JOHN K, HENRY, Chm. JOHN A. WALLER, Sec'y.

saIarics of thc Mexican CIcrgy.
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Salaries of the Mexican Clergy.

 Ii has been often remarked that the people of Mexico were 'priest-ridden.'- Perhaps ;he following article will better enable the reader to understand what is meant by lhe tern.

 The following are some of the sala> fies of ,he church, bishops, &c., as esti mated in 1902; and they have rather in. creased than diminished since that time, notwithstanding the exhausting civil wars that have wasted the resources of the nation and inc people al large, and deba.red the developement of the re- sources of the country, even to the des truclion of the progress that had com menced under the slow motions of the Viceroys of Spain: