The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-09 00:00:00

ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM Dar —Morning 52 lain. after 6 I Evening 18 rain after 7
To-Moaaow—Morning 48 rain. after 7 Evening 20 min after 8

THE WEATHER.—Stns OPTtCE, JUNE 9.
TaratmOMENER, IN TELE SHADE.
65—highest since neon yesterday.
53—Icwe;t this morning and daring the night.
60—this day, at noon.

29.67.
WM) S.W.-light breeze, and very dull weather. There
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was a thick fog last night and this morning.
Heavy rain during the night, and it has continued so up to

three o'clock this afternoon.

At the Royal Obserssatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.687 in. The weather
was cold. the mean temperature of the week having been
~,,n1Y,,,2.5% which is 5.7° below the average of the corre-
-n'wg weeks of ten years. The mean daily temperature
was below the average en every day of the week, and the
extent of this
on Wen
depression varied fro 9° on Sunday to 4Q
The wind blew
ay'and from 6° on Thursday to 2° on Saturday.
generally from the south-west and souta ;
and the amount of rain that fell in the week was 0.20 in. I

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1852,

Sanitary reforms
are still talked
about without
being realized. During the present session,
as duns
so many of its predecessors, w.e have heard vast deal
about-the necessity for s"e'e immediate and
compre-
hensive changes of this description. Nay, there are even
meat res affecting the me.
now two very important
tropolis promised to the est-
citizens of London and w
Government—one for the
minster by her MAJESTY'S
Letter supply of water, and 0n0,fjc,27 for the better
prevention of intramural
• terelents. The latter
Bill referring to a matter which involves
what its originator has happily tr•rmed "the first
sanitiry requirement and the greatest gnmt-rY Prin.
ciole"—has already been formally introduced, indeed,
the notice of the House of Commons by the home
Secretary and -by the-Chief Commissioner of
Woods
and Foresls, being intended as a corrective to the
inadequate and wholly abortive enactment passed
during the existence of the late Administration.
Meanwhile the same subject, has been agitated else-
where. An acknowledgment of the imperative
necessity of some speedy interposition on the
part of Yee Legislature was elicited some time back
from .the PRIME MINISTEE, it may be remem
bereil, by a remarkable speech delivered in the House
of Lords by the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. Again, last
evening, the Noble Earl—distinguished as one of
the mast active, as he is also one of the most practical
atnoug.tthe philanthropists of the age—spoke in allusion
tnthe..really and literally vital question of extramural
.sepulture. By his 'obse*rvations, however, upon that
oce.ision, we wilt at ooae confess, that we were moat
peinfully astounded. It would seem as if Lord
SHAFTESBURY were so enamoured of the do-nothing
course.of the Board of Health that he is jealous of
witnessing any inter,ference of men who might hem.-
Et the community by diwns,..ing an enterprise de•
cidedly antagonistic to their indolence. The matter
before the House was the second reading of the Lon-
don Necropolis and National M anaoleurn Bill—a Bill
which, we rejoice to think, y(sterday passed this
stage of its progress through Parliament, in spite of
the opposition of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. The Noble
Lard avowed candidly enough at the outset of his
remarks that he had a variety of objections to the
proposed enactment, anti among those was conapi,

cuous the " great distance" of the intended site from
the metropolis. Now to talk of the " great distance"
of the cemetery at Woking is positively nothing less
than absurd. The " great distance" is within thirty
minutes' journey of about the most central point
in the metropolis, within thirty minutes' journey
of the Strand, the great thoroughfare con,
necting the East with the West, the bond of
union between the Siamese cities of London and
Westminster. From the Waterloo Station of the
South-Western Railway the funeral trains could be
conveyed in half an hour to the gates of the Na-
tional Necropolis.
Why, morefrtmhanthbehodalifes majority a
n b ho
theuo
rf
would be occupied in carryineg
odead
ordinary modes of conveyance
dwellings to any one of the horrid intramural
graveyards, and certainly more than half an
hour from most points to the nearest of the
existing suburban cemeteries ! Yet, with
the projected mausoleum, within a journey of
thirty minutes from the Strand, Lord SHAFTES-
Bußy could talk last night of its " great distance "
from the metropolis ! The statementlwas unfair and
the objection ungenerous, and for these reasons we
were the more heartily rejoiced to find that the House
of Peers decided against the express wish of the Earl
of SHAFTESBURY.
In reference to the Government Amendment Bill
relating to Intramural Interments, an important let-
ter has recently been addressed to Lord Join/ MAN-
NERS by the gentleman in whose energies originated
the whole of the great sanitary movement.
To this document we are the more eager to refer, be-
cause therein we observe that Mr. GEORGE ALFRED
WALKER speaks of it as "the close of almost half a
lifetime of labour and exertion" in the cause of sani-
tary improvement. It is a communication such as,
if only on this ground, challenges observation. It
appeals to us, however, for other reasons—reasons
more applicable to the subject under public notice,
though not more generally ihteresting, we feel assured,
in their character—epitomizing as it does with
very forceful lucidity the progress made during
past years in the important movement of which it is
dresmod by the present. Cabinet that the propnsed
m. re be the consummation. Would to
Heaven that the Bill in question were capable of put-
ting an end at once and effectually to an evil which,
in truth, as the writer forcibly observes, "-weighs
down the energies of the strong, imperils the life of
the weak, and lowers the standard of vitality in the
aggregate populations exposed:to its influences !" That
such an anticipation would be frivolous and futile is
sufficiently evident or4the very frontispiece, as it were,
of the Ministerial scheme ofamendment. The testimonies
given in against the measure by Mr. G. A. WALKER are
nominally five, but really eight in number. Before sta-
ting them, however, that gentleman reminds the Noble
Lord the Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests that he conceives himself justified in
pronouncing his views at this moment, " having re-
peatedly and continuously protested against a state of
things so destructive and so terrible—having ad-
dressed those in authority in plain and unmistakable
language—having more than once petitioned the
House of Commons—and having been the chief
means of procuring a Select Committee, in the year
1842, before which Committee I adduced a vast
mass of evidence confii matory of my views—
having given, in the year 1840, important evi-
dence before another Select Committee—and having,
I repeat, during many years written against,
spoken against, and acted against this great
iniquity." Thereupon Mr. WALKER adduces the
conclusion arrived at by the Select Committee in
their report, dated 14th June, 1842, affirming that,
after " A long and patient investigation," they (the
Committee) "cannot arrive at any 'ether conclusion
than that the nuisance of interments in large towns,
and the injury arising to the health of the commu-
nity from the practice are fully proved." They
further asserted " that this custom has desecrated the
repose of the dead, and injured the health and feelings
of the living, cannot be denied ; it has also exhibited
the singular instance of the most wealthy, moral, and
civilized community in the world tolerating a prac-
tice and an abuse which has been corrected for years
by nearly all other civilized nations in every part of
the globe :" deciding finally " that burials should
be absolutely prohibited, after a certain date, within
the limits of such towns or places, except in the
case of family vaults already existing, the same par-
taking of the nature of private property, and being
of limited extent." Sucb, the writer very justly
insists, should be the course pursued in this
matter by the leaders of the present Admi-
nistration. "The time has assuredly arrived," he
says " when a system, which I have long since fully
exposed and denounced, cannot, must not be dealt
with in a feeble or partial manner." Feeble and
partial the measure introduced to the House of Com-
mons on the part of the Cabinet unquestionably pro-
mises to be—but for its rejection, or, at any rate,
for its modification, we now look forward with all
eagerness after the remonstrance addressed to Lord
Joliet MANNERS by the originator of the sanitary
movement.

The Protestants of the United Kingdom, and par-
ticularly the members of the Church of England,
owe a deep debt of gratitude to the Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Cockermouth for his indefatigable
exertions to purify the Establishment from the abuses
that have from time to time crept in. He has on
many former occasions boldly grappled with matters
that brought censure and reproach on the Church,
sparing no pains to ascertain the real facts of each
case, and bringing them fairly and openly before the
House and country. The nature, and cir-
cumstances, and extent of the evils, were
thus made manifest, and in many instances
remedies were provided which would never
have been heard of but for the fear of exposure by
the vigilant and fearless censor.. Never, however,
did he render more valuable service than last night,
when he carried by a majority of 45, in a House of
267 Members, his motion for a Select Committee to
inquire into the circumstances connected with the
institution of the Rev. Mr. BENNETT to the vicarage
of Frome.

The circumstances of the case are unfortunately so
painfully notorious that it is unnecessary to enter
at any length into the facts. Suffice it to say,
that the Reverend Gentleman had been the in-
cumbent of the perpetual curacy of St. Paul's,
Knightsbridge; that while in that position his
proceedings were of such a character as to lead
to great public excitement and frequent remon-
strances on the part of his diocesan—that on his de-
cisive refusal to change these objectionable practices,
the Right Rev. Prelate accepted the resignation
which had been tendered, feeling, to use his own
wordo, that "the peace and good order of the Church
in his diocese would be seriously interrupted if Mr.
BENNETT were to remain the incumbent of that bene-
tle." These points, which were matters of public
notoriety, and which were brought distinctly under
stGhe
Gentleman
nt ent dl: notice
ni cae of the Bishop of BATH and WELLS, not
only a
4 -Y the energetic remonstrance that was pre-
against the nomination of the Reverend
to the vicarage of Frome, but also by
a letter from the Bishop of LONDON, should have
insured full
an inquiry before the institution and induc-
tion into
important and populous benefice of a
gentleman who, Whatever might be the amiability of
his private character, could not have continued in his
former cure Without seriously interrupting the
any such
of the
peace and good ordersuch
gClisttliblr
ace
haveo icn therbree
ednd
ii
in
c tei
Is
ce
in which it was situte.°fl:chze:
ascer-
tainedd
ionPtienriv`)aill7b.laienettdvvh-cedreonca:r the months of DecembereGentlemanv.
1850 i in
at
nh
de
January, 1852,
as s toil removeminist theminister
cf
objections
the Church of
that had
been entertained as to his being
entrusted with a
cure of souls as
England at the former period. gad that inquiry
taken place, it would have been ascer-
tained that, so objections
had b
they een materially
being removed,increased
by the subsequent, proceedings of the Reverend Gen-
tleman--that while at Kisiengen be had not only
pointedly abstained from attending the services of the
Church of England, but was a regular attendant at
those of the Church of Rome, so as to give
ample
foundation for the report strengthened and confinno
by the statement in the " Catholic Directory," that
he had actually gone over to the Roman Catholic re-
ligion.

In place, however, of the inquiry so urgently
required under the peculiar circumstances, there was