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London, England, 1858-11-10 00:00:00

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Tilt profanatiost of the remains of the dead in the
Cemetery belonging to the pariah of St. Martin's-ba-
the-Fields, in Csanden-town, as it has been described
on oath in the polies courts, is a disgrwe to a civi-
lised community. It admits of no palliation. It is
an outrage on the tenderest feelings of humanity,
and a systematic violation of the decencies of
civilised life. What makes this desecration still
more inexcusable is, that it has been perpetrated
by the official and legal guardians of the remains of
the dead. It has been accomplished ander the cover
of legislative sanction obtained by untrue represen-
tations. The feeling of the living have been
harrowed, and the relics of the dead subjected to
most barbarous treatment, to obtain no public good,
but to increase the revenue of a wealthy pariah by
endangering the health of the living.
Within a few years, before the rapid out-growth
of the Metropolis had set in, several portions, in-
deed the greater part, of the parish of St. Pancras
WSJ as remote from the denier population
of Loudon, as Highgate, lental-green, and
Norwood now are. The burial-grounds of many
of the western parishes of London had become
overcrowded. From necessity, perhaps, rather
than any just sanitary views, these parishes chose
for themselves and purchased tracts of ground for
onneterise far enough removed from the crowded
thoroughfare* to be secluded and suited far
their solemn use, yet near enough to be withia
resell of the poor and those who wished fee.
quently to visit the last resting-place of their
loved and cherished ones. Bt. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
St. James', and St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, had burial-
mends commuted in the parish of St. Pewees.
The inhabitants of those parishes need these places
of sepulture in consecrated ground, assured that here
(their dead might rest in peace, that the essisseer
lion of the ground was a security, that a mortmain
held them which weld never be dispossessed, that
if the religious care for the dead could not prevent
the violation of thew sanctuaries, the commontst
feelings of humanity would preserve them from vio-
lation.

Of all these suburban cemeteries' perhaps the
meet carefully tended, the prettiest, and most
pleasing to the eye mut that of St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields. It bad a chapel, a resident chaplain, was
eirefully planted with shrubs, and tastefully orna-
mented with flowers. Thus cared for, it was a
favourite burial place.
The tide of London population ever stretching
outwards, soon reached and surrounded the Ceme-
tery of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The improve-
meats of the crowded parts of London, the wide
streets thrusting their way through the crowded
dwellings of the poor, inoreseed the living imsgration,
till Camden-town and the rural parts of St. Pancras
became in turn densely populated. A knowledge of
the danger of intramural intermecte, the necessity of
tering for the living as well as providing a place of
sepulture for the dead, has led most properly to the
closing of all churchyards surrounded by dense
populations. The Cemetery of Bt. Martin's shared
the fate of the other places of burial in St. Pancras,
and was closed by order of the Sitourrs IT or STATE.
The ground thus closed against future interments,
if hallowed by the remains of the dead from all intru-
sion, might have been ands to minister to the health
of the living. Here at any rate was a apses left, in
reality a enasoiliens none, equal is ens to that of
Lineoln'e-ian-fielde or Ransil•square, to fern a lung
la its thronging neighboarlased. The deans= of this
ever-increasing out-growth of Loudon cocain for the
most part of the poor, thrust out by modern

roomier*, from tiro western parishes. There was

ins ratios of this ground, apparently unoccupied by
the dead, in reality most crowded. When the first
harkl visitation of cholera passed over the land, a
portion of nearly every burial ground was set apart
tor the corpses of those who perished from this
dreadiriplogna. This was, perhaps, a who precau-
tion Amtr altar the visitation had passed away, the
plass where they had been buried should not again
In apposed to risk any renewal of the infection.

There was, therefore, apparently a portion of the
burial ground of St. Martin's-in-the-Field. no tenanted.
The parochial authorities of St. Martin's, no longer
deride% any fee, from their cemetery, and being
the elves removed far away from any benefit to be
derived from the proper disposition of their burial
ground as a valuable long for the living population,
enught Os utilise their land. Upon the plea that a
portion et their ground had not been used for inter-
ments, they got an act of Parliament authorising
them to build on this particular part.
In August last they commenced their work of
domaritios. They had ant proceeded far in their

eneostiens ham the Wee pretence by which they
bed obtoissel the sanction of the Legislature mani-
fested Half. Had they proceeded on faulty inform..
tkesenoagh was manifested to call upon them, out of
sum iholiap of decency and propriety, to desist iron
their hateful task. Popular tradition remembered
well the position of the old cholera ground, and a
=SAM show of public indignation was mode to
Wave them to desist.