The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-10 00:00:00

OrtION L-01711111 RIM otrustox OR ROUNDARIRS 01 TR

IMITILIC7II.

Concerning this now arrangement of the boundaries of the
dlatricu, the sacred congregation judges it a meuurc m-st
useful towards the prograw of religion, and one which it
considers ought to be effect/I, that there be its the ►iatn.om
of England at lout sight vicars of the Apostolic Ste, bat
as to w►at respects the allotting districts to each of them
individually, it ocasiders that regard should rather be ►ad
to the geograp`iical position of places than to t►e mamba of
'hutches lextunocly cited chapels) and of the miesionariee;
for them a►e variable ; bat the former is never or hardly
ever subjeet to change, and moreover the facility of cam•
municcsons and 01 pastoral visitations is thus considered.
The henna therefore or territories of each apostolic vicar may
be as follows : .

I. The di
strict of Inadon ; is counties, namely—Mid-
dleman, Berkshire, Ems, Sarrey, Kent, end Hampshire,
with the isles of Wight and Jersey.
2. The western district; ids courtier, nunely—Oloucester,
Wiltshire, Somerset's's', Don.tthin, Devonshire, and
Cornwall, with the little talands of Sci Ly.
3. The eastern district; eleven counties, namely—Hunt
ingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland.
*hurt, Sufiolk, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire,
liertfordshin, Bedfontakire, end Buckinghamshire, with
the isle of Ely.
4. Tee Midland District; els counties, namely—Orford-
skim, Wszwickstdre, Worcestershire, I,:icest"nhire, Stet
lordshire, and Derbyshire.
6. The District of Weles; the principality of that name,
tegethsr with Monmouthshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire,
meet lb. Isis of Au/times.
6. The Lancethire District ; two counties, namely—Wes-
shire, Mains, end the isle of !item.
7. TIN District of Yorkshire ; the county of that name.
S. The Northern District; four counties, namsly—Dur-
hem, Westmoreland, Northumberland, and Cumberland. (a)
Those things prefixed the Sacred Congregation pat these
specific questions to the most dignified the apostolic Vicars.
I. Whether the above proposed arrangement of the
sycsCalii: vicariates, and division end circumscription of
ormsts be just, and seem to them fit to be carried into

11. Whether each apostolic vicar especially in the third,
ak and eighth district, may be able decently to meet the
apses, and provide for the support of himself and his, so well
as for the wants of the minion committed to him, from pions
offerinp and other resources of his vicariate; and If no;
whether the other prelates can afford to allow these ail
viten, while their wants remain urgent, any pecuniary aid,
and epeciiimlly how much ?
What method should be adopted to arrange the
Interests common to two or more counties, which, hitherto
belsaglag to one and the same vicariate, are separated in
the shore mentioned new circumscription.
IV. Whether it would be fitting la order to nourish car
aril between the secalar sad regular deny, to give the LA
same the apostolic vicariates, namely, Wales, to the soaks
of the English congregation of the order of St. Benedict, so
as that they of theft owe accord and free will quit poesemloa
of their other minions, on receiving a compensation for the
houses and monasteries which they hold in the other dis-
tricts. And if so, whether It be expedient that I. their
district the apostolic vast far the time be also superior of
the Benedictiae ansgregstion.