THE BISHOPS OF ENGLAND AND THE BISHOPS OF ROME.
Sin—Having resided many years in Italy and sojourned in its principal cities, I have had an opportunity of snaking inquiries into the revenues of the Prelates of that country. You will perhaps be surprised to know, as I was myself to hear, that all the bishoprics in the patrimony of St. Peter (except the bishopric of the Sovereign Pontiff)—and they are very numerous —amount to less in value than the single bishopric of London f The Pre- late who now rejoices in that see or rather regality cannot deny, although he will not confess it, that in sixteen years he has received from it one sail- lion sterling.
No inconsiderable share of this enormous wealth accrued to him after the passing of the Reform 13111, and after the formation of the jobbing Ecclesias- tical Commission, in which Charles James, although so interested a party, did not hesitate to take a place !
Surely national "indignation," which is so lend against external aggres- sion on the part of the comparatively poor Church of Rome, will compel the House of Commons to make renewed and searching inquiries into the in- trigues and inconsistencies of our Marmon-loving and I fear crumbling Church,—crumbling only because of her internal divisions and corruptions, evincing that in her worldly system she is essentially of this world. The real foes of the Church of England are those of her own household—always
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