The Sees of England and Wales, Ireland, and the Colonies,
is truly a book of Bishors. It contains representations of the mitres of each class of overlookers, and engravings of all the epis- copal armorial bearings ; which are strongly distinguished, so far as we can interpret heraldic signs, by the absence of every symbol indicative of poverty and humility. We have also tables exhibit- ing the various sees arranged according to the precedence they now confer, and showing at one view who is the present incum- bent, his family connexion, and his other preferments ; telling U3 when he was consecrated to his present office, naming his prede- cessor, and stating his former see if lie has been translated. In another table, we have the Sees of England and Wales arranged in alphabetical order, with a list of the lucky persons who held them at 1750 and have held them since, with the length of their possession. A dictionary of the English and Welsh Archbishops deceased since 1750, an analysis of the Irish Church Temporalities Act, and a very copious index, completes this useful little work of reference. We wish the incomes of the Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers had been given, but we presume they were un- attainable.
One reform connected with the Spiritual Peers, to which even many of the self-called friends of the Church are favourable, is the abolition of translations. Let us see, with Mr. SEPPING'S assist- ance, whether this change be needed, and try to what extent this mode of operating upon the hopes and fears of minds raised above the pomps and vanities of the world may have been tried by states- men, who fancied the Bishops were as corrupt as themselves. Ex- cluding the five Colohtal sees, and remembering that some Irish, ones have been united under the late act, the number of bishoprics exhibited are five-and-forty, the translations are thirty-five. Its England, the bishoprics are twenty-seven, the translations seven- teen. In Ireland, that hotbed of church-corruption, the sees are eighteen, the translations the same number; and the Most Reve- rend and Right Honourable Lord JOHN GEORGE DE LA POESL: BERESFORD, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Irelands-- (what a Scriptural title !)—has been moved four times.
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