The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

Letters from Berlin of the 27th instant, in the
Kolner Zeitnng, announce the death, at Warsaw, of
the Grand Prince Michael, who, it is asserted died
from an attack of apoplexy.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

Six o'CLocK.

Nothing doing.

LEITH Doc/O.—The new docks here are progress-
ing rapidly. A great many hands are employed exc•i-
vating the clay to the required depth, and forming what
will be the wharfs. In the course of these operations
the Tower, which stood on the west wall of the old
docks, has been removed, and the foundation•stone,
which was laid there in 1809, has been taken up. Oa
the stone were two plates, engraved with the names of
:he authorities present when it was laid, and in a cavity
of the store were two glass jars, one containing one f
each of the coins of that day, and the other containing
a copy of each of the Edinburgh newspapers publishel
pbtuaitnnngoct underoen n
some
constructed. at that time. These articles are at present in the pos-
stterru minutely
pos-
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likely be again
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
PORTUGAL-STREET BURIAL-GROUND.—Yesterday
Mr. Lyons, secretary to the King's College Hospital,
waited upon Mr. Henry, the sitting magistrate, tl
represent the serious nuisance to which the inhabi-
tants of the vicinity of the burial-ground in Portugal-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, were exposed by inter-
ments still constantly taking place there.
The applicant stated that his object in presenting
himself to the court was to ascertain if any assistance
could be afforded in closing the burial-ground for the
future. The churchwrdecs had just allowed a hole
to be opened about 20 or 30 feet deep, from which
the offensive smell was so intolerable that he was
compelled to wait upon the authorities to represent
the circumstance ; but, upon the churchwardens re-
pairing with him to the spot, the smell not then being
such as he had described, they came to the conclusion
that it could not have originated in that quarter;
end, as they were only acting in their official capa-
city, they had no power to prevent interments daily
taking place, particularly as the parish was not pro-
vided with any other burial-ground. The house
holders, whose premises abut upon the ground, were
constantly making complaints to him upon the sub
ject, many of them having sleeping apartments
actually below the depth where the bodies are laid,
and to his own knowledge, on a recent occasion, a
skull was exposed in the grave-yard, the teeth of
which were in such a state of preservation that one of
the students of the hospital offered the grave-digger
7s. 6d. for it.

Mr. HENRY inquired if the object of the application
vas to prevent the grave-yard being used in future
for the same purpose ? Mr. Lyons said that was the
object he had in view, if it was practicable; many
of the patients in the establishment to which he
belonged having been swept away by the prevailing
epidemic.
Mr. HENRY was quite aware of the evil complained
of, but he very much doubted if the churchwardens
had the power to refuse bodies being interred in the
ground.
Mr. Lyons said he considered the new Act had
provided against such nuisances; and admitting that
such was not the case, the parish authorities of St.
Bride's, Fleet-street, had lately come to the determi-
nation of purchasing a burial-ground in the suburbs.
in order to abate a nuisance which, for a considerable
rime, had been complained of by the inhabitants.
Mr. HENRY said that a similar course had been
adopted by the parish authorities of Hanover-square;
but the families of the humbler classes were, by that
means, put to much inconvenience and expense in
conveying their deceased relatives to distant parts.
There 18 as no method of compelling the churchwar-
dens to desist from their established course of pro-
ceeding, except by an Act of Parliament for the
purpose, although they might be indicted for a nui-
sance at some risk. He was ready to admit that the
question was of great public interest at present; but
the magistrate, in the absence of a special Act, had no
power to afford a remedy for the nuisance.