On the evening of Wednesday, October the ninth, Bishop Nichols held a reception for the Bishops, other Clergy, the Lay Deputies, and their friends, in the Hopkins' mansion, on the south side of California avenue.

This is now used as an Art Institute, and it is admirably adapted to its purpose.

The building was thronged all the evening by the members of the Convention and the representatives of San Francisco society.

Five thousand people high in the councils of the Church and the Nation and in social walks were in attendance; and it was impossible to accommodate all who came.

It is said that hundreds were turned away.