The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-11 00:00:00

MISERABLE DEATH IN A COPPER-HOUSE.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
ThM morning Mr. IL Rases Walthew, the
demity.earoner for East Middlesex, bald an inquest et the
and Drive Tavern,
age
58 Shad well,
leg the death of John Perry. aged 58 years, who died from
exposure and starvation, at the Temporance Coffee-house,
No. 14, Highldreet, 81tedwelL
The deceased was • coil whipper, and through Mame bad
been compelled to seek relief at the Stepney Union. He
was unable to work, end had suffered great privations. He
bad latterly lodged with one of his friends, who gave him
the share of a bed. On Thursday night last he went to
ro bed, sod when bus copanion awoke be found demised is-
ausible. A moononger no for medical madame, bat life
was extbict.

ROM, the divisional medical officer, mid that
the deceased died from congestion of the leap, accelerated
by exprieure to the cold and want of prover food.
Mr. Haan, the sammoning offioer, said that the room
where the deceased died was in a wretched condition, and
the coffee-boar, which was frequented by aoalwhippers,
was not a hammed lodging-house, although it ought to be
registered according to the art of parliament.
The deputy emcees remarked as the ease, when
The jury returned a verdict to the effect " That the de-
mised died from cougestiou of the Map, sooelenAed by an-
ymore and want."

IMPENDING SACRILEGE,

(From PowA.)

It is intended to remove from Westminster
abbey the saws of the illustrions dead that rest within
the precincts of that venerable edifies, and re-inter than at
Sessal:grees:

The Giving anaceumniment is ons which, if there were
ray truth in it, would astonish the satires, who owe alle-
giance to Qum Victoria, eassidirably ; sad would also
noewhat amass torsi/oars, em those who account us
arillet o! any brutality.
them, will the British public, aid other publion
wherever there are any, and where there are sops, what will
retardates aid princes say to the anoexid stationed ex-
tracted from the columns of • cootomporary ?

"Tan Dram:lnarrou or BLINHILL-Flims BtIRIAL4.IOOI,D.
—This ground formed au of the three gnat Aside Messily
kluging to the manor of Finebruy Farm, sod the knee for
1,000 years, sow held by the megaliths, will expire is
1867, wises the property reverts to the 1 Com-
mission's*. The burril.ground, sines the year 1664, has
been the great cemetery for Nosoonfeemiate, sod here rut
the bones of John Bunyan, tbs anther of ' Pilgrim's Pro-
gress ; George Fox, tbe founder of the Society of Friends;
Dr. Daniel Williams, founder of the library in &deices-
street ; Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Croons ; Dr.
haso Watts; Joseph Riteon, the antiquary ; Thomas Stn.
hard, R. A. Patrick Colqnhoun, LL.D., Rather of 'Our
System of Polio.; and other well.knwn literary men,
besides those of the Buxton,. Sollys, Travers, Fallen,
Roberts. Motleys, Gibson., Maitluds, and other gnat
dissenting funnies. On the ground coming into the pc..-
.union of the Ecekriastical Commissioners, it is intended
to remove the human remain lying there, and let the
ground on building Maass."
It is very likely that all that is mortal of John Banyan,
except a very small quantity of phosphate of lime, ham
evaporated into this air. Bat if any dust is of any weer
queue, some rsurect is owing to that of the most famous
Jack the Giant Killer, who conquered Giant Doubt and
Giant Despair. and bequeathed the story of his victory to
age.. And whit% Minoan be said of the relics of that sternal
benefactor to boyhood who created Robinson Cryan, and
survived the @Minot Pope ? What's in a name, if thews'
of Watts, and the logic which hu memorised it, and the
pealmody which bus consecrated it, cannot obtain maiden-
Um for his grave? Is there no sanctity in the tomb of
Stogie* a painter—sod not also a plumber and glacier

We cannot be sure that the verses inscribed es ask-
Infareh suceuluent, deprecating the distarbaaces of his
bones, and end to have been written by himself, were really
composed by the parish clerk. There is reason, therefore,
to suppose that the greatest of mankind attached some
importance to the chrysalis shell whence the butterfly had
down. His jedgment, coinciding with the comma gee.-
mint of humanity, should give us pause in the idea, could
we entertain it, of dislodging the residue of great spirits
from Peet's Career. The dust of genius, too, has conse-
crated the burial-ground of Beskill.fields.
However, the Ecclesiastical Commisdonerg, se each, will
not recognise that oonseeratioe, which is ell that the die-
@eaten? cemetery has. Its for the diameters themselves,
in the first place, to care for the conservation of the apt.
ohne of their fathers. It has been suggested that they
should devote a portion of their large Biosetesery Memorial
Fund to the purchase of the freehold. They will be helped
by many who, regarding of the creed, respect the memory
of the gifted, learned, the venerable, if quaint and
prim, and rather pigheaded old nonconforming. Like
other intramural cemeteries, let the burial-ironed of Bun-
hill.6elds be coeverted into • garden, in which the remem.
breve of three whose actions " smell sweet and blossom in
the dust" shall be graced with the suitable emblems of
trees and dowers.

FATHER MATHEW iND HIS 'CONVERT& —MT.
Maguire, M.P., in his biography of Father Mathew, just
published, says that after the good mien bad been
speaking one day le Golden-lane, Barbican, to crowds
of Irish, emend hundreds heat to receive the P
and won them the Duke of Norfolk, thersletn
Arundel and Surrey. Mathew asked the earl if be
had given the subject sufficient redaction. "Al !
Father Mathew !" replied his noble convert, "do
you sot know that I bed the happiness to realms
Holy Communion from you this morning at the altar of
Chelsea Chapel ? I have reflected on the promise lam about
to make, and I thank God for the resolution. trusting to the
Divine Goodness for Grace to persevere." Tears rolled
down his cheeks u he uttered these words, with=
evidenceof genuine emotioe. He thee repeated the f
of the pledge. Father Mathew embraced him with delight.
pronounced • solemn benediction "es him and his,"
and invested him with the medal. Mr. Maguire says
that the earl continued faithful to the pledge, and " it was
not until many years after that, at the command of his
medical advisers, he substituted moderation for total eh-
'Vassal." One nolilernan epee whom his influence wen
lees encosedel was Lord Brougham. " I drink very little
wine," said his lordship " only half • glass at luacheoa and
two half (bum at dinner ; and though my medical advisers
told me I should increase the quanta?, I Pr-
forest to do so." "They are wrong, my
for dyeing you to Morisse the quantity. sod
you are wrong in taking the small quantity you do,
but I have my hopes of you " And so bin lordship was in-
vested with the silver medal and ribbon. " I will keep it,"
said his lordship, "and take it to the Hosea. whirr I dual
be sure to meet obi Lord the worse for limier, and I
will put it on him." He was ea good as his word, and
meeting the vegetable peer who was so calibrated for his
potations, he said, "Lord —, I have • present from
Father Mathew for von." and passed the ribboa rapidly over
his neck." "Theo I tell you what its, Brougham, I will
keep sober for this night," soul hie lordship, who kept his
row, to the greet unauseent of his friends.
The new sheriff of Southampton is Mr. David
Davies, of the Hebrew race. He enjoys some p.aajtar pity
lams in the Jewish synagogue on account of his claim to be
of the tribe of Aaron. Mr. Davis is a liberal. Previous to
hie elegiacs se sheriff on •Meaday, Mr. Ereanael, • Hebrew
sad a conearaitive, was sontinated with another candidate,
but the votes for each being equal, two !rub candidates
had to be aoesiestst, one of whom wan Mr. Davis,