Eight hundred clergymen have petitioned Mr. Disraeli not to give
way upon the Burials question, especially as to permitting any one not a member of the Established Church to read what he likes in the Burial-grounds of the Established Church by way of burial service. Mr. Disraeli is, we fear, only too likely to comply with their request,—though rumour says he would like to take up the ques- tion and settle it,—for be himself moved the rejection of Mr. Osborne Morgan's Bill in a rather stilted speech not very long ago, and as a rule he prefers rather to lead the Conservatives into the surrender of a really important position, than into the sur- render of an insignificant position, the defence of which only imperils one more important. A liberal settlement of the Burials question would be too genuinely healing a measure for Mr. Disraeli's genius. He may surrender the Establishment itself some day, but hardly the right to keep Dissenters dumb in the church- yards of the Establishment.
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