We are informed, that the Bishop of Raphoe's will has
been proved ; and that his per5.-onal property amounts to fifty thousand pounds, exclusive of a large property in the English Funds.—Dublin Paper.
The enormous wealth amassed by the dignitaries of the Church, is of itself a sufficient proof of the necessity of ecclesiasical reform. It is impossible to imagine a more certain method of bringing the Establishment into discredit, than heaping wealth upon its minis- ters. It was the luxury and pomp of the prelates of the middle ages that forced the Reformation. Human nature is the, same now as it was four hundred years ago; and the mere change of name from Catholic to Protestant cannot alter the nature of things, or overthrow the doctrines of that religion which inculcates on its ministers humility, and contempt of worldly grandeur, as one of the things most needful to their real usefulness.
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