The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-23 00:00:00

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from her harbour moorings in Saltpan-reach, and Intl
been taken into the north dry dock for survey, and, if
found efficient in her hull she is to be commissioned as
soon as she can he brought forward and ready for the
pendant.
The Comus, 14, sloop, Commander W. A. Fellowes,
now in dry dock, has been thoroughly caulked through-
, out, and is being newly coppered ; all her seams and
butts in bottom, topsides, and decks are being payed
or laid in with Jefferies's patent marine glue, instead
of pitch • four strand hawser laid rope is being used
for all her standing rigging, ways, &c. All her masts
and spars, from deck to trucks, will be bright varnished
only, and not painted as usual, it having been found by
practical experience that masts, yards, &c., keep
sound much longer under bright varnish than under
two or three coats of paint, and when defect takes
place it can be immediately detected ; in consequence
of which, masts, rigging, and seamen's lives, last
though not least, are savehereby. Her old fitments at
her ports for pivot guns, on Sir Thomas Hardy's plan,
are being removed, and she is to be fitted with carriage-
guns fbre and aft. The officers and crew were mustered
on Friday last by Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford,
Flag Captain. She is ordered to be ready for sea by the
20th of June next. Her complement of petty officers
have entered, with the exception of sailmaker, armourer,
and carpenter's mate. A number of seamen riggers
(smart seamen) have volunteered for her from this dock-
yard, and have obtained their discharges.
The Horatio, 24, screw steam-guardship. A number
of the crew of this frigate, who have been engaged on
duty in other vessels, ich, under present regulations,
are considered extra duties, received their check-money
for the same on Friday last here. This extra remunera-
tion to seamen serving in her Majesty's ships in harbour
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The Waterloo, 120, flagship, Capt. the Hon. Montagu
Stopford. The crew of this ship were paid down their
six months' pay yesterday.
A shocking accident happened yesterday afternoon in
her Majesty's dockyard here to J. Allen, one of the
drivers of the 50-horsepower engine. Allen was en-
gaged cleaning sonic parts of the machinery, when his
hand got entangled and jambed, by which his hand and
lower part of his arm were dreadfully crushed. The '
poor unfortunate man was conveyed in a cradle immedi-
ately to the surgery, where he received the prompt at-
tention of Mr. James Wilson (b), surgeon, and Mr.
Jcfcott, the assistant-surgeon of the yard. Amputation
must take place, but, in the present exhausted state
Allen is in from loss of blood, the operation must be
delayed for a time.
A very unusual scene took place in her Majesty's
dockyard here yesterday. An order having been posted
at the Muster-office for the information of such of the
artificers and labourers as belonged to the Dockyard
Royal Battalion, ordering them during the drill months
to come in to their daily duty earlier than usual in the
morning and shortening their dinner hour, they assent-
bled in a body of about 100, and proceeded to the office
of the Captain Superintendent to protest against the
order issued. The Captain Superintendent Charles Hope,
although taken perfectly by surprise, received them in
the waiting-room (which was crowded, as well as the
lobby adjoing the same) in a most courteous manner,
and, after hearing their reasons against complying with
the order issued, he informed them he would give the
case his immediate consideration, and, after consulting
with the respective officers, he would give his answer to
a deputation who were to await on him on Monday next
after his levee with the principal officers. On Captain
Hope giving his reply the men respectfully thanked
him for his courtesy in receiving them in a body to
lay their complaint before him, and returned to, their
work.

WOOLWICH, MAT 21.
APPOINTMENTS.

Captain the Hon. Henry Koppel (1837), who recently
commanded the Meander, 54, on the East Indian station
is appointed to command the St. Jean d'Acre, 101,
screw steamship, with engines of 650-horse power, com-
missioned this day at Devonport.
Commanders Frederick B. P. Seymour (1847) to com-
mand the Brisk, 14, screw steam sloop of 250-horse
power, commissioned this day at Devonport ; Peter
Cracroft (1846), who studied steam at the factory at
Woolwich dockyard, and subsequently commanded the
Reynard screw steam sloop, on the East India and
China station, to the St. Jean d'Acre.
_ _

Lieutenant William D. Hanbury, recently promoted
from mate in the Express, 6, brig, on the South-East
coast of American station, to the Nerbudda, 12, sloop,
at Chatham.

Mr. W. M. Rice, who was recently appointed mas-
ter-shipwright at Woolwich dockyard, in the room of
Mr. Oliver Lang, deceased, joined the naval establish-
lishment here on Wednesday last, from Pembroke, and
has commenced his duties at this yard.

LONDON NECROPOLIS AT WOKING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Observing in The Sun of Saturday a notice,
copied from a morning journal, of the special general
meeting of the Necropolis Company, held on Tuesday
last, you will oblige me by giving insertion to the an-
nexed document which, in the form of a printed circu-
lar, has just come to my hands.

Although the' meeting was called for purposes of a
public character, viz., to remove Lieut.-General Briggs
and others from the office of director ; to annul a vote
of 2,0001. to Mr. Voules for retiring from a chair which
he has never filled except by usurpation ; and to nomi-
nate a committee with power to investigate, and report
upon, the state and affairs of the company, not only
was the press excluded, but also my solicitor, Mr. Col-
lette (of the firm of Prichard and Colette), who attended
with my proxy, and who, had an opportunity been
afforded him, would have enabled the shareholders to
understand correctly the misconduct of the parties who,
for upwards of two years and a half, have so
managed the company as to bring it into its present
shameul condition of disrepute and collapse.
It is proper that the public should know that, as the
principal originator of this great scheme, and co-founder
of the Company, I have, since April 1851, repudiated
and disallowed whatever Mr. Voules and his associates
have done under the self-assumed name and functions of
directors ; and so soon as the two factions calling them-
selves " directors" have fought out their battle in the
Court of Chancery, it is my intention to compel the com-
pany to a specific performance of covenant as regards
realising the necropolis project in its entirety as devised
by me.
The paragraph noticing the meeting on the 17th,
states that " the company has purchased nearly 1,900
acres (the Daily News says 19,000 acres) at Woking."
This is not the fact—the company only acquire 1,500
acres for burial purposes, and 50 for other purposes, the
residue being leased to myself and Colleague. Neither
is it correct to state that "500 acres would be more
than sufficient to meet the demands for burial
purposes of all London for an indefinite period,
218 acres at present sufficing, of which not one
half has been used in the several suburban cemeteries."
The metropolitan burial grounds (including the ceme-
teries), make collectively 500 acres ; and unless the re-
volting practice of burying 12, 16, or 18 corpses in one
common grave-pit is to continue, neither 500 nor twice
500 acres will suffice indefinitely to bury a mortality ap-
proaching rapidly to 70,000 yearly. The Necropolis,
however, which will be equivalent to 42 cemeteries of the
average extent of the eight existing suburban cemeteries,
will supply London withia chea,p, wholesome, and conve-
nient sepulture for a period sufficient to render unneces-
sary, for generations, a multiplication of petty ceme-
teries within or near the " Metropolis," as defined by
the Burials Act of last session.
The statements embodied in the letter of the Solicitor-
General to Mr. Taylor, renders it unnecessary for me to
add more than simply the expression of my hope that
the public will refrain from taking shares in the Necro-
polis
l. until such time as a Board of Direction worthy of
public confidence, and a staff of officers competent to
manage the company's affairs, are duly nominated and
appointed.—l sir, your obedientßrl m
seoruvanti3art.
Si
plinx-lodg remain,e,Clielsea, May 23, 1853.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE LONDON NECROPOLIS AND
MAUSOLEUII COMPANY.

Pending legal proceedings, which will necessarily
occupy a few days, the attention of the shareholders is
requested to the following copy of a letter from the
Solicitor-General to John Stirling Taylor, Esq., and read
by that gentleman to the meeting of the Shareholders on
the 17th inst

20th May, 1853.

Sir,—lt is with much regret that I find my public
duties render it impossible for me to attend the meeting
to-day.
It is a most important crisis for the sharehold-
ers : the preservation or total loss of their property de-
pends on the resolutions they may come to. I can
assure them from my own personal knowledge, that the
state of their share list, and the depressed and neglected
condition of their great undertaking, are attributable to
one cause only—want of public confidence in the direc-
tors of the company. In my opinion, the reason for
cant l) i s
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also inquire before they determine on the only course
namely, the dismissal of
that can redeem the company
the present directors, y' namely,
and Colonel Chat-
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move an amendment, that the report of the directors be
not received, but that 'a committeei of shareholders be
the state a
on the proceedings of the directorsan
dams of
.the company, and
appointed to investigate the
to report fully on
and the stenscondition thereof, and
of the company,
for the formation of a new board.i
You will be good
Shareholders, that since, the formation
(Dag it to be taken
so as to state my opinion to the
holders, that they are at present without any di-
rection, for that the persons who assume to act as
directors are not legally competent to form a beard.
If the course I have recommended be adopted, I have
reason to know that this great national undertaking will
he'regarded in the light in which it ought to be placed,
. that a large amount of additional subscriptions will be
immediately obtained, and the success and prosperity of
' the company placed on a secure basis. I have the
honour to be, your very faithful servant, --
(Signed) RICHARD BETRELL,
John Stirling Taylor, Esq.
1 Lincoln's Inn, May 17, 1853.