CHURCH GOVERNMENT

The Bishop. — When the Bishoprick of Quebec was erected in 1664, the see was endowed by Louis XIV, with the revenues of two Abbacies, those of Benevent and L’Estrie ; about thirty years ago the then Bishop finding it diflicult, considering the distance, to recover the revenues of them, by consent of Louis XV, resigued the same to the Clergy of France, to be united to a particular revenue of theirs, stiled the œæconomats applied to the augmentation of small livings, in consideration of which, the Bishop of this «ee. 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 Quebec, destroyed by our Artillery, a garden and the ground rent of two or three houses adjoining it, and built on some part of the lands.