The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Especially attractive in this month of September is
the Sporting Magazine—the first embellishment to
which, " The Approaching Footstep," is calculated
to whet the appetite of the grouse-shooter. " Killing
no Murder" is the best paper among the current con-
tributions. As the second illustration, is a clever
engraving called " The Ferret Laid." In the Belle
Assemblee the frontispiece is a drawing of
"Rebecca," the most splendidly coloured of all the
marvellous heroines of Sir Walter. Bssides this,
there is a woodcut of Crowland Abbey in Lincoln-
shire, and the usual monthly fashions. With con-
tributions from Mrs. Crosland, Elizabeth Youatt,
Calder Campbell, Mrs. Abdy, and others, the
miscellany is rich in story, verse, and anec-
dote. Le Follet is scarcely so graceful in its
embellishments as heretofore ; neither is the Journal
of Design so felicitous as usual in its illustrations.
The sketch of the bust of the Queen, from the cele-
brated original by Chantrey, although ingenious,
is by no means sightly in execution. Sharpe, s
siFe,
gazzne, on the contrary, is charmingly or nbekli
with two elegant engravings—one from a dratiinwtin
ofo
Glendalough, Creswick, another frome a
the literary
P
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Lake Chandiere, by Bartlett.
contents less worthy of commenolat,!
being
ns ogmoef
of them,
such as " A Contrast in Biography,rodc a
pe i l s relating to the
progress of science,
excellence. Among
thewe 'lust particularise as de-
serving of encouragement -we
Patent Journal, and
also a kindred publication, well known as Newton's
Our readers are possibly long since
Repertory.
miiiar with the fact that there is no lack whatever or
organs dedicated to the cause of religion, of all shades
and peculiarities of opinion. First amongst the
monthly journals of this nature we must mention
the Church of England Magazine, the illustration to
which is the same as the wood-cut already noticed as
appearing in the Belle Assembles, namely, Crowland
Abbey. Of the missionary organs two are lying
before us, the Colonial Church Chronicle, in which
will be found an interesting paper on the present
aspect .of Jerusalem, and the Evangelical Magazine,
embellished with an engraved portrait. At this I
par-
ticular time, for reasons which it is unnecessary to

enumerate, the Journal of Public Health will be
found of peculiar interest in regard to sanitary mat-
tars in general and to cholera i❑ particular. To the
agriculturists we commend the Farmer's Magazine,
a periodical whose energies are always directed to
matters of practical importance, of immediate interest,
and of professional utility. This magazine, we are
rejoiced to see, augurs well for the harykst already
commenced.

BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Passing, on an omnibus, the Islington chapel
of ease, in the Holloway-road, last evening, as the
clock was striking ten, I saw two men skulking
into the burying ground with a plain uncovered
coffin on their shoulders, evidently containing a
corpse. " Ohl that's very common
i now," re-
marked the conductor, " they put them n here at all
hours, theie cholera times. I frequently see them even
latter than this."

I. saw (for a vivid flash of lightning at the mo-
ment illumined the place) no clergyman at
that unseasonable hour at this consecrated
Christian churchyard, waiting to commit
those remains of " the dear departed brother"
(or sister), with our beautifully impressive funeral
service, to their last (query) resting•place. But
perhaps they were the remains of a burglar, of a
suicide, or (more likely for such things are common
now,") of a PAUPER.
I merely mention the fact, and leave it for those
who have the power to order it otherwise to enjoy, if
they can, the reflections that such a circumstance
must give rise to in all well-regulated minds.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES JAMES THICKE,
Honorary Secretary to the National Society
for the Abolition of Burial in Towns.
New Bridge•street, Blackfriars, Sept. 4.