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CRIMEAN CHAPLAINS.
Sm—Sympathy has been frequently claimed, and on just grounds, for Crimean Chaplains thrown out of office by the cessation of the war. If these reverend gentlemen—whose eyes may have been dazzled by contempla- lion of a Bishop, after enjoyment (according to his own account) of 18,0001. per annum, for a score of years, bargaining for a pension of 60001. per annum— will look a little in the contrary direction, at such a ease as the following, they may think their own lot by comparison somewhat less deplorable.
A card has lately been put into my hands which is that of a clergyman, a gentleman and a scholar, possessed of high testimonials, who, now sixty years of age, having a large family to support, and feeling his strength fail for parochial labours, solicits sixpenny subscriptions for a sermon which he wishes to publish. He has never, at any time of his life, received, for clerical duties, above 701. per annum ; just one-fifth of the annual pay and allowances of an Assistant-Chaplain in the Crimea.
A C.a.arr..aral, R.N.
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