To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-llaving noticed in yoor vitilable paper a short time. since, a letter, the purport ot which was to expose the iisolent conduct ot the vergers belonging to St. Pau1's Cathedrnl, I beg leave to call your attention ta:treatment of the same nature, but still miore abrupt and disgraceful than that to which your correspondent was'- ubjected to, which I expericnced at the hands of one of them on- SAnday. after- nzoon last, July .5. Raving-a desire to attend divine service in the above-named cathe- dral, r arrived at the north door before S o'clock, and waited ustil the time of admission, when, as you know, it is an utter impossibility for ,uny one who wishes to behavewitb becopiing decorum to gain admiiiNion, until the crowd undef- the porticO hafe' first rushed in; so at tftis time, as it invariablv happens, evety.seat in the cloir was occupied before I could attain 'it arid.having I'rcequently before expe- zienced the inconYvnience of 'standing on the, cold marble, and of being pushbd about to aiid fr6 by j)cers6ni whb go tnerely for the sake of gratifying idlc cuiibsit7, I resolved to inqltire of one of the vergers, who takds his statibnW6n theright s[d'df the choir gates, if I could be accomrtodiaed vitiV a 6eat int the gallery:- Accore~rtngly, l made applicatlowintlseaboye tesnis, and you may.ju lge of.my sur- prise and indignation, 'Mtr. Editor, when r was imWitletittyiisked, "-NVhat do you vnuit vith a seat in the gallery . If we were to let all who wanted have a scat, 7w should soon have ertbugilr yoot can?t haveone." To the hestof mv ccol1ection?thoseweTetie wbrdf htemade use of.) laAI mspokenn di;becom n austere maiyinr, Sir. I could not have wondered at his impudentilaTaaiguel but, AMr. Edi. tor, I make it an invariable rule to speak respectfully to every one and what was still more age ravating to me4. I atterwardT taw-t several perons respectfullycenduitV (bythe same many to the gallery- dooTs by putting a cola. jntp the hat:d of titeir cnpluctor which plainly indicated that no onc *Wa to be adnmitted but those who chose to give half-a-crowrn for a scat: from whence it a'ppe r that' acess to the gallery of the Protestant church of St. Paul is-to bc rcndered (by these 'men) five times as difficult as thc admission to a .seat in the' Roman' 2atholie chape], yUoorfields, ihe admission 'to sehich is but ipclice. I hope, Sir, if you think this deierving a space in your' widlely cir- culated journal, it will be the means of rausing those :ho are vestedi with authority. ta*xerdcse itiL putting down sucii ubwarrantable inw fringenments on the privileges of the Protestant churz h, wdhich arc of course high'y pre,ii:dici'a to the eatabli.hedreligiono-f tht-country. r 1-ve the hnnniur to he. sir. vours verv resenctfillv. A CHURCHMlAN. London, July 6, llP A _ TO THE EDITOR OF4 THIE 2tIMES.