they may go back as ordained priests to their native land, and diffuse the Roman Catholic faith among their countrymen.  The average number ordained every year is about fifty.  No one is admitted who is over twenty years of age; and they all wear a uniform dress, consisting of a long black cassock, edged with red, and bound with a red girdle, with two bands, representing leading-strings, hanging from the shoulders behind.  The cost of their education and support while in Rome, and the expenses of their journey from their native land and back again, are defrayed by the institution.  Every visitor to Rome must be familiar with the appearance of the students, as they walk through the streets in groups of three or four, eagerly conversing with each other, with many expressive gesticulations.  For the most part they are a fine set of young men, of whom any Church might well be proud, full of zeal and energy, and well fitted to encounter, by their physical as well as their mental training, the hard-ships of an isolated life, frequently among savage races.

An annual exhibition is held in a large hall attached to the college in honour of the holy Magi, about the beginning of January, when students deliver speeches in different languages, and take part in musical performances, the score of which is usually composed by the professor of music in the college.  The places of honour nearest the stage are occupied by several cardinals, whose scarlet dresses and silver locks contrast strikingly with the black garments of the majority of the assemblage.  The strange costumes and countenances of the speakers, coloured with every hue known to the human family, the novel sounds of the different languages, and the personal peculiarities of each speaker in manner and intonation, make the exhibition in the highest degree interesting.  Its great popularity is evinced by the crowds that usually attend, filling the hall to overflowing; and though a religious affair, it is pervaded by a lively spirit of fun, in which even the great dignitaries of the Church join heartily.

The jurisdiction of the Propaganda is independent.  The “congregation” of the college is composed of twenty-five cardinals, sixteen of whom are resident in Rome.  One of their number is appointed prefect, and has a prelate for his secretary.  They meet statedly, once a month, for the transaction of business, in a magnificent hall in the college.  Previous to 1851, the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church in England were administered by the Propaganda; our country being included among heretical or heathen lands to which missionaries were sent.  But after that memorable year they were transferred to the ordinary jurisdiction of the See of Rome.  This movement was the first distinct act of papal aggression, and provoked fierce hostility among all classes of the Protestant community.  However some of us may regret that such powerful and well-organised machinery is employed to propagate to the ends of the earth a faith