14 DECEMBER 1889, Page 16

THE TITHE QUESTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—Your suggestions for settling the Tithe controversy seem to me to leave the main difficulty untouched. At the bottom of the opposition to the payment of the charge in Wales are the small freeholders who still abound in that country, and are almost all Nonconformists. They complain that money levied upon the land which they keep in cultiva- tion goes towards the maintenance of a Church to which they do not belong. And they ask why the Government of all should be specially connected with. the religion of some. Let your proposals become law, and it will make no difference to

them.—I am, Sir, &c., ARTHUR T. JEBB. The Lyth, Ellesmere, December 7th.