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

Stage Manager, Mr. Leelercq.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. -
Open for the Season,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Exhibition of Danson's Colossal Daylight View of MOUNT
ETNA and the CAVES of VULCAN and the CYCLOPS—Splendid
and interesting Menagerie—Promenade Concert by Godfrey's tin.
rivalled Military Band—Various Amusing Novelties—Concluding at
Dusk with a Grand Pyrotechnic Exhibition by Messrs. Southby,
representing the Interior of the Mountain (the Pandemonium of the
Ancients), with the Caverns and Forges of -Vulcan and his Cyclops,
the whole terminating with the Eruption of Mount Etna and a
Grand Tableau on the Lake of Thetis, and the Nereiads receiving the
Armour of Achilles. .

Doors open from Nine A.M. Feeding the Animals at Five. Con.
Cert at Half-past Six. Fireworks about Half-past Nine.

ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING.

RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tau Dry —Morning be rain. atter 6 1 Evening 18 min after 7
To-Mosaow—Morning 48 man. after 7 1 Evening 20 min e.itat

THE WEATHER.—Sur; OFFICE, JURE 9.
Tusnmomwrzn, Trans SHADE.
65—highest since poen yesterday.
53—Iowa t this morning and during the night.
60—thin day, at noon.

BAROMICTICR, 29'67.
WIND S.W.-light breeze, and very dull weather. There
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 Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29.687 in. The weather
was told, the mean temperature of the week having been
0n1y,52-50, which below the average of the corre-
-BP°rnurig weeks of ten years. The mean daily temperature
was below the average en every day of the week, and the
extent of this depression varied from 9° on Sunday to 4°
on Wedn.a
--an and from 6° on Thursday to 2° on Saturday.
The wind blew generally from the sonth-west and soutn ;
and the amount of rain that fell in the week was 0.20 in.
_ - _

,c_pr
yj ,4
71K, C.ll
6MA
'7
ai.fel,
E
R Olt

1a42, before which Committee •I adduced a vast
mass of evidence confirmatory of my views—
h i,ving giver, in the year 1840, important evi.
d ince before another Select Grnimittee—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,
aiter "A long and patient investigation," they (the
Committee) "cannot arrive at any other conclusion
tlian 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
ha absolutely prohibited, after a certain date, within
the limit; of such towns or places, except in the
cue of family vaults already existing, the same par-
taking of the nature of private property, and being
of limited extent." Such, 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
saya " 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 Cora-

mons on the part of the Cabinet unquestionably pro.
misses 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

JOHN MANNERS by the originator of the sanitary

movement.

The Protestants of the United Kingdom, and par-
ticularly the members of the Church of England,
ewe 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 theevils,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-
oisive refusal to change these objectionable practices,
the Right Rev. Prelate accepted the resignation
which bad been tendered, feeling, to use his own
words, that " the peace and good order of the Church
in his diocese would be seriously interrupted if Mr.
Dniszczrr were to remain the incumbent of that bane-
6en." These points, which were matters of public
notoriety, and which were brought distinctly under
the notice of the Bishop of BATH and WELLS, not
theby energetic remonstrance that was pre-
sented
against the nomination of the Reverend
Gentlemen to the vicarage of Frome, but also by
a letter from
insured full the Bishop of LONDON, should have
inquiry before the institution and induc-
tion into an important and populous benefice of a
who, Whatever might be the amiability of
privatean character, could not have continued in his
hgiesn tlem
former cure without seriously interrupting the
peace and good order of the Church
in the diocese
in which it was situate,
It would then have been ascer-
tained whether any such changes bad occurred in the
opinions and doctrines of the Rev. Gentleman in the
interval between the months of December, 1850, and
January, 1852, as to remove the
objections that had
been entertained as to his being entrusted with a
thatperiod.havebeen inquiry
s ee
taken place, it
would
tained that, so firfrom the objections
being removed, they bid been materially increased
by the subseqaent proccediegs of the Reverend Gen-
tleman--that while at Kissengen he 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 confirmed
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

cuous the " great disitance" 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 di:%tAtiCe" is within thirty
minutes' journey of about the most central point
in the metropolis, within this ty
minutes journey
of the Strand, the great hfare 'ahorotig,
con-
necting the East with the West, the bond of
union between the siamese cities of London and
Westminster. From the Waterloo Station of !he
South-Western Railway the funeral trains could be
conveyed in half an hour to the gates of the Na-
tional Necropolis. Why, more than half an hour
would be occupied in carryi vg dead bodies by the
ordinary modes of conveyance from the majority of
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-
BURY • could talk last night of its " great distance "
from the metropolis ! The statementiwas unfair and
the objection
were the ungenerous, and for these reasons we
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 joule 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 cloy) 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 interesting, 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
dreamed by the present Cabinet that the proposed
measure is to 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,
iet truth, as the writer forcibly observes, "weighs
down the energies of the strong, imperils the life of
ate weak, and lowers the standard of vitality in the
aggregate populations exposed:to its influences !" That
well an anticipation would be frivolous and futile is
sutfficiently evident on the very frontispiece, as it werc',
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
stating them, however, that gentleman reminds the
Noble Lord the Chief Commissioner of Woods and
Forests that be conceives himself justified in
pronouncing his views at this moment, " having re-
p r.atedly and continuously protested against a state of
things so destructive and so terrible—having ad-
d e.essed those in authority in plain and unmistakable
language—having more than once petitioned the
II ouse of Commons—and having been the chie
means of procuring a Select Committee, in the yen]
_ _