6 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 14

CLERICAL INCOMES.

[To TEL BRITOIL OP TIER "SPECTATOR."]

Sia,—There is one omission in your truthful article on this subject which needs to be supplied. Besides local rates, there

is Land-tax, which is paid on the rent-charge. This, with Income-tax, amounts in my own case to exactly 10 per cent. on my official income. I believe that the necessary outgoings upon a living are never less than one-third, and very often they are: