The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-25 00:00:00

THE HOOF OF THE GUILD;IALL,

Mr. BRIDGE, the Chairman of the City Lands Committee,
brought up the Report on the reference respecting the restora•.
tion of the Gothic character of the roof of Guildhall. It stated.
the the Clerk of the Works had inspected the roof of Guildhall,
and found that the timber was perfectly sound ; that the ex-
pense of substituting a Gothic roof would z mount to 10,0001. ;
and that the Committee recommended that such expense should
not be incurred.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
The CHAIRMAN also brought up a Report, which recom-
mended an improvement of the passage leading from the Great
Ball to the New Council Chamber, at an expense of 7001., for
which the Clerk of the Works was of opinion it could be ac-
compli,hed. The advantage of the alteration suggested was ad-
mitted by all who had seen the plans.
Atter a short conversation, the Report was agreed to, and
the recommendation was ordered to be cars ied into effect.

SEPULTURE IN THE CITY OF LONDON.
The Report fiorn the same Committee upon the reference to
examine into the means of sepudure in the City of London,
stated, that the most minute inquiries had been made into the
subject, and the Committee were unanimously of opinion that
the Court should petition Parliament to prohibit the burial of
bodies within the City.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ANDERTON said, it was high time that burials should
he prohibited within the City. The scenes, in fact, which daily
took place in the churchyards within the City were revolting
in the extreme.—( Hear.) The adherence to the old system
was strangely enough proved by the fact that in some church.
yards furnaces were prepared for burning the old coffins and
the boneb they contained.—(Expressions of surprise and dis-
gust.) Ile was happy to find that the Bishop of London had
directed his attention to the subject, and he felt convinced
from the general feeling expressed, that all that was necessary,
to accomplish the great object of burying the dead at a dis-
tance from the populous City of London was the presentation
of a petition to Parliament.—(Cheers.)
Mr. R. Tarr.oe. much approved of the Report. In a pa-
rish in which he resided the gravedigger had lately been kilted
by the fall of a pile of coffins. He also found by the palish books
that the graves were ordered to be dug to a very enormous
depth, in order, of course, that the greater number of bodies
might be deposited in them. In fact the top of a grave was as
far from the bottom as a two pair of stairs window was from
the ground. In no great city in the world was such a thing
allowed as sepulture within its precincts.—(Loud cries of
" Hear, hear.")
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Two gentlemen angling in the Theme at Newn-
ham lately could not agree upon the appearance of one of their
favourite baits, the home-fly, and they agreed to refer the ques-
tion to a rustic whom they saw ploughing at a little distance,
and accosted thus—" Did you ever see a horse-fly?" " Whoy,"
said liodge, with some astonishment, " Noa, dr'at it, I never
seed a horse fly, but I once seed a cow fall down a precipice I"
JOHN OF BOURBON AND THE FAIR SEX.--
John the Second, Duke of Bourbon, instituted in the year
1369 an order of chivalry. One of the statutes of it shows the
high opinion he entertained of the influence of the female sex
upon the virtue and happiness of mankind. According to this
statute, the knights are obliged to pay due respect to the ladies,
both married and unmarried, and never to suffer anything de-
rogatory to their reputation to be said in their presence.
For," adds the statute, "those that speak ill of women have
very little honour, and, to their disgrace be it mentioned, say
of that which cannot revenge itself, what they would not
dare to sex which
of a man ; for from women, after God, arises a
great part of the honour that there is in the world."