The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-06 00:00:00

BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Slit,•---Seti2g in your widely-read journal an account
of tb,:treatincnt of a Dissenter by a clergyman, at Dover,
I beg to forward you an account of a somewhat similar
Occurrence, which took place in this neighbourhood a
few months back. The following, was forwarded to the
llcrekrd nines, the editor of which journal refused to
insert it, on the plea.of fear of giving offence, the truth
lt
being always welecnne.

If you should think rroper to favour it with a place
in The Sun, you will confer an obligation on the Dis-
senters in this. neighbourhood, and perhaps at the
sane time do good to the country at large.
'fun facts, of the case arc as follow :

A Dieiciacei child having died, the parents applied to
(he parish clergyman, and appointed a time for the inter-
silent to take place. lie met the humble procession at
the char: h door, and inquired if the child had been hap-
t-zed, nd by whom ? The parents replied by Air.
Cialiam, a dissenting minister. Then, said his Reverence,
as the child has not received a Christian baptism I shall
slot bury it, and walked away. The parents, with tears in
in their eyes, implored him to bury their child, and, on his
refusing, :And what they should do with it; to which he
replied, Do what you wit with it, I care not, They then
r. quested the clerk to inter it, who did, in what these bigots
term upeonscerated ground, but so near the surface, that a
day or two afterwards, the coffin was discovered torn out of
the ground by a dog, who, if it had not been discovered
would
.also have torn the corpse from its slight covering.
, ma,,vne the feelings of the afflicted parents at such
borrif%ing deeds.

And ovue Can such things be,
e us like a summer's cloud,
without our
subjected
wonder ?"
Are we to be thuesPe to the caprices and in-
humanity of the tools of our
foEstablished Church ? Are
the poor of England to bealthroever treated like dogs--
descended from one
or are they, because poor,
beuesgt:he whims of any such
common stock, to be-insulted
%
proceedings, seekor afterthe loaves and
gs, and do
the Establishment aware of these t,,oAre the heat's of
they wink at them, and still suffer such things to be
e aricd on ?
If a poor man had thus outraged the feelings o
mourning parent. who happened to be clothed in purple
and time linen," the law would then have taken its"sev
course; but as the case stands, we cannot but arrive a'jtele
severest
well known term:nation, namely, that of there being one
law for the rich and another for the poor.
Nov. 4, 1340

JUSTICE.

EDITORIAL HONOURS ry PARTS.—The
Ministry of the t-t °f Nlarch, before it resigned, has named
M. Leon ['dueller Knight of the 1.,,,gi0n of Honour. What
lye hi; claims? They are the following, according to the
41,taila in the Coarrier Francais :—" My personal rela-
tions with the lead r of the Cabinet have permitted me at
Ivatt, and I will only take advantage of them in that re.
'Teo, to know some acts of the Government in their true
sense. I had a knowledge of the note of the Bth of Oc-
tober. 1 gave my assistance, as it were, to the opinion
•whi, hdietated it ( J'ai pour ainsi dire assiste a la pensee
dieic)'t We do not know that M. Leon Faucher
has any other claim to the decoration which he has ob-
tained, and which he appears not to have boasted of to the
electors of Corbeil. M. lioillay, the editor of the Con.
siitutianitel, has likewise been ' named Knight of the Legion
of ilonour.—Presse of Tuesday.
In a village church, a few
Sundays back, the
clergyman having published the banns of marriage, was
aptly f Mowed by the clerk reading the symn com-
sery 2P
raccoi„g, " Mistaken souls who dream of keafoo." Ayr
Ltbserver.