A CUT IN EPISCOPAL INCOMES [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Cuts, voluntary or imposed, have lately been made in many kinds of income—in the incomes of the King and the royal family, of Cabinet Ministers, of judges, of civil
servants, of teachers, of the unemployed, of innumerable persons not, like these, paid by the State. There is at present one cut wanting.
This cut, which as yet is not even last, ought, if I may say so with the utmost courtesy, to have been first. It would have done incalculable good and would have commanded the respect of the English people from coast to coast ; whereas the lack of it moves, I fear, their quiet disdain. It is a voluntary cut, to be paid over to the State, of 10 per cent. in episcopal (Formerly Vicar of St. Thomas's, Camden Town.) Golders Green, N.W.
[We do not agree with our correspondent. We think that the majority of clergy are scandalously underpaid, and we have never heard of a Bishop who could save from his income.—ED. Spectator.]
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