- 30 - College, at which the visiting prelates and priests and many invited guests of the laity assisted. In the evening the different Catholic Societies made a torchlight procession. Many of the principal buildings of the city were illum¬ inated and there was a grand pyrotechnic display on the Palace grounds. The following afternoon His Lordship entertained his guests with an excursion on the Hillsborough which gave to the strangers a fair notion of the fertility of our island soil, and the comfortable condition of the island farmer. This celebration marked an eopch in the history of the diocese. During the twenty five years of His Lordship's episcopate, the Catholic population has increased from 38,852 to 55t°00» fcnd the number of priests from fourteen to thirty nine. Twenty one churches have been erected, many of them handsome and substantian edifices, and eight educational institutions have been opened, seven of which are in ciarge of the sisters of tne Congregation of Kotre Dame. The past eighty years have wrought a wonderful change in the aspect of Charlottetown . In tne beginning of the century, it was but a tiny cluster of houses, grouped on the bank of the Hillsborcugn. An English garrison protected it against maritime invasion, and the quarters of the soldiers was the scene of much revelry and dissipation. The Lieutenant Governor , in whom almost absolute power was vested, resided in what was then a most feshionable locality, now known as the "" on . On 'water and Q,ueen Streets, and on the thoroughfares which intersect them, the business establishments and unpret¬ entious residences of our first merchants stood side by side. On , a favorite place of resort was "Jone's Commercial Inn", in which it is said that Bishop KcLtiChern offered his first mass in Charlottetown . On stood the residence of bx. John Doyle , one of our pioneer Catholics, who emigrated to ■ this country from V«'aterford, Ireland. He died in Charlottetown in I833 ft the age of fifty years, end lies buried in tne old cemetery. On the site of Ijr. i /illi^m Murray's house, a i '-ir. teCorthy followed the baker's calling; opposite stood the