e
burial grounds unless a wall of separation divided the portion
allotted to Churchmen from the portion allotted to Dissenters--a
demand which gave offence to both communities. Viscount Palmerston
would beg to submit that several of the bishops whom he has had the
honour of recommending to your Majesty had distinguished themselves by
their classical and academical attainments, and he may mention in this
respect the names of Baring, Longley, Tait, Wigram, and Waldegrave.
Viscount Palmerston can assure your Majesty that although his
selection of bishops has been much found fault with by the High
Church, Puseyite, and semi-Catholic Party, they have given great
satisfaction to the nation at large, and Viscount Palmerston has
received communications to that effect, verbal and written, from
persons of all classes, and political parties in all parts of the
country. The people of this country are essentially Protestant, they
feel the deepest aversion to Catholicism, and they see that the High
Church, Tractarian, and Puseyite doctrines lead men to the Church of
Rome. The disgraceful scenes last year at St George's in the East[53]
were only an exaggerated outburst of a very general and deeply-rooted
feeling. Viscount Palmerston believes that the clergy of the
Established Church were never more exemplary in the performance of
their duties, more respected by the Laity and, generally speaking, on
better terms with the Nonconformist body than at the present time.

[Footnote 50: Henry Phillpotts, who was Bishop from 1830 to
1869.]

[Footnote 51: The Hon. Henry Montagu Villiers, who was
transferred to Durham.]

[Footnote 52: George Murray, who had died in the previous
February.]

[Footnote 53: For a considerable period, during 1859,
discreditable scenes of brawling took place at this Church as
a protest against the High Church practices of the Rector, the
Rev. Bryan King.]

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_Queen Victoria to the King of the Belgians._

WINDSOR CASTLE, _4th December 1860_.

MY BELOVED UNCLE,--I have to thank you for another dear letter of
the 29th. I trust that you have received both mine now. We expect the
Empress at half-past one, and I will certainly give her your message.
She is very amiable, and one must like her. There seems to be no
doubt that there were many scenes, partly about the Pope, and also on
account of her sister's funeral; she was so angry wi