Having failed to receive an answer to his letter of January 13 he sends another copy. He does not have before him the bulls of the erection of the diocese of Dubuque having sent it to Bishop Mathias Loras, but his recollection is that it includes that part of Wisconsin which lies west of the Mississippi. He has no recent news concerning Bishop Frederick Rese, nor concerning the appropriations of the Leopoldine Association to his diocese, or that of Baltimore. DeBruyn will oblige by communicating to Eccleston the amount. The Holy See has assigned to him the settling of the question of the boundary between the dioceses of Detroit and Cincinnati. If DeBruyn has any objection tp his accepting the boundary decided by the general government he should send them on. DeBruyn is aware that the Pope has dispensed the faithful of the province from the fast and abstinence of the Wednesdays of Advent and the obligation of attending Mass and abstaining from servile work on the Mondays following Easter and Whitsunday. :: III-2-g A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.