CIIVRCH LIVING OF ECCLES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
Manchester, 231 Marelt1837.
San—I was much surprised at the remarks you copied into your last number from the Liverpool Journal on the appointment of the Reverend W. MARS- DEN to the living of Eccles. You state he is a Tory, and that he is not able from age and infirmity to attend his duties; and that it was owing to the influ- ence of Mr. C. P. Thomson he has got the living. For my part I think the choice a very creditable one; and I feel confident that he will do honour to the appointment. Ile is a very active, useful, and pious man ; and I only wish the Church abounded with such men. As regards his political principles, you are in error : he was the only Church-of-England clergyman in Manchester who voted for Messrs. PHILIPS and THOMSON at the first election for that borough ; and has been a strenuous supporter ever since. If it was merely on that ground, the Lord Chancellor was justified in doing an act so praiseworthy. I write this from my own knowledge, as I had the pleasure of soliciting his vote on behalf of Messrs. P. and T. I think this is calculated to gain Mr. TriostsoN a few votes at the next election, but not from Tories. I ean assure you we don't want any assistance from them whatever, but defy them to do their worst. I shall feel obliged by yonr inserting this in your next number, as what you before stated is calculated to mislead.
trim writer of this letter has not favoured us with his name; but, haviug no reason to doubt the correctness of his statement, we do not wiell to suppress it on that account. The statement which he contradicts, let it lie (observed, was, avowedly, not our own, but that of the Liverpool Journal. —En.]
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