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lom him.—(Hear, hear.) Perhaps it would be better
cr him not to refer to the eircumstances which had oc-
.casioned his retirement from the magistracy. It was enough
_for him to say that Mr. Harmer's fittings .had been
deeply wounded by the conduct of many of those who
had most violently opposed him, and many of whom
were largely indebted to that gentleman.—(Hear, hear.)
He would say this, however, that the public having
been benefited by the public 'services of Mr. Harmer,
more particularly his fellow-citizens and the inhabitants
of the Ward, it. became an act of duty on their part to
offer their testimony of those services. In promotion of
that object he felt much pleasure in 'moving the first
resolution. Mr. Taylor then read the resolution as
follows :
" That the retirement of James Harmer, Esq., from
the Magistracy of the City of London is a fit occa-
sion for his friends, and the public in general, to present
to him some lasting testimonial of their esteem, admira-
tion, and respect for his liberality, talents, integrity, and
general worth."
Mr. DE YEAR had great pleasure in seconding the
motion. He had known Mr. Harmer thirty years, and had
always found him to be one of the most honourable,
generous, and humane men in the world.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. was a man who conferred benefits in such a
manner as almost deprived the person benefited from
acknowledging the obligation. He (Mr. De Year) was
sorry that he was confined to speaking of that gentle-
man's merits in his civic capacity, in which, as Sheriff, he
had received the highest compliments from the city
authorities who acted with him.—(Hear, hear.) A.
gentleman who had long served the office of a Me
trate in the City told him (Mr. De Veer) that Mr. Her•
mer had raised the practice of an Old Bailey lawyer
from a disreputable state to the highest degree of
respectability.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Harmer was not
only a moral, but a truly religious man.—(Hear, hem)
Although he differed from the Church, yet in
practice he carried out all its best doctrines—(Hear,
hear, hear)—and whenever a benevolent object was to
be effected, his hand and purse were always open, witla..
out regard to religion or politics.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GALLOWAY .(who was received with much ap.
plause, but was heard with great difficulty in conseqitence
of illness, under which he obviously laboured) had
known Mr. Harmer ferty-five years, and could affirm
that he was a moral, generous, and benevolent man.—
(Hear ) He was a man who never.broke his promise,
in public or private, and he added honour to the dignity
of every office in which he had been placed.—(Hear.)
No man over did more good, and no man ever was less osten-
tatious, so that it might truly be said of him that he did
not let his right hand know what his left hand did. Mr.
Galloway regretted that the state of his health did not'
allow him to bear testimony, in the one-hundredth part,
to what he knew of his excellent friend's private virtues
and public merits.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOHN JOSEPH STOCKDALE—ST/10 was greeted
with laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh," when the Chair-
man interposed, by calling order, and requesting a hear-
ing for every person who thought proper to present him-
self to the meeting—said that he had no enmity to Al-
derman Harmer, or to any other man, living or dead.
He never carried animosity with him to his bed, or, if
he did, it passed away before he awoke in the morning.
—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He came there with no
hostile object, but only to bear what testimony he could
to the benevolence of Mr. Harmer, sho, on one occa-
sion, contributed, through him, to a fund which was
being raised for the relief of Mr. Timothy Sheldrake
and other prisoners in the Fleet.—(Cheers.) Mr. Stock-
dale was proceeding to make some observations upon
Mr. Harmer's religious opinions, in which he was inter-
rupted by the Chairman ; and, after repeated attempts
to go on with this part of his theme, gave way to the
sense of the meeting, and sat down.
The resolution was then carried unanimously, and
with applause.
Mr. WILKINSON, in moving the next resolution, said
that, although the present meeting was a small one, that
was no reason for despondence.—(Hear, hear, and a
laugh.) One volunteer was as good as twelve pressed
men, and therefore they might consider every person
present as the representative of twelve others:—(Hear,
and a laugh.) Our great poet had said that :" Men's
evil deeds live after them, their good deeds die with
them, and are buried in their graves." But he trusted
that the effect of that meeting would be, that the good
deeds. of Mr. Harmer should not die with him.—
(Cheers.) He trusted that every one present would use
his utmost exertions to raise the subscription to such an
amount as would enable the Committee to present to Mr.
Harmer a testimonial worthy of his acceptance.—(Hear,
hear.) He concluded by moving " That a subscription
be entered into, for the purpose of presenting to James
Harmer, Esq., a piece of plate."
Mr. KIRK rose to second the resolution. He had
known Mr. Harmer for some years, and had known him
as a humane, liberal, and intelligent man. He knew that
liberal men always devised liberal things, and he hoped,
therefore, that a liberal subscription would be raised.
Mr. HARDING said that he moved he next resolution
with very great pleasure. He had something which was
pleasing to communicate to them, on 'the part of a gen-
tleman residing in the county of Essex. Hearing of
that meeting lie came over to London for the pucks() of
contributing his share to the object of the meeting, His
;name was Peter Rogers, Esq., and his donation was 51.---
(Cheers.) He begged leave to move the next resolution,
which was—" That Sir James Duke, Mr. Deputy
Blacket, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Adlard, Mr. Taylor, and
Mr. Lowe, with power to add to their numberepe
Committee, to carry the object of this meeting into effect.
That Mr. Deputy Blaeket be requested to act as Trea-
surer, and that Mr. H. S. Smith be requested to act as
Honorary Secretary."
Mr. PEARCE had much pleasure in seconding the resolu-
tion. lie perfectly concurred in the object of that meet-
ing. It was one in which every gentleman in the City of
London was interested.
Mr. GALLOWAY begged to have his name inserted in
the Committee.
The CHAIRMAN said it was in consequence of his late
indisposition that Mr. Galloway's name was not in-
serted, as they did not anticipate that he would have
been present, and not from any want of respect to Mr.
Galloway.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then carried unanimously, with the
addition of Mr. Galloway's name.
Mr. PEACOCK moved that the resolutions then passed
should be advertised in the different morning and even-
ing papers. He would not travel over the ground of well-
merited praise bestowed on Mr. Harmer. He had al-
ways. found him a kind, good, and excellent man. He
had never named any case to him that his hand was not
immediately in his pocket. He (Mr. Peacock) had never
put a guinea into Mr. Harmer's pccket, but he had taken
many out—(Hear, hear, and a laugh)—and he always
gave his guinea in such a manner that made it worth
two.--,-(Hear.) He concluded by reading the resolution.
The resolution was carried.
The CHAIRMAN then stated that upwards of 801. had
been received since the meeting commenced.—(Cheers.)
He begged to suggest that the amount of subscriptions
should be added in the advertisements.
Mr. GALLOWAY said he hoped that the full list of
names would be given with the subscriptions attached. It
was but justice to the parties.

PRIcE 5d

the investigation pursued under authority and judicious
arrangement.
It may, I fear, with truth be said, from the burial-
places of one vicinity—know all the rest. If so, let
those who at present supinely look on and disregard the
dangers threatening their poorer neighbours' from these
vast sources of disease, remember that pestifererous ex-
halations arising from the numerous infecting centres of
the metropolis are no respecters of persons ; by the ever-
shifting gales of the .moment they may be visited, even
in their chosen localities, their power of resistance ex-
perimented upon, and a severe penalty incurred—the
punishment of their omitting or neglecting to avoid evils
self-inflicted, and therefore removable.
It is demonstrable that the centres of infection are
found principally in crowded neighbourhoods, and a
vitiated atmosphere : here they are propagated and
nourished by the action and reaction, the•cause and effect,
constantly in operation ;—for, in many of these very dis-
tricts, the so-called burying places, the receptacles for the
dead, are situated ; their insatiable appetite, yet un-
glutted, is constantly devouring fresh victims, and these
again are ejected, after a slight sojourn, to make room for
the succeeding occupants, who retain their situation only
by the interest or caprice of a hireling grave- digger.
Upon a matter so intimately connected with the pros-
perity and happiness of a State, the attention of the
Government cannot be too anxiously directed. Who
will venture to affirm that the health of a community is
not of the first importance to the stability and prosperity
of society ? Without health, riches, honours, and dis-
tinctions are comparatively worthless to their possessors.
Who can doubt but that a healthy people are the most valu-
able defenders of the soil ; the most formidable in war,
and the most useful in time of peace ? Throughout all
ages rulers have unfortunately manifested but little re-
gard to the interests or the amelioration of the condition
of the poor, and have resisted every attempt at amend-
ment, until, by some dreadful calamity, they have been
driven to measures of improvement.
The vast numbers of burying places within the bills of
mortality are so many centres or foci of infection—
generating constantly the dreadful effluvia of human
putrefaction—acting according tc; the circumstances of
locality, nature of soil, depth from the surface, tempera-
ture, currents of air—its moisture or dryness, and the
power of resistance in those subjected to its influence--
(and who is not ?)—as a slow or an energetic poison.
The reflection will obtrude itself on every thinking
person. how long is this state of things to. continue ?
Who is not deeply interested in this question ? Fami-
lies, home, kindred, relations, friends, the thousand
sympathies that have grown with our growth and
strengthened with our strength—are so intimately con-
nected with our subject, that the more deeply we reflect,
the more settled is our conviction of the necessity for the
interference of the Legislature upon a point so intimately
involving the best interests of society. I have freely
and earnestly spoken of the tremendous risk incurred by
the mutilations of the resistless dead, portions of whose
bodies, in various stages of decomposition, are thus
made the instruments of punishment to the living. Yet
no attention is paid to remonstrance, urged from con-
viction ; no heed given to warnings, however disinte-
rested and however urgent.
I would not unnecessarily alarm the public mind ;
but the opinions I have advanced are not hypothe-
tical ; they are founded upon the experience and prac-
tices of past ages, confirmed by the experience and
practice of the present day ; and, yet this momentous
subject has hitherto been passed over in total silence, as
though insignificant or indifferent, by English writers of
eminence. I have, therefore, not hesitated, feeling the
paramount importance of the question, to throw my mite
into the public treasury, hoping to see, at least, as the
result of my labours, the enforcement of efficient " Sana-
tory Regulations" throughout every department of the
kingdom, and the entire removal of the dead from the im-
mediate proximity of the living.
I may be allowed to state, that I am entirely uncon-
nected with any speculation, public or private, having
reference to the establishment of Cemeteries. Com-
mending, as I do, the efforts of private individuals, who
have originated a reform which should long since have
commenced with the Executive, I am, nevertheless, se
fully convinced of the necessity for legislative interfe-
rence to destroy the present dangerous system of inhu-
mation, that I hesitate not to express my opinion, that
the Government of the country will ultimately be driven
to the adoption of means for enforcing the prohibition of
the interment of the dead in the midst of the living. -
N.B. The whole of the burial grounds in the metropo-
lis, and which have been in use many hundred years, is
only eighty acres. There are now upwards of four hun-
dred acres, and an Act of Parliament has passed for an-
other of fifty acres, and one of twenty-five acres, situated
at moderate distances from London; therefore ample pro-
vision is made for many years. The fees for opening the
ground, and for tablets, are much. more reasonable than
the average of churches and churchyards.

.EETING FOR THE PRESENTA-
TION OF PLATE TO JAMES HARMER, ESQ.
A public meeting of the friends. of James Harmer,
Esq., late one of the Aldermen of the City of London,
was held yesterday in the large room of the London
Coffee House, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of raising a
subscription to present to that gentleman a piece of plate,
on his retirement from the Magistracy of the City of
London.
On the motion of Mr. GALLOWAY, seconded by Mr.
RICHARD TAYLOR, Sir James Duke, Alderman and M.P.,
took the Chair at half-past two o'clock.
The CHAIRMAN said, it was not necessary for him to
offer many observations connected with the subject which
bad called them together. He regretted that the friends
of Mr. Harmer had not found some person better quali-*
fied than himself to fill the Chair. He had great satis-
faction, however, in accepting the office, and doing what
he could to afford the friends of that gentleman in the
Ward an opportunity of expressing their high sense of
the manner in which Mr. Harmer discharged his public
duties as a Magistrate, and their cordial feelings of re-
gard towards him as a private individual. He believed
he might say that the idea of a public subscription ori-
ginated with a few of the personal friends of Mr. Har-
mer in the Ward of Farringdon Without, and that idea
having been very generally and cordially responded to—
for at the present moment a considerable sum was sub-
scribed for the purpose of presenting him with a piece of
plate—the gentlemen of the Ward found, from the nu-
merous applications made to them, that many persons un-
connected with it were desirous of contributing to that
mark of respect to Mr. Harmer. With that view it was
considered desirable that a public meeting should be
had, and he would now read to them the advertisement
convening the meeting. (The Chairman here read the
advertisement.) No person regretted more than himself
the retirement of Mr. Harmer from the Aldermanship of
the City of London, and although he felt highly flattered
at having been selected as his successor for the Ward of
Farringdon Without, yet he had no hesitation in saying
that it was not possible to meet in the City of London a
gentleman who was better qualified to discharge the du-
ties of his office.—(Cheers.) He had had the pleasure of
knowing Mr. Harmer for some time as a member of the
same Company (the Spectacle Makers), and during the
time he was a member of that Court, he bad received
from him marks of great kindness, and therefore he was
happy to have an opportunity not only of expressing his
personal sense of the kindness he had experienced from
Mr. Harmer, but also of testifying his sense of the man-
ner in which he bad discharged his duty as a Magistrate.
He would now call upon the Secretary to read the list of
subscriptions that had been already received.
Mr. SMITH, the Honorary Secretary, then said,—Sir
James and Gentlemen, Before reading the list of sub-
scribers, it gives me great pleasure in being able to state
that the respectable and highly influential gentlemen
who have kindly assisted in forming the lists and receiv-
ing the amount of subscriptions, have been very much
gratified by the readiness and spontaneous liberality
with which subscribers have come forward to pay a
mark of respect to Mr. Harmer. It has convinced them
that a man whose benevolence and kindness, and whose
public and private worth were appreciated by all who
knew him, would sooner or later receive that considera-
tion to which he is so eminently entitled.—(Hear, hear.)
But we are far from assuming that we have fulfilled the
duties of this important undertaking, nor are we am-
bitious of any other result from this imperfect attempt ;
but the framers of a plan—the opening of a way—for
the liberality and exertions of the numerous friends of
Mr. Harmer, who may thus very easily assist us to per-
form thoroughly and successfully the object we have in
view. The Secretary then read the list of subscriptions,
which included 211. from the Chairman, Sir J. Duke, and
a long list of 'subscriptions of 101. and 5/. from gentle-
men of all shades of political opinions, amounting in the
whole to about 4201. The reading of the list was re-
g.felt much pleasure in moving
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worth and great public services of Mr. Harmer, and he
joined with the greatest satisfaction with his neighbours
and fellow-citizens in bearing his testimony to the inde-
pendent and useful manner in which that gentleman had
discharged his public duties. His retirement from the
magistracy would be to him, as it would be to all who
knew him, a subject of the greatest regret.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Harmer had great capacity for business, and great
diligence; and he added to these one of the kindest
hearts and the most generous dispositions he had ever
known.—(Cheers.) All these qualities enabled him to
be one of the most useful and valuable public servants he
had ever known. In these feelings he was borne out by the
sentiments expressed towards Mr. Harmer at the first
wardmote held after his retirement, and which was the more
valuable as emanating from those amongst his
fellow-
citizens who had known him longest and best.—(Loud
cheers.) He would also appeal to the unanimonus expres-
sioncouncil-
of their opinions from the sixteen Co.mmsoof
esteem,
Council-
men of the Ward, and these expressions
opinions,
coming from gentlemen of variou_s_
politics, was
many of them strongly opposed to Mr!"
llarmer
was held. When he referred to the
most unjust and the best proof of the estimation
subject
he begged to observe that it
un-
true to ascribe to Mr.
a violent ultra politician.. Harillnerwhthaaat
hheeenhaadlwaeyvesr
mostbeen
who differed fromhis
ownhim
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opinion,candid and liberala n
moderate
the same time there was no
views.--(Hear, hear.)
more consistent dmotsotwardodsetrahoteeseiwn
and unflinching politician than Mr.
Harmer, although his kindly disposition led him to act
in the most candid manner towards those who differed

Mr. TAYLOR said that was a question that would be
discussed in the Committee.

A vote of thanks to Sir James Duke was then unani-
mously carried for his able and impartial conduct in the
chair, and, _ _

The CIIAIRMAN, having briefly returned thanks the
meeting separated at half-past three o'clock. ,

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The AngHenna, of Poole,
28th ult., off the west point of Anticosti ; Martha, of
Brixham, from Barbadoes, 9th inst, lat. 45, lon. 51, by
the Lady Gray, arrived at Milford. Mary, Smyrna to
London, 4th inst., off Carthagena ; Doctor, Smyrna to
London, 4th inst., off Carthegena ; Alciope, of White-
haven, for St. Helena, 19th inst., lat. 44, lon. 10, by the
Little Wonder, arrived in the Creek. Independent,
Ilamburgh to New York, lat. 40, lon. 51, by the Repub-
lic, arrived at Cork. 'William Hamilton, of Newcastle,
bound W., 23d ult., lat. 45, lon. 50, by the Nimrod, ar-
rived at Aberdeen ; Julia, Trieste to Liverpool, 2d
inst., off Cape de Gatt, by the Rebel, arrived in the
River. Duykee, Lancaster to Quebec, 30th ult., by the
Abercrombie, arrived at Dourney Bay.

"IRE 01. D ENGLISH GENTLEMAN; A,
SPORTING NOVEL.—.These three volumes bring into combination at once the attractions of an agreeable novel,
and a series of highly-coloured pictures of
country, commending to our strongest symlPitfieb
the
manly recreations which have ever distinguishedied, his
Old English Gentleman, and will, it is to be I.lPsquire,
descendants to the end of his generation.w whose breast
not, indeed, of the Western class, but onieflit
plenteously
. all the more vigorous virtues of the)
our author's various
fructify, takes the central place in
of the thorough
groups, and in all presents the model
I,- the- just and genial
ini the
sportsman, the affectionate parent, 0 ,_,A, wood, and
landlord. The different sports
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these Pnes, and
water are most spiritedly described
with all the fervour an.e
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familiar with them in practi_c
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house, '131,A
THE MURDERER
he Grand Jury sitting at
afternoon t
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o'clock on Tuesday .
Court returned
the Central Criminal
33lakesley, for the murder of
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dictment against
landlordßobert 0
week Captain Robert-
son,
of ..ei
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interview with .
p talent, respecting the reward of 100 J.
the
offerphdlobn;pf 11)etuoirds of the Treasury, and was informed
since been received announcinv that
ptiecation would be taken into consideration: a
the Government
the claim could
had voluntarily surrendered himself
the prisoner
to
as
the trial '
but that after a minor reward would
communication
not be entertained by
the police ;
were swept away
thatmhuisnia
WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—During the late floods
roadstro3lled by the swell
canon has
be given as an encouragement to thenian.
South:1101ton experienced the wild ravages of the watery
boy fell into
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des
of the waters. With this latter a young
the river, losing his life. A commercial gentleman,
coming from the Torrington side of Umberleigh-
bridge, in a gig, reached the centre of the bridge,
when, finding that he could not proceed without
danger, he was obliged to remain there twelve hours
with his horse and gig, no one daring to render him as-
sistance. Another person in the road by the side of the
river near the same spot got so deep into the water,
thut finding his gig afloat, he mounted his horse, cut
the harness, and thus escaped. The houses destroyed
by the late conflagration are 105. The extent of the
feet on each side of the street occupied by those houses
650. The property insured 3,5001., uninsured 1,500/. A
subscription in aid of the sufferers has been opened, and
2501. already contributed..