| Show A BISHOPS PAY AND perquisites the bishop of durham is in embarrassed circumstances poor man mail his income having been reduced to about per annum ot it was reduced formerly about he ands himself in a state of pitiable destitution and has applied 0 to o the ecclesiastical sias commissioners for an additional a year or so to pay his gaime keepers and watchers echers on the moors and keep his ins lawns not the lawn he wears but the lawns around his palace in apple pie order the commissioners d decline cline to make the tile extra allowance the more especially as the worthy lord spiritual has already overdrawn his account some since his salary was cut down or has retained that amount instead of paying it over like in an honest prelate in the diocese of darham there are dozens of poor curates ccrates with wives and families to support who do not receive sterling surl suri ing per annum it and yet the bishop in his schedule of extras put dowil down the annual wages of on gamekeeper ta lct loi eloi cd gd and of another at Gs ad saving saying his lordships lordship lord ships s game therefore is considered a more valuable and important service tinn lluu saving saying 1 the souls of his lordahl lordships lord ships P Is flock the estimation in it wl w ich his lordship holds carnal luxuries as compared with things spiritual is also manifested in another part ot of his little bill he puts down the expenses of hs park parks s at looi 1001 but modestly harges barges only 15 15 for those of his chapel that blessed institution known as the church of Engla enzla englard cd ll 11 is based upon a s stem of the tile most monstrous inequalities tie lie if tile the piety and end good works of its humble c clergy erg y did not set off the u rapa tapa c ity cf of its L eru achs it would be in peril of the fate fata of sodom and Gomorrah Chronicle and sentinel |
