Most Reverend Gentlemen, in a book (but _mind_ not the _Scripture_) called the _extraordinary_ Black Book, published in London in the year 1831, by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, I find the following statement of the income of the Church of England as by Law established. Of course, I am aware, that certain changes have been made by Government (since the publication of the above book) as to the amount of individual incomes, but the _aggregate_ sum is still absorbed by the Protestant Church, as by Law established. Well then, in the above-mentioned, extraordinary Black Book, I find the various incomes of the Church of England there stated, and would you believe it! they form a sum of money, TO THE TUNE _of nine millions, four hundred and fifty-two thousands, five hundred and sixty-five pounds per annum_. Now let us see, how well the Bishops, and Archbishops of the Reformation, have thriven on the above _spiritual_ food. The following is an extract from the probate duty returns, and of course, must be _real_ testimony as to the _worth_ of these _poor in spirit_ children, when they awoke "in that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns." EXTRACT FROM PROBATE OF WILLS. £ Stopford, Bishop of Cork, left his family 25,000 Percy, Bishop of Dromore 40,000 Cleaver, Bishop of Ferns 50,000 Bernard, Bishop of Limerick 60,000 Knox, Bishop of Killaloe 100,000 Fowler, Archbishop of Dublin 150,000 Beresford, Archbishop of Tuam 250,000 Porter, Bishop of Clogher 250,000 Hawkins, Bishop of Raphoe 250,000 Agur, Archbishop of Cashel 400,000 Bishop Warburton 500,000 Now just add up the above items, and then, you will see that these _Protestant_ Bishops and Archbishops, _after_ maintaining themselves, their wives and families, left _behind_ them, according to the probate duty returns, _no less than the enormous sum of two millions and seventy-five thousand pounds sterling_. Really, when these _mammon-godly_ souls entered the gates of heaven, with all these paraphernalia of gold, how amazed must the celestial inmates have been! They would wonder whence these _golden_ spirits came, but of this they would be convinced, that they must have come from the land of the _living_, and had certainly _piously_ reformed the words of the Scripture, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," and really verified the words of my text, "What a _marvellous_ project is faith, and a _merry_ jest withal!"