There seems to be a Vicar at Richmond-on-Thames, the Rev.
C. T. Proctor, who wishes to introduce the old exclu- siveness towards Dissenters, by. walling-off their part of the new cemetery from the consecrated ground: Not only so, but he does this after he has given every one reason to believe that he contemplated no such course,—in. the old. cemetery it was not so,—and after a plan has been approved in which no such wall was marked. Of course, the Dissenters are very naturally indig,- mut at this noli-me-tangere policy of the Church, and the wall built by the vicar's builder was in great part pulled down on, we believe, Tuesday night. But the Vicar insists on having it built up again. We only hope the Vicar is not in. the pay of the Liberation Society. He will do a great deal- more for it than Mr. Miall's open agents. Cannot the present Home Secre- tary, who has expressed an almost exceptionally enthusiastic opinion in favour of burying religious opponents side by side, be got to interfere? If Mr. Proctor would like to be buried himself in a completely walled-round grave, so as to keep as clear as may be of Dissenting decomposition, we don't suppose that either the- Dissenters or anybody else would object.
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