He did not draw on the Propagation for some time and thus did not answer McFarland for some time. The Bishops came and went. The Philadelphia Archbishopric seemed to receive the approval of the Archbishops. The nominations remain the same, Father Bernard McQuaid to Rochester, Father Stephen Ryan, C.M . to Buffalo, Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans to Columbus, but no action has been taken on the nominations. Seventeen points to be addressed to the Bishops have appeared in print by an indiscretion but McCloskey thinks they are for the approaching council. The Fratres are in some consternation lest they lose some of their too many convents. The cholera is rapidly disappearing. No one in the college has suffered. Archbishop Martin John Spalding is in Ireland, Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick is in Paris and may not return to America this year. Everything is tranquil. Garibaldi's influence is gone in Florence. The Council may open December 8, 1868. He asks if they will have students from Hartford. :: I-1-c A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.