residence, lives five or six miles off, and service is performed once on Sunday, which is all the return the parishioners receive for their tithe-assessment of £800 per annum. We might cite other facts to illustrate the increase in the value of church property since the ecclesiastical survey of the sixteenth century; but we consider the examples we have selected from various parts of the kingdom sufficient, and shall leave the reader to adopt from them such a proportion as he deems most equitable for estimating the present worth of the subjoined incomes. If churchmen demur to such mode of procedure, our reply is-let us have an authentic and authorized return of their emoluments. Till then we have a right to rely on collaterial and inferential evidence. CHURCH OF IRELAND. In concluding our article on this subject, we purposed subjoining, in the APPENDIX, a list of Irish Pluralists; this intention we have determined to forego, for two reasons; first, because we are unable to do it with perfect accuracy and completeness, not having the means for ascertaining with certainty the dignities and offices held by Irish Pluralists, as well as benefices; secondly, in considering what we have said on the Irish Church, we think so full an exposition has been given of episcopal revenues, see-lands, unions, discipline, numbers of the clergy, tithes, compositions, patronage, and other matters connected therewith, that any further illustration of the Protestant establishment of Ireland would be almost superfluous, and augment the size of our publication, without corresponding advantage. Our statements of the number of parishes that had compounded for tithes, at pages 90 and 94, were drawn from the returns laid before parliament in 1828; we subjoin the results of the subsequent returns of the session 1830. By comparing the returns, it will be seen, that in the interval 202 additional parishes had compounded, leaving 1097 parishes to compound. |