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present wo observed Commanders—Millar, Cannon,
Higgins, Ommaney, Houghton, &c., &c. ; Captains—
Drew, Allen, Fead, Bague, Dickenson, Couch, Briggs,
&c. • Admirals—Earl Cadogan, Sir Edward Codrington,
Bowles, and M'Kenley.
On the motion of Admiral APKENLEY Sir Charles
Malcolm was unanimously voted to the chair.
The secretary, Captain DICKSON, then read the
minutes of last quarterly meeting, and a statement of the
accounts, which showed a balance in favour of the So-
ciety of 839/. Bs. lld. He also read a letter from Admiral
Sir Robert Stopford, President of the :iociety, stating
that being from infirm health incapacitated from attend-
ing the meetings of thu Society, and otherwise attending
to the business of it, he begged to resign his office of
President. He did so with regret, but he conceived it
to be fur the. interest of the Society to have a president
who'could fully attend to the duties of that office, and as
he felt himself unable to do so, he had resolved to resign
altogether.
The CHAIRMAN said he was sure that there would be
but one feeling of regret among all present, that the gal-
lant old officer had found it necessary to resign.
The- meeting then proceeded to the election w a
new President, when Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON moved
that Sir T. Byam Martin should be elected to that
office. .

Admiral Dif.KENLEY seconded the election, which was
agre€d to unanimously.

CASE OF MISS SARAH HOARE.
Lord CADOGAN then brought forward the motion of
which he gave notice at last meeting, for a committee,
to be chosen by ballot, to inquire into the case of this
lady, and to hear her in defence of the charges brought
against her. ,The only mode, therefore, of clearing up
the matter was the appointment of a committee, and he
thought, if chosen by ballot, that committee would be all
the more satisfactory. He therefore entreated them to
allow a committee, and let the case be proceeded with
fairly and regularly.

Sir EDWAiiD CODRINTON seconded the motion, and
suggested, before they went further, that the instructions
given to the last committee, and their report, should be
read, which was done.
After much irregular discussion,
Lieut. ANCSINK deprecated the discussion of such
matters as these in the society. They were sure to have
a bad effect on such bodies. If he understood the matter
right, Miss Hoare did not come within the rules of the
society •, and as their rules ought to guide them, he did
not see how there should have been such a dispute about
the affair. lie concluded by moving that Miss Hoare's
case should be dismissed altogether.
Admiral MICENLEY seconded the motion.
An amendment to Lord Cadogan's motion was then
proposed by Capt. DREW, to the effect, that inasmuch as
no charge was preferred against Miss Hoare, either by
the Secretary or by the Society, Lord Cadogan's motion
was uncalled for; and as, the documents given in evi-
dence to the Secretary were given in confidence, they
could not be given up fur the purpose of being made
public.
The amendment was carried by 49 to 8.

Another motion, by Lieut. GARDENER, that the reso_
lution of the 20th April last, not to receive Miss Hoare's
letters be rescinded, in order that she might have an
opportunity of presenting another application, was alio
lost, by 28 to 15.

A- sub-committee for the examination of memorials
was then appointed, and the applications for relief hating
been examined, the meeting adjourned. The proceedings
throughout were very stormy.

A VETERAN CRIMINAL.—The following is given
as a summary of the character and history of the man •
named Cutmel, now in custody for the attempt to murder
Madame Morand, at Vaugirard :—He is about forty-two
years of age. He was condemned in 1828 to five years'
imprisonment for an unnatural crime. He was liberated
on the 22d of May, 1333, and in November following
was again committed to prison for a few months for rob-
bery. In 1834 he was arrested for a highway robbery
in the night, and sentenced to hard labour at the hulks
for ten years, which he passed at the Bague at Toulon,
and was discharge din March, 1844. Since that Lime he
has lived by petty robberies, and in January and June,
1845, was again sent to prison for a few months each
time. Since his present arrest, finding that the evidence
against him is too strong to be resisted, he has openly
avowed that, when he went to Vaugirard, it was with
the full intention' of murdering both M. and Madame
Morand, and stealing 800 f., which they had acknow-
ledged to their nephew they had in the house. To this
he has added a confession, that he had concerted with
Coulon and the nephew of the Morands, the murder and
robbery of a woman at Montrouge, who keeps an eating
house, and her servant-girl. To all this he further
stated, that only a few days ago he killed a drunken
man, and after stripping him, threw him into the river.
On being asked how he could be so cruel as to take the
life of a man who was incapable of making any resist-
ance, or of appearing against him afterwards ? he re-
plied—" Ok I it was only getting rid of one grumbler
more."—Getlignani's Messenger.
Less OF A CLERGYMAN, NEAR SNowDoN.—An
event, which has, without doubt, terminated in the death
of a most promising young gentleman, a clergyman of
the Established Church, recently occurred at Llanberris.
It appears that the Rev. Mr. Starr had, for some weeks,
been on a pedestrian excursion through. the most roman-
tic portions of North Wales, and that he had been in the
habit of regularly corresponding with his friends and
relatives at Northampton, of one of the parishes of which
town he is a curate. Not having heard from him for some
time, his mother and sister became alarmed at his long
continued silence, and ultimately determined to set out
for Llanberris in search of him. Mrs. and Miss Starr
reached the inn at Llanberris on the afternoon of Sun-
day, the 4th instant, and on inquiry learned that a gen-
tleman, answering their description of Mr. Starr, had
passed the night there about three weeks before ; that
on the following morning he left the inn, and ascended
Snowdon ; was seen on his descent from the
mountain, and was again seen at the top of the
pass, where he stopped at a house, and obtained some
water to quench his thirst. He then ascended another
mountain on the opposite side of the pass, termed the
Glyder. He was next observed on the summit by a man
named Hughes, living at Llanberris, who, at his request,
accompanied him full half-way on the descent, and after
pointing out the path left the unfortunate gentleman to
pursue his way alone. After going some short distance
Hughes warned him to keep to the right hand, as the
evening was becoming very misty, and there was the
danger of Llyn cwm Fgnon, a dangerous spot, to be
avoided. Mr. Starr was never seen afterwards, and no
doubt is entertained that he perished on the mountain,
having lost his road on the bleak and barren ground he
had to traverse. The grief of his unfortunate relatives
on hearing the particulars of the sad catastrophe may be
magined, the more especially as no ground for hope is
left, the proof of identity being further Supported by the
fact that the gentleman seen on the Glyder had only
one glove on, the fellow to which was found in the
baggage of Mr. Starr. Search has been made for the
body with dogs, but hitherto without effect.
INTERMENT TowNs.—The Registrar-General's
last report informs us that the mortality in the metro-
polis is higher than that in the country, being in the
proportion of 2,294 to 2,209 per cent., a clear proof that
there are some causes in operation to shorten the lives
of the inhabitants of large towns. What those causes
are it is the duty of the Legislature to discover, and, if
possible, to remedy ; and one of them is so plainly in-
dicated by Mr. Chadwick, in his supplementary report
on the practice of interment in towns, that we consi-
sider it quite unnecessary to reargue this part of the
question. Those who contend that the practice is not in-
jurious to health are taking up a view contrary to fact
and reasoning, and contrary to the principles upon which
they proceed to legislate in other cases. Other argu-
ments have been adduced in favour of a change in the
practice, and among these we may select that which
is based on the indecency of the practice. We know,
on' good authority, that in a certain London grave-
yard, in which the soil is rank with the decomposed
remains of the dead, the charge for interment is re-
gulated by the depth—a practice, we believe, quite com-
mon in the metropolis. A person is informed that, by
the payment of a high fee, a coffin will not have to be re-
moved from the grave in order to allow another coffin to
be placed beneath it. The low fee leads not merely to this
act of desecration, perpetrated as it mustbe under the eyes
of those who ought to be most earnest in checking it, but
probably to the entire removal of the body, the selling
of the coffin and the funeral ornaments, with the
destruction by fire, or in other ways, of the
last remains of the dead ; and so nicely are the
fees adjusted, that the earth piled at the side of the
grave is calculated in the measurement as part of the
depth, whence it happens that even when the remains
are left undisturbed, they become a source of putrescent
exhalations to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
Many flagrant instances of the desecration of the re-
mains of the dead have been recently made public,
and we are coolly told, in reference to these abomina-
tions, that when they have once taken place the parties
may be punished by indictment ! No consideration ap-
pears to be given to the prevention of such indecencies by
removing the causes—i. e., by shutting up and entirely
prohibiting interments in graveyards, whether private or
parochial, already overcrowded ; but these gross of-
fences are to take the chance of exposure, to'lead to
the expense of a parish prosecution, and the risk of
a compromise or of an acquittal upon some trickery
or technicality in the law proceedings, With the
existence of a proved public evil, a certain in-
jury to public health, and the fact that the pre-
sent practice must in time cease of itself, it is scarcely
necessary to examine the arguments which have been
adduced for the continuance of this vile practice. Thera
must be a limit to the elevation of graveyards above the
street, and to the enlargement of vaults in churches,
unless some secret and inexpensive method is taken,
by those who profit under the present system, to get
rid of the surplus bodies. The annual interments are now
much about the same as if the whole population of Leices-
ter were brought to bo buried in London. Decay cannot
proceed fast enough, and it will require more fre u.' t
holocausts, or more frequent contracts with
(last cottitrt;kc•
tors to cart away as rubbish human remains in order to
make room for the increasing deaths in a rapidly in-
creasing population. Legislation
but sooner or later a measun be protracted,
Will it may
upon the
Legislature either for pr(Aiding cemetries-out of towns
and cities, or for pre' renting. that. secret and extensive
desecration of the graves which in some measure tends
to postpone the necessity for immediate interference.—
Medical Times,
THA ARMY. T FIRST LIFE Guntps.—lt is
atatza in military circles that the Hon. Colonel Caven7
dish, of the Ist Life Guards, is shortly about to retire
from the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of that regiment, and
that he will be succeeded by the Earl of Cardigan, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the 11th (Prime Albert's Own) utv.a.
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