27 SEPTEMBER 1902, Page 14

THE POVERTY OF THE CLERGY.

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOB."1 SIR,—In connection with this subject, it may interest you to hear of this living. When I accepted it last year the dilapida- tion amounted to £630, and there was nothing at all forth- coming from the late incumbent. The value of the living (from glebe) is £103 gross, and £73 (about) net.—I am,