For another cause the Radi are jubilant.
In the Clerical Tithes Bill the Government have given them the best opportunity for a fight on strong party lines that they have hai for many a day. The Bill proposes to devote some £87,000 derived from licences and probate duty and to give it in relief from income tax to: those clergymen who derive part of their income from tithes. Nobody denies th clergymen so situated suffer under a he isahility compared with those who incomes from other sources. But hes. have been subject to taxes of the kind fur some three hundred years, and the Radicals the general ta fresh endow. ment to the Church.
Sir Henry Camp! Bannerman seized the opportunity. last night to show how he could lea ad the Liber-Party when once he had chance of a stand-up fight on a question of Liberlism versis Ci inj and it must be admitted that he acquitted himself we "There is not at the present moment such an overweening confidence in all the clergy of the Church of England that proposal of this kind will be particularly opportune. But if their stipends are insutlicient for the proper discharge of their duties and the maintenance of their po tions, they are the servants of u Church which is the richest, far and away, in this country, and yet they come to the tay; of the country to make youd this little deficiency! There is not_a free and me dependent Church in the Kingdom so me; and so. poor that it would not scorn to de
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