Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — The Salaries of English Bishops. [ARTICLE]

The Salaries of English Bishops.

The Anglican Bishops are m possession of large incomes. The Archbishop of Canterbury has $75,000 a year; the Archbishop of York $50,000; the Bishop of London $50,000; the other Bishops sums ranging from $40,000 to $21,000, with the exception of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, who has only SIO,OOO. But these Bishops complain that they have too much work to do. They ask for more Bishops; and a new see is now to be carved out of the corners of several of the others, and to be called St. Albans. But when it came to providing for the endowment of the new see the Government refused to give a penny, the laity drew their purse-strings tight, and the Bishops found themselves compelled to endow it themselves. The Bishop of Winchester gave his town house to be sold; it is worth £60,000, and to keep it up costs about £3,000 yearly. The Bishop of Rochester gives up Essex and Hertford and sells Danbury Palace, which is worth £40,000. Some of the Bishops also cd|sribute, and thus a decent living for the new prelate will be provided. And in thus putting their hands in their own pockets the Bishops show themselves wise in their generation. —London Cor. N. T. World.