the material wants of the 
 perishable body, but for the spiritual wants and necessities of 
 the imperishable soul. 
 
 The Catholic Church is pre-eminently the house of 
 God and the gate of heaven. It is the house of God 
 because Christ, our beloved Redeemer, dwells therein m 
 the great Sacrament of the Eucharist, in which He so strik- 
 ingly manifests his desire to be with the children of men. 
 When Moses, by the Divine command, undertook to construct 
 the tabernacle for the purpose of divine worship, he called 
 upon the people to contribute of their means to enable him 
 to accomplish his holy undertaking. The Israelites responded 
 to the call made upon them with such alacrity and generosity, 
 they were so zealous for the work and so prodigal of their 
 means for the carrying of it out to a successful issue, that 
 Moses felt compelled to restrain their zeal and to forbid any 
 further gifts. '* Both men and women," says the Scripture, 
 " gave bracelets and earrings, rings and tablets and vessels of 
 gold. If any man had violet and purple, and scarlet twice 
 dyed, and fine linen, and metal of silver and brass, they 
 offered it to the Lord. And the skilful women also gave such 
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 and precious stones. All, both men and women, with devout 
 mind offered gifts that the work might be done which the Lord 
 had commanded by the hand of Moses." Exodus xxxv. Now 
 the tabernacle of Moses was but the mere type and shadow of 
 the Catholic temple. It contained the tables of the law, the 
 rod of Aaron and the loaves of Proposition. The Catholic tem- 
 ple contains in ITis Eucharistic presence God, the author of 
 the law ; it enshrines Christ himself, who fills it with the 
 majesty of His adorable presence. The tabernacle contained 
 a vessel of the manna that was showered from the heavens 
 for the sustenance of the chosen people in their passage 
 through the desert; the Catholic temple contains the true 
 bread from heaven, the bread of life, of which they who par- 
 take may not die. ** Your fathers," said Christ to the Jews, 
 ** did eat manna in the desert, and they died ; he that eateth 
 this bread shall live forever ; and the bread which 1 will give 
 you is my flesh for the life of the world. He that eateth my 
 flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life, and I will 
 raise him up on the last day." St. John vi. Now the Church 
 is the treasure-house of this divine and life-giving bread — it 
 is the paradise in which grows this tree of life whose leaves 
 are for the healing of the nations ; it is the earthly house of 
 our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, whose delight is to be 
 with the children of men. 
 
 When Solomon had dedicated the great temple which he 
 had built to the honour of the true God, the Lord said to 
 him, ** I have sanctified this house which thou hast built to 
 put my name there for ever, and my eyes p.nd my heart shall 
 be there always." 3 Kings, iv. But our Blessed Redeemer 
 dwells corporally in our churches. Not only His blessed name, 
 but He Himself is always there, and his eyes and his adora- 
 ble and loving heart are there day and night to see the wants 
 and miseries of His people, and to grant them mercy, grace 
 and pardon. 
 
 The temple in the olden dispensation was a place of sacri- 
 fice. On its altars was offered up the blood of animals to 
 
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 acknowledge God's supreme dominion over us, to propitiate his 
 justice and to deprecate his wrath. On Calvary's hill, Jesus 
 Christ offered himself, once for all, in a bloody manner, 
 to satisfy the justice of God for our sins ; to redeem 
 mankind from the curse and the guilt of the Fall, and restore 
 them their lost spiritual privileges. But the merits of the 
 atonement of Calvary must be applied to our individual 
 souls ; and so Jesus instituted the Sacrifice of the Mass — the 
 sacrifice of His body and blood to continue and represent the 
 sacrifice of the Cross ; to give God infinite honour and glory, 
 and to apply to our souls the saving merits of His suiferinga 
 and death. On every Catholic altar Jesus Christ offers 
 Himself daily by the hands of his priests, in a mystic man- 
 ner. In this sacrifice He offers to His eternal Father, in our 
 behalf, His body and blood, soul and divinity, in an unbloody 
 manner, and thus gives infinite honour and glory to God. In 
 this sacrifice the blood of Jesus is offered up for the remis- 
 sion of our sins, it is offered up as a thanksgiving for mercies 
 and graces received ; it is offered up to plead at the divine 
 mercy-seat for all the graces and blessings which we need ; it 
 is offered up to apply to our souls the merits of that great 
 atonement which blotted out the hand-writing of death that 
 was against us, and purchased us with a great price. 
 
 The holy Mass is most certainly the most dread and 
 august mystery in our holy religion. The sacrifices of the 
 old law were but figures and shadows of the good things to 
 come ; the holy Sacrifice of the Mass is a most blessed and 
 merciful reality. When we consider the infinite value of the 
 victim offered, the unapproachable and essential holiness of 
 Jesus Christ the high priest who offers it ; the infinite honour 
 and glory it gives to God, the untold and inestimable blessings 
 it communicates to man ; the peace, and light and refresh- 
 ment it brings to the souls in Purgatory, we can only bow 
 down in humblest adoration before God, and earnestly thank 
 Him for His infinite goodness for having given His church 
 this great and sublime sacrifice, and exclaim in a transport of 
 
love and wonder with St. Paul, "0 the doptliH of the riches 
 of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God. How incompre- 
 hensihle are His judgments and unHearchahlo His ways." 
 Romans xi, 33. Now the Catholic temple is tlu; proper place 
 for the ohlation of this saving and tremendous sacrifice, an<l 
 it is for this purpose that it is primarily intended and built. 
 Everything in a Catholic Church has reference to the Sanc- 
 tuary, the Sanctuary has reference to the altar, and 
 the altar to the august sacrifice that is oft'ered upon it ; 
 so that it is it, and it alone, that gives a meaning and a value 
 to the style and beauty and all the glory of Catholic 
 ecclesiastical architecture and ceremonial. 
 
 The Catholic Church is for us the house of God and the 
 gate of heaven, because it is there, principally and usually, 
 the great ordinances institued by Christ, for our salvation and 
 sanctification, are carried out. Christ perpetually lives and 
 works in the Catholic temple for o..r salvation. In the 
 sermons preached therein He is the abiding teacher ; in the 
 sacraments administered therein He constantl}' exercises the 
 office of our Redeemer. In baptism He receives children into 
 His holy communion, and incorporates them into His mystic 
 body. In confirmation He strengthens and equips them for 
 the christian conflict. In penance He pardons the repentant 
 sinner and receives the prodigal son back again into his 
 father's house. In the Eucharist He feeds the weary pilgrims 
 of the worlds the travellers through the desert of life, with 
 the bread of heaven, and gives them strength to reach the 
 promised land. In matrimony He blesses and sanctifies the 
 nuptial union, and consecrates the human family as the 
 foundation of christian society. In holy orders He ordains 
 priests, blesses and sanctifies them and appoints them His 
 ambassadors and the dispensers of His mysteries of grace. 
 Into the church the poor dead body is brought by loving 
 hands, and the holy sacrifice is oft'ered up for the reposo of 
 the soul that is gone, and the Requiem and the Libera ascend 
 in plaintive accents before God, pleading for pity and pardon, 
 
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 and the last olliccs of religious respect Jind of christian 
 charity are performed for it ore it is ct)mmitted to the keeping 
 of the grave. 
 
 Thus in all the relations of our spiritual life, in all the 
 great events that make epochs in our history, in our joys and 
 in our sorrows, the Catholic Church is for us the house of 
 (iod, the gate of heaven and the soul's earthly Paradise. 
 
 Now it is the conviction that the Catholic temple is the 
 house of God and the gate of heaven, that it is the home of 
 the Blessed Sacrament, the place where the great saving ordi- 
 nances of the christian religion are administered, the holy 
 place whence those fountains of the Saviour, the holy Sacra- 
 ments, send ahroad the waters of life for the spiritual re- 
 generation and salvation of man, and that it con 
 tains the altar on which the august sacrifice of the 
 Mass is offered up for the living and dead, this is the convic- 
 tion, we repeat, that in every age has induced Catholics to 
 make the greatest sacrifices in building and beautifying 
 chiirches, and in showing their love for the beauty of God's 
 house and the place where His glory dwelleth. 
 
 It was this belief that laid the foundations and raised the 
 superstructures of the immortal old cathedrals of Europe, '^bat 
 have been well defined as "fiozen music." It was it that 
 inspired all the arts that have adorned those glorious and 
 imperishable creations of Catholic faith and Catholic genius. 
 Architecture unapproachable in beauty and perfection; stained 
 glass windo .vs hat like the heavens announced the glory of God, 
 and in all the varied colours of the rainbow, emblazoned the 
 images of Christ and his saints ; sacred music that seemed 
 but the echo of the heavenly strains which rejoice the blest, 
 that swept all the cords of human feeling and emotion, now 
 melting the soul into sorrow and compunction, now subdu- 
 ing it as if with the dread presence of the divine majesty it 
 invoked, and anon lifting it up on the wings of hope and 
 in transports of joy to heaven; painting that made the canvass 
 breathe and live ; sculpture that took the rough stones of 
 
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 the quarry and chiseled them into hfe ; engraving, em- 
 broidery, the arts of the gold and silversmith and of the 
 lapidary — all the gifts of human genius inspired by faith 
 were employed by our Catholic ancestors to adorn the 
 house of God, to embellish the sai.ctuary and the altar, 
 to dignify Catholic worship and express their profound 
 adoration and their ardent love of their crucified Lord, 
 offered up in a mystic manner in the august sacrifice of the 
 new law. ^ 
 
 But not only did our Catholic forefathers — the men of the 
 ages of faith — offer their gifts ai.d lavish their means in the 
 construction and adornment of the house of God, but they 
 gave their time and, as it were, expended their lives in the 
 great and holy work. Old and young, gentle and simple, the 
 monk and the layman, the prince and the labourer, the baron 
 and his retainer, the high-born dame and the peasant woman, 
 all worked gratuitously for years in the construction of their 
 churches. It was to them a labour of faith and love under- 
 taken for Christ's dear sake, for the love of His Blessed 
 Mother, and for the salvation of their souls. Hear a bishop 
 of the Middle Ages on this subject. Hugues, the Bishop of 
 Rouen, writing to Thierry, Bishop of Amiens, goes on 
 to say : — 
 
 ** The inhabitants of Chartres have generously agreed to 
 concur in the construction of their Cathedral, by transporting 
 the building materials. Our Lord recompensed theii* humble 
 zeal by miracles which prompted the Normans to imitate the 
 piety of their compatriots. 
 
 " Our Diocesans, having received the episcopal sanction 
 and benediction, repaired without delay, to Chartres for the 
 accomplishment of their vow. 
 
 " Since that date the faithful of om- Diocese, and neigh- 
 bouring parishes, have organized associations for the same 
 purpose. Admission is only accorded to those persons who 
 have had recourse to the holy tribunal of Penance, renounced 
 all animosity and revenge, and become reconciled with their 
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 whose direction they convey their loaded vehicles in silence 
 and humility. 
 
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 thesn associations are particularly remarkable in powerfully 
 contributing to entertain amicable relations at a period when 
 every province and district evinced hostile views towards each 
 other. When notified that a church was to be built, the 
 zealous members flocked from all the neighboring proTincea, 
 after receiving the blessing of their bishop, and went to work 
 with increiible alacrity. 
 
 " However, these individupls who voluntarily engaged to 
 labor in the construction of churches, had no knowledge of 
 architecture; they evidently followed the guidance of the 
 various architects who must have been very numerous at the 
 time when christians vied with one another in erecting sacred 
 edifices, namely, in the twelvth and thirteenth centuries. 
 
 " Every association had a superintendent, who employed 
 each member according to his strength and ability. Some 
 were hewers of stone and sculptors of columns and statues, 
 others cutters and fashioners of timber, makers of cement 
 and tro>7el-carriers, were engaged in transporting building 
 materials and provisions. 
 
 "It was an astonishing spectacle to behold military 
 ofl&cers, the noble, the wealthy, the devotee of pleasure, assist 
 in drawing and loading the wagons, and in a spirit of pen- 
 ance, assuming the garb and accomplishing the work of 
 ordinary menials. What was still more surprising, ^vas the 
 harmony, submission and religious silence that prevailed in 
 these extensive factories, where so many persons were con- 
 gregated, far more fitted to command than to obey. 
 
 " Ecclesiastics set the example, by delivering pious 
 exhortations calculated to encourage the associates to pen- 
 ance, and to labor more effectually for the glory of God. 
 
 These salutary instructions were diversified by the singing 
 of hymns in honor of the Blessed Virgin and of the Saints. 
 
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 It was a veritable prodigy, said Haimon, to see gentlemen of 
 rank and talent, accustomed to a soft and luxurious life, 
 transporting stone, lime and every other requisite for the 
 construction of the House of God. Sometimes a thousand 
 persons, men and women, aid in drawing one wagon, so con- 
 siderable is the weight, and yet silence reigns so perfectly 
 that not a murmur is audible. When a halt occurs on the 
 road, edifying conversations are held, during which the priests 
 deem it a duty to treat of the pardon of injuries. Should 
 anyone be found to disregard their injunctions, he is immedi- 
 ately dismissed from membership. 
 
 " During the night lighted tapers are burned on the con- 
 veyances, while sacred canticles are sung to while away the 
 hours of the holy vigil." 
 
 Such was the faith, such the motives that wrought those 
 mii'acles in stone — the churches and cathedrals of the middle 
 ages. 
 
 And indeed, dearly beloved brethren, have we not witnessed 
 the operation of a like faith and kindred motives on this 
 continent in modern times, and the marvels which they have 
 wrought ? In this country we had no royal convert like a 
 Constantine, or a Clovis, to build our churches ; no govern- 
 ment reached out its arm to help in this great work. To the 
 hard-worked sons of toil, the glory and the merit of raising 
 temples to the God of their fathers have been reserved. The 
 poor labouring men who dug our canals and built our rail- 
 roads, and hewed down our forests, laid also the foundations 
 of our dioceses and of our churches. The alms of the poor, 
 the wages of the mechanic, the scanty earnings of the 
 servant maids, the tardy gains of the farmer and of the 
 shopkeeper, these were the means that built our churches 
 in our cities, towns and villages, in the prairies of the 
 west, amid the half-felled forests, and along the shores of 
 our great lakes and rivers. And as long as these chm'ches 
 shall stand, as long as their open doors will invite the weary 
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 precincts, as long as the cross shall gleam from then: steeples, 
 an emhlem of the everlasting covenant of divine mercy and 
 pardon between the Kedeemer and the redeemed, so long 
 shall they be enduring monuments of the faith, and hope and 
 charity of the apostolic people who planted the mutftard seed 
 of the Catholic faith in this country, and watered it with 
 their sweat and tears until it has grown up into r mighty 
 tree overshadowing the whole land. 
 
 Now, dearly beloved brethren, we earnestly invite you to 
 share in this great and meritorious work, by helping to build 
 our projected Cathedral. Its construction is an urgent 
 necessity, and could not, with due regard to the honour of 
 om' religion and of the diocese, be postponed any longer, else 
 it would not be undertaken now. The people of London will 
 make the greatest sacrifices in order to push forward the 
 good work, but they are neither wealthy nor numerous, and 
 of themselves would be quite incapable to carry it out to 
 completion. We know your work and the sacrifices you have* 
 made to build up churches and schools in the various missions 
 of the diocese ; but we are convinced that you can greatly 
 help us without in the least interfering with local calls or 
 wants. A small sum given each year by every family in the 
 diocese, would certainly not be oppressive, whilst, in the 
 aggregate, it would amount to a considerable sum, and would 
 be of the greatest possible assistance to us. Besides, the 
 Cathedral has claims on every Cfiholic within our jurisdiction. 
 It is the mother church of the diocese, the centre whence ra- 
 diates ecclesiastical jurisdiction throughout its whole extent. 
 It is the seat of the Bishop, who is appointed by the Holy 
 Ghost to rule the church of God within prescribed limits ; the 
 church in which the holy oils are consecrated and in which 
 priests are ordained, and whence they are commissioned to 
 preach the word of God, and to exercise their sublime func- 
 tions as ambassadors of Christ and dispensers of His 
 mysteries. 
 
 Hence, in every country where there exists no legal connec- 
 tion between church and state, the diocesan Cathedral is 
 
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 invariably built by the united efforts of the diocese. We do 
 not know a single exception to this rule. Even in wealthy 
 New York, every mission in the diocese had to contribute 
 for years a fixed annual sum towards the erection 
 of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Hence, in asking our diocesans 
 to contribute unitedly and generously towards the construction 
 of our Cathedral, we are asking nothing which the bishops 
 of the christian world have not asked and obtained under 
 similar circumstances. We therefore confidently appeal to 
 our beloved clergy, and the faithful and ever-generous laity of 
 the diocese, to come unanimously to our help in our great 
 and arduous undertaking. You have never yet failed us in 
 any call we felt obliged to make upon you in the interests of 
 religion, and we feel confident you will not fail us now. Tlie 
 Cathedral is a necessity, it is the work of God ; it is under- 
 taken solely for the glory of the adorable Trinity, for the 
 interest of our holy religion, for the honour of the diocese, 
 and for the salvation of souls. Let not selfishness, narrow- 
 mindedness, avidity, or any other unworthy motive, prevent 
 any from helping in this diocesan work. These things have 
 never yet raised a monument to God, or achieved anything 
 great or noble in the world ; they are only powerful for 
 mischief and for retarding or preventing the success of a good 
 cause. But rather let generosity, nobility of soul, the love of 
 God and of our holy religion, be the motives that will animate 
 you and guide your conduct in relation to this great under- 
 taking. 
 
 Let us, therefore, in God's holy name, go to work. Let 
 us build this much-needed Cathedral for the honour of God 
 and His Blessed Mother, and as be "nonument of our holy faith. 
 We shall have a share in the merit of every act of religion 
 performed in it. Every stone and brick built into its walls 
 will 'be a prayer for us to God. Every holy Mass offered 
 therein will plead with the irresistible voice of the precious 
 blood, before the divine mercy seat, for pardon of our sins. 
 JesuB in the Blessed Sacrament will abundantly bless and 
 reward all who will have helped to raise this temple to His 
 
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 Eucharistic Presence, during the long years that He will 
 condescend to abide therein. Every Sacrament administered 
 within its walls will contain blessings for us. Every sigh that 
 will escape from the contrite, broken heart bowed down before 
 its altars, will pierce the clouds, and will be heard in our behalf 
 by Him who despises not the humble and contrite heart. 
 Every poor erring child of God, won back from his evil ways 
 and reconciled to his Heavenly Father within this church, 
 will be an irresistible plea for our eternal salvation, for he 
 who helps " to convert a sinner from the error of his ways 
 will save his own soul from death, and will cover a multitude 
 of sins." St. James v, 20. And when we are no more, 
 when our very memories will have perished, this church, with 
 its ministrations, will be a perpetual remembrance for us 
 before God; will be a constant requiem for our poor souls, 
 and will, let us humbly trust, be a source of holy joy to us 
 amid the glories and happiness of heaven. 
 
 We leave to the good will and discretion of our beloved 
 clergy, the manner of raising an annual contribution for the 
 purpose indicated. The sum to be contributed by each 
 mission has already, for the most part, been agreed upon 
 between the bishop and clergy. The contributions of each 
 mission, with the names of the contributors and the sum paid 
 by each, will be acknowledged in the columns of the Catholic 
 Kecord. 
 
 We solemnly promise and engage to cause a High Mass 
 to be celebrated on the first Friday of every month, for the 
 space of ten years, for the temporal and eternal welfare of the 
 benefactors of the new Cathedral. The celebration of the 
 aforesaid Mass will begin on the first Friday of the month 
 following its dedication. We request of the Eeverend clergy 
 to make this fact well known to their people, and to explain 
 the great spiritual favours to be gained thereby. 
 
 Finally, as the Holy Ghost assures us — " that unless the 
 Lord build the house, they labour in vain who build it," 
 (Psalm cxxvi.), we solemnly place this undertaking under the 
 
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 protection of God, humbly beseeching Him to bless and to 
 prosper it. 
 
 We most earnestly beseech our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
 Christ, who is the true omnip^'ont God, the splendour and 
 the image of the Paternal Father, and life eternal ; who is the 
 corner stone cut off from the mountain without hands, and 
 the immovable foundation — who is the beginning and the end, 
 to vouchsafe to bless this undertaking, and to be. Himself, the 
 beginning, the growth, and the consummation of this work, 
 which is begun to the praise and glory of His name. 
 
 We place it under the powerful patronage of the ever 
 Blessed Virgin, the first patron of the diocese ; of St. Patrick, 
 its second patron, and of St. Peter, the patron of the 
 Cathedral, imploring them to help us by their powerful inter- 
 cession, and to obtain for all the friends and benefactors of 
 this work the grace that they may be, one day, living stones 
 " of the heavenly city of Jerusalem, the blessed vision of 
 peace, which," as the Church sings, *' towers aloft to the 
 stars — de viventibus saxis." 
 
 In order to obtain the divine favour and assistance 
 through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, in this ardu- 
 ous undertaking, we ordain that the Litany of Loretto shall, 
 until furthur notice, be publicly recited by the pastor and 
 congregation of each mission, immediately after the Parish 
 Mass, on Sundays. 
 
 May the peace and blessing of Almighty God, Father, 
 Son, and Holy Ghost, descend upon, and abide with you 
 always, dearly beloved brethren. 
 
 This Pastoral shall ])e read in all the churches of the 
 diocese, on the first Sunday after its leception, and on the 
 succeeding Sunday, or Sundays, in those missions which 
 
 contain more churches than one. 
 
 Given at St. Peter's Palace, London, on the Feast of St. 
 Patrick, 17th March, A.D., 1881. 
 
 t JOHN WALSH, 
 
 Bishop of London. 
 By order of His Lordship [ 
 
 William O'Mahony, Secretary, j