The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-29 00:00:00

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL)
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. D.lll
Lucy Banks
Sabra

Five ran.

MATCH.—Hesperus beat Hothorpe.
SWEEPSTAKES. 10 Sovs. Half of Ab. M
Mary
Margaretta

NEWMARKET STAKES.

Orinoco
Filbert

Five ran.

LATEST BETTING.!
CHESTER. CUP.
12 to 1 on the Field.
14 to 1 agst Peggy (taken freely).
100 to 6 agst Ncwminster (taken).
14 to 1 agst Lord-Lieutenant (taken).
1,000 to 15 agst Mountain Deer (taken).
DERBY.
14 to 1 agst Cineas (taken).
40 to 1 agst Jerry Kent (taken).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET (THIS DAY.)

ALLEGED ROBBERY.—Louise Aubal, a French woman
of easy virtue, residing at No. 14, Sherrard-street, was
brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing a
Brussels lace shawl, value 241., the property of Philip
Delfosse, importer of foreign goods, 10, Queen-street,
Golden-square.
Mr. W. B. Davies appeared for the prosecution.
The complainant deposed that the prisoner was for-
merly a lodger in his house, and on the 26th inst. she
spoke to him about a lace shawl, and he showed her the
one produced, worth 241. He was in his counting house
when he showed her the shawl, and at her request
allowed her to take it up to her room to look at it. She
did not come down stairs again, and in the course of the
night sbe and all her baggage disappeared. He then
gave information of the robbery to the police.
By Mr. Davies—When he parted with the shawl it
was only that she might examine it at her leisure. He
did not sell her the shawl, nor did she pay him for it.
King, 39 C, said he took the prisoner into custody at
14, Sherrard-street, and on telling her the nature of his
visit, she pointed to a box in the room, and said the
shawl was there. He took it out, when she told him
she had bought it of prosecutor.
The defendant denied stealing the shawl. She had
purchased it of complainant, and paid for it.
Mr. Bingham said the prosecutor had sworn he had
not sold her the shawl, and he should therefore send the
case to the sessions.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Ann Woolmer was placed at
the bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing a
quantity of wearing apparel, value 161., the property of
Mrs. Bomberger, the wife of a teacher of languages,
No. 2, Charles-street, Soho. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner was in the service of the
prosecutrix, and that during the absence of the latter on
Tuesday last she absconded, taking with her a quantity
of her mistress's wearing apparel to the amount of 161.
Information was at once given to the police, and
Sergeant Gummer, an active officer of the C division.
in consequence of! information he had received, pro-
ceeded to No. 2, Bird-street, Marylebone, and; appre-
hended the prisoner, who had concealed herself in a
lumber room at the bottom of the house. He searched
the place, and found a portion of the missing property
there, and the remainder he found at a low lodging-
house in Gee's-court.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

THE BUDGET.

( From the Morning Herald.)

We cannot help thinking that the Budget debate
ought not to proceed much further without some means
being taken to arrive at a positive conclusion as to the
all-important point of the duration of the income tax.
At present the ministerial scheme is being supported
from two different sides, and upon exactly opposite
grounds. One' party, at the head of which stands Mr.
Hume, accepts the budget because it is a great step to-
wards a permanent income tax. Another class, repre-
sented by the Times, adopts the plan because it promises
the entire removal of the income tax. Now, surely the
country ought to know which of these two interpreta-
tions of the budget is the true one.
And it also appears the more needful to have suck an
explanation, because there is some reason to doubt
whether Mr. Gladstone has himself made up his mind
that the income tax shall expire, or that it shall not ex-
pire, at the end of the stipulated period.
We ourselves heard him declare that he considered
the tax to have such faults as to be unfit to be adopted
as a permanent source of income. But, that we may
not be accused of misrepresenting him, let us quote his
words from the columns of the Times. This journal re-
presents Mr. Gladstone to have said :
" There are circumstances attending its operation
which make it difficult, perhaps impossible, in our opi-
nion not desirable, to maintain it as a portion of the
permanent and ordinary finances of the country."
" My own opinion is decidedly against the perpetuity
of the tax."

Such were Mr. Gladstone's own words, deliberately
uttered, as finance minister, in the House of Commons.
And yet— we have the information in so distinct a form
that we find it impossible to doubt the fact—and yet, at
that very moment, there were circular letters going about,
from a Government office, to "a few select persons, asking
for their assistancein suggesting such steps as should ren-
der the income tax a permanent portion of the national
revenues. There could n.ot well be a clearer proof that
even while Mr. Gladstone was expounding his plans to
the House of Commons, he had not made up his own
mind on this, the principal point of the whole case.
On another point he has already given way. The new
licence-system would have been, tip certain trades, a
double income tax. For instance, it is now declared
that Messrs. Barclay's licence would have cost them
2,8501. a year. Now this would have been just paying
the income tax twice over. And all persons, in those
seven trades, would have had to bear this double income
tax. But Mr. Gladstone will re-consider this point.
We rather think that he will have to re-consider a great
many points before he gets his budget through the House
of Commons.

STUPIDLY LOST AND LUCKILY FOUND.— A person
living in London, who has a large establishment at
Esher, was proceeding to the latter place by rail on
the 22d instant in a first-class carriage. He had a
parcel with him containing 501. in gold and 251. in
silver, with which he was going to pay wages to work-
men. As no one was in the railway carriage with him
he put the parcel on a vacant seat, and forgot it when
he left the train. Before he thought of his money
tie train, which was a Woking one, had gone on. As
soon as possible a search was made, but the parcel had
vanished. Last Monday, three days after the above-
mentioned date, the parcel of gold and silver was found
in a second-class carriage at Gosport, about 70 miles
from Woking. It is supposed that some one must have
taken the parcel as soon as it was lost, and, fearing to make
use of the money, contrived to place it where it was
afterwards found. _ _

COLONIAL-BUILT SHIPS.—As an instance of the strength
and durability of our colonial-built ships, we may men-
tion that the ship Majestic of Liverpool, which was
built in Miramichi in 1838, is now open in the Queen's
Graving Dock, Liverpool, and no unsound timber is
perceptible. She has recently been engaged in the
African trade.

UNLIMITED BULK IN A LIMITED SURFACE.—The moral
and physical evils which result from the practice of in-
tramural burial have been so fully exposed by me in
various publications and in my evidence before commit-
tees of the House of Commons, that any further insist-
ance on these points would seem unnecessary. But the
failure of the Board of Health to carry into practice the im-
portant duties intrusted to it has re-opened the whole ques-
tion, thrown us back from practice upon theory, and ren-
dered it incumbent on me to re-state very briefly the
facts which demonstrate the enormous folly and wicked-
ness of a system of which it is difficult to affirm whether
its physical or its moral consequences are the most
hideous or the most destructive. As I have frequently
observed, nearly the whole question of intramural inter-
ment rests on the self-evident proposition that bulk must
occupy space, and nearly all the evils attendant on the
system arise from the necessity of finding room for un-
limited bulk in a limited surface. A certain space
of ground will contain ~certain bulk (or number) of
bodies, living or dead, and no more. If you attempt
to increase the number beyond a fixed limit, you
must necessarily displace a corresponding bulk ; un-
less you be prepared to prove that two bodies
can occupy the same place at the same time. An acre
of ground affords proper accommodation for the inter-
ment of 136 adult bodies annually. This proportion
can never be exceeded for any length of time with-
out rendering inevitable practices which violate our
best feelings, and destroy and endanger life. In Lon-
don the average number of interments to the acre
is 426. Hence at the first glance we see that the
parish graveyards of the metropolis are made to re-
ceive every year three times as many bodies as they
ought—and four times as many as are permitted by the
laws of well-regulated Continental states. But this
simple statement gives only an imperfect view of the con-
dition of London graveyards. Eight of the metropolitan
parochial grounds are surcharged with more than 1,000
bodies to the acre, annually. To explain this more clearly
a few remarks may be necessary. The proper proportion
of adult burials per acre for ten years is 1,360. Yet
there are receptacles for the dead in London, in which
twenty-four times as many bodies are buried in the same
*space of ground as ought to be there buried. Now, if
we suppose that the proportion of burials is brought
down to its proper average, this can be done in two ways
only. The burial-ground may be enlarged, or the time
during which the body is allowed to remain in the
ground may be diminished. But the extent of ground
has not been increased, therefore the time must be dimin-
ished, and to establish the proper proportion it must be
diminished to a twenty-fourth, or five months, which
are the twenty-fourth part of ten Years.—V. A. Walker,
on the. Past and Present State of Intramural Burial-
places.