THE BURIALS BILL.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The parish churchyard for every parishioner, with what service, decent and orderly, the parishioner pleases ; why not also the parish church? why not also the parish parson? And if the parish parson cannot be so made available, how can parish par- sons, logically, exist at all? And "when the brains are out, an absurdity should die." If Mr. Osborne Morgan's resolution be not seen to mean Disestablishment, let "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird" be rehearsed among us no more.
The resolution has other meanings also, though not so visible. It means, indeed, ultimately, that human equality in which "religious equality" has its real root, and which will not in this -country be fully reached until her Majesty shall have been ad- vised to give her royal assent to a radical reform in the part of "our institutions which allows one baby to be born with an invidious distinction of weight and strength above another baby. For how can all men be born equal, while one man is born as a bouncing .baby, and another, not less meritorious, as a mere "scrap of a baby?"—I am, Sir, &c., [Our clerical correspondents seem all to ignore the distinction between a trust for sanitary purposes for the whole nation and a trust for religious purposes .which is necessarily limited by creed. Mr. Harper sedulously ignores it, and yet it is of the essence of the discussion.—En. Spectator.]
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