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'-' - , cr,'''_ 4 4 l o - ° "t•N ~_ _.:*-- - A,,,. %./ "'Clid• yt i .... • . • - _ _ . , • F ritE ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY F or SOCIETY. p we v s Z n g al l;erManent Annuities to Decay e d Merchants, Bankers, an Cl Men, Master Man u f ac t urers, Tradesmen, th e i r Wid ows tbed erks, and single Femal es th e i r Daughters, from all Parts of United Kingdora. Founded A.D. 1827. SaPPorted by Voluntary Contributions. N ° . 17 G .] LONDON, MON DAY `r.; c 7 o i v gq a rr ft,l a-0 - ri3 k ri akQ , i6al m 7 FEBRUARY 25 18.50 . [PRICE SD. P ÜBLICAT lONS. INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS. IMPORTANT REPORT OF THE BOARD OF lIEALT/1.-THE REMEDIES STATED AND Act of Parliamelt for making good from the rates what ever deficiency may occur, should there be eventually RECOMMENDED. PATRONS. Re Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN. Royal Highness the PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. M ajesty the KING of the BELGIANS, K.G. ..er Rer ‘ 0 :78.1 Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. Royal Royal Highness the Duchess o f KENT. The - " ° Yal Highness the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE. TNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be holden at the London Then),.. ,Bisho psgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, March 6. 4°ll. EDWARD HENRY STANLEY, ALP. for King's Lynn, in the Chair. Supported by the following distinguished 114 G r ace the Duke of Leeds ace the Duk e of Rutlan.:. 418 4r.a .a the amFiltoB ,1 A4randen,D uke of H F.R.S. t . 11.1 3 •-•' • it.u.ace the Duke of Cleviland, R' X Te ta l l se r "'" D ios - T he the Chevalier mar qu i s of ottitgie.clieobletie e Im o ., • Marquis of bl 11 1 4- :_ o n i ti tl . sofLon dotderry ° ,G.C.l3. e , 71beeatri°03,t1IN:;,,b le the Marquis of I,elti eer T4eitn Churchill o L ord Alf:ed 1 /0 1 4ht n en at a , • Lord John D ouglas he S.xut Ibn. the Earl to e t glit lion th • 0 Earl orMor se( 111 itht R on t , .34ertitar he Earl of Oxford The tßht Abe rgav l a• and Rev. the Elf The4l4in ena Y• T it Iti g h t lion,li the Feel of Digt,) t e l light n °a • the Earl Yowls Th e 0 11. the Earl of Aid " Ciro H sve gnoht ron L(rd Robert 13.,.1tight Ilona be r. anrig, Lord Viscount Mt~eha ht •P• li f. ) 11 . Lord ylserme-,. vi.co. thorton e Right 11 , ,n. the L tught Hon. Lla II eteberrnere, Lord nt neral vi.,„ the Right lion T ice dal :. 14 3, j‘i./,ht So ' 1 • L ord Viscown qer,Bht en• it h Lord raecoual on 4 'r., • e n• Lord Aittle3 i, .L. F • , ht 'n 11,711 es • L ord Viscount Or o f N titlit R e , '.,,e, , erb erot • t he Lord Bi s h op ;4 1 1t, T he • t. b o . r iy• the Lord Bishop T it St. A sa . b er• the Lord BL,hol. or It lght Th e Zafor d 1 7. the Lord Bisho;• th e 'l / „*,, 4 S., * I t Lora u l• and Right Rev 1 110 4 1, 4 'B4°P odor any a' lgli t Roe 11 1 , and • and Rev. Lord Th , R o ''e n. Lord Southamp heyiZht li o P s Lord Kenyon, ` i gh A • Le rd it ßolton Lord Aylmer, te k ith L t uon d Crewe 1 1 43 fer th ' 11 13 . 11 1 rori°ll2ol Manners n. Lord Col (4eht e,4ight Lordst:Tersham el i ll ° n• Lord mersdale hi t Nee 'tight Ih.• IC.H . 110 n. Lord o t ' . ll ight ` i f l i n n• Lord L e i gh (4 °4 ' Rem"- Goalbarn, RIo $f Qs, hht ci n, Jobn Charles • •l b 4011 .. r ite S ydney Herbert, 01. 4" 1 th' ul D if SY oo dner e . errepoht (: 0 !Tio e • r ienrY Cecil Ob e tile nry /1(4.10111as Liddell i loe , p ., R. •, ,T Arthu r Dun -14,4' • Octe v i„.,' "U nCOMbe, 4 olte ri d Rae ),Stik„ g erard fl Bart. ' l d' , Gunderson Prideaux, r' i Ward , "e 4 Y DeeriB Ate Jose ng, 12 . 1 14 1 ': 4 ` I R . Z . 1,0 , pert Shaw Stewart,i k Col o taD ui 4 Xiteli n . li 'l%r w in. Alexander h ' 'art, itoron lrax well, tf it 411 . ti,,14,1t(1 fjo,r.rieffe, Bart. ' ,: l 44 l 4 „ l tlr e ta n• hart,. art.Joh„ "tart. , . ' ' 4,1 c1011 h ehr t t 4 4. Sa e ', si /h sir orn e'rerell WFrnot, 41fIliieirg.Besketh, Bart. rain Ridell, Bart. 414.4,1 1 Jodrell, list. Ri ? ' 4 lt l W 4 er,••' )114 , Bart. kit tio,sr.iivavaour, Bart 4 / 11 eY• Lart. C„,ks,P loy, °d, art., M.P. ne t taaid e r. Bart. • yl, Sir I.l7.enntpell Bart.! a 1.13 Broke, 1% art.. ki r. t to ksir Geo • tk,, l eor o ,,, r e s,lla rt r ge de la Poer kuta t otat o rii Baq. .if,f;tl), 11,:retral Sir ward 34 • P.: XC.B„ 11.1411 Glidston 14, 4 ,401 rk ia e, Bart, ti tle k'nrr„ tart. ht. en 't. laart. 11,,,,erid. Sir • Henri 11: 1 1 ,; 4 4." n ti e verte, Ei c at. r i ti. Sir witi afu e i . •ll 7llt, al . si• C • ll ., C.B. I ~ ipnr ~d r John It olt i ihtT ar d Belcher, B.N I gi ‘ , lll l' tt r „,, ea tt of Exeterl 'ff O f Bucking_ -ger ier of Leicester- I! I ‘ l 4t e , ~!e r irr Of Nor folk he hat e eh " r ; , teriff. of Surrey o hcriff of WO-f'6- hilit4ilbi4ilift,il • • - ?h° hest` . t he Mayor on V i kst; hi Pitil , h 4, 4 l Ve ro, „the Mayor of 'l'44 the s tayor et V 4t bar r 111 0rtii t N - .: (1 , 01 t t he mayor of , IP tripfnl t he Mayor of I rkt: '4l l' 1 1 :N. 43111p:1a t •'e Mayor of Iv. the May or of h e tl q i.M4 Drol ‘t 41'411, the Mayor of aer-Lyrie Q l ! NOh a°hipf al th e Mayor of Nt ,14.1‘ , ,,„, t he Mayor of the Mayor of ?\v„ril the Mayor of , k l, Itt' q 1)fU l th e Mayor of k 'A A ! , d ` lo' l, 4 4 ll tee irl .,X,: l q A bhiss, k E eli t " q, - • • vice- Otati: 11 41 "11 ‘ Xsq ~h4,1 , 14 •141 e , • )14 .t 4°° : b 4 itiNii,';' tnt 1 / I "r t . l4 'i ,j 4 'M Vice t tag, •I*Aah o e, t ' 4q, • 1 111' ' I laS 4 • I, _sq. If ( -` ',ad •' • • 11% bat 'r 'll, l t iite„,-Ebb e -Y, Esq., gi.`" , Ese ,: , O a Y , , t 'k kr 111 1 Ikh I RS, . M.A. ' ll h4 P.l '' '' l 4 4l • bet* Rird, • Y ., Etal 5 .1 ; 4 441 kt O t t t he kl 4ll ettl: .tOrt,,lstritlegttern,elheetnctitrl:irdrre', t he eta fl'lll the tzDrovided for the Ladies. t e 'it Ta,rer,,tival,2l,,,, each, may be obtained of the Stewards, .1 4 i t i r4:ete ee ana 7 , and at the Offices of the Society. , er vntlern er , , • 1, 4: 4 qi e4 r egoe (estrous of honoaring the festival with I I. t.'t ti nt Dl intni ' tea ' to Mate au early application for tickets c pt gvi tai the ent and the Stewards arc particularly re 4ltoilhnt;its they S4Cr etarY. at their .earliest convenience, the ht Oti ori ttee „101118.4 Y require. th k3 ,, to r , )r the p n ` esPect fully and earnestly solicit the boner°. 1, l; 4 1)11 °llie Ile towards the support of this institution, 4 s ia,_ et th e relief of misery and distress, at a' period are I . lt Lttsi Da h ealth a t oo frequently b ere ft of all other aid, when efyya]e,nd Or rr , ruined fortunes, they can lost forward 'n0118:i as their last shelter, and from the de '.l ch arity etts rescue them I t h .z 4 0 1 ? tht ttir ort, te ! rte tlat the are very Many whom this elie;itihe.wiic:47l:i h av i e mourn tedeprivation of e i r t to r t e ts cel a hv n e nu t dratiptsrotieesceurnvg :::: ar e t liinap e Ttra at once am ps` lent to claimat the hands h av _tq w armest support. What a numerous class unaer this Ih:a Look at the various t —ho w f lg hie—haw, perhaps they have struggled hr t 0 ; 1 ef self-denial in order to add to the such at the thousands who have acted as w acted b ° e e 4 .11 th ef ,:, .caoacities, and by these meant have oihood mail old age prevented thorn. , who'-'sree b enevolent than to aid such a class of an e r 1 0 Drii, early qays were 'ail- ed in instilling religi kr 1 1Ni blot e Ples Into tile miritl ,l of the yoling, ant in en. ht: l A4 t t en' or 1„. ne e4 e ,, is, !laments of society ? 1 1. 1: 4 oPleto ,Jent t, its own. - ativeeate. Universal in its %eet , ever,. h . r egulation , , it rem anp,al far rapport to e e „ , tied t,..• D e rsna,lon and of ry Ind ter the peen ti se of ae distictiet.• of eoun'rs arc no obstructions to 11t. nV 1 . 44 d i ta be t el, ll 41._ ft for T ißtre MI is the chief claim 1 ; . ertability the only condition it ti:0 1 O, the e , or k t 44ervb,„• ... lier inoth • ..annitanti nn the funds : the i i. e olvt ,e r „ one &mares 11. 10e .; besides these, /I:totr .4; 1 4 th e "-ting 1 , 4 1 , 14 '.) ot them reduced foul affluence to to e el of ...Jell); for these tile C,,mmittee plead, of h 0 , nch an InstPutio ill •tb fg tt rill al l •T will b e se w, ..•• w 1.0 e or o en, , of .0 1 , 108 , with meanie° of ameliorating V t rih,.`!!xle 0 .. u4 r the.a4ged, and thus answer one of the e' Ltieed. "en. Which is to afford relief to the dis he , 11 1 tT i te. u ,kne:teflin y i: eo . to idd, n, CNed at the Bank of England to the ,Co;ettnd others; at Dlcsars. Roberts, Cur- IC'tetskorersiernubard My' tor t ,' atzd Larki at Messrs. Sir John William Lob \ kit), bed 0 12 ofti ansi2n House -street ;at the Office "fled betweea ebtS.Dlieetion, and the :s.ociety, where lists retie th tithet b e e v e hoursry f o a' n t I oand r e F s t p vgd F ly 7 4 1 STEpg E.N . J. ALDRICH, Secretary. , . ''' , .13..60 , 61144116t Feb 6 'ISO 'ARDS, Richard W. Blakemore, Esq., M.P John Myth, Esq. Edward Bond, Esq. Thomas W. Booker, Esq. Edward Lennox Boyd, Esq. Dominic Braggiotti, Esq. Emanuel Henry Brandt, Esq. Thomas Brassey, Esq. Edward Brewster, Esq. The /Lev. Joseph Brown, M.A. Colonel Henry Bruen, M.P. The Rev. A. N. Bull Wiliam Earl Lytton Balwer, Esq., E.R.8., V.P. John Wiliam Burton, Esq. Dr. Burnett R. Campion, Esq. George l• rederick Carden, Esq. James Carter, Esq. W. 0. Carter, Esq. Major-TlGneral Caulf.3lld, C. 8., Vice-President Elias Chadwick, Esq. E. Chairner, Esq. Chanarlayne Chamborlayne, Esq Matthew Clarke, Esq. Charles Cobbohi, Esq. Benjamin Cohen, Esq. I. Connolly, Esq., M.D. Lieut.-Colonel Crabbe, K.H. William Citbitt, Esq., M.P. The Itev. T. Curteis Thomas Curtis, Esq. Horatio T. Day, Esq. James Deardeo, Esq. has. D!xon, Esq , Vice-Pres. John Dudlow, Esq. The Rev. J. Ellis, M.A. Henry Emery, Esq. George Esseli. Esq. Evan Evans, Esq. Willlain Evans, Esq., 111:P. R') liaiu E‘enrt, Esq., M.P. I. Fair lie. Esq. Edward lellowes, Esq., M.P. W. J. Frodshali, Esq., E.R.S. Robert Fox, Esq. Francis Fuller, Esq. R. W. Furer, Esq. William Ja Lies Gardiner, Esq. Ecil,ert Garr's!.l, 1•:sq. James 3lillies Gask ell, Esq., M.P. Sain.rel 11. Gass, Egg Gilbertson. Esq. Captain J. N. Gladstone, R.N., IVia-Prcsldent J. if. Gledstan,s, Esq. Edw. ,:berieek Gooch. Esq., M.P. Eriss - ttril Woode.e.k Gooch, Esq. trEllain Goo lingo, Esq. Wm. Omits .or Gore, Esq , M.P. G.,re. Esq. r, ecs.Esq..Vice-President rr ore , n 01, Esq., M.P. I ilomas Esq.. M.Y. Iteiijaa.iii it. Gros ne, Esq. Henry G rem way, Esq. Henry Gregory, Esq. Chas. Wm. Gren!sli Esq., M.P. Samuel Gurney, jun., Esq., Vice- President Chas. Douglas Halford, Esq. Colonel J. Hall, M.P. S. Caster Hall, Esq , William C. Hall, Esq. Jas. Hans Hamilton, Esq., M.P. I. S. Elarford, Esq. The Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, M.A. G. R. Harvey, Esq. The Rev. E. C. Hawtrey, D.D., Eton College Jas. Eternal, Esq.,'M.P., F.R.S. Robert Charles Illldyard, Esq., M.P.. Q.O. John William Hobbs, Esq. Francis nobler, Esq. William Nicholson Hodgson, Esq., ALP. Charles James Hogg, Esq. William Hogg*, Esq. Albany W. Higgins, Esq., LL.B. Robert Hook, Esq. Henry Hors, Esq. James Thomas Horne, Esq., Vice- President. 1. Brooke Hunt, Esq. William S. Inman, Esq. James Johnstone, jun., Esq. James Kevin, Esq. John Thomas Klag, Esq. Thomas King, Req., TieerPres. Andrew Lawson, Esq. Geo. Cornwall Legh, Esq., M.P. Alfred Lilliagston, Esq. William Loft, Esq.,V lee Pres. Robert Lush, Esq. W. 3 azdonald Macdonald, Esq. Thomas Maekerness, Esq. The Rev. J. R. Major, D.D., King's College. George Mataou, Esq. Antonio E. Mavrocordato, Esq. .Toseph Maynard, Esq. William Millr.ten, Esq. Tho Rcv: Moses Mitchell, M.A., Private Chtolain to the Mar chioness of Bute William Moody, Esq., M.P. Colonel William More, M.P. John Nanson, Esq. Joseph Napier, Esq., M.P., Q.C. Richard Newsham, Esq. Colonel J. Sidney North JI. S. Northcote, Esq. Eenjarnin 0 ivelra, Esq., E.R.S. Alexander Oswald, Esq., M.P. Jolla Owens, Esq. John S. Pakington, Esq. Robert Palmer, Esq., M.P. Charles S. Par e, Esq. • Edward Penrhyn, Esq. R. M. Pitillipps, Esq. The Rev. J. V. Meters Jeremiah Giles Filcher, Esq. The Rev. John H. Pinckney,D.D. William Port, Esq. Wiliiana J. Prentice, Esq. Richard Prime, Esq., M.P. . Philip lais , ?y, Esq., M.P., E.R.S. Francis 11. Rani tdgc, Esq., M.D., 1 • F.L.S. _ I :Andes Ramslen, Esq. - dlchr.rd ltprevien, Esq. Charles Revd, Esq , F.S.A. Robert Rohl. fr,qq. 'John Carnpkll Renton, Esq., M P. irostr Rept , ,It is„ Esq. Samuel S. Rix, Esq. thumas I.la!ey Rose, Esq. Captain George Rustiout, M.P. . Fr neis ,ia..iter, Esq. Mr. Alder - in:la Sa 7 omuns. Simon Samuel. Esq. • Christopher 3AlLlllarslv..,Esq.,Viee- Isre4lent. SAfirtt , ll, Esq. !at , . Esq., M.P. Major-Gez:eral C.B. Con,tant Sant.i-Nlaris, Esq. jOeerge Selil.qtl, Esq. Charles Sinunoncti, inn., Esq. W. Simpson, Esti. G. T. Smith, Esq. James Smith, Esq. John Smith, Esq. John Smith, Esq, Newman Smith, Eeq. William Smith, Eeq. John L. Sm 3 the, Esq. Cant :In Edward Arthur Somerset, _ _ George Startin, Esq. J. Staunton, Esq. Robert Stephenscn, Esq., Mr., F.R.S. Thomas Stirling, Esq. John S. Tanqueray, Esq. James Taylor, Esq. V.ce-Pres. James Duncan Thomas, Esq. Thomas Towend, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq., F.R.S., Vicc-President - Col. C. Kemeys Tynte, M.P. The Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Harrow S hool John Henry Vivian, Esq. M.P., F.R. -.. F.G.S. David Waddington, Esq., M.P. C. Noel Welman, Esq. F. G. West, Esq. George Whieldon, Esq. Charles F. Whiting, Esq. Josiah Wilkinson, Esq. Albert Williams, Esq. Benjamin Williams, Esq. Thomas Peers Williams, Esq. M.P. Btajamia Edward Willoughby, Humpltry Wlllyams, Esq., M.P. John Wilson Palter, Esq., M.P. David NNl:llams Wlre, Esq. Basil T. Woodd. Esq. R. It. Wood, F.sq., Vice-President Charles John Wragge, Esq., Vice- President. Charles Winn, Esq. r the direction of Mr. Hobbs, as viols, Mr. Lockey, Mr. IL Phillips, land of the Coldstream Guards will CONTRACT for MOULMEIN TIMBER. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, Feb. 23, 1850. The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice that on TUESDAY, the 26th March next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's several Dockyards with 4,040 Loads of MOUSIEIN TEAK TIMBELL. Half to be delivered In the year 1851, and the remainder in the year 1852. A Distribution and a Form of Tender may be seen at the said Office No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for kiln, duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Moulmein Timber," and must also be delivered at Somerset place, accom • partied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 5,0001. for the due performnee of the Contract. CONVEYANCE of her MAJESTY'S k} MAILS between HOLYHEAD and KINGSTOWN, DUBLIN. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, Feb. 22, 1850. The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irclaad do hereby give notice, that on TUESDAY, the sth March next, at One o'clock, they mil 5e ready to treat, under conditions, which may be obtained at the above office, for the Conveyance of her Majesty's Mails, in Steam-vessels, twice a day each way, between HOLYHEAD and KINGSTOWN. All 'Tenders to be made upon the printed form provided for the Dui pose, which may be obtained upon application at the said 0111ce, or to Commander B3YIS, R.N., Liverpool, and to be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, at Somerset-place, with the words " Tender - for the Conveyance of Mails," and " Comp'roller for Vic tualling and Transport Services" in the left-hand corner of the en velope. No Tender will be received after One oVock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or ea agent for him, duly authorised In writing. Every Tender must he delivered at the above Office, and it must express when and where the vessel: will be ready for survey, and when they will be completely ready for sea, and also state the ad dress a the party tendering. TIDAL WATERS AND NAVIGABLE RIVERS. APPLICATIONS TO PARLIAMENT FOR LOCAL RILLS, VICTORIA DOCKS (opposite Woolwich) BILL. NOTICE.. The Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Lord Ilfgh Ad miral,under an Act passed In the twelfth year of the reigi, of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for amending an Act passed In tho ninth and tenth years of her prevent ajesty for making preliminary En quiriei in c•crtairi cases of Applications fr Local Acts," in so far as the said Act relates to an intended application to Parliament for an Act in relation to the Victo la Docks BM, Do hereby give Notice, that Jamas M. RENDEL, Esquire, Civi` En gi teer, the inspector appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, wilt attend on Tuesday, the twelfth day of March, 1850, at the Brunswick Hotel, Back ,-all, at half-past tea o'clock in the forenoon, 'or the purpose of mlking an examinatio'n, survey, and en quiries in relation to the proposed Act, and of investi4ating such ether matters relating thereto as the said Lords Commissioners have by their order directed him to make and investigate. And we do hereby require the promoters of the said intended work to appear before him, at the time and plat • aforesaid,, and to produce all such surreys, plans, seztions, estimates, doc ments, and evidences, as will be necessary to support such intended application. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty do hereby further give notice, that all persons desirous of being heard in opposition to such intended application do appear before the - said JAMES M. RENDEL, the Inspector, with witnesses, plans, sections, maps, book, or other do cuments relevant to the said enquiries. As witness our hands, this eighteenth day of February, 1850. (Signed) ALEXANDER MILNE,/ Lords Commissioners for executing the W. COWPER, Office of Lord ll4:llA,lmiral. ATION AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNITILL, LONDON Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample Proprietary Capital. Moderate Rates of Premiums. Tiro-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured. Annual Division of Profits. Half the Pretniar Extensive Travel Moderate extra N.B. The last Ar per cent. (accordim may remain as a Loan for Five Years. Iling Leave granted, without extra Premium. Premium for Residence In Tropical Climates. nnual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to G ig to age) on the Premiums paid. . Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options. This day Is published, Bvo., 21s. cloth. 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Admission, One Shilling ; Schools, half price. SUBJECT : —Life's pilgrimage, from Infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infrin,gementi. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remetilative. Advocacy of early marriages. . THE MARRIAGE STATE. " To be or not to be, that is the quest!on." PRoeitistraz :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, .on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy off.pring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and Its conversion. Cases, &c. By R. J CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1821). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these natters. Reception hours daily till five. Evenings, seven till nine. 10, &twit place, Regent-street. 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The acknowledged efficacy of BLAIR'S GOUT and REILU AIA.TIC PILLS, by the continued series of testimonials which have been sent to and published by the proprietor for nearly twenty years, has rendered this medicine the most popular of the present age ; and in corroboration of which the following extract of a letter, written by John Mallard Wheeler, E , q., Collector of Customs, Jamaica, hav ing been handed by his brother, at Swindon, to Mr. Prout for publi cation, will fully confirm. "I knew you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but let me emphatically tell you, in mercy,to any Mend who may suffer from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, or any branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their using them. In this country they are of wonderful efficacy : not only am I person ally aware of their powers, but I see my friends and nap intances receiving unfailing benefit from their use I would not be without them on any account.. If taken in the early stage of disease they dissipate it altogether; if in a later, they alleviate pain and effect a much speedier cure than by any other means within my knowledge." Sold by Themes Trout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint ment by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. sa. per box. LIFE. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Pront, 229, Strand, London," im pressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the Genuine Medicine. DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. lust published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two atam.ps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the PhysiOlogy of Marriage, and on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, whether arising from these causes, close study, er the influence of tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their strr.ctules, uses, and flinctions, and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excess e s, and infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. On Saturday afternoon a fire of a very serious nature, and nearly attended with fatal consequences to two or three persons, broke out iu the extensive range of pre mises belonging to Messrs. lleathfield and Burgess, the experimental chr mists, carrying on business in Princes-square, Finsbury. From the fact of the pro perty in which the disaster occurred being contiguous to the congreve factory of Messrs. Hynau and Co., and the hot-pressing works of Messrs. White, a most fearful conflagration at one period was antici pated. It appears that shortly before three o'clock, whilst three or four of the workmen were engaged in the still-house attending to the distillation of some chloroform or naphtha, the man-hole of the still, from some cause, not clearly ascertained, blew off, and in an instant about ten or twelve gallons of the spirits became ignited, when the whole blazed upwards, and rushed through the roof threatening every thing around. Two of the workmen who were nearest the still were burned by the flames coming in contact with their persons, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the other men on the premises were enabled to effect a safe retreat. The firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished until several gallons of chloro form and naphtha were destroyed, the roof of the still house partially burned off, and the:remainder of the stock in trade, with utensils in that part of the premises con siderably damaged by fire and breakage. The two poor fellows who were so seriously burned remaining a very precarious condition. On the same evening a fire, which it is feared will be attended with fatal results, occurred at No. 20, Bell-lane, Spitalfielde, in the occupancy of Mr. Lewis Symons. It originated in the first floor back room, from a spark flying out of a lighted candle on to a bed, and a young woman, about seventeen years of age, who was in the place, became surrounded with flame. With the aid of an abundant supply cf water, the fire in the room and about the female was extinguished ; but so seriously was she burned, that little hopes are entertained of her recovery. This fire had barely been subdued, when the firemen were called to another at No. 7, Upper Perk-place, Dorset-square, in the occupancy of Mr. George Collins, whicn was not extinguished until considerable damage was done. About the same time another fire happened at No. 3, Adelaide place, Whitecross-street, belonging to Mr. Henry Smith. The firemen and engines were soon in at tendance, end the fire was happily confined to that part of the premises in which it commenced. Another fire happened at No. 173, Brick-lane, Spitalfielde belonging to Mr. W. S. Stubbs, a sur geon, caused from an escape of gas, which, becoming ignited, set th e s h o p in flames. The inmates and firemen, however, succeeded in getting the fire out before any considerable amount of damage was done. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Fremington-house, three miles from Barnstaple, the scat Lf Mr. W. A. Yeo, the high sheriff of Devon, was on the night of Tueseay, the 19th inst., the scene of a mc•st cold-bloorlei attempt at murder. Mr. Yeo had returned at eleven o'clock at night from Barnstaple, and hia coachman, William Sy mons, was placing the carriage in the coach-house, when a pistol was discharged at him from behind s 'roe shrubs adjoining. The unfortunate man fell, and on assistance arriving from the mansion, it VIA 3 discovered that he had received a ; wound which penetrated Lelow the left ear, rupturing a branch cf the carotid artery, from which blood was copiously &wing. A !mat is supposed to be lodged in the region of the throat, and little or no hopes are ent, rtained of his rec.)very. The person suspected •t of this cowardly crim e is J oh n Litlycrop, a cos hmaker, lately discharged from Mr. Yc:o's service, in consequence of some information given against him by the unfortu nate man Symons. lie had been seen late at niglft on Tuesday in the vicinity of Fremington-house; but, since the occurrence, the most diligent search for him has hitherto been unavailing. Lillycrop was a man of violent temper, much addicted to drinking, and had fre quently been heard to express his determination "to serve Symons out" for the part he bad ta'r.en against him. He was known to be in possession of a large sum if money, and had obtained on the day preceding the asset:- sication 2504 in sovereiz,ns from- the Barnstaple old bank. HINT TO WATER COMPANIM—It has been calcu lated that the metropolis might be supplied with many thousands cf gallons cf wa•er obtained by being sopa ratad from the London milk. If this be true, whatever Dr. Buckland may say, a pretty abundant source of is Ater supply exists in the chalk formation.—Punch.. 37, BED FORD-S QUARE, LONDON. Doctor el Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Memiser of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. This work contains an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un fortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul gence and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con sequence*, unwisely entertains a fear ef applying to a qualified physi cian for relief. Shame and the dread so rrequently, but erro neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking or assistance where alone it can be procured. Dr. LA nkfERT has taken the highest medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the groat extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experi ence, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published hy the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster -row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Stark, Tichhorne street, Haymarket; Mani, 39, Cornhill ; Gordon, 146, i.eaden hall-street, London ; or, free by post for torty-two stamps, from the Author's Residence. 37. itedrore,sanare London. THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engraviaga On 814 ' 1 ' OW PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATITE INCA PA. CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. :Tow 'Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 95. F 4., or by nost, direct from the Establishment, 33.6 d. in postage THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the intirinities and decay of the generative syst&m, from ex toss:ye indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of ralercury, AIM remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain di;- qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravlitb,-s. Sy R. and 1.. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Bernet's-street, Ox ford-street, Lendon. Published by the Authors : said by 6trange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Saeger, 150, Oxford-drool . Starie,23, Titchberne-street, Haymarket, and Gordon, 146, Leaden hail-street. P LILT I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organ., and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resultinn from cxeceriveindal once, and thclr lamentable effects on the oyrtewl, producins Trrental and bodily wealcrioss, nervous excitement, and tenerative ncapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engrivings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting tram in:Oction, either in he primary or secondary form., and cintaips :implicit directions for their treatment. This sectioc is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured EngraTingZ• . FAIT fv. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Dissean by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is eb viatod. This important part of the Work should no ese62e the eader's notleo. 1 17.e.wr T. is devoted to the censidetation of marrilgo, and its I duties. The canses of unproductive union are also zonsidered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inqnired into. 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APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED LEA and PERR[NS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the Most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, ,:.11.1 all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, sad by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the rood. The daily use of this arjmatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin, 6, Vac-street, Oxford street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Marelay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA and PERRINS" aro upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. A ' The Board of Health has made its long-looked-for report on the subj ct of intramural interment ; and has propounded in it " A General Scheme for Extramural Sepulture." This report is .a deeply interesting docu ment, futl of facts, and abounding with it.f)rtuation on the subject of which it treats, which is con,idered in all its bearing.. But it is more than interesting ; it is, plrbar, the moat important public paper that has Leen submitted to the country for a very long period ; and tt w who read it can fail to he impressed with the mag nittrie f the evil that t xists, or with the practical *ta d •rn that h exhibited in the plan proposed fir its amendment. THE WRONG. The Commissioners of the Board of. Health—namely, Fords Carlisle and Ashley, Mr. E. Chadwick, and Dr. Southwood Smith—set out by stating that Ow epidemic of last year, " the sexercst that has am:cted this country in modern times," ims destroyed no fewer ttian 16,000 persons in this metropolis alon e ; and that much of the virulence and intensity of that scourge was owing to the existence. of crowdid graveyarda within its pre cincts. "They have," they state, ."aecertsined by personal examination the state and capacity of `the principal cemeteries in the neighbourhood of London, and viSitml various sites provited . for new cemt-tq!ies, with a view c f determining!, f.om their • own observation, whether those sites possessed the rc quisite conditions for placing interment for the metre rolls in a satisf:ctory state." This gives them a die tinct.-locus star:di ; and indepenchntly of their .merely offu,!ial authority, entitles their opinions to the fullest po,siWe weight. • What, then, do they say on the subject of burial in graveyards the prscinets of cities.? . they lay it down as an axiom that a few f of earth does not obstruct the escape of those noxious gases which are volved by the decomposition of the human body; and they point to the eAr ape of water, and c.;rn mon coal gas through a stratum of sand or gravel sere ral feet in thickness, as a proof of this physical fact. A calculation made by Dr. Lyon Playtair, and quoted by the Commissioners, estimates the amount of the gases volved annually from the decompofition of 1,117 corpies per acre, which is very fir short of the number ac•tially interred in the metropolitan graveyards, at not nit les that 55.261 cubic feet; therefore as 52 ; 000 in t 'tint nts take place annually in the metropolis, accord ing to this ratio the amain; of gases emitted is equal to 2,572,580 cubic feet. The whole of this, however, be yond 'what is absorbed by the soil, must pass into the water below or int" the atmosphere above, What, then, must be the state of the air that is breathed, the condition ( f the water that is drank, by the denizens if this metropolis? The s bare idea of either is almost too frightful t contt mpla^. When the living body is exposed to these putrid emanations in a highly concentrated state, the effects are immediate and deadly; when more diluted they still taint the system, inducing a morbid condition which renders it more prone to disease in general, but especially t 3 all the forms of epidemic disease, nod which further predisposes it to pass into a state verging upon, if not actea'ly that of putrefaction. Estimating the duration of a simple generation at 30 years, there must have bees interred in the small space of 218 acres—the area of all the graveyards in the me tropolis—in the last generation, a million and a half of dead bodies; and within the next 30 years more than another million and a half of the dead, that is to say, a large propol Con c f those who now people the metro:. polia will have to be crowded into those same church yards, unless other and better provision for interment be made. Yet such is the cupidity of the Church, tl.e un scrupulousness of the metropolitan - undertakers, and, it must be added, the practical supieeae:3 of the au thorities to whom the whole question of grave 3 ards has b en delegated by the State, that at this very moment there are further burials going on in some of the most IriOs•fally gorged ot the dikothes of this metropolis— among others St. Paul's, Covent gar'ei, where it is abso lutely impossible for" the boring iron" to find an unoccu pied inch of ground. Why the Commissioners have not or de:el the closing of this graveyard—zituate as it is in the midst of a dense population, adjaceit to the largest mArket in Europe, and flanked on its three aides, if not on the whole four, with the abodes of perhaps the poor est class of the mAropolitan ;population--is, to say the least et it, perfectly unaccountable. In reference to this topic, Dr. Sutherland speaks in a manger not to be misunderstood in his report to the I39atd of Health on this subj , ct:—" I am sorry to say that there are no in dications of any change for the better. The frightful exposures which have beet! made before Parliament as to the state of our burial grounds may have led, to the partial abatement of nuisanc.4 of more than ordinary nr , goitade; but sp.akiug generally, it may be sat-ly stated that the language contained in the Parliamentary report, and the descriptions in the report on ' The Prac tice of Interment in Towns,' are as applicable now as they we:o at the time these documents were laid bctire ' the public. lam decidedly of opinion," he aids, that n..) material improvement has !yen effe3ted. .The grave, • yards of London aro still the plagur-spots of its popula tior. The putrid drain4ge from them pollutes its wells, sect les beneath its dwellings, and poisons its atmosphere; and some parts of the met'opolis are still honeycombed with deposits of the puttewent remains of millions of its citizens, just as with cesspools and other abominations." Nor are the London graveyards, as such, the only sources of pestilential d;s, use, the so le focii from whence ratatei inevitable death, in connexion with intramural sepulture; the vaults of the several churches of the me tropolis are equally deleterious to life and health as are the circumjscent burying-ground 4. The vault of many churches are still little hater than charnel-houses, which it is absolutely dangerous to enter,;, if they hare been ventilated, the noxious effluvia which they ceaselessly genera`e hese been poured forth to contaminate the at mosphere without. And it matters not, in practice, whether the bodies deposited there be cased in wood only or in lead, the result is the same, with merely an imperceptible difference. In wooden coffins decomposi tion goes on very much more rapidly than in leaden coffins, three or f ,ur years generally sufficing to reduce the contents to a dry, powdery, bony skeleton. The sur rounding air, therefore, sooner becomes charged with the deadly products. Af:er a certain cumber of years, depending upon the state of the ventilation of the vault, the wood drops to powder, or becomes so rotten as no longer to hold together, and the contents are revealed to the visitor. Leaden coffins last longer to the eye; but it is doubtfel whether the lead does not act as a filter, and allow a passage to the deadlier hydrogenous g ases, even while it refuses all out l et ' to others, denser in their character, and therefore less dangerous and less suttle, such as carbonic acid g as . The condition of one of these receptacles of "rotting" humanity may be taken as a specimen of the greater number of them— if not of the whole—ex uno discs omnes. It is Dr. %Yel ler Lewis, a medical man appointed by the Board of Health to visit the vaults of th e metropo li tan c hurches that speaks; and St. Mary -at-Hill is the locus in quo, to which be makes allusion-4$ Here are placed," he says, "some hundred and fifty coffins, in all possible positions, piled one above another—the lower crushed by the w eight of those above. Tbe great ma j or i ty are b ro k en and di csyed—the remnants of morta li ty falling out be tween the rows of coffins. In all b ut ' the newest coffins the e xternal wood is deeayed, l eav in g the l ea d ex posed. Enormous cobwebs end fungi, with much dirt and filth , render the inscriptions that rema i n ill eg ibl e . Many of the coffins consist of a mere shell of decayed wood , which, on the slightest touch, bra aks into powder and exposes the remains of the skeleton. The coffins are so fragile, and the piles so much out of the perpendicular, that it is dangerous to approach very near them. In the two farther corners 'urge collections of bones are piled together without any a ttempt at order or decency—a most r evo l t i ng sight. The churchwar den was not aware, it appittrB, of the condi tion of the vault. The vault is not ventilated, and the odour of decomposing flesh is extremely foul." Who can wonder at the remark he makes as a sequel to this ticture—" After remaining for about an hour in this vault, I was much oppressed by sickness, and an attack of diarrhoea followed, which lasted about 24 hours." And yet the practice of interment in this vault is still continued. " Oh shame, where is thy blush!" There are in the metropolis of Great Britain alone not less than two hundred graveyards, to almost all of which are annexed those focii of concentrated pestilence, char "(tl vaults; there are, therefore, two hundred centres of more or less pollution, each pouring off unceasingly day and night, its respective contribution of decaying matter. The whole together, reckoning only the gases from de composing human remains, amount, as already stated, in ones ear, to upwards of two millions and a half of cubic feet. Whatever portion of these gases is not absorbed by the earth—earth, be it remembered, already sur charged by the fm:3al accumulation .of centuries—and whatever part not mix with and contaminate the water already, God knees, sufficiently contaminated from a thousand impure sources—must be emitted into the atmosphere, bearing with it putrescent matters perfectly perceptible to sense. Froai the law of the diffusion of gases, these must be rapidly spread through the whole cf the atmosphere that surrounds the metropolis•, .and though they thereby be• come dihned, and are thus rendered proportionally in nocuous, yet that they do materially contribute to the contamination of the air breathed by two millions of the people cannot admit of any reasonable doube With these facts uncontested and incontesti ble, is there not an .nsurmountab!e case made out f the total prohibiti on o f interment in the metropolis, simply on account of the in ju cry resulting aside all fr th o o mt e h rconsiderations. practice era t tin o o th s. e public health, and setting But these other considerations are, in their various drgrees, no less cogent thin this consideration. P u bli c morals are of equal importance wit h public health, in civilized society; and public advantag e may be consulted as much in economising expense, especially to th e poor , as it may bo in preserving life in the richer and more comfortable classes. If the proletariat be not abolished, the pauper should at least have a decent funeral. At present, however, such a thing is unknown among the poorer classes; and what is still worse, that utter indif ference to mortality which has always been a prevailing vice of society when a country touches on its decline, is every day becoming more and more manifest among the richer portion c f the community. The conveyance of the dead through the crowded streets of a busy city such m London, 'midst a popula tioa intently occupied with the concerns of their daily traffic, in whom the funeral procession of strange s (an awaken ho sympathy, but who become familiar with such spectacles from their frequency, under circumstances in which it is impossible to arrest (Mention or create re spect, has itendency to lessen and destroy those feelings regarding the corpse which it has been always considered of the highest importance to cherish individually and nationally.. Among those masses the r asin g hell at tracts no attention; the funt ral procession excites no re spect, no relgious thought or emotion; and hence that haehling effect is produced which must generally result Nal the sight of mourning and suffering when viewed with indifference. "Not eree the hearse," says the It-v. Mihnan,:" in - its gorgeous gloom, with all the pomp of heraldry, and followed by the carriages of half the nobility of the land, will arrest for an instant the noise and confusion of mar streets, or awaken any deeper im pression with the mass then idle curicsity. While the poor man, borne on the shoulders of men as peer as la' mself, is jostled off the pavement, the mourners, 'at some crossing , are either in danger of being ru n over or sepatated from the body; in the thriwg f passers no sign of reverence, no stirring cf conscious mortality in the heat t " And yet, though the poor are sensibly alive to the due dispossl of the last re urins of their deceased friend: and relatives, they cannot obtain other than "manned rites" fit their ashe, unless upon the payment e.t . a sum to the offieiatine clergymen incomptable tvih their mi,erable means. Oh religion! THE REMEDY. These facts being ee , ablished, it remained to seek a remedy on the part of the public body entrusted with the consideration of the subject of intramural interments; and such a remedy has been propounded by the Board of H , accordingly. • S tting out with the proposition th- t considerations such as those which have been offired, involving alike the physical and moral well being f the people, are sufficient to satisfy the Legislt tu: e and tt e putlie that a t tal change in the pric . .ice of interment is absolutely necessary;" and laying it down as a prin&ple that • 4 if interment in the me ropolis is to be wholly discontinued, provision must bo made for the removal of 52,000 corpses a year, or of 1,000 a week and upwards, to considerable distances from the places at which the deaths occur, and also for the decent, orderly, and impressive interment of this number of t'e dead," they reduce the remedies for the evil to three, namely, the grant of powers t) parishes se parete or in combination; the eicouragement of private cetneterie-, such as those of Ii ensal green, Norwood, ez.e., and the appointment of a special board or commis sion. It boots not to enter upon the course of analysis followed only in the discussion of these plans; and it will therefore suffice to say, that having rejected the first as incompatible with the requirements of the case, on the ground that parochial practice has hitherto been the source of almost all the evils complaieel of ; and, having rejected the second on the ground that death should not be the subject of trading speculation, as it would be if public cemeteriei wer e t o b e ma d e th e so l e property o f private companies ; they have decided upon the adop tion of the third, namely—th e a pp o i n t men t o f a spacial board or commission—on the following grounds, " That these public officers should be bound to ac quire the requisite knowled ge o f th e p r i nc i p l es an d de tails of the department of the public service they would be called upon to administer—that they would to bound to the performance of this and their other duties by a direct and personal responsibility—a principle under the control of which neither parochial boards nor the direc tors of join•-stock companies can be brought—that the greatness of the scale on which the arrangements would be made would give them simplicity, uniformity, effi ciency, and economy—that the saving of expense in all ways would be so great, that there would be ample means of interring oven the very poorest with increastd propriety aed Solemnity—that several of the requisite changes—such, for example, as the removal of the body by the propose 1 line of river conveyance, with the sys tem of intermediate reception houses—could not be car ried into eff ctual operation by any but a single autho rity—and finally, that there is no other mode by which the scheme of sepulture proposed can be carried into effect as a whole, end administered as one system under one direction and control." It is in favour of this conclusion, that the system which it involves has been tried in other countries with the most satisfactory results: in the chief cities of the continent sepulture is under the direct control of the State, and all classes are satisfied. In all the cities visited by Dr. Sutherland, as the agent of the Il..ard of Health, the Government had provided by very stringent laws ard regulations for the decent burial of the dead, and for the prevention of imposition on the living; ut Frankfort the conducting of funerals was placed in the hands of a commission; at Munich it was under the magistrates; and it was the same in other towns. The various bodies entrusted with these important functions issued regulations and superintended their execution. They buried the dead according to a fixed charge, in a variety of classes, so a 3 to suit the n eats of all descrip tions of families, leaving at the same time ample liberty as to extra matters of expense. In some cases ho found the charges incluth d all the items of expense; in others, only the removal and conveyance of the dead from the house to the place of interment. From the fa ti and arguments, of which the preceding are ab stracts, however, the Commissioners of the Beard of He ath have arrived at the following conclusions, which they submit in this form in the report under notice, " as the foundation of a General Scheme for Extramural Se pulture:"— i. Tint with a view to remedy the evils of intra• mural internrAit, as at present generally practised, it will be necessary to obtain separat3 Acts f3r London and the country. "2. That, after the passing or the Act for London, all interments in churches and within the precinct: of the metropolis, except in special CllB , B, under license isrued by the Metropolitan Interment Commission, should, as soon as the necessary preliminary arrangements are comple'el, be strictly forbidden. "3. That public burial grounds to provided at a suitable distance from the metropolis; that, with a view to prevent the near approach of the population to such burial ground, no new dwelling-houses be permit d within a distance proportioned to the size of the cemetery and the number of interments for which it is calculated; and that, in order to render possible the al vantages of crramural interment, without, at least, en hancing the cost to the poor, to secure the proper de cencies of burial, and to put an end to the injurious itiluence to health occasioned by the carel.-ss and un checked disposal of bodies, it be, with the exceptions above referred to, unlawful to inter in any other plsce than the public burial grounds within the prescribed pre cincts. " 4. That, considering the river as a highway I assing through the largest extent of denarly-peopled districts, the facilities for establishing houses of reception on its banks, the conveniences arising from the shorter dis tances within the larger portion of the same area for the removal of the bodies to such houses of reception, the advantages of steamboat conveyance over that by rail way in respect to tranquillity, and the avoidance of any large number of funerals at any ono point at any one time, and of any interference with common traffic and with the- throng of streets; and, lastly, taking into ac count its great comparative cheapness, it is desirable that the chief metropolitan cemetery should be in some eligi ble situation accessible by water carriage. " 5. That it be unlawful to inter in any burial ground more than one corpse in one grave. " 6. That the price of funerals be regulated according to a series of scales or classes; and that the whole ex pense of each funeral be included in the charge fixed for its class, and be paid for in ono sum. " 7. That, it being essential to the success of the pro posed improved practice of interment that it be adminis t,red on one system, under one responsible authority, all public burial grounds and the whole arrangement for burial be intrusted by comrnissi ,, n to a small body, not exceeding five, of whom not less than one should be paid, specially qualified and responsible. " 8. That in every cemetery there be a part conse crated and a part unconsecrated, and that in the conse crated part there t o erected a church alapted to the purpose, and fitted also for full services according to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England; and that in the unconsecrated part there be erected a com modious chapel. " 9. That the new consecrated grounds be under the same ecclesiastical jurisdiction in matters spiritual, and in respect to the performance of the service and the superintendence of the chaplains, as the parochial burial grounds fur which they ere to servo as substitutes now are; that the inhabitants retain the same right cf sepul lure as they would have ha-i in their respective burial ground., sutject to the general provisions which may be necessary for the public health and the convenience or sepulture; and that the incumbents have the right of performing the burial service f,l. any of their parish- inners in the public cemetery, subject to the regulations established for the same. " 10. That, inasmuch as the fees and voluntary offer ings paid to the clergy' con,t;tote one of the lesst of the charges incident to interment, and at the same time form in some instances almost the whole, and iu many instances the greater part, of the funds on which they have been accustomed to rely, provision be made for compensation t, the benefice, on account of the recuipt of fees for interment, on the average of titres years be fore the posing of the Act. " 11. That compensation be made to the proprietors of private burial grounds aed to the holders of cemeteries estsblished by Act of Parliament according to the awards of juries. " 12. That provision be made for placing therexisting burial grounds under such regulatiou as may be most conducive to the public health and advantage. " 13. That although, if the whole work were ti be done afresh for the first time, ore part of a general scheme of extramural cemeteries would have included the formation of a correspouding set of intramura l officers to receive orders, to give instructions, to cAlect and enforce l ayments, and to transact other general business, yet, to avoid the unnecessary creation of new offices, it be provided that the preeent parish clerks or sexton, or both, as the case may be. should be retained, and their offices made use of for m aintaining the paro chial connexion with the cemeteries. " 14. That the whole immediate outlay for carrying into effect this scheme may be cbtained without any aid from the Treasury, and without the levying of any new rat a in the f)lloweng way—that is to say, by luau; the principal and interest of such loan to be defrayed out of 1 the receipts of the cemeteries, security being given by There is reason, however, they state, to believe that, along wi'h the equitable arrangements as to compensa tions, and even with a considerable reduction OR the ex isting charges fur interment, there will be no defizleacy to be defrayed by rateF. The Commissioners then pro ceed to explain more in detail some pa t of the scheme proposed by them; to state the estimated expense of currying it into effect; and to point out the purpose that may be expected to be fulfilled by the adoption of it. " It appears to tic," they say, " t., be essential that as soon as provision sha'l be made for interment in public burial grounds, interment within the district included in the . Act, in any other place a whatever, should be strictly prohibited, excepting in special cases under the saectien steel regulation of the Interment Commis sion, and excepting also in cans in which, at the dis cretion of familiee, the body is removed fur burial bL yond the 'district." " With there exceptions they regard the absolute pro hibition of interment in any other than public burial grounids as essential to the 811eCeSi of the scheme:— " 1. Because it is indispensable to such success that control should be exercised over the whole of the inter cheat , and this csnno be effected unless the whole are placed uritler the direction and manageme .t of one au thority. "2. &cause if interments are not restrictei by law to the public burial grounds, interments may still go on in the old burial grounds, in which case the old evils will l'e cortinued; and in the present joint-stock core- talies' cemeteries, in which cos- the objections alrea , iy urged against the principle of allowing the burial f the dead to he the subject cf commercial speculation and trading profit, will apply in their fill force. 3. Beeriest° ss the whole of the interments are pla - ced in the - hinds of on , authority, and-are under one mar:a•;eraen*, tl.e expensa of iat,rixe .t cannot be diminished. " 4. Fe..actee in all countries, as for at least as our in quiries 'ham e encode 1, wherev. r the practice of inter ment has been placed undo'. legislut ro rPgulntion, it h as been found nce , ,lssry that sAme t alive and re sponsible authority should la,l charge 1 with the control and management of places if burial, as well as of burial itself." The Commissioners argue the three last objections; but the conclusions at which they have arrived aro only necessary in a net'ce of this description. A supplemen tary c .nelusion, howeve-, is of a nature not t') be over looked. Interment in public burial grounds under the supervision cf tl:e State would, they itder, " opert.ta as an additional check in the prevention of crime, by in creat-ing the difficulty of tho disposal of the bud) in the case if murder, and in all other instances where con cealment for illegal purposes may be desired. Were the interdiction cf interment in any but a public or national .§tirying-ground," they add, " invariably consequent on the opening of a public one in any district, the di-covert' of a dead body any where within that district, except ing in conse.nrated or public ground, would be in 'twit positive proof of an unlawful at t, and presumptive proof of a criminal act." The Commissioners then proceed to develops their ystem in this manner:— " If the whole plan for extramural sepulture for Lon don were now to be devised for the first time, we should probably recommend the formation of two cemeteries only, placed in districts the most convenient of access at the western and eastern extremities of the metropolis. But there are several suburban cemeteries, on which large sums of money have been expended, and to which certain powers have been granted by Act of Parliament. Our opinion of the geceral condition and malagement of those cemeteries may be gathered from what has be en_already stated. " It appears that there are a'together eight cemeterice in the immediate neighbourhood of the me ropoli-, com prising at the present time about 282 acres of ground, a which about 17 acres hare been used, exclusive f the space occupied by roads, p!antati_.ns, and buildingf. Iles° cunt teries are— Acre 7. Kebsal•Grecn, containing of ground about 54 Norwood ... ... 50 Highgate ... Nunhead ... Brompton Tower Hamlets ... 50 ... 39 ... 30 Abney Park ... ... 30 Victo - ria Park " To Kensali Green, the first established, and, upon the whole, thl best, it would appear to be easy tq make any degree ef extension that way be deemed desirable in one direction by the addition inciefinitely of nee/ por tions of land. All the other cemeteries are more or less limited in their capacity, and there are very f.:w t f theas which it would be ee:irable to extend, if tie r extension were practicable and easy. " Almost all of there are already, on some sides at least, closely approached by the habitations of the liv ing, their outward boundary being, in some instance., as in that of Norwood, separated from dwelling-hot:L.o3 scarcely more than by the width of an ordinary at , e,t. The only means by which it would appear to be practi. c dile at the present time to interpose between these burial grounds and the advancing, population, the de sirable distance is to confine interments to the centre of tie ground, and to ob'ain from the outer portion the spate that may be necessary, en expedient which must of course be attended with a great loss of ground. " We apprehend that the whole of these grounds must be purchased, and it is proposed that they should be taken upon jury compensation. The Kensul Green Cemetery at present divides 7 per cent. upon their outlay; two o:herr, the Highgate sad Nunhead pay 2i per cent.; and the Brompton pays only l per cent. On account of the distance of these cemeteries from the great masses of the metropolitan population, no provision having been made for convenient removal to them, but the only mode of conveyance being by carriage proces sions, they have been placed entirely beyond the reach of the very poor ; c qually beyond the reach of the respectable class of artisans; much beyond the reach of the larger portion of the middle class; and their rneral use has cons , quently been confined to the more wealthy part of the community. Still with appropriate whipta dons and provisions for easy access to them by ecot,c mical means of removal, it up; e trs that several s f them might for some time to come be made available for the purpose of sepulture, and it is probable that ft otn various e in terment in they would be oft e n s ected for in special oases. SITE OF CEMETERY. " We are of opinion that, Bopp( sing the utmost avail able use were made of the existing cfuneteries, the wants of the public would require at hest one additional prin cipal metropolitan cemetery. After an exploration of thej districts round London, a singularly eligible site for such a cemetery has been found, fulfilling, with reference to situation, distance, surface, soil, extent, and aceeisibility, the requisite conditions. It is situated at a sufficient dis tance from any town or village to fulfil the conditions of remoteness and seclusion. It forms part of an ancient domain, a considerable portion of which is abbey-land, and has been consecrated ground for many centuries. It rises by a gt a-lual ascent from the river bank to the height of 80 feet above high-water mark. The surface is moderately irregular, being here and there a good deal broken, but consisting, fir the greater part, of gentle undulations and slopes. It comprises an ample extent of land, in a tract of gra►elly and firm sandy soil over chalk. Immediately beneath the gravel is a bed of sand from 70 to 80 feet in depth, so firm that when cut with the spade it stands !perpendicularly, requiring no shoring. In excavations in the neighbourhood there are blocks of this -sand standing perpendicularly, to the' height of from 60 to 70 feet. Below the sand is the chalk, which is nearly on a level with low wate-, hut water is not arrived at for the depth of from 270 to 300 fete. There are no streams or rivulets crossing the surface of the land in any direction and no springs whatever. __ "These conditions secure the dryness of the ground, and are conducive to the natural process of decomposi tion. There is on the land much ornamental timber, a considerable portion of which is of appropriate character, but additional planting would be required, particularly of trees and shrubs that have naturally dark foliage, with gloat height in proportion to their width, admitting air and sunshine freely—vegetable forms which would give to the ground a distinetive character at once sug gestive of its purpose, and quite different from that ef a pleasure ground, and which are classically and popularly associated eith places of sepulture. It has the advan tage of river-side as well as railway conveyance, the distance of water-conveyance by steam-boat being from London. bridge one hour and a quarter, and by railway half au hour. "For the reasons set forth in the fourth general con clusion, a rivcr-side cemetery appears to possess paramount advantages. The single superiority of railway conveyance, that o f spee d, is co unter• balanced t.y objections w hi c h seem to be insu perable: such as the difficulty of having special trains on any main trunk-line out of London on account of the nature and amount of the regular traffic ; the in convenience and incongruity of having funeral assem blages at the same stattons at which the ordinary traffic of the railway is carried on ; and the necessity of bas ing, f service, this special railway mourning c oa c h es and hearses, which could be used for no other purpose — thus requiring not only the exclusive use of the line at arrihgel, Sce. The further objection arising fro m the d4 collision, of collison, or of break down, need be sugg ested onl y , not ar g ued. certain ofp liarxteideutliarrne e s I , a but I s , t , h f e c provision and the exclus ive use " On the other hand, with regard to the metropolis especially, a reference to the map will show that the highway of the river passes through the very centre of the largest extent of the most densely peopled districts ; while the quietude, the more complete isolation, the fa cilities for unint....rrupted transit at all hours, and the great economy of water-cot,veyance, give to this mode advantages with which no other can be compel - et CONVEYANCE OF THE DEAD. " The halfpenny stearwrF, which at pse.ent ply on the river, iudicat3 at how cheap a rate the service in ques tion might be effected by this mode of conveyanc e . At the tame time railway conveyance may be convenient on s me occasions, and may be ( ften chosen by the attend ante, who may join the funeral at the cemetery. There is, conve:,ieut for such caces, a raik ay station near the spot which we have in view for the Great Eastern Me , tropolitan Cemetery. "If, however, we assume that the vast wajori y both if the corpses and attendants will be conveyed by water, then it will be necessary to provide—first, steam-boats ap!cially adapted and exclusively appropriated to the object ; and secondly, reception-houses placed at conve nient distan ces a l ong the b an k s o f the r i ver. The adape tations necessary to give t o th e b oa t s a ll th e requ i s i te conveniences deserve cart fal consideration, but may be safely left to the authority to which the execution of this service may be entrusted." With reference to the reception-houses a very correct plan of the m e t ropo li s has been prepared to show the relative distances from the river Thames of certain pro• portions of the population. Between Vauxhall-bridge and Limehouse, on the north side of the river, upwards of three-qu arters of a m illi on of inhabitants reside within 'a mile and half of the river bank. This amount of population would be at an average distance of three qteirters of a mile from reception-houses established along the banks of the river ; but it is now an average of nearly three miles, or fine times greater distance, from any of the present metropolitan cemeteries. The chid portion of the dense population on'the south side of the river is situated within ono mile of its banks, and consists of upwards of one-third of a million. This amc,unt of population would be at an average of only halt a mile from the proposed reception•houser, while it is now at an average of three miles from the nearest present cemetery. "For this mass of the population," says the report, it is calculated that the river conveyance would there fere be the most economical, and as under all other con. siderations it would be preferable, it may safely be in fe - red that whatever arrangements may be made with reference to the existing cemeteries or other extended p, rovi‘'on that the whole tf the poorer class, and th e great majority cf the higher, would avail themselves of this accommodation. Looking also a' the position of large outlying are as, containing a great amount o f p o p u l a ti on , an d c on s ide ring the advalta,les which would be afforded under combined management at the reception-houses, and the general Eastern Cemetery, it is considered that, irrespective of any local accommodation which may exist or may be providfd. large additional numbers from these outside di,tricts would voluntarily adopt also the river eon ve3 eqer.. " As the entire a the poorer classes of the districts abovcmei.tioned bordering on the Thames, forming up s DM; of three-fourths of the whole population of tbis part of London, may be assumed to take advantage of tt e river conveyance, it can scarcely be safe to reckon thatless than two-thirds the whole number ( f lunettes ,:f the metropuli, would l ave to be acc. , mmoda:ed in the ea: tern ct-ui• t,ry, and that r.ception-houses on the river b,nks must be p ovidcd for an aanua mortality of 35,000, or 96 daily deaths. - RECEPTION ROUSES. " Is is therefore s , :hinitttd that there should be five recel fon-houses on the north side of the river, and titres on the south side. Tho 'collides most convenient fur 01, m would appear to to the neighbourhood of the fol. luwieg placer, viz.:— ON TUE MIDDLESEX SIDE. 1. Between Weblinirster and Waterloo-bridges, the most accessible spot from Charing-cross. 2. As mar as practicAble to Blackfriart-bridge. 3. Near to tise Tower. 4. Near to tt e Thames Tunrel. 5. Blackwall. ON THE :.1:111/1EY SIDE. 1. As near as practicable to Vauxhall- bridge. 2. Near to St. Saviour's Dock, Bermondsey. 3. Dep. ford. " A receptior.-house near Vauxhall-bridge on the Surrey side, and one near Blackfriars-bridge on the Mid dlesex aid-, would probably prove convenient IR a cer tain portion of the district also on the opposite side respectively, and be the a cans of saving the expense of additional establisbmentr. " Recepion-houses Blackwell and Deptford would, it is conceived, be of greator importance than is indicated by ttle mere au.° n't c.,f the population of those neightourhoods ; for, as a considerable length of the river transit through the Pool would be raved if embarked from these points, it is most I:kely that the inbabitaets of many districts would avail themselves of them in preference, although situated somewhat nearer to other stations. For instance Lime house, Mile-end, and portions of Bethnal-green, would probably prer ,, the Blackwell rcceptiot -house to the e rer one of Shad well; and Peckham, Camberwell, a td O'er t xtensive outlying districts in that neighbourhotd, mght rather proceed to Deptford than to the less remote btetten of Bermondsey. "For these various reasons it is difficult to estimate the extent of eocomesiodation which each particular reception-house bh ,, uld contain; but the total and daily eumb...rs in the following list exhibit an aperoxima.e c.lcuktion of what on the average may be probably ex it, cted. These numbers, how ever, form only a guiee to the proportionate accommodation in each nceptiot, house; the actual provision mutt be considerably greater, in cyder to meet the contingencies of epidem'ca, the variable seasons a sickness, and conveniences of time of burials." Io fixing the ( xtcnt of accommodation of each recap. ion house, tle rapid increase of the outlying districts and the stationary character of the older portions will have also t be considered. ESTIMATE OF THE AVERAGE DAILY NUMBER OF CORPSES TO BE PROVIDED FOR ♦T EACH RECEPTION-HOUSE. Reception-houses ou the Mid- Average dlesex-side. daily number. 1. Between Westminster and Wa terloo-bridges 2. Hackfriars 4. Tham .s Tunnel • • 5. Blackwell .. ••• On the Surrey Sid". 1. Vauxhall-bridge F. St. Saviour's Deck 3. Deptford 8 )4 •.. • But," continue the Cemmissioners, " we have now t., state tht,t these houses f reception, which are teces• nary as affording convenient intermediate stations at which the corpses may be received, and feorn which at regu!ar acrd pre-appointed times they tray be conveyed to the boats, are in - carded t) answer a further and much more inapontint purpose." This purpose is the removal of the remains of the dead, from that immediate and fatal contact—fatal, morally as well DS physically—which is compulsory among the poorer class( s of the population under the existwg system f social arrant': merits as r. garde a• pul tore. It apposts that of the deaths which take place in the metropolis, upwards f ono-hale are of the labouring chsases, and that of these fair out of five occur in f4milics nut. hate only one living rind sleeping-room; that is to say, in upwards t f 20,000 instances the corpse must be kept. during the interval between Vie death and the it:- torment, in the SHIM. room in which the surviving In' tu bers of the family live an sleep; while of the B,ODO deaths that occur in the metropolis every 3 ear from opi. demic diseases, by tar the gre..,ter part take place am ng this class of the pnpulatior, and under the circute,,t,nces just tiet.cribed. " The corm, xior," adds the report, " between the ex tinction of the feeling of respect for the dead and the growth of that callousness which readers the brutalised witAl insensible to the sacredness of life, and which thus prepares it fur the perr etration t f crimes of violence c f the greatest enormity, has been often triv:ed by those who have had the best opportunity of witnessing the process; and they concur in stating that it is in these filthy, unwholesome, and crowe's I rooms, where none of the ob:.ervances of decency are regarded, aid where the living, without emotion or concern, eat and drink and sleep in the presence of the dead, not only that the deg' s, led and profligate who constitute the ordinary pests of society are trained, but also that it is out of those same abodes that our great criminals gent rally come, brutal and reckless men, who every now and then pt-rp.trate in cold blood, with a savage callousness, deeds which fill the whole country with disgust and horror." It is to provide egainq Ouse evils that reception houses are proposed; and though the desire to reiain the ' , mains of a btdoved relative as near and as long as pos sible is as natural, and may be as strong, in the bosom of the poor man as in that of the mere educated and refined, there are circumstances affecting both rich and poor strong enough to overcome ties it-cling, and which ought to overcome it. When the dwelling-house is small and ill-ventilated, and situ-ited in a close and cr ,weed neighbourhood; when the inmates of such a dwellitig are numerous, and particula ly when the death has occurred from an epidemic or contagious disease; but above all, when the whole of a family occupy only a single room in such a house, it is absolutely indispensa ble to the safety of the survivors that the corpse should be at once reccoied from such a dwelling-place; and there there ate few indeed who would object to the d remo t v a ak en t the b , dy under such circumstances, be to o a se p place fit w ofuirldits take reception, resp ec t andrespectful confided the Commissioners, " the Considering, tl_e'‘," say k !• 7l i l o c cl f ou t i z i the care of i classes that live in tow hich large proportion cal culatesv u g y l l e t a r bu r e ep ° o s ° l, unilhasje'eoncaetnod'i hthh:ehei s , he •e ni gPwhe y rar provision °t edgt of ° o fb mortality necessaryua e s o f to reception thisT i p o tte o a r ptbehiye perceive add, that he sutpheeri superior rre caresat i s t le a l t fu than that which can be the r tb t a h t ei w r h u e r n e. h g iavveen freeto f i r t sec i e n ceep t s h tsi e ot i lo r i o t ; a o b pr o pr d se e je F u , l e w e a hi trincrhethmtahatei remains e m y i na my theeay house t first t a o v , against its removal there would disappear." They are right. The %act of houses of reception is, bowev,r, not confined to the very poor. To shopkeepers (who of en occupy only the basement story of the house fur the purposes of business, and let off the upper room to lodgers), lodging-house keepers, innkeepers, the o o r w s n i e n r g s le oc o s o m m a s ll t h o o s u in se g s ie p wh e o rts l ho e e t nsn si (e n ct g bee lsealiratoytotefmrors being,t o t he f aa i 03 p l m i e e er s,.. haps, strangers in Lond on ), dirt e removal of the dead is often so urgent that they are compelled to resort to some expedient, however un satisfactory. The usual practice under such circum stances iv fur the undertaker who conducts the funeral to te.;eive the body, and he either keeps it on his own pre mises, often in a shed, or on the premises of his work mu. 11 ace receiving -houses become an indispensable adjunct to a large and comprehensive system of extra mural interment. BURIAL OFFICERS. "In carrying into effect a general system of extra mural ii.tmnent for the metropolis," observes the re port," it is obvious that a staff of persons of superior information information and intelligence will to required to make at range meats for fun( rals; to superintend the remo va l of the bodes; to visit the houses of the poor when d ea th curs in single living and sleepi ng rooms; to g ive necessary instructions to the survivors for their own sare'y; to obvibt?, a; far as may be practicable, the danger to ln• oppreher dei from the pteience of the corpse until it can Le removed; to examine into the existence of any local causes calculated to promote the extension of disease, more especially if the death has arion Erna