[To TRIO EDITOYL OP TIM "SricerATnit."3
SIR,—If patrons of "small, ill-paid livings" would, when they become vacant, invite applications for them, the difficulty of filling them up would easily be got over. Two such patrons told me quite recently that they adopted this course, and received in the one case eight, and in the other ten, replies to their respective advertisements, and were able to make most suitable appointments to livings of less than £100 a year in value. There are scores of elderly parsons who would be only too glad to take small livings in order to have a settled home. Why should a parish which has bad its own rectors for some centuries be suddenly joined on to another parish? It is often quite unnecessary, and nearly always disastrous to the amalgamated parish.—I am, Sir, &c., PATRON.
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