The Peterborough Diocesan Conference was, opened on Thurs- day, when
the Bishop of Peterborough delivered an address, in which he denied any burials' grievance to Dissenters, but admitted .cordially a burials' grief, for which he advised the Church to pro- vide a remedy. In other words, morally he thinks the Dissenters have no rigid to have their own services in the Churchyards, but as a matter of right feeling and sympathy, he would con- cede the point. We cannot grasp the distinction. When a Dissenter is compelled to bury his dead in the national Church- yard, he has surely as much moral right to have such a religious service there as seems to him most suitable to the occasion .as the Churchman. If the Churchyard were a mere private Appendage to the Church, provided by Churchmen at their own 'expense, for Churchmen, and only as a supplement to the national graveyard, the case would be quite different, but as it 'stands, we see in their case as much moral grievance as' ,grief.
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