The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-23 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF RUSH.

NORWICH, SATURDAY NIGHT, EIGHT O'CLOCK.
The representatives of the London press had atrinter-
view to-night with Mx: Pinson, the governor of the gaol,
who read them ft statement drawn up by the chaplain
respecting Rush's conduct during the last few days of his
life. He had clearly dissembled from the very first; a,
much so, indeed,"that it. last whatever ho said or sug•s
i
Bested was looked: upon-ai suspicious and with distrust.
He daily proclaimed hinnocence, saying, " God knew
his heart; he had math• his peace with him; ho was
prepared to At lait, finding that the visiting tiler
gymen would nbt believe him innocent, he became dis-
satisfied with them, and'alnaost disrespectful. Two or
three days ago' lie wished-to have the Sacrament admin.
istered to him in private, but ho was refused by the
chaplain.- Chen wrote a letter to her Majesty; but
finding he could not get it out of the Castle he burned
it. At his parting farewell with his family on Wodnes.
day, he said, " hope the Queen will not be in a hurry
to hang me." _ _

He attended chapel service this morning. The clergy-
man, convinced of his guilt,,endearoured to elicit con-
fession. Abruptly, however, as upon former occasions.
he said, " God knew his heart; that he was his judge,
and that they had prejudged him." When conducted to
the turnkey's room to be pinioned, he met Calcraft
whereupon he said to Mr. Pinson, "Is this the map
that is to do the business?" The reply was "
When he was pinioned, he shrugged up his shoulders,
saying, " This don't go easy." Upon the scaffold,
feeling Caleraft tremulous while fixing the noose around
his neck, he said, " Don't be in a hurry, take your time."
Then moving his head about, he said, " Put the knot a
little higher up; don't hurry."
During the previous night (Friday) he undressed.
went to bed, dressed, and went to bed again several
times, pretending, whilst in bed, to sleep, but in faot
watching the turnkeys all the while intently. There is
no doubt that he intended self-destruction. He declared
►hat he had heavenly sweet sleeps, however. His last
request was, that the drop might fall at the utterance of
certain words by the chaplain.
Rush received a later on Friday from his eldest
daughter. It deeply affected him. He shed tears on
the occasion. He burnt it, as he did all his other writ-
ings and papers. We saw the body to-night. The face
was calm and placid; there was no appearance of a vio-
lent death. His bust was taken. The only thing he
left was a religious book which he had interlined. He
left directions for it to be handed to his family. H.•
was buried at eight o'clock at night, in a deep grave
in the prison grounds, next to the remains of Yarham,
who was executed four years since for the Yarmouth
murder. .
Russia CIIILDREN.—DeopIy do the bereaved children
of Rush feel the position in which they are placed. The
sympathy of every generous mind will be with them ;
and most sincerely do we hope that the sins of the pareet
may not be visited upon his unoffending offspring. We
ate very glad to learn that they aro not destitute ; up-
wards of 1001. a year will be realised to educate the
younger branches.

BURIAL OF THE DEAD 1N TOWNS

_
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—An important object of improvement is not
always best served by &welling strongly on minor points
of maltreatment. I humbly think that your medical
correspondent, Mr. Smith, has, with good intention,
fallen into this mistake. I must object also to such ex-
pressions as " rotting" body. The poor remains, when
the soul has departed, should be treated with tenderness
for the sake of the living and the dead.
If the "Alderman" at Christ Church, Newgate-street,
had, as doubtless was the case, a sufficient lead, &e.
coffin, with the stones above carefully cemented, yet
only seven inches of interposed soil, the fact may be
as favourable as interment in an open church vault.
Perhaps the remains of some eminent or high persons
are, as the writer saw those of the poet Campbell in
Westminster Abbey, within a foot of the well-paved
floor, though it must be admitted that the practice is not
to be greatly admired.

The—out-door misdoing', where the ground is turned
up frequently in the week, are more calculated for re-
probation. I this day passed through Islington church
yard, and found unmistakeable symptoms of painful odour
from an unfinished grave under six feet deep, close to
the footpath, and about eight yards only from the street.
This, whenever it occurs, is shocking to the mind as
well as the senses; and in some states of health, especially
with females, might be very prejudicial. The above
churchyard, little more than an acre,
in a parish of
60,000 inhabitants, has long been notoriously crowded,
for which there is leas excuse, that there is a handsome
grour.d of five acres, not near full, at the Chapel of Ease,
not very distant.

In some cases, where no remains are distinguishable,
the mould is fatid I as the water is, where the soil is
watery. Most miserable and revolting pictures ; yet,
like the details at Tooting, most necessary to be ex-
hibited for public opinion on the originals.
Having given, three years ago, in several numbers of
your esteemed contemporary, the Builder, the result of
ten years' observation of the " London
Churchyards,"
afterwards collected in a pamphlet (out of print), I may
hope to have made known some things of use on the
subject. As Mr. Walker had so ably and perseveringly
exposed the evils as regards public health, it was the
aim of your humble correspondent rather to handle the
subject in the lights of public decency and private
feeling.

polOittaiencaplacruila,hteioa,ncionnttahionitinbgove was quoted in a leading
article of the Times journal—viz., that twelve metro-
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apportioned in sections, with a
church-like chapel in the centre, affording the same
service for the poor as the rich—was favoured with the
approval in writing, eight year's ago, of the Bishop of
London as " much the best he had hitherto seen."
The c'ergy, Sir, I have reason to believe, have been '
more willing for improvement—at any rate some of
them—than they have obtained credit for. It was from
parochial action, voluntary or compelled, that necessary
change could arise. Many clergymen are poor and
generous men, often the latter in proportion to thethe
former, with families, and could not afford to loshenn
fees, which should be compensated. On the other d
where they were otherwise, no respecter of
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Dissenters and
And this is no question between
and general
Churchmen. For the larger Dissentinghn
the churchyards.
grounds are, too often, worse t
clergy-
man protesting, and that was thirty years ago,
and
collection of such,
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when the
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ionofaif.ncago Dissentingurhsies, tchheap chapel,
" saddle"
should only be placed on the "right horse."
The most terrible instance as regards space and num-
bers, in London—utterly out-heroding Spa Fields—is
called " Bunhill Fields," a generic name, with a chapel
on entering, a little to the right of the old Kents road.*
Here is a space which, to a not inexperienced eye
might appear less than a quarter of an acre, but it can-
not be many poles over that. " Well," the reader may
say, "and how many arc buried there in a year—fifty
might decently—surely you do not mean to say that
five hundred are buried in twelve months in a quarter
of an acre?"
Yes, (that is speaking of a year and a half ago,) on
the lowest estimate—not of the writer's only from one
summer's Sunday, but of neighbours and eye-witnesses—
Fifteen hundred 1 ! but more likely from 2,000 to
2,500 ! The mind reels at this frightful statement and
inquires by what horrible " management"—what de-
struction or removal of human flesh and bones—this
overcrowding is accomplished? The fact exists, how-
ever, wherefore the means and practice whatever they
can be, should be dragged into light for universal judg-
ment and retribution.—l am, Sir, &c.,

. .
J. D. PARRY, ALA.,
Author of the " Coast of Sussex," &e.
April 14, 1819.
* Also mentioned by the writer in the Builder.

PROMOTIONS ANI) APPOINTMENTs—.I-Mr. C. Macau-
ley has received the appointment of Colonial Secretary
at the Mauritius; Mr. Patrick Augustus Boyle is ap-
pointed Colonial Surgeon at the Gold Coast; Mr. John
Luake, Mr. William Race Allison, and Mr. William
Stanley Isharland, are appointed members of the Legis-
lative Council of Van Diemen's Land; Mr. William
Napier (Lieutenant-Governor) and Mr. John Gaveron
Treacher, to be of the Legislative Council of Labuan.
The followinglpromotions and removals have taken place
in consequence of the retirement of Mr. Wright, Col-
lector of Customs at the Port of Hull, viz :—Mr. M. C.
Cotton, collector at Greenock, to be collector at Hull;
Mr. Rowe, collector at Whitehaven, to be collector at
Greenock; Mr. Nanson, collector at Lancaster, to be
collector at Whitehaven; Mr. Ross, controller at Ro-
chester, to bo collector at Lancaster; Mr. Preston, first
clerk at Manchester, to be controller at Rochester. This
arrangement has enabled the Commissioners of Customs
to effect a considerable saving in reducing the scale of
salaries at Greenock. Mr. Trevor, Collector of Customs
at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, has been appointed col-
lector at Limerick, in the room of Mr. Reay; Mr. Bald-
win, collector at Newhaven, has been promoted to
Douglas; and Mr. Hearn, controller at Newhaven, has
been appointed collector at the same port, where the
scale of salaries has been reduced upon this arrange-
ment.—Sunday Paper.