irely in the first
settlements in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

The _Christian Intelligencer_, published at New York, advocates the
principles of this church.

Roman Catholics.

This denomination is spread over every section of the United States and
the British Provinces. They form, it is stated, more than three fourths of
the population of the Canadas. They are also found in large numbers in the
Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In this Union, they are most
numerous in the Middle States; but in consequence of the great influx of
this people into North America, and their frequent change of location, it
is utterly impossible to state their numbers, in each state, with any
degree of accuracy. Their number in the United States is variously stated
from five hundred thousand to one million five hundred thousand. Their
number, probably, is not less than eight hundred thousand, nor more than
one million two hundred thousand. The population of Canada, in 1840, was
at least one million.

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The first Roman Catholics that came to this country were from England,
under Lord Baltimore, a Catholic nobleman, in 1634. They settled the state
of Maryland; and, much to their honor, while some of the Protestant
provinces were persecuting all those who differed from them on religious
subjects, the Catholic Marylanders protected all sects that were moral and
civil in their deportment.

We copy from the "Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's Directory for
1841" the following statistical table:--

STATISTICS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES

Diocese. Churches Clergymen Clergymen Eccl. Clerical
and in the otherwise Inst. Students.
Chapels. Ministry. employed.
Baltimore 68 38 31 4 52
Richmond 7 6 1 0 0
Philadelphia 91 57 2 1 22
New York 64 65 1 1 14
Boston 30 31 0 0 0
Detroit 25 17 1 0 0
Cincinnati 38 34 2 1
Vincennes 27 25 5 1 9
Du Buque 5 8 0 0 0
St Louis