- 9 - In a letter to the ^.rchbiuhop of Quebec dated 9th May 1825, be writes:- "Oar church is greatly improved, but we stand in need of a parochial house, which with slender means we commenced building this morning." He further begs that the Archbishop will allow him to absent himself from the diccese on a begging expedition, so that he might preach in Quebec end elsewhere, soliciting charity for his poor little new mission. There is no record of this permission having been grented, but Mr. Fitzgerald went on with the building of his presbytery which was situated on upon tho ground now occupied by the garden of the City Hospital. In 1825 the Benevolent Irish Society was organized and the Register of the 5th of May of that year contains the following advertizment:- "Benevolent Irish Society" "Notice is hereby given taat the first quarterly meeting of this society (for the purpose of paying in the quarterly dues) will be held at the Roman Catholic Chtpel on Sunday the 8th. instant at two o'clock. By order Charles DesErisay Secretary. 1826 was marked by the purchase of the church bell and its christening at which ceremony Mrs. Gainsford acted as a sponsor. This bell was first tolled on the demise of Mrs. Brenan nee Fletcher on the 21st. of August 1827. The next article to be purchased for the church was the rulpit which is the one still in use in St. Dunstan's Cathedral. The stem was lengthened and some alterations made upon it in tht- time of Bishop McDonald, but the pulpit i 3 the one provided by Fataer Fitzgerald. In June, 1930, Fattier Fitzgerald quitted Prince Biward Island, From the records extant, it would appear tact Bihop IcEacaern wished to remove him to a country parish, and that he objected to leave the mission in which he had so