The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-18 00:00:00

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sling personal eels.
,e dangerous abomi-
cost, as was very
-.Lice of Parliamentary
influence. Even in the last session, and when there
was not this particular property in question, we saw
all sorts of sinister means employed to exclude the
city of London from the operation of- the, ju-
dicious, and, indeed, necessary Act, which had
been prepared by Government as a general
measure. Most of the people who thus injured
their fellow-citizens' are men whose daily pur-
suit of money may possibly lead them to care about
their own-indiiidnal affairs more than the public wel-
fare, but really we do not expect such things flEom
clergymen. However, so it is ; the poisonous nui-
sance which Voltaire And D'Alembert forcibly de-
nounced in the middle of the last century, finds its
chief abettors in gentlemen whose education, at least,
is liberal. We refer with satisfaction to the report
of a lecture, part of a series, on " Burial in Towns,"
which appeared in the Morning Advertiser of Satur-
day. It was delivered by Mr. G. A. Walker, a me-
dical gentleman, who, like Dr. Southwood Smith,
has distinguished himself by his able exposition of
those evils which frightfully augment our bills of
mortality. if we decline to analyse Mr. Walker's
lecture, it is because we presume it has attracted at- •
tention ; but we cannot avoid one observation; and ,
that is, th;.t our intramural burials amount in the
annual estimate to 426 for each cemetery. No man,
in the present day, can entertain the slightest doubt,
whatever
he may pretend to do, that in each neigh-
fitithoed this accuniulation of the generators of pes-
tiferOm gases
.is destructive of life. It is not
our object :to . allude to the 'causes by which,
hitherto, the rational means of— frustrating
the great—the serious evil, by which the people are
continually injured in health, and exposed to the loss
of life. We trust that Government, which in the
next session will be very powerful, will protect -t e
masses, and care as little as possible for indi -
companies, or corporations. Indeed, we have a most
an assurance to this effect in Lord Morpeth's address
to the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire. He
candidly admitted that an error had been committed
in withdrawing the Health of Towns Bill—at least
we so understood him—but then he said, that Go-
vernment would, early in the next session, re-intro-
duce it, with a determination, that no paltry feelings
of others shall be allow6d to interfere with this most
necessary measure. We are glad to •be enabled to
infer from his Lordship's language, that the city of
London is not intended to be allowed the solitary
privilege of an indulgence in filth and stench ; and
that, despite of the Corporation, it will be included in
the contemplated Act. We shall hardly regret this
error, if the Government will stoutly insist on the
correction of such enormous nuisances as cattle-
markets and the burial of corpses in the middle of
towns ; and we hope to hear of no more opposition to
a civil reformation, of which all men of intelligence
must cordially approve.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
YORK RACES.

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YORK, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—The following horses
have arrived for our August meeting, which commences
to-morrow.—St. Leon, Inheritress, Coheiress, Farmers
Daughter, Poynton, Ennui, Meaux, RQd Robin, Plover,
Sir Martin, Limestone, Cinderella, Mary, Godfrey, Su-
sannah, King of the Forest, George Stephenson, Con-
gress, Nell Cook, Tommy Moore, Crim. Con., Aristotle,
Goodboy, Assault, Charles Mathews, The Stinger, Alder-
man's Daughter, Ibrahim Pacba, Blackbird, Burlesque,
Alsatia, Ratcliff, b c by Jereed, 3 yrs; f by Touchstone,
out of Maid of Monton, 3 yrs; b f by Yaxley, out of
Matrimony; The Prince, Glenwelt, Deloraine, Lady
Tightleg, Caststeel filly, Mathematician, Bingham,
Eller-
dale, Milliner, Duke of Kent, Godfrey, Executor, Red
Robin, Administrator, The Liberator. Epirote, Mont-
pensier, Quicksand, Helias, Beverlac, Pet of the Fancy,
Volley, Bellenden, Whitewall, Gilnockie, Sally mass,
Victress, Sir Tatton Sykes, Maid of Motherwell, Tim
Whiffler, Punch, Osprey, Miss Cobden, and Sister to
Katziviki.

PLATE ENTRIES.
The Dundas Stakes, for three yrs, &c. One mile and a

quarter.
St. Leon, Spithead, Inheritress, Coheiress, Farmer's
Daughter, Poynton, Ennui, Prior of St. Margaret's,
Meaux, Red Robin, Plover.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Two miles.
Cinderella, Mary, Inheritress, Godfrey, Susannah,
Poynton, Ennui, King of the Forest, George Stephenson,
Congress, Nell Cook.