26 JUNE 1880, Page 3

The Archbishop of York, whose letter has reached us too

late for insertion, thinks that we misrepresented in our last issue the effect of his amendment on the Burials Bill. Mr. Osborne Morgan's Bill, he says, did not touch the consecrated ground in cemeteries, or indeed cemeteries at all. His own amendment only consigns the Dissenter to the unconsecrated ground where there is no Churchyard open, and where the cemetery contains both con- secrated and unconsecrated ground. Exactly. But why forbid the Dissenter, whose family is buried in consecrated ground, and whose friends wish him to lie with them, to be buried there with his own service ? You destroy all the grace of the concession, apparently for no other purpose than that of seem- ing ungracious.