CHURCH GOVERNMENT

The fiishop. — W}i(3ii tho Hislioprick of Quoboc was erectcd in l(j()4, tho soe was endowod I)y Louis XIV, with the revenues of two Abbacies, those of Benevent and L'Estrie ; about thirty years ago the then Bishop finding it dilïicult, considering the distance, to recover the revenues of them, by consent of Louis XV, resigned the same to the Clergy of France, to be vinited to a particular revenue of tlieirs, stiled the œconomats applied to the augmentation of small livings, in considération of which, the Bishop of this see, has ever since received yearly 8000 livres out of the said revenues. A few years before the late Bishop's death, the Clergy of France, granted him for his life only, a further pension of 2,000 livres ; the Bishop had no estate whatever, except his Palace at Québec, destroyed by our Artillery, a garden and the ground rent of tvv^o or three houses adjoining it, and built on some part of the lands.