'On Wednesday,-Mr. Osborne 'Morgan brought on . ' -his' Burials' Billfor opening
the Church graveyards to Dissenting rites, so long those rites are "decent and solemn," and where not liturgical, limited to hymnsand- prayers, in a speech of. some ability, .but, as Mr. DisraelLhinted, in a too "continuous. burst of eloquence,"— i.e., in a manner too platformy and -demagogic. The Courts 'ofr Equity have evidently bottled up an untameable spirit. Mr. Morgan taunted Mr. Disraeli with his sudden fervour for- thealefeat of • the Bill, when last- year he had; been absent from 'every division upon it, and had trusted to the process of " mid- night- straagulation." Mr. Disraeli-retorted that -there:was such strategy as 'morning. manoeuvres 'as well as midnight .strangu- latiens,' by which political purposes might be indirectly attained, and he tried to make light of the importance attributed to his own intervention. Yet it was obvious that 'party. considerations hadriadneed him-tatake this step. He felt bounclto clear himself, in. &alight of . the pnrists of his-party, from any imputation of coquetting with-the Dissenters. He objected to Nonconformisks burying the respectable Dissenters themselves in the parish graveyards, but throwing the duty of busying . disreputable Dissenters on the parish clergyman. In 'fact, he -dealt with the Chureh of England precisely es if she were a mere sect, to which a certain amount of national property had accidentally accrued.
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