HIS LORDSHIP THE RIGHT RKVEREND E. J. HORAN, Bishop of Kingston, having been summoned by the Sovereign Pontiff Pius IX.-of blessed memory-to the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, most graciously invited me to accompany him to Rome-an invitation, it is unnecessary to say, as cheerfully accepted as it was graciously given. We reached the Eternal City toward the end of November, 1869. I left for home about the last days of April. During my stay of five months at the centre of Catholicity, I had ample opportunity-and under the most favorable auspices-to visit, time and again, the great monuments...