welve suffragan dioceses. Westminster comprises
Essex, Hertfordshire, and Middlesex, with, for Archbishop and
Metropolitan, the Rev. Edward Henry Manning, elected and consecrated in
1865. In London also there is another Church dignitary, the Rev. Thomas
Grant, Bishop of Southwark, elected and consecrated in 1851. The patron
saints of the diocese of Westminster are "our blessed Lady, conceived
without sin; St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles; St. Edward, King and
Confessor." In addition to the Virgin in Southwark, the patron saints
are St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Augustine. The ecclesiastical
statistics of Westminster diocese are, priests--secular, regular,
oratorians, oblates of St. Charles, and unattached, 221; public churches,
chapels, and stations, 123; and the average attendance at the four
schools of the diocese was, for 1866-67, 12,056. Of course this includes
more than the London district; but then in Southwark diocese I find St.
George's Cathedral, and, besides, about thirty chapels or stations; and
of the 160 priests in the diocese, we may reasonably conclude that a
fourth are engaged in London and its suburbs. Last year thirty-eight
secular clergy were ordained for England. Of these, thirteen were for
the dioceses of Westminster and Southwark.

A correspondent of the _Weekly Register_, writing to show the increase of
Catholicism in London during the last thirty years, points out that in
1839 there were in the metropolis and the suburbs the following Catholic
churches:--St. Mary's, Moorfields; St. Mary's, Chelsea; the French
Chapel, King Street, Portman Square; the Chapel of the Benedictine
Convent at Hammersmith (now removed to Teignmouth, Devonshire); St.
Mary's, Kensington; St. Anselm's, Lincoln's Inn Fields; St. Patrick's,
Soho; St. Aloysius, Somers Town; St. James's, Spanish Place, Manchester
Square; and the Assumption, Warwick Street, Golden Square; in all ten
churches or chapels. There are now, in addition to the above, St. Mary
and the Angels, Bayswater; the new church at Bow; the Oratory, Brompton;
St. Bridget, Baldwin's Gardens; St. Joseph, Bunhill Row; the Servite
Fathers, Chelsea; St. Peter's, Clerkenwell; SS. Mary and Michael,
Commercial Road; the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street; St. Thomas,
Fulham; the German Church, Whitechapel; the church built by Sir George
Bowyer, in Great Ormond Street; St. John the Baptist, Hackney; Holy
Trinity, Brook Green; Nazareth House, Hammersmith; the ch