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A CASE FOR THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.
Travellers' Club, 2d January. Sin—Will you obligingly give insertion to the few following facts. A cler- gyman of well-known high character and attainments, the Reverend Philip Hale, Head Master of Archbishop Tenison's Grammar-school, has for the last nine years read daily prayers, at eight a.m., in the church of St. Martin- in-the-Fields, (thus performing fully one-third of all the services which take place in that stately fabric,) at a stipend of twenty pounds per annum. Mr. Hale has a family of eight children. He must not be counded with the Archdeacon Hale, who, when lately accused of pluralism and sineeurism, came forward indignantly in the public papers, under the signature "Fair Play," to show that he draws only 32001. per annum from the revenues set apart to religious purposes in this country.
It appears that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and their well-paid secretaries, appointed to inquire into the affairs of our Church, deem it beneath their dignity to go into such vulgar matters as whether that portion of the clergy who really do the work of the sanctuary are provided with bread enough to keep their families from starving. I have the honour to be your obedient servant, W. P. W.
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