The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-11 00:00:00

OONSECAAKION OP THE GREAT NORTHEIZI

LOADON CBMZTIBY.

Yesterday the ground enclosed for a cemetery
at Co!my Hatch, on the tact Northern line of railway,
was commerated by the Bishop of Roceseseer. The site is
the most beautiful that could have bees selected so near
town ; and the epees is greater, we believe, then my that
his yet been devoted to the purpose of interments. The
sew cemetery is in the hands of • company, who have
spared no expense or pains in carrying out a
plan of which everybody, on !enaction, most
approve. They have separate and independent eta-
time at either end of the journey ; that at King's-cross
being about half • rude up the York-road. The architecture
is ecclesiastical in character, bat is solidned to the simplest
form which decent reverence requires. These is, no doubt,
something jarring sad anomalous in this assemblage of
ideas ; but • few year. will accustom us to the change
from the old system of burying the dead to • new,
and, at first, repugnant practice. Most d um will
live to woofer how we could have allowed the
time-hallowed absurdities of the undertaker's reign he hold
despotic away so 100 g sealant the meted+ of mom and
true feeling. Despite, then, the bizarre combination of
railway writing-rooms and church furniture, of secular
time-tables and spiritual emblems of eternity, we have con-
fidence in the sound benefit to accrue from Vie innovation,
Admitting the propriety and general goodash of the prin-
ciple, everybody who inspects the arrangements at King's-
mom and at Colney latch will accord praise to the
rd emare of the travelling department of this new ceme-
tery. Without entering ado details, we will state simply that
all has been dose which inventive forethought could devise
for the quiet and reverential conduct of these sorrowful
=rys. There is not one impecessary instance of the in•
upon real mourners of a show of spurious grief ;
net me ostentatious display of "the trappings and the
soils of wee." Arrived upon the ground itself, we are at
owe struck with the appropriateness of the locality. No one
who asseciabee a 'Mural scene with his thought,
of lasting rest could It, even in imagination,
on a more lovely and trenall not. The erection in
the cemetery are altimeeher weeeky the MSS is whisk
they And. A church of light sad graceful Gothic archi•
teeters, deeignal by Mr. E A. Spurr, occupies a finely
chosen elevation in the entre of the ground, which covers
110 acres. About 40 acres of this noble expanse are set
apart for the interment of dissenters ; and there are, brides
the church we have assaticmdad, Boman earlobe sad loon-
oonformiat chapels an a sonarasemaes scale of sink sad in
an equally pleading fermi of design.
The Bishop of HookesSer was assisted in the ceremonial
of yesterday by the Rev. 11r. Sparkes, by the chaplains at
the cemetery, and by his lordship's ova chaplains and his
chancellor. There were besides a great many clergymen
pram,. and the Roman catholic body WWI represented by
the Abbe Teerselle, the Rev. Mr. Vassour, and others. The
choir of St. Andrews, Wellsetreet, chanted the
response to the service, and sang with excellent effect I
the Ilse anthem in D by Rogers, the wards of which Sr.
takes from the 9th chapter of Revelations, " I beheld, and I
le," Sc. On the conclusion of the satire ceremony, the
bishop, as the procession was passing through the grounds,
stopped to pay a well-deserved compliment to the choir.
A luncheon was afterwards given by the directors, in
• handsome tent near the private railway station .
of the company. Before the guests departe4 by the I
special Mita which had brought them from London,
tthhee Rev. Ashby Blair Haidrroed addressed • few
words to the Bishop of Rochester, expressing •
the respectful
Osaka of the board, Rochester,
all their guests, for the kind I
and courteous manner in which his lordship had behaved,
sot only on that OCCellial, but throughout the preliminary
business in which he had bees seamed with the company.
His lordship, is responding, touched briefly on the
questions of cemetery government. He observed
that it wee quite impossible in these days to I
adhere to ancient customs, however rooted in the •
prejudices of our nature. People could oo longer entertain I
the hope of resting after death close to the home in whin
they had lived. The inhabitant' of towns were increasing in i
number, not only by the yearly noses of births over
but by the influx of warmers. In this way Lend:tit
▪ immensely to its population within the past tee
years The number of births over that of deaths is the
past year in this =strops had also been very I
I peat ; and a fresh 'Minos had also bees made by the ,
Allem of arrivals from the country, and from abroad. in
his own dhow he found that the grim increase of
Lion had been 130,000, though the actual imam C'T% •
had been only 30,000. His lordship adverted to the liberal '
spirit in which the directors of this company had deter-
mined to act with regard to the emoluments of their chap- '
lama ; and be conloded with the expression of •
=hat the sacred building in which he had that day
would, at some future period, be turned to the
=lme of the", as well as to the service of the ;
bis hope, he eau had been inspired by the sight of ,
so many persons following with evident feelings of
devout interest the solemn proceedings of that day.
The heaths of the directors having been
.proposed by the
Rev. Dr. W orthiegton, Mr. Charles M=2,... returned
Straits for himself sad his y afterwards ,
the company made a move rot=the railway platform, '
and were conveyed quickly back to town, having enjoyed a •
short and pleasant trip through the most beautiful portions ,
of the metropolitan county to • spot which tons of tboa-
sands will visit. without the melancholy purpose it is dee-
tined to meet.

TH. HONDURAS= ARTILLERY COMPANY. —The
annual inspection of this corps by Major-Cement Lord Fre-
derick Panlet, C. 8., took place yesterday at the Artillery-
Finsbury, in the promos of a numerous sad
ential yof spectators. The regiment mustered seven
companies and a troop of horse, and were put through some
preliminary drill by LieutenaataDolonel the Right Ron. Lord
Colville and Adjutant Potts. Among the oe,n present
were—Major RoWnsoo, Major enell, OsO.dne Jay, Bloch*,
Rieke., Rough, Fox, &c. A royal salute in honour of the
day brought the inspection to a conclusion. Lord Paulet
addressed some complimentary observations to Lord Colville
on the general efficiency of the corps, and remarked that
they bad maintained the excellent condition he forted them
in on the last occasion he had the honeur of in them.
The band of the company performed several
dine( the afternooo, and the brilliancy of the weather
inedsol to Whams the enjoyment of the spectators.
A PARTOR AND HIS PARISHIONIRS. —The Rev.
Joseph Brown, rector of Christchurch, Blackfriers, on
Tuesday, in accordance with his custom for the last twenty
years, took upwards of two thousand of his poorer pa-
iishioters out for a treat, escorting them to liamptooroust
and Bushey-perk, and providing them with an abnadence
of tweeters comforts. This interesting gathering included
of all ages, from the baby in arms to those who
Assess
exceeded the ordinary period of Fife, there having
bees several persons present between eighty end ninety '
years of age. The weather was truly beeutiful, and every
See seemed to enjoy the holiday. Mr. Brews wee Wee
supported by a number of ladies and gestlnnen, all of whom ;
seemed to vie with each other in their endeavours to pro-
mote the happiest!' of the party.