The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

RACING FIXTI
AP:

Newmarket Craven 17
Catterick Bridge 19
Abergavenny . . 2O

Newmarket F S
Chester Spring g
Lothians& Edinburgh 11
Newmarket S S l6
Shrewsbury lB

Manchester
Ascot Heath l3
Newcastle•on-Tyne 20
Hampton 2l
Carlisle 26

Newmarket
Worcester 4
Lancaster 6
Mansfield ll
Liverpool l2
Ipswich 13

AU(
Brightqn
Brighton Club... 4
Wolverhampton
Yarmouth 8
Reading
Odiham 9
North Staffordshire 9
Wolverhampton l4

SEPTI
Warwick
Lichfield
W •stern Meeting 7
Rochester and Chatham 7
Doncaster 12
Pontefract 18
OCT(
Chester Autumn 3
Yorkshire Union Hunt 5
Wrexham
Newmarket S 0 9
NOVE.
Epsom Autumn 2

THE ARCHES OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY A
RECEPTACLE FOR THE DEAD.—On Saturday a deputation
from the parish of Lambeth waited upon the directors
of the South-Western Railway Company, to ascertain if

it was true that they had let 9 of the arches of the rail-
way, in the most crowded part of the parish—namely,
between the Waterloo-station and the Westminster-
road, as depositories for the dead of as many parishes
and unions as the Necropolis Cemetery Company have
entered into contracts with to convey their dead to
Woking. The directors admitted the fact, and expressed
regret that the Necropolis Cemetery Company had a
power in their act to convey bodies from the Waterloo-
road station. In order to relieve themselves from the
annoyance of bodies being conveyed from the ter.
minus, they had made arrangements to let a siding
of their line, from York-street to the Westminster-
road—viz., 9 arches. It was urged by the deputation
that the directors, by such a proceeding, would not only
destroy the property adjacent to the railway, but that their
own transit of passengers would be materially affected, if
it were known that they would have to pass over dead
bodies, infected with all sorts of diseases, and emitting
an effluvium which must, of necessity, reach the line.
The deputation added that, seeing that the directors
had made their arrangements with the Necropolis Corn.
pany with no other view than that of profit, they should
feel it their duty to forthwith apply to Lord Palmerston,
who had done so much to remove all dangerous nuis-
ances, to destroy this intended charnel-house. They
thought it monstrous to suppose for a moment that his
lordship, as an advocate for extramural interment, would,
if sincere in his expressed desire for sanitary improve-
ment, permit such charnel-houses as those proposed to be
brought into the centre of one of the most poor and
densely-populated neighbourhoods in the metropolis.
Colonel Henderson, the chArman, said he could have
wished the station for the receptacle of the dead had
been at Battersea rather than where it was ; and Mr.
Croinbie, the secretary, remarked that he believed he
was stating the views of the directors of the railway by
saying that, if the Necropolis Company could obtain a
piece of land at Battersea for this purpose, they would
prefer it. The deputation then retired, determined at
once to lay the subject before the Secretary of State for
the Home Department. The proposed entrance to this
depository of the dead is to be opposite to Mr. Harvey's
premises in the Westminster-road.
According to the latest advices, the weather in Ca-
lifornia had been specially favourable for digging, and
probably since the first discoveries so great a quantity
of gold had not been dug as in the month of February.
The Cherokee Flat Diggings were supposed to be the
richest it the State ; $3,000 worth was taken out in a
few hours, but when the shaft was sunk 28ft., the
water came in 49 rapidly that a steam pump was required k
t 9 fork it.