[TO TRIG EDITOR OF THIll 4.srsovizort.i Sra,—I am glad to
find you express in the Spectator of November 21st a view of the duty of the clergy in regard to the fiscal question which has been uppermost in my mind since that question was first raised. Whether any class will benefit by Protection, in whatever form adopted, I very much doubt, but assuredly the very poor among whom the lot of some of us is cast will not. They will gain nothing by increased wages, while they will suffer directly even an infinitesimal addition is made to the cost of living. In their interest, therefore, whether the Bishops give us the lead or not, I hope we shall follow your guidance. And this matter concerns not only the workers in the large centres of population, for some of us know by sad experience, and all may learn from Mr. Rowntree's book on "Poverty," that the large centres have no monopoly of want and misery.—I am, Sir, &c.,
C. W. H. KENRICK,
Barnstaple. Vicar of Holy Trinity
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