13 SEPTEMBER 1879, Page 15

REBUILDING THE TEMPLE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sue—Your article on the disregard to the members of their own profession shown by the Benchers of the Temple might have been made even stronger, for a set of chambers in the new buildings facing the Embankment hers been offered to the Bar at a rent of 2600 a year. Probably no barrister could afford or was disposed to pay so high a rent, and it has been let to a firm of solicitors. When it is remembered that the Benchers stand in a position of trust towards the Bar, and that it is fatal to a barrister's success for his business chambers to be. separated from the Inns of Court, the hardship to the Bar of making their cham- bers so costly must be apparent to every one.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A BARRISTER.