The Express.
London, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BURIAL BILL

Yesterday evening an adjourned meeting of vestry
was held in the vestry room of St. Clement's Danes to con-
sider the report of the committee appointed by vestry on
the Metropolitan Burial Dill, and to adopt sue. resolutions
on the subject as might be deemed advisable for the benefit
of the parish. The senior churchwarden, Mr. T. BEACHIII,
presided. The Vestry Clerk read the report of the com-
mittee, which stated they had waited upon the Dome
Secretary and Lord John Manners, who had charge of the
bill, that they had obtained some beneficial changes in the
ME, especially one giving the parishes the power to select
their own burial-grounds, and it concluded by recommend-
ing the different perishes in the city of Westminster to
form a union for the purpose of having a burial board and
one burial-ground for the city.. The vestry clerk then read
the resolution which had been moved by Mr. Lewis for'
the rupees of carrying out the recommendations of the
committee. Several of the ratepayers having made conges-
tions to the meeting, Mr. Lewis, the mover of the remota-
, non at the previous vestry, said he considered the subject
was ciao which was of the deepest imporance. It was to
be remembered that a strong feeling eaisted in Weston.-
ster against the government system of centralisation, and
that the inhabitants were desirous of attending to matters
that affected their own interests. What they wanted was
municipal institutions. In the present bill there was pro-
vision made for the City of London having a separate
burial board ; and there was no doubt, had Westminster
possessed municipal government, that a similar advantage
would have been *Decoded to it. He said he was not
sanguine of the ether perishes meting with them, hut, in
the event of the west-end pariahs' refusing, he would then
limit his proposal to the parishes comprised in the Strand
anion. The resolution was then nathinioualy agreed to,
and a depetation was appointed to confer with the different
parishes, sad to report without delay.
A numerously attended vestry meeting was also held s-
terday in the parish of St. Mary's, Kensington, the
the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, in the chair. Lime,
Colonel Barlow pointed out the desirability of the whit
coming to en arrangement with one of the cemetery
ponies few the apportionment of some part of their pearls
to the um of the perish, so that the eipens• of a ehepal
sad an officiating clergyman might be saved. This sumer
tiros appeared to be received with muck approbation by the
amembled ratepayers. Archdeacon Sinclair observed that
Lord John Manners had informed him that,
the amenity that might arise for lathing orden fttrigm-
mediate closing of some of the parochial burial grounds,
the government had in contemplation the purchase of the
West London and Westminster Cemetery, in order to sup-
ply the want. of those parishes while they should be form-
ing burial grounds of their own. Mr. Miley said that the
2tith section of the new act gave to banal boards the power
to enter into such arrangements with cemetery companke
as had been recommended by the gallant colonel. A board
of nine gentlemen was then appointed, with instructions to
report to the vestry the result of their inquiries, and not to
enter into any arrangements without find consulting the
ratepayen. A vote of thanks having been given to the
venerable Artheincen, the meeting broke up.

TOR CONVICT MARY ROBINS. WORCIRIEB
MONDAY.—This unhappy woman, why now lies under
sentence of death for the murder of her child at Oldeant-
flrd, in this county, has conferred the justice of her sen-
tence. She admits that she threw her infant into the coal-
pit, but states that at the time she was in a state of distras
tion, the child's father doing nothing for it, end her own
father refusing to admit her into his house. A petition
has been signed by the High Sheriff of the county, Sir H.
H. Lochner., and by other magistrates and clergy, praying
that her life may be saved, and the High Sheriff is about to
present it to the Home Secretary.—A singular case of sui-
cide by a boy has just occurred here, which is attributed
to the feet of the pending execution of this wretched
woman. A youth, named Went, hung himself to a shelf
in his master's (a pawnbroker) warehouse, tying himself
up with a cord, and swinging himself off from a pair of
stes. He was talking about the execution en hour or two
before, and some people think he woo trying an experiment
in hanging, when he icw. his footing and was strangled