• THE RIGHTS OF NONCONFORMISTS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In your issue of August 4th you publish a letter above my signature, but you omit, without any indication of omission, the central sentence of the letter that I actually wrote. It would be foolish on my part to complain of the rule that required the presence of an Anglican clergyman at the funeral service of my friend in the consecrated portion of the cemetery. My complaint was against the manner in which the clergyman muttered and mumbled the service, as if a person who had not belonged, in life, to his own communion did not call for any particular care or attention, further than the meeting of the legal requirements of the cemetery. This is what I character- ized as a gross insult.—! am, Sir, &e.,
Minister of the First Church.
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