The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-20 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Grand Extra Night, Friday, June 24.—1 n consequence of the un-
precedented attraction, and to meet the wishes of many of the No-
bility and Gentry to see the matchless EXHIBITION of the FEAST
of LANTERNS and EXPLOSION of the CHINESE FIRE RAFTS
carried out to the fullest extent, the Proprietor has arranged with
Mr. Sorriurr to give an increased display on FRIDAY EVENING
NEXT, on which occasion several new and startling effects will be
introduced, concluding with a discharge of 515 Asteroid and other
►sockets. Admission at the doors, 2s. 6d. ; Family Tickets, to admit
Five, with entrée to the Galleries, 10s. To be procured at Sams'
Library, Pall-mall; and Mitchell's Library, Bond-street. Concert
balf•past Six ; Fireworks quarter to Ten.
THIS EVENING, JuNE 20,
CHUSAN and the FEAST OF LANTERNS.

Splendid MENAGERIE, containing a vast number of Specimens of
Natural History, including an Orang-Outan, the only one exhibiting
in this country.

CiODFREY'S Unrivalled MILITARY BAND. Vocal and Instrumental
Concert. At Dask a most brilliant display of Fireworks.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
my DAr —Morning 25 min. after 12 Evening 52 min.aft. 12
0-M ntßow—Morning 19 min. after 1 I Evening 45 min.aft. 1

THE WEATHER.—Sint OITICE, JUNE 19.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
72 —highest since noon yesterday.
60 —lowest this morning and during the night.
64 this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.76.
WIND, S.—Morning, continued rain—afternoon, fair.
JUNE 20.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
TO—lowest this morning and during the night.
65—this day, at noon.
BAROMETER, 29.65—5ti1l going clown.
WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, with clouds and sunshine.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1853.

Another Burial Bill is, we are given to under-
stand, now in preparation. Another I Already
we have had several—with what benefit to the
community is tolerably well known by this time
we conjecture. Parliament has pottered over this
measure, and cobbled that, and amended here,
and improved there—and all to no purpose what-
ever. Practically speaking, without bringing to a
close the atrocious and detestable system of intra-
mural sepulture. So notoriously, indeed, has this
been the case, that it was found at last impera-
tively requisite for the Administration to resort
to extraordinary proceedings—proceedings of a
kind never adopted except under great emergency
—with a view to put a definitive termination to,
at least, some of these criminal abominations. Or-
ders in Council have, in this manner, effected in
several instances what the Legislature with all its
sagacity failed to accomplish. These, however,
were never dreamt of being applied towards
the solution of the difficulty until an energetic
statesman like Lord PALMERSTON was happily—
so far as this Dead Man's Question is concerned,
we may say happily—placed at the head of the
Home Department. Nevertheless with all the
benefit secured by those out-of-the-way efforts of
precaution or interference—the system which has
at length contrived to close sundry of the more
pestiferous London graveyards can only be re-
garded at the best as a makeshift. Until an
efficacious enactment upon the subject shall have
passed through its various stages in the Lords
and Commons, and received the Royal Assent,
and become thereby enrolled among our Acts
of Parliament—it would be frivolous to hope
that we can ever witness the total destruction of
the old evil, the utter dissipation of the still
flourishing sources of ingeniously-manufactured
pestilence, the prevention of further interments in
city burial grounds, and the substitution of the
more rational, the more humane, the more decent,
and the more Christian-like system of extra-mural
or ultra-suburban cemeteries.
If anything had been required to demonstrate
beyond denial the inefficiency of the previous
measures smuggled now by one, and now by an-
other through Parliament—it would have been
found obviously in the necessity of resorting to
those Orders in Council already particularised.
Precisely in the same manner in 1845, during the
course of that memorable November, Sir ROBERT
PEEL proved the need of the subsequent Free-trade
enactments, by an Order in Council opening our
ports for the admission of foreign corn. Orders
in Council in this way are the mere preliminaries
to Legislative innovation. They are the tem
porary means of extrication resorted to when an v
unendurable press of evil testifies the necessity for
the energetic interposition of the Legislature. In
this manner we assert that the benevolent endea-
vours made, and successfully made of late by
Lord PALMEESTON, demonstrate not only that in
the direction pointed out, comprehensive efforts at
improvement have come to be absolutely and im-
peratively requisite, but that all the so-called
improvements which have gone before, have
turned out long ago to be no improvements
at all. The deduction is as clearly ob-
vious as the result of the simplest sum
in. addition. Everybody recognises the fact,
because it happens to be under our very
'loses) and to be as plain as a pikestaff, and to be
altogether incontrovertil,. It stares us in the
•
face daily in almost
metro-
polis. It has been a 1 directions of our metro-
loudly
by a Ministeproclaimed, we repeat,
Orders in Council w
r fotiltie Cron—through those
of Viscount PALMER
To
by the philanthropy
the truth, however N. There is no blinking
dis-greeable. It is admitted
in spite of themselves, even by Messieurs the
Sanitary Commissioners. Therefore evr
sure—another new measure ! like the . last:pa:
" positively the
pearance " of Mr. CRUMNILES
! i !--has been concocted by the
last appearance"
General Board of Health, and is about to be in-
troduced before Parliament.

It is announced that the Bill is to be laid
before the House of Lords by the Earl of SHAFTES-

BURY. Of the benevolence of that distinguished

Noblemen, we hoe Always evidenced_ we bolisvo