The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-08 00:00:00

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Mr. Marsh, the inspector, stated that no charge, bp
believed, was made for the tickets of admission, but a
collection was made after the exhibition of the bodies
at the chapel.
Mr. JARDINE said, before taking any other steps, it
would be better to send for Mr. Walker, who was a
very respectable man, and ascertain if the ground of com-
plaint might not be removed without resorting to a
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In the course of the afternoon Mr. G. A. Walker
waited upon his Worship, by whom the complaint of the
churchwardens was explained to him.
Mr. Walker did not deny the statements of the
churchwardens as to the immense crowds of persons
who were daily witnessing, by his means, the abomina-
tions of Enon Chapel. This place had been under his
notice since 1842; but it was only recently that he had
been enabled to convince the public of the existence of
so great an evil in the very heart of the metropolis.
Many Members of the House of Commons had visited
the spot, after experiencing much difficulty in getting
access to it, and he hoped yet to see some of the
Executive present; for few would believe in the exist-
ence of such an abomination unless actually present.
His only object had been practically to demonstrate that
which was otherwise invariably discredited. The magis-
trate might form some idea of the state of the vaults,
when informed, that the ex-minister of Enon Chapel
made upwards of 9512 in six years by the burial of dead
bodies in a place measuring only fifty-nine feet by
twenty-fire feet. He did not know what object the
churchwardens had in view in seeking to frustrate his
views, but he could only say that they came forward
with very bad grace, seeing that they tolerated almost as
great an evil in the burial ground attached to King's i
College Hospital, n Portugal-street. However, he was
not to be put down by them.
Mr. JARDINE did not think the churchwardens were
actuated by any ill-feeling towards Mr. Walker, whose
respectability was a guarantee for the purity and disin-
terestedness of his motives; but if it could be proved
that the exhibition of these vaults in the manner de-
scribed was becoming a serious nuisance to the neigh-
bourhood, apart from the revolting nature of the exhibi-
tion itself, there could be no doubt that the promoters
of it were indictable at the sessions. His Worship,
however, had thought it better first to communicate with
Mr. Walker, with the view of seeing if some arrange-
ment might not be made to obviate in future the serious
nuisance complained of. He thought it might be possi-
ble so to limit the number and class of persons admitted,
as to prevent the recurrence of scenes so repulsive as
those mentioned by the churchwardens.
Mr. Walker entered into some particulars respecting
his services in the sanitary cause, especially with regard
to Spa-fields, Ike., and presented his Worship with a
copy of one of his pamphlets. He mentioned several
other instances of the awful amount of contagion and
death caused by the overcrowding of the dead in the
midst of the living, and promised to regulate in future
the admission of parties to witness the horrors of Enon
Chapel.