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

IN THE BANKRUPTCY Olr CHARLES PADDON.

The bankrupt was a clothes salesman in Lambeth.,
lie came up for his certificate, oppOsed by Mr. Lucas.
It appeared that in September,. 1846, an execution
was put in by a creditor for 5004, to whom only 100/.
was due; and that the hankrUpt used this circumstance
(to which he was privy) in order to induce the creditors
to accede to a composition. Under the influence of this
statement the creditors consented, 2nd this quasi 5004
creditor actually obtained bills for the amount of his
claim. The bills were, however, unpaid, the composition
was not carried out, and the bankrupt was eventually
obliged to have recourse to this court.
His HONOUR suspended the certificate for twelve
months.

Thomas Lovegrove, of Pangbourne, Berko, came up
for and obtained his certificate without opposition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Mr. Jardine was applied to by the churchwardens of
St. Clement Danes to prevent the public exhibition of
the dead, under circumstances peculiarly revolting, in
Enon Chapel, in Clement's-lane, Strand.
It was stated by the complainants, that Mr. Walker,
the surgeon of Drury lane, having got possession of
Enon Chapel, had for a long time past exhibited the
heaps of dead bodies, bones, coffins, &c.' accumulated
in the vaults of the chapel to crowds of persons who
were daily applying to his residence for tickets of
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Mr. Marsh, the inspector, stated that no charge, he
brlieri,(l, was made for tho dyke's of admission, but a
collection WdS 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-
piaill; might no; be removed without resorting to a
summons.

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 951 L in sixyears by the burial of dead
bodies in a place measuring only fifty-nine feet by
twenty-five 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
College Hospital, in Portugal-street. However, he was
not to be put down by them.
Mr. JARDINE did not think the churchwardens were
guarantee for the purity and disin-
terestedness actuated by any ill-feeling towards Mr. Walker, whose
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motives; hut if it cmild be proved
that the exhibition of these vaults in the manner de-
scribed was becoming a serious nuisance to the neigh-
b,urhood, 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 s, rvices in the sanitary cause, especially with regard
to Spa-fields, &c., 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.