To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-Reading a letter in T/ire Pincs of this dav, signed " A. CHUnCHMALKS," wherein he complains of the difficulty of pero. curing a seat in St. Paul's Cathedral but by fecing the verger, which has arisen to a shameful practice and imposition, may 1be. permitted to make an observation, perhaps not genera1 knevni to those who are Rot in the habit of standing upon cold stones, during (livine worship, in Cathedrals appropriated to deliver sermoas in public. Some few yearn ago I was present at Westminster-abbey, on a Sabbath day, to hear a sermon preached by the late Willian Douglas, Chancellor of the Order of the Gerter, and son to the late Bishop of Winchester. I stood the whole of the service opposite the pulpit. There no doubt were seats in reserve, to be had by apply}n,, to the seat.keeper, or verger, who passed me several times, showing persoas into places: however, I was doomed to stand it our, tia my- egs and feet were cold, my hody tired, but my mind perfectly at rest. So:ne few days after, the Rev. Divine (for whom I was irn the habit of doing business for years, as a custorner) caUed upo me; and, in the course of conversation, said in these words, that he was sorry to see mie standing all tbe time before him: "'Why did you not ask for a seat? They ought to have put you in one. Forthe future, whenever you go to a Cathedral, always ask to be put into a seat: every person can demand a seat, if there isone unoccupied, in. " fam, Sir, A PROTESTANT. July 9, 1824. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.