The , Duke of Richmond and Gordon has not had
a success, with,bis Burials Bill. Of course, he carried the second reading, but it was only by a majority of 39 (141 against 102), and severatof the Conservative Peers expressed strong dissatisfaction with the solution of the difficulty proposed by the Government. The Archbishops themselves virtually supported Lord Granville's resolution, though they voted for the second reading, and Lord- Harrowby was as distinct as Lord Selborne against the "silent" burials. The Bishop of Oxford even supported Lord Granville, and so did Lord Blachford ; so that speaking roughly, we may say that nearly all the good men of the House, outside the Treasury Bench, were opposed to the Government's heavy and hopelees measure. The only extreme opponent of Lord Granville was the Bishop 4.if Lincoln, who intimated that if Lord Granville's resolution was carried, the great political institutions of the country, the Douse of Lords, the Monarchy, liberty itself, if not absolutely ovet thrown, would be frightfully endangered. In short, if Diem-teem are allowed to bury their dead as quietly in Protestant England as they have long donein Catholic Ireland, Dr. Wordsworth t h felts that the dead they will have to bury will soon include the' natig)nal character itself. There is nothing like the wild though aria imaginativeness of a man of fixed ideas.
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