*The Beresford's had lately three bishoprics in Ireland: they have now two. To enter minutely into all the offices, dignities, and sinecures of the family would require a volume. It is supposed they and their connections fill one-fourth of all the places in Ireland. They have valuable sinecures as wine-tasters, store-keepers, and purse-bearers. One of them is the Archbishop of Dublin, another Bishop of Kilmore. The value of these sees is immense; that of Kilmore is stated by Mr. Wakefield at £100,000 a-year. The archbishop has three sons in the church with rich benefices. It is impossible to estimate the incomes of the Pluralists, as none of the returns are complete. The value of the glebe only must be immense. Of the 4,000 acres of glebe in the first benefice of Charles Beresford, 477 are in an improved state; the 5,300 acres of glebe in both livings are worth £6,750 a-year, at the average rent of land in Armagh and Kilmore; what then must be the value of tithe? The livings of George de la Poer Beresford are not less valuable—the two of which there are returns is £8,461 a-year, and that of which only the glebe is returned is probably worth as much. The livings of William Beresford seem still more extensive. The average income of each pluralist cannot be taken at less than £20,000 a-year.

+ Mr. Wakefield states that the livings in gift of the Bishop of Cloyne are worth £50,000 a-year. One living, he says, is worth £3,000 a-year, another £2,000, and three worth £1,500 a-year each. The late bishop, Dr. Bennet, had five rectories and vicarages united, upon which no church, till lately, was built. The present Bishop, Warburton, it seems, holds four benefices; that of five parishes is held in commendam with the see of Cloyne. It extends over 19,200 acres, and has only one church and one curate to the whole district.

The pluralist has only one curate for all the five parishes. In four parishes, containing 78,080 acres, there is only one church. The diocese of Killaloe, the site of the benefice, is included in the counties of Clare, Tipperary, and King's County, where the average rent of land is 33s. per acre. If instead of a fourth of the rent, the pluralist carries off a tenth of the produce, his income must be enormous: supposing land in Killaloe to yield five rents, as in England, the tithe of the produce is £80,784 a-year.

The pluralists are brothers of Earl Mayo, the Irish peer. Another brother is Bishop of Waterford, and Dr. Fowler, Bishop of Ossory, is a relation. The dean has a son in the army, and a sister married an admiral. Supposing the dean takes a tenth of the produce, his income is immense. A tenth of the produce of 53,280 acres in Ossory, at five rents, is £38,628 a-year.

+ Cousin of the Marquis of Sligo. His uncle, Dennis Browne, is a Commissioner for the issue of money in Ireland. The Browne's on the Irish establishment are very numerous.

Several of the Butler's, but we cannot ascertain the number, belong to the families of

the Earl of Carrick and Marquis of Ormond.

There is only one church in the eight parishes of which the pluralist performs the duties, receiving £8,320 yearly for his trouble-perhaps twice as much.

In the second benefice of four parishes there is no church, and the rector absent.

The

*It would be curious to ascertain the real income from this enormous plurality. average rent in Tuam is 21s. per acre, and, supposing the produce equals five rents, the tithe amounts to £137,089 a-year. What a stipend for a parish priest! We suppose the pluralist has been indebted for his good fortune to one of the Judges in the King's Bench, in Ireland, or to James Daly, M. P. for Galwayshire, and a staunch Treasury man.

† A relation of Lord Kingsale. It is stated, in the Irish Peerage, that King John granted

to the ancestors of this peer and his successors the unique privilege of wearing his hat in the royal presence. We believe Friend PENN obtained a similar privilege from King Charles; nay more, he was allowed to wear his hat while the King stood uncovered.

Five churches in ruins in this plurality.

† Dean of Emly, and brother of William V. Fitzgerald, M. P. late Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland. The father of them is a Bencher, in King's Inn, Dublin. The other pluralists of this name are doubtless members of the family.

The pluralist has the mastership of Carysfort school, a perfect sinecure; altogether he appears well provided-17,470 acres of tithe, and 47 acres of glebe, and a house on each benefice. The other Fosters are, doubtless, near a-kin.

He has seven livings, containing

There is neither parsonage-house nor church in this plurality. This spiritual monopolist is also Dean of Elphin. 43,094 acres of tithe, and 253 acres of glebe; which at only one-fourth of the rent is £17,374 a-year, exclusive of the deanery. What his real income is no one can tell. He is a relation of Lord Clancarty, late non-resident Postmaster-general, and ambassador to Holland, whose brother is Archbishop of Tuam.