The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-27 00:00:00

PO LICE IN TELL/G EN CE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A gentleman named Jenkins applied to the Lord
Mayor, for his Lordship's interference to procure the
removal of the bodies interred in part of the burial-
ground of the parish of St. Bennet Fink, which it
might be necessary to disturb, in consequence of the
re-building of the Royal Exchange, to some cemetery
or other place, where they would not be likely 'to be
any more disturbed. He made the application, he said,
because the present orders for the removal of the bodies
merely authorised the depositing of such as might be
taken up in another part of the burial-ground, from
which he was convinced it would, in a few years hence,
be considered necessary to remove them, in accordance
with the increasing notions as to civic improvements.
But he felt a particular interest in the matter, because
he had buried one of his own children, within the last
two years, in a part of the ground which he appre-
hended would be immediately disturbed.
The LORD MAYOR said he was sure that the Act of
Parliament directed that the removal of the bodies
should be effected with the utmost decorum, and pro-
priety would be strictly attended to. He bad no reason
to suppose that there would be any subsequent disturb-
ance of the burial-ground. He at the same time ex-
pressed a fervent wish that families would, instead of bury-
ing their relationsin the crowded church-yards of the City,
perform the last ceremonies in some of the elegant ceme-
teries which had been lately consecrated, and with
which no Building Act could possibly interfere. The
necessity for disturbing the dead on account of the
great improvements undertaken for the benefit of the
living, ought, he should have thought, to have operated
long since against the practice of interring in the midst
of the crowded streets of London.

Mr. Jenkins declared that he had no doubt whatever
of the decency and propriety observed in removing the
bodies, eighteen or twenty of which, he believed, had
been already taken up in the part to be included in the
edifice of the Royal Exchange, and deposited in a hole
at a short distance from the spot ; but he felt, in
common with several other persons who had buried re-
lations in the ground, that as removal:was indispensible,
it ought to take place but once, and that at the ex-
pense of the authorities, who were likely to derive ad-
vantage from the change. By the Act of Parliament
with respect to Bartholomew burying-ground, the Go-
vernor and Coinpany of the Bank of England were
authorised to remove bodies to other burial-places
upon payment of expenses not exceeding 101. in each
instance ; anti if that course were adopted, the
parishioners could do all that was necessary without
iping subjected to the annoyances which what he com-
plained of was calculated to excite.:
The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Hobler, the chief
clerk, whether, in a case of the kind, the Chief Magis-
trate could interfere ?

Mr. Hobler observed that the Royal Exchange Com-
mittee, if they thought it might be necessary to disturb
the ground in which the bodies were at present being
deposited on any future occasion, would, he was per-
suaded, take particular care that separate burial ground
should be provided, subject to no revolting or dis.igree-
ible contingencies. The Lord Mayor could not inter-
fe.ru in such a case in any other way than by suggesting
the propriety of guarding against such an occurrence as
that to which the applicant alluded.
Mr. Jenkins said his great object in making the ap-
plication was to induce the Chief Magistrate to ascer-
tain whether any other removal vas likely to take place,
and to remonstrate against it if it should be in con-
templation.

111 S LORDSHIP said that he should make inquiry ;
but be felt quite satisfied that everything would be done
in such a warner as would not be likely to wound the
'edings of these whose relations or friend's were buried
n the ground of S•. Bennet Fink ; and he again urged
th propriety of abandoning the prejudice in favour ef
to vu bur als, not merely because desecration was likely
to take j lace in the city, but because the health of the
in'lAbitatts would be endangered by the existing practice.

EVENING EDITION.

The market was very quiet to-day for Free T;ade Tea,
the limited business done was exclusively for cash ; com-
mon Congou was, however, not to be had lunder
Is 104 d, and Twankay is 11d. In Con-piny's Congon
there was little doing ; sellers fur cash at is lid
per lb. At public sale 60 che:st. Souchong, 36
chests Twankay, 300 boxes Young Hyson, 100 boxes
Caper, too chests Twankay Skin, 104 -1-chests Imperial,
5() i-chests Gunpowder, bankrupt's effects, were sold at
public sale, for cash on Saturday week :—lmperial went
at 24 41d a 2s 44-d a 2s 7d; Gunpowder 2s 9.1 d a 2s I Id;
Young Hyson 2a 114 d a 3s ; Caper 2s oid a2s l d ; Twan-
kay Skin Is qd a Is 7.4 d ; Souchong is 11;id a 2s;
Twankay Is 114 d a Is 11i.
Suoaa..—.We have again to report a rising market for all
descriptions of Raw Sugar admissable f,,r home consump-
tion, and with an increasing demand : both Grocers and
Refiners have been eager buyers of both brown and yellow
sorts of British Plantation this week, and each successive
day all on show has been bought up with avidity, but the
supply having been short has operated against buying; the
prices paid are 2s 6d to 3a above those of last Friday ;
Barbie° of low grey quality at 735, and nearly fine
yellow Jamaica and Antigua at 78a to 795. .
To-day all offering was readily bought up at a further
advance of 2s per cwt, brown sorts selling at 751 a 765,
middling and good yellow 76s 6d a 795, fine 80s a 816 6d
per cwt, and at the close of the market nothing of brown
quality was to be had under 75s per c et.
At public sale 100 hhda New Barbadoes sold sith spirit
at an advance on the rates of the last auction of 3s a 4s per
cwt, mid quality went at 79s 6d to 80a 6d, good 81s to
81s_61 per cyst,

REFINED.—To-day prices are higher for all articles,
and the trade anxious to buy, but few goods are to be had;
at the close of the market, standard lumps were 100 s to
101 s; Hambro Loaves and Tittlers good and fine 103 s to
110 s ; brown Lumps 97s to 995. Treacle 40s 6d to 445.
Bastards 69s to 725; Pieces 733 to 735.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon the trade came forward
with increased freedom, and 7,051, blgs at public sale all
sold at a further advance of 2s, making the rise for the
week 4s per cwr, good and fine yellow went at 78s a 795,
low to good middling 75s 61a 77s 6d, good to fin: brown
73s a 751, middling 71s a 725, very ord black 63s a 67s
per cwt.

EAST INDIA.—For Bengal for home consumption there
has been an increased demand, and all the parcels offer.
iug for sale by private treaty have again been bought
up at advanced prices. At public sale 3,164 bags
found eager buyers, 23 a 2s 6d above former rates,
fine white fetched 79s to 80s, good 77s to 783
61, good middling 763 to4a 763 61, low 74s 61 to 755,
grey and yellow, 74s 61 to 755; washed and damp 72s to
to 783 6d ; low and middling damp brown, 603 to 663 6d
very low washed, 593 to 59s 6cl per cwt. Manilla, fine
yellow, at 233 6d to 243; middling, 22s 6d per cwt. Java:
gcod grey at 253 to 253 6d, and damagee. 24s to 24s 6d
per cwt. Slata at 23s 6d. to 25s 61.