_Burial without Religious Service._--In case of the friends of any
person deceased either objecting to, or not wishing to compel the
clergyman to use, the burial service, is there any law to _forbid_ the
corpse being interred in the parish churchyard _without any religious
service at all_? Suppose the deceased were a baptized dissenter, who had
himself in his lifetime objected to, and whose surviving relatives also
objected to the performance of the burial service, though they wished
the body to be deposited in the churchyard; does a clergyman render
himself liable to any penalty in _permitting_ the body to be thus
silently interred? Some years ago, at the Kensal Green cemetery the sons
of Carlile _protested at the grave_ against the performance of _any_
religious service. The chaplain persisted in its performance in spite of
their expressed wishes to the contrary! Was this right or wrong in a
legal point of view?