The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

NATION AL CEMETERIES.

The following is a copy of a petition presented to the
House of Commons by Mr. Mackinnon,—" To the
Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled,—
The humble petition of the President and Members of
the National Society for the Abolition of Burial in Towns,
showeth that it was clearly demonstrated before a com-
mittee of your honourable house in the year 1340, and
more fully before the special committee appointed
to inquire into ' The Effect of Interment of Bodies'
in 1842, that the burial of the dead in the midst
of the living is a practice fraught with the most
disastrous consequences. That your petitioners
would remind your honourable house, that during
the prevalence of epidemic cholera in the metropolis,
the remains of between 2,000 and 3,000 persons, who
had perished from pestilence, were deposited weekly in
places long since incapable of giving decent, much less
sanitary, burial to a single body. That it has long been a
matter of common and scandalous notoriety, that the
bodies of the dead are disposed of so as to produce incal-
culable
dblehir
in injury
ur
the
et to
prevalence
eunbelei cof a pestilential health and the
disease,public m
whichor morals.
in .
your petitioners believe was, many instances, clearly
traceable to the practice which they call upon your hon.
house to arrest, the bodies of the dead were deposited in
streets and thoroughfares, under and around chapels and
human habitations—in the very midst of two millions of
the inhabitants of the metropolis. That utterly regard-
less of repeated warnings and predicted consequences,
the bodies of the dead have been, and continue to be,
placed one upon another and side by side, in deep pits;
whilst thousands of others have been, and continue to be
deposited in shallow graves, with an utterly unprotec-
tive covering,
of humaonf raemfaeiwns)inovcheres of
eachscooiffil (chieflyn.Tcom-
poundedhat your
petitioners beg to remind your honourable house, that
the practice of intramural burial, in itself so injuri-
ous and destructive by the systematic employment of
means for the purpose of providing space for new
comers. That hbaotdtiehse previously
increasedsvcihouiesfisy tbhyu s
the i inflicted
interred,cutatenidl
dant
ipaolonsnoathhbdye
dis-
turbanceltihv e-Ingare incalculably
o
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dddee
decomposition.
csonaootenhfme incessant
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vncplaces,e.h oulsThpeo
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were
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etnmli,to ioposent
developed remains,
Bristol,evriisnr
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Waterford,abundante
neighbourhood of burial-places. That your petitionersmanodseftdafalt.atiotaenl
reensopremctofuulslype.scuugngieasrty. tohuattl,aya_lthtohueghimnheedmiaistteakaersre
turi es, as
dead—and to
ttoh
pass
insanitarya ss forthwith,
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general construction
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coeannns.
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Walker, living, and the
Surgeon,
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be rectified only. by necessarily slow degrees, and 'at an
of the practice of intramural burial—a practice which
admits of neither palliation nor excuse, is as easy as it is
urgent and imperative. That, for the above and other
cogent reasons, your petitioners respectfully call upon
your Honourable House to interpose your authority—to
accord a power to step in between the living and the
forma-
tion of national cemetaries far removed from human
dwellings. And your petitioners will ever prtaoy,f&ocr."tve
Establishment of National Cemetaries.

LAMENTABLE AFFAIR. —M. Emile de Vauxonne, Judge
at the Court of Appeal, and President of the Council
General and of the Municipal Commission of Lyons,
went on the 25th to the shop of M. Gobert, gunsmith,
to get a pair of pistcls repaired. By an inexplicable
chance it happened that the pistols were loaded, and on
M. de Vauxonne touching the trigger of one of them to
show M. Gobert what the pistols required, the arm went
off, and the charge struck the gunsmith obliquely in the
breast. He at once fell on the ground crying out, " I
am a dead man." M. de Vauxonne, horror-struck at
what had occurred, seized on the other pistol and blew
out his brains. When -medical aid was brought to M.
Gobert it was discovered that the wound which he re-
ceived is not likely to prove of any gravity. This fact
renders the precipitancy of M. de Vauxonne the more to
L be lamented.—French paper,

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