The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-09 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A FUNERAL.-A few
weeks sines ft wee our unpleasant duty to report the conduct
of the Rev. Erskine Neale, of ElLllblif, Newmarket, when, it
will be remembered, he refused to bury a corpse, although
the relatives had agreed to his own tints, end were reedy
with the body for interment. It is this week oar duty to
report an occurrence still more deplorable end disgraceful to
the church. Last week a reepsable labourer, named
George Hammond, died, and o'clock on Friday atter-
nooa wad appointed for the funeral, at which hour the
friends and relatives of the young men, with the officers and
members of the club to which he belonged, had assembled to
from the premodern, when they received an intimation from
Mr. Neale, the rector, that Ihe would not bury the body
bribes eight o'clock. Being a club funeral many
attended eat of curiosity, and more out of respect to the
dement sad the scene that followed during the three hours'
delay defies description. At the time Bari by the clergy-
men, the procesdon was at the churchyard entrance, but
was area then kept welting for a quarter of an hour, when
the rm. geathema arrived, end gave orders that the corpse
should not be taken Into the church. and on the officers of the
club mods( him in the church and inquiring his reasons he
told them to get out, threatened to pull off his surplice, and
not bury the body at all; at the same time commanding the
clerk to look up the church doors, which wee done. The
rev. gentleman, we are informed, then went home with Hs
emplim on, and the officers retu,ned, end again informing
the friends that Mr. Neale would not suffer the body
to be taken into the church. requested that it might
be taken back, and kindly offered to pay the expenses
of having It buried in another pariah. To this, how-
ever the pinata of the deceased would not consent,
and 'begged that the body of their eon might be put into
the grave, and buried even without the burial service. It
was moordingly placed over the grave, at which juncture
the rev. gentleman, having teenrecd, commenced reeding
the form of prayer, which was the opening of an unprece-
dented scene. The bereaved mother called out in 'livid:
that she might not hear him, and that she might be allowed
to take the Let look into the grave of her dear obild, who
was thus being buried like a dog, and depart; the other
members of the family also desired Mr. Neste to desist from
reeding, and the mourners sad dub members immediately
left the churchyard, declaring they would not hear hint.
Mr. Neale still kept on reading, although at a considerable
distance from the grave, and the crowd collected I. and
around the chtrchyord became evidently excited, and
shouted and bisoed at intervals, while some called our, " Pull
off his gown—strip him—don't hear him"—and one young
men, whose marriage Mr. Neale bad delayed, was with dig-
amity held back from striking him. In fact the whole
was in a state of palatal excitement. The friends of
the aeorveed and the dab members attended chapel on
floaday instead of going to the church, and many others, we
unikeetand, followed their example. —Bur y and Norwich
lbot.

RUSSIA.—A letter from St. Petersburg of the 29th
alt. says that the Emperor. by an ukase, had ordered the
?Coiner of Finance to Irltbdree teem circulation treasury
bills to the amount of 60,000,000 silver roubles; and, by
another oboe, bad died the form in whieh dads of sale of
land. occupied by peasants are to be drawn up. The form
adopted for then deeds is, adds the btter, remarkable from
the fact that peasants an not sphen of as serfs, or ea
attached to the pletc, but no the ~.rmanent poi.ulation of
the land. Amounts from At. Petersburg state that the
nobility of the Taurida and cad Cherson lave obtained pee-
minion to form committees for the emancipation of the
infs.
Moentrece.o.—Prince Aiello, letters state, has
given orders that a church shall be erected fa of the
victory of Graben*. Be has also published *decree Id reotleg
prayers to be offered up during a space of forty days for the
Montenegrins killed in that engagement, and has forbidden
any man to boost of having shown mom bravery than the,
rest, an laving behaved with the greatest gallantry.