§ MR. SUMMERS (Huddersfield)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been called to Section 13 of "The Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1880;" and whether, under this Clause, it would be perfectly legal to bury an unbaptized person in Westminster Abbey, or indeed any church in which burials may lawfully be held?
§ *MR. W. H. SMITHSection 13 of the Burial Laws Amendment Act of 1880 was brought under my notice when the former question of the hon. Member appeared on the paper, and I can only repeat the answer I then gave him, that I did not feel myself qualified to give an opinion on the legal points of the case.
§ MR. OSBORNE MORGAN (Denbighshire, E.)Might I ask the Home Secretary whether it is not a fact that the right of interment in a church does not depend on the ecclesiastical state of the deceased person, and whether Sir Rowland Hill was not buried in a church, though an un-baptized person?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI must have notice of that question.