The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-19 00:00:00

TUE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 19, 1849.

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HEALTHY HOMES. A Guide] to the Proper
Regulation, o.e. By William Husking, Architect
and C E.
At this Period, when the metropolis and the pro
~Trices are being desolated by a sp-eading epidemic
and an increasing mortality, we are graitied to ob
serve the republication of this very excellent volume
in the form of a cheap, r and more compactly printed
(dition. 'Muse who have airvady glanced at its pages
will bear in recollection the practical and practicable
cberacter of its suggestions having raerence in !cps-
rate departments to the better regulation of buildings
and streets, of drainage and sewerage. Mr. }Joshing
has studied the difficulties improvement as an
architect and an engineer, and he has recognised the
necessity of these changes, no mat ter how laborious their
accomplishment may be, insisTing upon their adoption
with the earnestness of a philanthropist. Without
being so far carried away by fanciful conjectures as
to betray a congenial enthusiasm with that of those
very amiable but fantastic gentlemen, the
monomaniacs of Gwydyr House, he has
taken sufficiently into account the advisability
of proper drainage and wholesome ventilation. He
has regarded the tti arrangements as essential to the
salubrity of any populous neighbourhood, and has
made his suggestions accordingly. Hence it is that
we regard the present cheap reprint of his volume
with unalloyed pleasure, and earnestly commend its
contents to the perusal of the community.

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pollams prices scarcely show the firmness they lately I
did, though there is still a demand for them. Even r
in printing cloths there is less doing; their values
is, however, sustained by the orders in hand. Such
is the loss attending some departments of the trade
of this district, such as the spinning of water twist
for exportation, and the manfecture of heavy goods,
that several millowners in Rochdale, Manchester, and
the vicinity of Oldham have resorted to short time,
and at least one or two firms have altogether stopped
their works. And a sort of vague rumour of an in-
tention on the part of the operatives in this immediate
neighbourhood, to turn out for an advance of wages,
has been almost hailed as a prospective relief from
long continued loss. The turn-outs at Bolton have
not vet generally returned to work, though we under-
stand several mills are again in motion.
ROCHDALE, SEPT. 17.—We have had more busi-
ness doing to-day than we had on the previous Mon-
day. The merchants have turchasd freely at former
prices. Kerseys and heavy goods have been more
difficult of sale than they were last fortnight. In
the wool mai ket there is little er no change to report.
HUDDERSFIELD, Seri. 18.—Not many buyers
in
attendance to-day, and but little business doing, either
in the Cloth Hall or warehouses. Many orders con-
tinue to come to hand, and keep our manufacturers
well employed.
HALIFAX, SEPT. 15.—There is no noticeable varia-
tion in the amount of business done, either in plain or
fancy goods, nor is there any change in the quota-
tions. The same may be said of yarns, both as
regards demand and prices. The wool trade is,
perhaps rather more quiet, and the slight advance
spoken of in our last seems to be generally conceded,
but the growers are asking higher rates thin the
staplers are able to obtain from the spinners.
LEEDS, SEPT. 18.—The stocks at present in the
hands of the makers are very light, and prices aro
steady. In the warehouses, with one or two excep-
tions, business is slacker than for some weeks past,
and trade altogether is rather quiet. To day business
in the cloth halls has been dull. The general gloom
occasioned ty the rapid spread of cholera is the cause
assigned for this change.

CRICKET.
ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. EIGHTEEN OF LEEDS AND

DISTRICT.

This match was resumed esterday at Leeds.
The following is the score at the close of the secoLd
play:—

_
ENGLAND -FIRST INNINGS.
Claike—c Bosomworth, b C. Smith
Guy—c Nixon, b Crossland ... •••
ilillyer—run out ••• •• •••
F. rich—b Barrett ... •.• •••
G. Parr—c and b Crossland ... •.•
Box—c Crossland, b Barrett ...
N. Felix, Esq.—c Denison, b Barrett
A. Mynn, Esq.—b Barrett ...
Alartingell—not out ...
Hinkly—c Sanderson, b Barrett ...
G. F. Cook, Esq.—not out ...
B 6, w 21, n b 2 ...

... 71
... 3
... 0
... 13
... 27
... 0

... 9

Total ...
LEEDS-FIRST INNINGS.

... ...
ENGLAND.--SECOND INNINGS.

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BURIALS IN TOWNS.
THE CITY BOARD OF HEALTH.
The Lord Mayor attended the committee, and after
reading the reports, Mr. Barkley, the chairman, in-
formed the committee that he had been himself wit-

ness, on the previous day, of the overcrowded condi
tion of one of the burying-grounds of the City. Al-
derman Finnis, who was likewise present at the
interment of the late Deputy Silson, had desired him
to call the attention of the Lord Mayor and the

committee to the fact, in order that some steps mig
be immediately taken to redress the evil. When the
corpse had arrived at the place of interment the grave
was found too small, and although they were kept
waiting upwards of twenty minutes, to the outrage
of the teeliogs of the mourners, they were obliged to
leave the ground, and, as he afterwards heard, they
could not deposit the coffin without disturbing the
body in the adjoining grave.
The LOUD MAYOR observed he was quite certain
that, unless rigorous means were immediately taken
to prevent intramural interments, the Government and
the Leg:slature would, as soon as Parliament as•
sembled, bring in some sweeping measure to effect an
object which had now excited the greatest public
interest. It was quite evident, now public feeling had
been excited, that the practice would not be permitted
to continue.
Mr. C. PEARSON said that the feeling against inter-
ments in the City was as strong in 1832 as at present.
There were two great difficulties in the way of sub-
urban places of interment for the ninety-seven City
parishes—one was, the vested interests of the parochial
clergy and the inhabitants ; the other was the great
cost to the poor which the removal of the dead to a
distance would occasion to the parish or to their
families and friends. The first of these difficulties he
saw his way through in 1832 ; but the last was a
stumbing-block which subsequent events had now
removed. He had proposed that the board of health
at that time should take advantage of the prevalence of
the epidemic to provide a place of general interment,
and that the corporation should obtain an Act of
Parliament to confer upon the inhabitants of the City
parishes and all the parochial functionaries the same
rights, privileges, and fees, in respect of the interment
of parishioness in the corporation cemetery, as at-
tached to them in their several parish grounds. He
had many conferences with influential individuals,
both clergy and laity, who approved of the project,
and with the authority of the committee he at that
time purchased twenty-two acres of land for the pur-
pose of a corporation cemetery at Holloway ; but
the cholera happily departed, and when the excite-
ment had subsided, the other objection was held suffi.
cient to prevail, particularly in the case of the poor,
who, it is well known, would feel as sensibly and
acutely as the rich, if they were prevented by the
expentes attendant upon distant burying from paying
the same tokens of honour to theirdeparted relatives as
were bestowed upon them by those to whom fortune
had been more kind. The advantage of cheap and
expeditious locomotion which railroads had intro-
duced would now remove this objection to suburban
interments. One or two hundred acres of ground
might be purchased in a suitable situation upon one
of the metropolitan railroads, say within ten or fifteen
miles of the City, where a proper receiving house
could be erected, to which all bodies might be con-
veyed by the undertakers during the night, and at the
hour fixed for the interment the mourners, poor or
rich, at a small expenditure of time or money, might
assamble to pay their last tribute of respect to their
departed friends.
A report was then read from Mr. Simon, detailing
the plan of procedure adopted by him for carrying
out the system of house to house visitation in the City.
Mrs. Signol, wife of Bernard Signol, of 47,
Munkveell street, appeared before the committee in a
very distressed state. She stated that she had seven
children residing at home; on Sunday last a grave
was dug in St. Olive's churchyard for the inUrment
of a female who had died of cholera in Winchester-
court close by ; they had commenced digging the
grave before six o'clock in the morning; the grave
was not sunk sufficiently deep, and in consequence of
the interference of Police-constable 136, the sexton
w...s obliged to dig it deeper, and did not
finish it till half-past four p.m. ; at about two
o'clock Mr:. Signol was called by the servant
to look on ; she then saw four human heads,
which had been disinterred ; they were "in a
green state with the hair visible," and other parts of
human bodies had been thrown up. In consequence
of some remarks from a gentleman who came in the
ground, these remains were covered up with earth.
Mrs. Signol said the smell arising from the church-
yard when graves were being dug was most offen-
sive and compelled the inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood on those occasions to keep their windows
closed.
The CITY SOLICITOR recommended that Mrs. Sig-
nol should be sent to the Commissioners of Sewers, who
were then sitting. The committee could not legally
interfere, beyond making a further representation to
the General Board of Health.
Mr. YOUNG—Are you willing to make a depo-
sition of the facts you have stated to be verified by
oath ?
Mrs. Signol said she was, and left the room for
that purpose.
A brief conversation having taken place on the
subject, a resolution was unanimously passed, calling
upon the City Solicitor and the officer of health to
report their opinions as to the interments in the City.
—Adjourned.

LARGE EARLY CABBAGE....-ALNWICK, SEPT. 18.—
On the 17th inst. a cabbage was cut in the allotment, of
Mr. Bankston, ironmonger, Alnwick,. weighing 3...1b5.,
all usable, the stalk having been left, in the ground, to
produce seed; the kind is Harrison s Imperial.
52. his
beautiful cabbage when growing measured nearly lent
across from tip to tip of the leaves. His Grace the
Duke of Northumberland having caused. a quantity of
land to be divided into small allotments for the accom-
modation of the inhabitants, has conferred a great benefit
upon them, as they prove to be exceedingly useful to
families, and by raising a spirit of emulation amongst
the parties, aro going on rapidly improving.—Front a
Correspondent.
THE SMITHFIELD MARKET NUISANCE.—OH Mon-
day afternoon, an the corpse of Mr. Gavin, late of Lavics
street, Islington, was being conveyed for interment in
the Bunhill• fields burial-ground, when the bearers were
in the act of crossing the City-road, noar the Angel, a
drove of oxen Coming from Smithfield, pursued by a dog,
rust ed upon them; the coffin was hurled off the men's
shoulders, and themselves prostrated; the mourners,
chiefly females, fled shrieking in affright. The corpse,
in cow( queue° of this indecent treatment, had to be
conveyed to a neighbouring undertaker's, and one of the
bearers was so seriously injured as to be unable to
t proceed.