90,000
The Bishop of Durango 35,000
The Bishop of Monterey 30,000
The Bishop of Yucatan 20,000
The Bishop of Oajaca 18,000
The Bishop of Sonora 6,000
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Total individual income of twelve bishops $539,000

--_Essai Politique_, vol. i. p. 173.

The reason why the Bishop of Sonora was limited to $6000 was that
his diocese was so poor that he had that salary paid out of the
king's revenue.

[67] Most of the Jews of our day are the descendants of the
Babylonian Jews, who did not return to Jerusalem after the
Captivity, but remained in the province of Babylon until they
were driven out, some four hundred or more years after Christ;
the Babylonian, not the Jerusalem Talmud, being most commonly in
use among them.

CHAPTER XXIX.

Causes that have diminished the Religios.--The Provincials and
Superiors of Convents.--The perfect Organization.--The Monks.--San
Franciscans.--Dominicans.--Carmelites.--The well-reputed Orders.--The
Jesuits.--The Nuns.--How Novices are procured.--Contrasted with a
Quaker Prison.--The poor deluded Nun.--A good old Quaker Woman not a
Saint.--Protestantism felt in Mexico.

THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS.

The monkish orders of Mexico have remained unchanged from the time of
their first establishment. We have seen that they have fallen off
immensely in numbers, but have increased immensely in efficiency, by
the termination of those internal controversies between the
Spanish-born and Creoles, and by enfranchisement from state control.
Not only are they now all native-born, but the Meztizos seem to be the
predominant race in the priesthood. The priesthood is not now so
inviting an employment as it was before the suppression of the
Inquisition. Miracles have ceased to be a profitable speculation, while
the revenue once paid to the monks has been followed by ill-suppressed
contempt. The employment once monopolized by the Spaniards being now
thrown open to general competition, there is less willingness to submit
to the despotism which ever reigns in religious houses than there was
in the times of the vice-kings. Hard fare, cruel treatment, and public
contempt have diminished the candi