The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

1‘ G REENW ICil.

"1., 35, wife of painter,ciolera3o hours, September
4, Salutation-alley, near the Arsenal gates.—The sister
of this person, and her sister's husband, died of cholera
last week, in London, at Newington-causeway. A son
of Mrs. Hall, 18 years of age, has since died. The
mother, who nursed those persons, came on Saturday
last to stay with this individaal. In the backyard, near
the dwelling, was an everflowing privy, and near it a
durghole, the drainage running into it."
Iu this week's return, as in previous ones, the absence
of information such as registrars must have the most
extensive and best means of acquiring, is again obsery
able in nearly all the districts where cholera has been most
fatal. Thus, in the districts of Bermondsey, St. George's
Southwark, Newington, and Camberwell, and nearly all
the cases recorded, are given in the shortest torso pos-
sible, and the opportunity is lost for collecting that full
and minute statement of facts the value of which becomes
every day more apparent.

'I he Board of Health has published the following
notification to churchwardens, overseers, and other
persons, with reference to burial-grounds :
" Gwydyr Hou,e, Whitehall, Sept. 10.
"It having been proved that there is danger to healtl,
and li'e from emanations arising from human remains in
a state of decomposition ; that such emanations produce
fatal disease and depress the general health of whoever
are exposed to them in ordinary times ; that, even when
the burials have been so deep as to diminish the escape
of surface emanations, injurious effects are traced in the
pollution of springs and wells; and much evidence having
also been received that during the prevalence of the present
epidemic additional injury to the public health has been
incurred by the practice of intramural interments, the
General Board of Health are prepared to adopt measures
for its discontinuance wherever, upon the report of
an inspector, founded on the preliminary examination
required by the 104 h section of the Nuisances Removal
and Diseases Prevention Act, it shall, appear that any
burial- ground is in such a state as to be dangerous to
the health of the persons living in the neighbourhood.'
In conformity with the terms of the Act, and pro-
ceeding in each case upon the special report of an in-
spector, the Board have already ordered several grave-
yards to be temporarily closed.
" They would, however, urge upon churchwardens,
overseers, and all other persons having charge of grave-
yards, particularly in the metropolis, the great import-
ance of their voluntarily making immediate preparation
for the suspension of intramural interments; such au-
thorities being now by the 10th section of the 'Nuisance
Removal and Diseases Prevention Amendment Act,' em-
powered to discontinue the practice as set forth in the
words of the statute hereto annexed.
" The General Board of Health would recommend
that the arrangements made should in general be strictly
of a temporary nature, in order that all danger may be
avoided of their clashing with those general and perms
nent measures which it will be the duty of the board to
prepare, at the earliest practicable period, for the sanc-
tion of the Legislature. The board hope that the mea-
sures in contemplation will meet with approval, inasmuch
as they will be iramed in the spirit of the following
resoulutions, adopted at a meeting of the parochial
clergy of the metropolis, and sanctioned by the Bishops
of London and Winchester:—

" The Committee of the Parochial Clergy, the Very
Rev. the Dean of Manchester in the chair, reported the
following as the result of their inquiries:—
"‘ First, they beg to express their acquiescence in th,i
opinion now so generally and strongly entertained by the
public, that it is exceedingly desirable that interments
within the metropolis, except in the cases hereinafter
mentioned, sections No. 25 and 26, should be discon-
tinued, and that larger and more convenient burial-
grounds than those at present existing should be substi-
tuted at reasonable distances from the metropolis, pro-
vided such grounds, when established, be parochial
burial-grounds, with a reservation to all parties now
having or hereafter by law to have certain interests in
the ancient churchyards or parochial burial-grounds, of
all the same rights, privileges, and duties now belonging
to them.

" In submitting the above plan the committee beg
to state, that their object throughout has been not
merely to provide for the removal of the evils of the pre-
sent system, and for the preservation of existing
rights, but to suggest the extension of benefits to
the community. Their wish is that every inhabitant
of London, however poor, should have a legal
right to the following privileges on the death of a rela-
tive—namely, an undisturbed grave in the peaceful se-
clusion of a well ordered burial-ground; the full per-
formance of the Church of England service ; the
respectable conveyance of the body to the place of burial,
and whenever the removal of a body from the place of
death may be desired, its care and safe custody in a
house of reception until the time of burial. They wish
these privileges not to be of an eleemosynarY character,
but the provision of the Church for the population,
whether rich or poor, to be obtained by every one on
application at the church of his parish, and on the pay-
ment of the lowest charges for which such services can
be rendered.
" By order of the Board,
"'H. AUSTIN, Secretary."

CLAUSES IN THE NUISANCES AMENDMENT ACT, HAYING

REFERENCE TO INTERMENTS.

" 9. And be it enacted, thatitahßanllardbenlfawdeualitih,n
England or Wales for the General
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may deem fit to direct, into the state of the burial-
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grounds in any part of England or Wales excepted
from the powers of the Public Health Act,
1848, or in any populous city, town, or place in
England or Wales to which for the time being the said
Act has not been applied, or in any populous city, town,
or place in Ireland, and if it appear to the General
Board of Health or the said Commissioners that such
burial-ground is in such a state as to bo dangerous to
the health of the persons living in the neighbourhood
thereof, it'shnll be lawful fo'r the said General Board of
Health in England and Wales, under the seal of the said
board, and under the hands of two or more members
thereof, and the said Commissioners of Health in Ire-
land, under the hands of two or more of them, to issue
such orders as the said Board or Commissiohers respec-
tively may think fit for the application of' stich disin-
fecting substances, and for the adoption of such other
measures of precaution in relation to the premises; as

may, in the opinion of the said Board or Commissioners
of Health, tend to lesson or remove the danger to
health; and the churchwardens and other persons having
the care and control of the burial grounds to which such
orders shall relate shall do all such works and matters in
relation thereto as by such orders may be directed, and
all expenses incurred in the execution of such orders
shall be defrayed out of the poor-rates of the parish;
provided always that no such order as aforesaid shall be
made after the end of the next session of Parliament.

" 10. And be it enacted, that where it appears to the
General Board of Health, or the Commissioners of
Health in Ireland, that the churchyard or other burial-
ground of any parish is dangerous to health as aforesaid,
and that temporary provision for interment elsewhere, is
urgently required, the churchwardens of such parish,
with the ccnsent of the bishop of the diocese and the ap-
proval of such General Board of Health or Commis •
sioners of Health in Ireland, shall, if possible, either agree
with any cemetery company for the burial in the ground
of such company of the bodies of persons having right
of burial in the churchyard or other burial-ground of
such parish, or agree for the burial of such bodies in the
churchyard or burial-ground of any other parish of
which the minister and churchwardens may consent
thereto, and make all proper arrangements in relation to
such burials: provided always that where any such
agreement as aforesaid shall be proposed t ) be made by
the churchwardens of any parish, such churchwardens
shall submit such proposed agreement to a meeting of
the vestry, or persons having the powers of vestry, in
such parish, and if the majority of persons assem-
bled at such meeting shall disapprove such agreemt nt
the churchwardens shall not proceed therewith; and the
expenses incurred by such churchwardens in relation to
such agreement, and in carrying the same into effect,
shall be paid out of the poor-rates of their parish; pro-
vided also, that no such agreement as aforesaid shall be
made after the end of the next session of Parliament.
" 11. And be it enacted, that where upon any such
inquiry as aforesaid it appears to the General Board of
Health that the state of the burial-grounds in any parish,
or in any parishes which may be conveniently united for
the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and the circum
stances of such parish or parishes render it expedient
for the protection of the public cealth that interments
should be prohibited in such parish or parishes, except
as after mentioned, and that a burial-ground or buriAl-
grounds should be provided for such parish, or for the
common use of such parishes, the General Board of
Health may direct a superintending inspector to make
inquiry, in the manner directed by the Public Health Act,
1848, or as near thereto ascircumstances will permit, into
all the circumstances connected with the parochial and
other burial-grounds of such parish or parishes, and as to
the place or places in which any burial-ground or burial-
grounds might be provided, either within or beyond the
limits of such parish or parishes, and as to the means
which might be provided for the conveyance of bodies
for interment, or any other arrangements which might
be practicable for facilitating the convenient interment
of bodies in the burial-ground or burial-grounds to be so
provided, and as to the rights in any burial-ground in
such parish or parishes, not being a parochial bulling-
' ground, which might be affected by the prohibition of
interments in such pariah or parishes, and as to the pro-
portions in which several parishes (if more than one)
should contribute to the expense of providing and main-
taining a common burial-ground or common burial-
grounds for such parishes, and into such other matters as
the General Board of Health; may think necessary for
the purpose of enabling them to judge of the propriety of
framing a scheme to be submitted to as here-
inafter mentioned, and of the provisions which should be
inserted therein; and such superintending, inspector
shall report, in writing, in such manner as the General
Board of Health shall direct, the result of hi's inguiries
in relation to the premises.

GLORIOUS CHANCE!
(From Punch.)
MESSRS. PLAGUE, PESTILENCE, & CO.
Beg to announce to their Friends and the Public gene-
rally that they have opened extensive premises in the
Metropolis, with ,branches in all the principal towns of
England, for the regular supply of first-class Epidemics,
warranted to do the public business effectually and ra-
pidly. Their works comprise,
1. A COMPLETE AMOBTDIENT OIL INTRA• MURAL BURYING

GROUNDS;
in all stages of over-crowding, from which they are
enabled to supply the most highly concentrated Puiso•
nous Gases in any quantity, and on the most reasonable
terms.

2. AN EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF SEWERS,
in connexion with Fleet Ditch and other centres of me-
tropolitan filth, all entirely stagnant, and
3. ♦ NuBLE PLANT OF THE MOST APPROVED NUISANCES,
situated in densely-peopled neighbourhoods, and in lull
operation, consisting of Bone-Boiling Houses, Glue and
Gut Manufactories, Dustheaps, Knackers'-yards, Slaugh-
ter-hous(s, Cattle. markets, and all the other best up•
proved kinds of Apparatus for furnishing the strong, old,
favourite, Sulphuretted and Carburetted Hydrogen, and
the fine, heady, Carbonic Acid Gas, warranted to kill in
a very diluted state.
Specimens of superior Epidemics always on the pre-
mises, and samples sent to a distance.
N.B. References kindly allowed to the various Parish
Authorities and Sir Peter Laurie.

SIR J. FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC EX

PEDITION.

A lecture was delivered at the Southwark Literary
Institution, Borough-road, last night, by Dr. King,
M.D. (late medical officer to the arctic land expedi-
tion in search of Sir J. Ross), on the position of Sir
John Franklin's expedition, and the efforts of the
Government to save the adventurers. The lecturer
took a cursory review of the history of the successive
sea and land exploring expeditions undertaken for the
discovery of the North-west Passage since the efforts
of Sir John Barrow in 1818, and proceeded to advert
to the difficulties with which Sir John Franklin's last
expedition had to contend. They had to push their
way between Melville Island and Banks's Land, and
they had left this country under the erroneous im-
pression that North Somerset was an island, but
since their departure it had been settled, beyond dis-
pute, that it was a peninsula. Indeed, had it not been
for the error of the Government Hydrographer, Mr.
Simpson's excursion might have previously completed
the discovery of the North-west Passage, he having
attainedas point whieh •the Government chart, by.
setting down North Somerset as an island, led him
naturally, but erroneously, to conclude to be Regent's
Inlet. The lecturer illustrated his remarks by the
aid of diagrams and charts, and stated it as his belief
that Sir J. Franklin's party must either be about the
estuary of the Great Fish River or amongst the
insular group or continent of Victoria Land. Sir
John might have sought to reach Regent's Inlet, and
been foiled in the attempt by finding North Somerset
not to be an island, but a peninsula. On retracing
his steps, he might have got into one of the fiords, or
indentations of coast, at Victoria Land, and been
blocked up by the ice. No provisions could be found
in that inhospitable region, and he (the lecturer)
had no doubt but that in that case the party must
have long since perished. If, on the other hand,
the expedition had reached the estuary of the
Great Fish River, it was possible it might have
attempted to ascend that river to the Hudson's
Bay Company's stations at Slave Lake. The banks
of the Great Fish River abounded with deer, but
none of the party was possessed of sufficient skill to
shoot them for food, the deer in that district being
so remarkably shy and swift of foot that hardly any
one but natives could succeed in securing them. Ile
(Dr. King) held that it was the duty of the Govern-
ment to have made a search for the unfortunate men
by a descent of the Great Fish River ; and nothing
could justify their refusal to do so. He himself had
offered to conduct a party in the descent of that river,
at the trifling cost of not more than 2,0001.; but Mr.
Hawes, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies had re
fused to authorise the undertaking. His (Dr. King's)
plan contemplated employing the Indians to assist—
the aid of the natives being absolutely indispensable
to the success of the search ; and he believed that there
were only two persons living who were properly
qualified to undertake the descent of the Great Fish
River. These were Sir George Banks and himself,
who were both well acquainted with the region. The
natives could never be induced to co-operate with
any one not well known to them; and if Sir George
Banks declined, he (Dr. King) was ready at any
moment to enter upon the task himself.