The Duke of Bedford, having got in Devonshire a Liberal
Bishop Temple,--and as it seems, a Liberal incumbent in Tavistock, has found the true solution of the practical problem,—not, of course, of the legal problem, which only the Legislature can solve, —of the Burial question. He has laid out a new cemetery for Tavistock with only one chapel, and in this chapel both the Dissenters and the Churchmen are to have the Burial service they approve read by a minister of their own Church ; and this cemetery he is going to transfer to a Burial Board. We trust the Burial Board will not listen to proposals for building another chapel and for separating the ground into a consecrated and unconsecrated portion. The law must be speedily changed, and it is clearly better to anticipate a change whirl has already received the sanction of most reasonable people, than to put Tavistock to a useless expense, the need for which might soon disappear, and the only tendency of which would be to estrange from each other those who ought to be cordial friends.
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