The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-07
ollc Of India With the clergy and congrega ito.

Eastern Bengal q ~ ona
ava anu reguA. .................... IL $500
maMyan peninsula. Observation-Disclosures, % 6,1O0
5anna .....'........-.. II $4,000
Soionpo... .......-............... Is 100, 600
In The vicarate Apostolic Of M.dr.: n. oyasso
muncsnts during the last years have varied from
400 TO Is 663 During the last year the number has
stood at "A 100 The total number OF communons i'd
minstered in year averages 900. The baptisms Of
adults fourteen years to the 30h of November last
have amounted to 1914, Of whom 1905 were frsn
Heathensm and 966 from Professionalism Combinations
from ls4S to 1858 inclusively, o,075
The compilers Of the Madras Catholic Directory for
1884 have mot been wa any Of the
the Catholic population and the number and names Of
the clergy, On reference to the Catholic Directory fer
1853 find that during the 1885, thirty ave adults
from Paganism and Professionalism baptized, and
1,34S Catholics made their Paschal Communion, and
that the annual communicates in 1851 leo. We
have looked into series of Bengal Directories from
ls4S to 1852 and find that friends In Bengal
Is much the dark those In Madras regard to the
Catholic statistics of the Secunderabad ycarate and
even more inasmuch the Secunderabad vcarate
altogether omitted in the Bengal Directory Of 1853 and
local habtstion at the back q God speed in the others
In the Madras Catholic Expostor for January 1852
vert from Protssantism, eight from Heathsnism, and
one from Mahometanism
us oonyersons in 1s 1. % & there we're
and 1o3 from heathenism In Sonradah 1T the foot Of
the Cuda hills 200 natives have been converted since
the beginning OF June last In the year 1851 there were
6s conversions of which 90 from heathensm and
from Professionalism. We learn from the BENGAL nj
rectory that there were "a conversions in $780, viz
from Professionalism and so from heathenism Total In
four years 447yiz 422 from heathenism and Is from
Professionalism. There no returns of communons or
communicates from this vicariate
The complers OF the !" Madras Catholic Directoryss
have record either in the Directory for the
the three preceding years of conversions communi
cants in the Vicarate Apostolic of Pondicherry. The
compilers Of the Bengal Directory have omitted Pondi
cherry in 1851 and better informed in other years
than our friends of the benghted.
Adult baptsms during the year 1853 in the vicariats
Apostolic OF Mysore are set down as exceeding 200,
without any distinction Of the classes from which they
taken We have looked back to the Madras Catholic
Directory for the three preceding years and find
has been altogether omitted five successive years in the
Bengal Catholic Directory In the Madras Cathoc Es-
possor we find that in period Of six years and three
adult baptisms ii the cantonment Of Bangalore vs 60
from Professionalism, and 295 from Paganism and that
the conversions from Pagansm within the period
in the surrounding villages within circuit Of so miles,
were 216.
In the vicariste Apostolic of Coimbatore the CONVEX
sions during the year 1858 set down at 200 all from
heathenism In three years ended the 3h of November
1851, three hundred conversions recorded princi
pally from heathenism We find return Of con-
versions in 1852 The Vicariao Apostolic Of Combatore
is altogether omitted in the Bengal Catholic Directory for
1853.
In the vicariae Apostolic of Madura during the year
1853 there So converts from Professionalism and
l66 from heathenism In the ls49 there were 200
converts from Professionalism and 400 from heathenism
No returns for the three intermediate years We have
looked also into the Bengal Directory but without
ministered to the goth of October 529l2 and the
number of persons confirmed to the same date 060
No return of the number OF commandments
Fer the vcarates Of Quilon verapoly and MangaIore
we fnd returns in the Madras Catholic Directory for
the last four years Of conversions communons
municants We have examined the Bengal Catholic N
rectory too with better In the Madras Co
lie Expostor, while these three vicariates were stal
united under one head We find that in twelve months
ended the first of june 1874 the conversions were fro
Pagansm, 1853 from Professionalism, %, and from Syre
ea1 In the year following and before
ism Sc from P Pre- 40 and from
after the subdivision of the old vicariate of verapoy
into three carates the conversions in verapoy proper
toriansm 2S3 and from hsathenism 662 In the follow
ing year the conversions in verapoy proper S55
viz from Professionalism a. from syro Nsstoriansm ss
conversions were 1856, viz from Professionalism 3d. from
syro Nestorianism $780, and from heathenism 1025 In
the following year the conversions 709 viz from
Professionalism "a from Syro Nostoransm s13 and from
heathenism 1852 Total conversions in years eooo
LAS, and from hsathensm ,bso We and also in the
Epositor record Of annual or paschal communions
l52oss year during that period We And also that
4S,576 persons we're confirmed duriag the same four
years No returns since 1849
In the Vicarate Apostolic of Bombay the conversions
in twelve months ended the 30th Of September, 1885,
were 100 viz from Protestantism 49, from heathenism
former years, nor Of commuuions or communicate
In the Vicariate Apostolic Of Agra in the year 1846
conversions;
sons and in the wear 1862 80 Conversions! total iSa
Viz, from Professionalism II, and from heathenism as
No returns for the years nor for the last
year NO returns of communOns or commu ncants
In the vicariate Apostolic of Pana in the year ls4S
there were 10 conversions in the year 1Szo Ia and in
and from heathenism 49, No record of conversions in
the year 1850 nor in the two st years No record Of
communons or Communicates.
In the Vicariate Apostolic Of Western Bengal In four
years ended with November 1851 there were ~
sons, and in the year 1852 r. total in FIVE years a.
acfo Had
Mahometanism 2, and from the Heretico- schismatic
Armenians4 From the Bengal Catholic Herald Of the
ish OF November last infer that in the four years
previous to 1S4s there were 1870 conversions viz From
Protestantism e6 and from heathenism 49, During the
above mentioned nine years 1l children of heather pa
rents were baptized besides II children Of Professionals
conditionally Our brother of the Herald must have
been nodding when he wrote in the article above re-
omitted in the Bengal Catholic Directory Of 1849 We
lind whole page taken up with the record Of
three hundred and forty three persons were
and in the year 1852 ninety one The commupons ad
mnistered in pascha time in the several churches and
chapeis nave amounted in four years to 632 making
an average Of year This return gives an approx
mate idea of the annual Of the vcarate
though 1t cannot be perfectly accurate where there are
or may be many frequent COMMIT nicants
In the Vcarate Apostolic Of Eastern Bengal the re-
SIX in the year 1850 six and in the year 1852 ONE Of
which three are from Professionalism the rest from
heathensm No record of communions communi-
In the Vicarate Apostolic Of Ava and Pegu we fnd no
records OF conversions, communions, communicate
except that $50 persons converted in two years
ending June 80, 1850.
In the Bengal Catholic Directory for 1851 II "a stated
nat IN the yaer 1850 30 converted in the
Vicariate Apostolic of the Malayan peninsula. Be-
yond the names and stations of priests and the es
mated amount Of Catholic population, and the gross
number OF pupils in the Chinese college at Penang
have no further information this vcarate except
loose in the Bengal Catholic Directory Of 1853
that the yearly conversions from 200 to 800
In the Vcariate Apostolic Of Jafna in the year 1870
there were 50l conversions and in the year 1851 four
hundred and twenty all from heathenism with few ex
captions In the 1850 the registered psms were
Communicates.
In the vicariate Apostolic Of Colombo the Madras ca
tholic Directory has record of communions comm
nicants or conversions The Bengal Catholic Director
record OF pol conversions in this vicaratc in 1850
and 1851 VIZ from Professionalism l247 and from hea-