He asks Lefevere to come to St. Thomas the coming week. Bishop Martin John Spalding will be home next week and would accompany them. Purcell would have invited Judge Wilkins to come to his house to pass a few days in preparation for entering the church but feared to do so. Bishop Michael O'Connor has tendered his resignation with a prospect of it being accepted. Archbishop Louis Patrick Kenrick of Baltimore is opposed to the intention of Archbishop Anthony Blanc of New Orleans to resign. The Jesuits have given up their college in Philadelphia and also the Church of St. John. A visitor has arrived who is making important changes. Father Clement Hammer has left. In a public meeting of his late congregation, some blamed him for trying to place over them a pastor in his place whom they did not fancy. Bishop Simon Gabriel Brute was much put out by the leaving of Bishops John Cheverus and William Dubourg . Only one of the city papers has publicized the scandal of Franchon . Bishop Spalding has no faith in "the repentance unto salvation" of such offenders. Bishop James F. Wood did not let matters stand in "statu quo" in Philadelphia; he has no Vicar general; he is reorganizing. :: III-2-j A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. 12