The anxieties Lefevere expresses in his letter of July 29 rest on a mistake of fact which fortunately the Council can easily clear up. Perhaps a letter from the treasurer at Paris, who is charged with remitting to Lefevere the sum allocated for the current year, has already calmed his anxiety by making known this sum. Fearing the treasurer did not write him, the Council, completing its own letter of July 14 which did not give the figure of the allocation, hastens to tell him it is 53,200 francs. In view of the Association of the Propagation's enormous responsibilities and short resources compared to the greatness of the needs, Lefevere will realize that the sum granted him proves that the councils speak not only of their vital interest in h is diocese but also of their considering it among the first rank among the missions to be aided abundantly. Lefevere's mistake proceeds from his not knowing the way the councils make their annual allotments. Jesse will explain it to him. The allocations are determined in advance and are chargeable against the funds for the current year. They have not yet been received at the time they are allotted. As soon as they reach the central treasuries they are sent out to the missions in the determined proportions. When Lefevere first wrote the council nearly a year ago the allotting for 1841 had already been made. The 6,600 francs granted to Detroit was an extraordinary decision made in consideration of the pressing needs Lefevere has told of. It was in addition to the annual allocations in attending the last distribution, of 1842. "The number 10,600 francs noted in the May quarterly of 1842 indicated a sum sent in 1841, the same number as the account included in the issue of May 1843 will relate, to a time when very probably the 53,200 francs concerned voted in 1842 will be in Lefevere's hands." The Council speaks only in probabilities. Lefevere will realize that the allocation of which it informs him will not be immediately payable. Mr. Choiselot, treasurer of the Council of Paris, has charge of making payments. He will take care to send Lefevere his sum in whole or in part as soon as possible. Jesse will hasten to write Choiselot so that consideration of the circumstances of the missions will persuade him to regulate his payments in accordance. Jesse asks Lefevere to believe in the desire the council shows of helping him as much as the state of his diocese requires. The Council laments the meagerness of the resources with which it tries to meet the needs of so many missions at one end of the world or the other. Jesse asks that they join in praying God to increase the friends for the propagation of His Kingdom on earth. :: III-2-g L.S. French 3pp. 8vo.