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JESUIT OPERATIONS IN SCOTLAND. 529Nor has the land of Knox been overlooked by the popishPropaganda. Scotland has been divided into three dioceses;and strong efforts are at present making to plant it withpopish congregations, colleges, convents, and schools. Advantagehas been taken of the relics of Popery in the Highlands,and the influx of Irish hordes in the Lowlands, to formcentres whence to propagate popish influences. Fully onehalf of the funds that support these operations are sent fromthe Propaganda at Lyons. Many of the priests stationedin Scotland received their education in Jesuit colleges onthe Continent, and are themselves most probably Jesuits.Their head-quarters is in Brown Square, Edinburgh ; and itwere interesting to know the intrigues of which that house,with its perpetually darkened windows, is the centre. Poperyis not making great progress among the lower classes ofScotland : the chief scene of its operations are the drawingroomsof the New Town of Edinburgh ; and there the unrivalledfinesse and deeply-veiled craft of Popery have notgone without their reward. High-bred and thoroughly educatedJesuits are employed in this work. An evening is set,the party assembles, and those instructed beforehand soguide the conversation, that the popish dignitary who happensto be present is led, unwillingly as he would fain haveit thought, to descant on the comparative merits of Protestantismand Roman Catholicism. Or, from some piece ofstatuary or painting that chances to be in the room, he contrivesto drop a word in praise of the Virgin, and anotherin reprobation of that stern iconoclast John Knox. Thesesapping and mining operations are being prosecuted withappears that there are now in England 674 chapels, 880 priests, 13 monasteries,41 convents, 11 colleges, and 250 schools. After a space of threehundred years, nuns are again stationed in the university town of Cambridge.On the 11th of February 1850, the schools of the Roman Catholicmission were opened under the superintendence of two nuns of the orderof the Infant Jesus from the convent of Northampton. A few days thereafter,mass was celebrated by a priest for the special invocation of theHoly Ghost on the labours of the sisters.2 M