30 MARCH 1878, Page 13

DISESTABLISHMENT AND BURIAL GROUNDS.

[TO ME EDITOR OF MR " SPECTATOR:1

Sim,—Mr. Harper says, in the Spectator of the 16th, that " the national churchyards and the national churches built upon them must go together,—that the Burials question is in reality the Dis- establishment question." I suppose he is not aware that in Ire- land, a few years before disestablishment, an Act of Parliament gave to Nonconformists all that the English Nonconformists now demand, and that by the Act which disestablished the Church of Ireland the churches were handed over to the Disestablished Church unconditionally, while the words "subject to future legislation" were inserted in the clause which handed over the