Father Charles P. Montgomery, O.P., having on account of ill health declined his appointment to the see of Monterey, Upper California , Eccleston, with such consultation as was accessible, has presented to the Holy See the names of three priests whom the Fathers of thelast Provincial Council had recommended as worthy of being elevated to the episcopacy: 1. Father Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P., 2. Father Edward Purcell, Vicar General, 3. Father Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P . The first on this list held the same place on the list first presented but having been so short a time in the ministry, he is deficient in experience. The second on the former list, Father John Baptist Lamy, stands first on that for Santa Fe, New Mexico and is here omitted. The Provincial Councils having made no provision for a case like the present and the necessity ofaction being urgent, he relies on the Bishops to write directly to the Holy See. In a postscript Eccleston adds that personally he would prefer to place the Purcell first on the list. All his information tends to confirm the favorable opinion recorded by the Fathers of the last Provincial Council. :: III-2-h A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.