The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, •1849.

defect ought to be corrected, and in this Ml6O the re-
medy may be applied without any undue infringe-
ment of the pdvtkges which have already been
conoeded.
Probably the most difficult task which the Board
of Health have to pedant is to provide, oe to cause
to be provided, places of interment which shall be
sufficiently remote from the metropolis to prevent
annoyance to the inhabitant*, and yet sufficiently
within reach to avoid inconvenience and expense. The
sterner difficulties which would have formerly presented
themselves to extramural interments are now no doubt
removed by the facilities of Intercourse. Nor do we
doubt for a moment that the railway companies will
provide the accommodation that is necessary, along
what are now the high roads out of London, for the
passage of the dead as well as for the passage of the
living. Bat there is a public prejudice to be iufluenced
upon this subject or rather a public mind to mould
and shape. To teach the public to avail themselves
of the advantages which the railroads may open out
to them for these purposes, will probably be lee' east
than any other part of the task which the Board of
Health propose to themselves to perform.
Some alarm may be exprened or felt at the idea
of extra expenses which such arrangements may in•
volve. We believe, however, that it is capable of
proof that there can be no mode of preparing funeral
obsequies more extravagant than that which is the
present practice. If there is one thing more than
another the payment for which is disproportionate to
the setvice rendered, it is that which relate, to the
funeral obsequies of oar dead. By every rank in
life the evil se strongly felt. The peer and the pea-
sant are alike victims to the extortions of the under-
taker. Among the rich this carrion crow of
humanity—
This sable man that lives apse the dead—

is noted for the boldness of the charges in his bill.
He knows he is amenable to no law. The items of
hie account cannot be questioned. The excellence of
his articles—over which the long dank grass has
begun to grow—are beyond the possibility of cavil.
And as for the paraphernalia—the order which was
given for " a plain, respectable funeral," com-
prehends, according to undertakers' interpretation,
" mutes" and "feathers," "cloaks" and " coaobes," not
forgetting the use of that most costly article, " the
best black silk velvet pall" It is of no avail that you
order everything to be " plain ;" what can be mu&
plain than the mourning coach and fuer, as the under-
taker provides it ? And yet, as we all know, the
" plainest funeral in this way entails an expense of
from 601. to 1001. . .

As for the funeral of the poor, it is so disgrace-
ful as to be dear at any price. At the busiest hoar of
the day you meet it in the busiest street of Lon-
don, splashing through the mud, the undertaker with
his rusty trousers turned up, and his hst cock. d
jauntily wide, lounging along in front, and calcula•-
leg, as he goes, when those who have engaged to
pay him for the job will be able to cash up. The
widow and the children that follow after, poor souls,
what privations have they not entailed upon them-
' selves, what pinchinas must they not daily undergo
in order to satisfy this two-legged jackal? Talk of
the ecutcheon set up over the door of the noble, what
ecutcheon is there half so saddening as the hoggarc
looks of the poor man's widow from whom the under.
taker is extracting every week et least the value of
three days' labour in payment for his " services?"
The sympathies of every clue of the public will be
with the Board of Health in their efforts to open out
to the people of London opportunities which are not
at present afforded of interring the bodies of the
dead. If " vetted interests" are affected—they are
" vested interests " which do not deserve a moment's
consideration. For our parts we should like to know
the house of call at which the undertakers may
appoint a meeting to get up a petition foe protec-
tion" or to pray for "compensation."

GERMANY.

BERLIN, Nov. 10.

The Second Chamber has continued its discussion
of the church and state question. Several long
speeches "ere made in favour either of orthodox or
of free Christianity. The one side declared that the
state ought to have • certain declared religion, and
the other that the individual alone could be religious.
There was nothing of importance in the debate.
Yesterday evening several other clubs were die-
solved, one of them before a word even was uttered,
in,rely because a German flag hung above tie.
tribune. Very early in the morning ieuuse examina-
tions were instituted at several of the cafes, in order
to prevent all preparations for honouring the memory
of Robert Blum. A workman was arrested in
his own dwelling because he had hanging
of his window portraits of several democratic notabi-
lities, which he refused to take down. They were
torn down by the police officials. A bookbinder was
arrested and retained in prison until the evening be-
cause he had announced in his shop-windows that pic-
tures of Waldeck in hie dungeon, and of Kinkel in the
House of Correction, were far sale in his shop. This
is the true celebration of the birthday of the Branden-

burg ministry.

UNITED STATES.

In our yesterday's impression we announced the
arrival of the American mail at Liverpool. The
following additional particulars of the information
were brought by this packet :
The speakership in the new House of Assembly
had begun to be discussed in the United States. Va-
rious rapers were speculating upon the chances of
Mr. Winthrop ; Mr. Cobb, of GA:orgia ; Mr. Linn
Boyd, of Kentucky ; Mr. M'Lzne, of Maryland, and
others.

The New York Herald thus disposes of the gossip
of Weahington place-hunters:
Wean interned from Washington, that among the latest
rumours in that extraordinary village, it is rumoured that
Mr. Meredith is to go to Banta ; that probably George
Brans, of Maine, will be called to the Treasury uepartment,
and that some other cabinet changes are expected to De
made on er shortly after the meetag of Congress. Very
likely. It is also reported that Mr. Collamer has got Wed
of Major Hobble, his flat assistant in the General Pat-
entee, and that the Major is to go on the lit of November.
This is the thing which plays the deuce with the whig party
—they have so many starveling offtoe-hunters to feed, that
the locofecos, from the worst to the very best, must give way,
and have to be turned adrift. It is this swarm of gad-flies
that has stopilled the cabinet, and rendered it melee.. It is
to be hoped, however, that Collamer will retain at least one
capable man in his department. As for the cabinet, the
more you change it, and the sooner, the better.
The state elections were still in program, and their
results were anxiously looked for. In two weeks
from the date of our latest despatches they would be
concluded in nine of the sovereign states of the union
—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Illincie, Michigan, and Wis-
consin. The policy of General Taylor's cabinet
and the personnel of the administration at Washing-
ton would to a certain extent be adjadicatict on by
the people at these elections, and hence the import-
ance attributed to them.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
COTrON.
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bake; ea the lielk, SOO, without farther variation lo
tt the nth
lathed, OR the tholth of the Earepia advice. per elegraph,
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Bank, 952,000 bales.
Import, Igt. Ist to Oct. 27th 41,793
93,793
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