ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS.
IN the Catholic Church of the United States, there are now one cardinal, 12 archbishops, 61 bishops, 7,658 priests, 1,530 ecclesiastical students, 6,910 churches, 3,281 chapels, 36 theological seminaries, 88 colleges, 593 academies, 485 charitable institutions, 2,697 parochial schools, and 531,725 pupils in attendance at these schools. In the diocese of Boston there are 400,000 Catholics. And it is claimed that out of every eleven children born in Boston seven are Catholics. The archdiocese of New York has 600,000 Catholics, while the Catholic population of Brooklyn is about 250,000. Most of the other dioceses show a similar relative strength; and yet Sadlier's Catholic Directory, from which the figures are taken, says that the Catholic Church in this country is only in her infancy. The "English Catholic Directory" states that there are now 5,820,000 Catholics in Great Britain and Ireland. The Catholic population of Scotland alone is 350,000, there being now 220,000 Catholics in the archdiocese of Glasgow. The Catholic population of England is over 1,500,000. The Catholic population of the British Empire is more than 10,000,000.—Converted Catholic.