Mr. Bright was buried on Saturday, in the burial-ground belonging
to the Society of Friends at Rochdale, no flowers being placed upon his coffin except those sent by the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Messrs. Bright's workpeople, Miss Cobden, and Mr. and Mrs. Hallett. All other flowers were excluded by request. Intervals of silence, broken only by prayer, with subsequently a short address from Mr. Lean, Principal of the Friends' College, Acworth, were followed by the lowering of Mr. Bright's body into the grave as the clock struck twelve. On the same day, a beautiful service was held at Westminster Abbey to commemorate Mr. Bright, at which the Dean of West- minster delivered an address full of insight into the spiritual side of Mr. Bright's character ; his earnest desire to see national morality based on the same principles as individual morality ; his pathetic recognition of the darkness besetting so many nations' earthly destiny ; and his glimpse of " the glimmer- ings of dawn" "above the hill-tops of Time." Only into the moody and burning wrath with which Mr. Bright pursued what seemed to him any selfish and calculating policy, the Dean did not venture any lengthened glance.
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