16 NOVEMBER 1850, Page 5

SCOTLAND.

We are able to apprize the public, that the Papal brief for the erection of a territorial hierarchy in the South is about to be followed by a similar deed for the erection of a territorial hierarchy in the North. As England was divided into twelve dioceses, Scotland is to be partitioned into seven. Hitherto the Roman Catholic mission in Scotland has been arranged in three " districts." The Eastern and Western districts are each presided over by two Vicars Apostolic ; the Northern district has but one. So rapid has been the increase of Roman Catholics in Scotland, that the number of their clergy has doubled in twenty years. In 1830 they had 60 priests ; in 1850 they. have 120.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.