Earl Granville gave notice that he would yesterday press the
Liberal view of the Burials question on the House of Lords. We shall not know before we go to press what the result has been, but of course, in such an assembly as the House of Lords, Lord Granville would have but a small minority for the resolution which he proposed to substitute for the motion for the second reading. This reso- lution was that "no amendment of the law relating to the burial of the dead in England will be satisfactory which does not enable the relatives or friends having charge of the funeral of any deceased person, to conduct such funeral in any churchyard in which the deceased had a right of interment, with such Christian and orderly religious observances as to them may seem fit." That puts the case very distinctly, and is as clear a condemnation of the proposal for assimilating the burial of Dissenters to the burial of suicides as could have been proposed. Of course, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon can carry his bulky Burials Bill, if he pleases, through the House of Lords, but there we trust it will stop ; so that the very considerable fatigue of that political duty will appear to him, we should hope, a somewhat unremunerative expenditure of ducal energy.
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