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

TURKEY.

A letter from Marseilles of the 25th states that
that Mr. Tucker, the English Cabinet courier who
brought the dispatches for his Government from
Constantinople, had returned on the previous day
with instructions to Admiral Dundas and Colonel
Rose, and immediately embarked on board the
Caradoc.

In an article on the present position of affairs in
the East, in the ministerial Austrian Correspon-
dence, it is contended that the Russian claims are
no way tending to violate the independence of
Turkey, nor at all likely to disturb the peace of the
world.
A letter from Constantinople states that the
agreement between the founders of the new bank
in that city and the Government has been signed.
Among the clauses is one declaring that the ac-
counts shall be published periodically, and be at all
times submitted to the shareholders on the first
requisition to that effect.

SPAIN.
The Spanish Senate on the 24th was again occu
pied with the report of the committee on the affair
of General Narvaez. The only points of interest
which presented themselves in the course of the de-
bate were—first, a declaration made by the Minister St
of Marine that there was nothing derogatory to the sts
general in the order given by the Government to 20
go to Vienna to study the organisation of the Aus- St.
trian army ; and next, a statement by the Presi- 15
dent of the Council, to the effect that the ministers
had purposely kept back for twenty days the 6.
address of the general to the Queen, because they "'
had proposed to give him some additional mission, 3,
but that the publication of the address had pre- 5
vented this. The Senate then, by 106 votes to 7
64, rejected the resolutions proposed by the 6
majority of the committee, and which were favour-
able to General Narvaez. " Amongst the minority, io
says a letter, " were a certain number of public 20
functionaries, army inspectors, members of the
Royal Council, &c. Some of the Ministers at first St.
thought of dismissing these gentlemen, but this St!
idea led to a very animated discussion in the Cabi-
net. The Minister of Justice, it is said, made no St.
objection to the dismissal of all except the, judges, St.
who, by law, cannot be deprived of their places ;
and he said that if their removal were insisted on he
would resign. No deoision has yet been come to on so
the subject, but it is supposed that it will be satis-
factorily settled." The Stock Exchange was not St.
open on the 24th, owing to the religious solemnity
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of the day, but the 3 per Cents. were done at 42.
St.

NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

The following is a copy of a petition presented to the 50
House of Commons by Mr. Mackinnon,—" To the st.
Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom 50
of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled,—
The humble petition of the President and Members of 12
the National Society for the Abolition of Burial in Towns,
showeth that it was clearly demonstrated before a com- 12i
mittee of your honourable house in the year 1840, and
more fully before the special committee. appointed 25
to inquire into The Effect of 'lnterment of Bodies'
in 1842, that the burial of the dead in the midst 10g
of the living is a practice fraught with the most "
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disastrous consequences. That your petitioners 12i
would remind your honourable house, that during 32A
the prevalence of epidemic cholera in thel metropolis, St.
the remains of between 2,000 and 3,000 persons, who St.
had perished from pestilence, were deposited weekly in
places long since incapable of giving decent, much less 16i
sanitary, burial to a single body. That it has long been a 20
matter .of • common and scandalous notoriety, that the
bodies of the dead are disposed of so as to produce incal- 2
culable injury to the public health and the public morals. t.
That during the prevalence of a pestilential disease, which "
20.
your petitioners believe was, in many instances, clearly St.
traceable to the practice which they call upon your hon.
house to arrest, the bodies of the dead were deposited in 15
streets and thoroughfares, under and around chapels and 8
human habitations—in the very midst of two millions of
the inhabitants of the metropolis. That utterly regard-
10
less of repeated warnings and predicted consequences,
the bodies of the dead have been, and continue to be, 25
placed one upon another and side by side, in deep pits ; 10
whilst thousands of others have been, and continue to be 10 (
deposited in shallow graves, with an utterly unprotec-
tive covering, 20
pounded of human remains) over each coffin. That your 6
of a few inches of soil (chiefly corn-
petitioners beg to remind your honourable house, that St.
the practice of intramural burial, in itself so injuri-
oils and destructive by the systematic employment of g
means for the purpose of providing space for new
corners. That the mischiefs thus inflicted upon the liv-
ing are incalculably increased by the mutilation and dis-
turbance of bodies previously interred, and also by the
incessant turning up of human remains, in 10
every stage 5
of decomposition. That your petitioners have abundant 20
evidence to prove, that in London, Bristol, Waterford, 20
and other places, some of the most virulent and fatal 20
cases of recent cholera were developed in the i • mmediate 2C
neighbourhood of burial-places. That • • your petitioners 2C
respectfully suggest that, although the mistakes of cen-
turies, as to the insanitary construction of the habitations 2(
of the living, and the sewerage of cities and towns, can 21
be rectified only by necessarily slow degrees, and at an
enormous pecuniary outlay—the immediate arrestation
of the practice of intramural burial—a practice which
admits of neither palliation nor excuse, is as easy as it is „,7:
urgent and imperative. That, for the above and other -
cogent reasons, your petitioners respectfully call upon
your Honourable House to interpose your authority—to 3:
accord a power to step in between the living and the 2
dead—and to pass forthwith, a general act for the forma- 2
tion of national cemetaries far removed from human 3
dwellings. And your petitioners will ever pray, Stc."— 1
0. A. IValker, Surgeon, in Practical Suggestions for the 2
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 pistols 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
be lamented.—French PaPor•
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