The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

POSTING OP NOTICES.-THE PADDINGTON DISTRICT.

Previous to any of the claims or objections being
taken, a gentleman named W.B.Perry,-handed in a pro-
test against the Revising Barrister prcceeding to revise
the list of voters for the Paddington district, inasmuch
as no notice that D. C. Movlan, Esq., had been ap-
pointed to revise such list had been posted, in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Act, upon the church
doors in the parish. lie had himself been objected to,
and he was most anxious to support his protest, because
it was by the merest chance that he heard where and
before whom he was to meet this objection.
The REVISING BARRISTER said he could take no notice
of the protest lodged by Mr. Perry, neither should he
allow it to influence his disposal of the votes coming
before him. In consequence of the returning officer
not having properly authorised any person to act for
him in his absence, he (the Revising Barrister) would
not be able to give the lists when concluded in revision
to the proper party, until Mr. David Salomons should
send an authority from Paris.
The Paddington lists were then gone through.

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.
Mr. Fyshe held his Court yesterday at the Town-hall,
Croydon, in order to revise the list of voters for that
parish. The same agents attended as at Reigate. There
were a great number of obj( ctions, but they were prin-
cipally grounded upon mis -description of the parties in
the qualification, and in most of the cases the barrister
emended the list. There was no point of the least im-
portance discussed during the day.

Two LIVES LOST ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.—On Mcnday evening a dreadful accident
occurred at the Farringdon-road station, on the Great
Western Railway, by which two of the passengers were
killed and others seriously injured. From what has
been ascertained, it appears that the quarter-before-five
o'clock Bristol train, from Paddington, proceed in per-
fect safety until within a short distance of the station at
Farringdon-road, 63:1 miles from Paddington, when the
steam was thrown off, and the breaks applied, for the
purpose of stopping. The luggage-van, which was
between the tender and second-class carriages, ran off
the rails, thereby diminishing its velocity, and con-
sequently the second-class carriage next to it ran into
it with a fearful crash, being impelled forward by the
remainder of the train, which was an unusually
heavy one ; the carriage was entirely demolished, and
two passengers lost their lives ; their names, when this
account was written had not transpired, the strict silence
observed by the officials and servants of the company,
precluding the possibility of any details relative to the
melancholy occurrence being known; but it is rumoured
that there has been serious injuries sustained. A coro-
ner's inquest is to be held on the bodies of the deceased,
to attend which Mr. S. Clarke, the principal superin-
tendent of the line, and Mr. Collard, the superintendent
of the railway police, left town yesterday morning. No
blame can :possibly be attached to the engine-driver
or guards, as it is understood that the break whistle was
blown on throwing off the steam, and the breaks applied
as usual. The luggage van which caused the disaster,
is a small four-wheeled carriage, something similar to a
horse-box, and consequently too light to precede heavy
six-wheel carriages, which acquire such a very great
velocity in long stages, the last between Steventon and
Farringdon-road beir'- Id a half mib

_ Jing seven an,
That destructive insect, the locust, continues to be
picked up in considerable numbers on various parts of
the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, many of
them being three or four inches long, and of propor-
tionate height. The unusual heat which has been ex-
perienced in our climate this year is supposed to have
directed these destructive visitors to our shores, where
the rigours of the approaching winter will probably ex-
tirpate such as escape capture in the interim by the
hordes of naturalists and others who are now daily in
pursuit of them.
GAME FASCINATED BY TERROR.—We have fre-
quently heard of birds being rendered powerless by the
serpent's glare, but we had no idea that game could be
fascinated by the pointer's eye. Yet such appears to be
the case. A correspondent assures us, that while enjoy-
:ng a walk with a sporting gentleman, over his moors in
Ross-shire, the other day, the pointer came to a sudden
s and, and, on looking minutely, he observed a grouse
cock, lying about twenty inches from the dog's nose,
with his eye intently fixed on his. It seemed petrified
with horror, and although unwounded and quite healthy,
permitted the gentleman to take and put it alive in the
big. We have heard of a white hare being taken in a
similar manner in Glenmoriston, some years ago.—
Inverness Courier.
Mr. llaydon, the son of the late celebrated artist,
who was appointed by Sir 11,,bert Peel to the situation
of Landing Waiter in the Customs Department, has
entered upon the term of probationary instruction usual
previously to any person, so appointed, perforniieg any
actual service.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

esierday a Court was hell for the dispatch of much
public business.
THE LORD MAYOR. ATM CHRIST'S HOS-
I'ITAL.

Tll%l To\VN CLERK sta'ed that he attended at Christ's
hospital on St. Matthew's day, and four.d that the list
of governors had not been made out in the proper form;
but he wouid direct that a proper list should be made
and presented at the next Court.
Some members of the Court having expressed a wish
to be informed whether any misunderstanding existed
between the governors and the Corporation,
The LORD MAYOR said that in the list which had
been exhibited, the name of the Lord Mayor appeared
under those of the President and the Treasurer, and
that, as he considered such a position was an insult to
the Chief Magistrate and the Corporation of London,
he had refused to sit down to the dinner provided at the
hospital.
Mr. ANDFRTON said that if all Lord Mayors acted in
so spirited a manner, there would be no insult offered to
the office.—(Hear, hear.)
SCRIPTURE READERS' ASSOCIATION.

Mr. WIRE presented a petition from the Scripture
Readers' Association, praying for a donation in aid of
their funds. The great object of the association was,
he said, to aid the clergy of the Church of England in
diffusing Christian knowledge amongst the poorest, and
most desolate, and most ignorant of the poEsalation; and
for the purpose of accomplishing that object they were
employing persons who were competent to the task of
instructing, and were recommended by the officiating
clergyman of the parish which it would be necessary to
visit. The result, he was convinced, would be that a
new aspect would be placed upon society.—(Hear.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR thought that such an application
ought not to be made to a municipal body consisting of
individuals of many different persuasions.—(Hear, hear.)
The society from which it came was evidently a prosely-
ting society. If it had come from a Catholic society the
Court certainly would not for a moment listen to it.
Why, then, should they entertain a petition from a body
belonging to any other exclusive church ?—(Hear, hear )
Mr. LAWRENCE objected to the application. The
petitioners, instead of showing that they wanted money
to advance their object, very plainly proved by their
statement of their income above their expenditure, that
they had no occasion for the assistance of the Corpora.
tion at all, and moved that the petition should lie upon
the table.
Dr. LYNCH seconded the amendment. He considered
the object of the Association to be partial and proselyting,
and altogether at variance with the tolerant and generous
spirit which was daily diffusing itself amongst all
classes.—(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to encourage
the frantic railing of journeymen shoemakers, and tai-
lors, and carpenters, who, under the plea of a call from
the Lord, uttered all sorts of extravagant folly. Without
meaning to give the slightest offence to the gentlemen
at the bar, he could not help declaring that he looked
upon the plan thus proposed of assisting the clergy as a
most bitter satire upon that body. It was telling the
lazy dogs that it was actually necessary to get up a secu-
lar staff to do the duties which they were bound to per-
form themselves.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HARRISON said that Mr. Lawrence did injustice
to the Association, when he said they were not in want
of the assistance for which they petitioned. It was but
a new society, and every one knew that it was the prac-
tice of patrons to subscribe liberally at the beginning
of an institution, in order to give encouragement to the
the public Yo follow the example ; but it would be ab•
surd to calculate upon the permanency of such contribu-
tions.—(Hear, hear.) The Association stood in need of
assistance in carrying out their object, and he trusted
they would receive it most extensively. He regretted t.)
hear the epithet lazy dogs applied to the clergy. He
well knew how they laboured, and he knew that it was
quite impossible for them to go round to the lanes, and
alleys to the poor creatures who required religious in-
struction. Perhaps in the district of one clergyman
there were thousands of poor whom it would be the care
of the Association to supply with the instruction which,
without such aid, it would be impracticable to administer.
Mr. ANDERTON said it appeared to him that the As-
sociation did not at present need the aid of the Corpo-
ration. If, at any time, they should be in a condition to
require that aid, then they might come forward with a
good excuse and good effect.—(Hear.)
Mr. BENNOCH thought the ridicule cast upon those
who, without being possessed of liberal education, under-
took to expound the Scriptures, illiberal and unjust, and
referred to the great apostolical labours as evidence in
favour of their zeal and energy. He was in favour of
anything at all calculated to take information, religious
or secular, into the miserable, benighted dens of the
metropolis.—(Hear, hear.) There was no cant, in his
opinion, more despisable than the cant of parsimony,
when a fair demand was made upon the funds of the Cor-
poration.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PEWTRESS said the question was whether the ob-
ject was a legitimate object upon which to expend the
funds of the Corporation. In his opinion, they had
nothing to do with the subject. If the funds belonging
to the Established Church were properly disposed of,
there would be no need of application to that Court.
After some observations from Mr. LOTT, who said there
were plenty of poor clergymen well able and willing
to do the duties prescribed by the Association, and from
other members, a division took place, when the original
motion was carried, by a majority of nine, in a Court
consisting of 69,

INTERMENT OF THE DEAD WITHIN THE

CITY OF LONDON, &c.
Mr. ANDERTON rose to move that the Court do
petition both Houses of Parliament to pass an Act to
prohibit the interment of the dead in churches and
church-yards within the City of London, and other
large cities and towns, and prevent the violation of
graves. Eight months had passed away sine.) he had
put the notice of motion to which he had called the at-
tention of the Court upon the paper. Since that time
the subject had undergone discussion so extensively in
the newspaper press, and through other sources of public
intelligence, that it became unnecessary for him to enter
with any degree of minuteness or particularity into its
merits. He expected a unanimous concurrence on his
motion. If he required any late additional testimony in
favour of it, that testimony was to be found in the ma-
gisterial examinations which had just taken place. (Here
Mr. Anderton called the attention of the Court to the
revolting scene in the Friday-street burial•ground.) He
asked whether those who surrounded him could quietly
listen to the unexaggerated descriptions of the horrors
which accumulated at their very doors ?—(Hear, hear.)
Could they look patiently at the violation of graves, at
the exposure of the partially decomposed bodies of their
fellow-creatures on the dunghill? Could they read the
statements made by the sanatory Commissioners, who
showed that by burying the dead amongst us we were
scattering amongst the living the seeds of pestilence
and death—could they read these statements and remain
inactive as the corporation of the great City in which
such scenes were daily enacted ?—(Hear, hear.) He
felt assured that he calculated rightly in calculating
upon their unanimity. In 1726 the practice of burying
the dead within the City was petitioned against by a
clergyman, who represented it as the remains of one of
the grossest superstitions that ever visited mankind,
and condemned it with as much indignation as if it had
attained its present enormous maturity. In 1846 the
superstition existed to bo destroyed he hoped by the
example of London operating upon all other places of
dense population.—(Cheers.)
Mr. NORRIS seconded the motion.

Mr. LOTT did not object to the principle, but he wished
for some qualification. There were certain feelings to
be respected, particularly the feelings which operated
upon the members of families as to lying in th 3 same
graves.—(Hear, hear.) lie believed that a good deal of
the opposition to churchyard burials arose from the
monopoly of cemeteries.—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear,
hear.") He would only ask the Court to look at what
was going on as to the monopoly of railways.—(Hear.)
Mr. W. S. HALE said that whenever there was a
crowded churchyard ill-health might be expected. He
witnessed the effect of these burials in the very neigh-
bourhood in which they were that moment speaking.
In Coleman-street churchyard, which was paved, the
effluvia from the dead bodies escaped through holes
made in the tomb-stones, and made the air pestilential.
—(Hear, hear.) How such an abomination could be
allowed to exist so long was a thing he could not at all
comprehend.
Dr. LYNCH supported the motion with pleasure,
They wei e indebted to Mr. Anderton for his able and
lucid, though brief exposition of the evils referred to.
Upwards of 3,000 years ago Abraham ordered the dead
to Le taken out of his sight ; upwards of 2,000 years ago
the Roman Commonwealth did what they were about to
do—passed laws against burying in cities. "In urbe ne
sepelito " was an ordinance rigidly enforced.—(Hear,
hear.) The horrible effects of allowing the dead to be
deposited in the midst of the living, had been fully esta-
blished by the labours and writings of Mr. Walker. Mr.
Chadwick, too, in his invaluable work, had accumulated
and epitomised a mass of evidence of such a revolting
nature, that the wonder was that so frightful a practice
could have been so long tolerated.—(Hear, hear.) It
vl as well known that 12-13ths of the dead human body
dissipated in the air we breathed, and that disease was
daily resulting from exposure to the foul and pestilential
exhalation of the grave-yards. The festering putrid
matter was allowed unrestricted vent and diffusion every
time a grave was opened. It impregnated the atmos-
phere all around. In some cases 45 had been opened in
a day in one churchyard. The bodies were piled carcase
upon carcase until they had reached a depth of 10, 20,
and 30 feet, the topmost body being only a few inches
from the surface.—(Hear, hear.) St. Andrew's Church
was 25 feet above the level. The putrescent accumulation
raised every churchyard in London upon an average 10
feet high. They were all fourfold over-charged.
The number of persons dying annually in London was
upwards of 50,000. Some 4,000 or 5,000 were buried
in the cemeteries, and the remainder in intermural
grounds. The aggregate area of these latter was under
220 acres, and the average annual number of burials
per acre was 203, or about twice the number permitted
in continental states. That average afforded no indica-
ti.m of the restriction of the evil. Were the burials
equally distributed over the space allotted them, the
consequence would be comparatively little felt, but the
reverse took place. The burial grounds were mostly
situated in the poorest and most crowded parts of the
town. Where there were most of the living there were
most of the dead—where the burial grounds were fruit-
ful and perpetual sources of disease, there the liability to
disease was greatest, while the ability to guard against
it or to provide a remedy was the least.—(Hear, hear.)
There was to be seen the narrow plot of ground reeking
with pestilence, its soil supersaturated with sulphurated
hydrogen and carbonic acid gas, its surface strewed
with bones and moist with matter and exhalations alike
disgusting to the senses and destructive of health.—
(Hear, hear.) That plague spot was hemmed in with
hovels, in which space was economised to the verge of
suffocation, and the narrow streets and cesspools aided
the morbid exudation to percolate the subsoil, and