The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

DISTRESS I.N IRELAND.

'NATION AND GIIIDANCE OF
F DISTRESS IN IRELAND,
CONSEQUENT ON THE FAILUi
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FOL
I.E OF THE POTATO CROP
COMMITTEES FOR RELIEF

IN 1846 :
1. The Relief Act recently passed, 9 and 10 Vic., cap.
107, directs that when the public ;'vorks, for which it
provides, become requisite in any haroCIY, extraordinary
present sessions are to be assembled.
2. The lieutenant of the county will be requested to
divide every such barony into convenient districts, for
the action to relief Committees ; each district to consist
of at least two parishes, and the exact limits to be ac-
curately defined.
3. For the districts so formed, the lieutenant will then
be pleased to constitute relief Committees : or to re-
assemble any Committees which may have administered
relief funds within these districts, during the period
ended on the 15th of August : and to forward to the
Commissary-General a return of the districts and of the
chairman and secretary (both of whom he will appoint)
of each Committee.

4. When Committees which have bad relief funds are
to be re-assembled, some modification of the rule, as to
the extent of districts, may be necessary for removing
local objections ; but, under all circumstances, it will
be indispensable that the relief districts shall be within
the boundary of the barony, half-barony, or lesser di-
vision, for which relief works are required.
5. The Relief Committees (whether newly consti-
tuted or re-assembled) are to consist only of the follow-
ing functionaries and public officers:—
The lieutenant or vice-lieutenant of the county.
Magistrates deputed by each bench of petty sessions
in the barony, half-barony, or lesser division, for which
presentment sessions shall be convened, not exceeding
two from each bench.
The resident magistrate in the barony division for
which the presentment sessions shall be held.
The principal clergyman of each church (Protestant,
Roman Catholic, and Presbyteriaa), officiating in each
parish in the district.
The Chairman of the Poor-law union, comprising the
whole or greater part of the barony division for which
the presentment sessions shall be held.
The principal constabulary officer in such barony
division.

The principal coast-guard officer where available.
Officers acting under the Commissary-General, and
principal officer in the barony acting under the Board of
Works, to be ex-officio members.
6. As, during the past season, central Committees
were formed in certain districts, there will be no objec-
tion to the continuance of this plan, if their operation
should appear to the lieutenants of counties more desi-
rable, keeping the arrangements within the barony
boundaries, which is indispensable.
7. Each Committee should hold periodical meetings
at the place most convenient for the members and the
object. Minutes of each day's proceedings are to be
kept in a book supplied by the Commissary-General
for that purpose, as also for corresponuence and ac-
counts.

8. Three members of a Committee to form a quornm.
9. The balance remaining of each relief fund of the
period closed on the 15th of August to be at the disposal '
of the new or re-assembled Committee of the district for
which the fund shall have been created. The treasurer
to be reappointed.
10. All other Committees on forming relief funds, to
appoint treasurers.
11. Correspondence between the Committees and her
Majesty's Government to be carried on through the
Commissary-General ; and it is earnestly requested,
with a view of facilitating public business, that individual
members of the Committees will communicate their sug-
gestions or objects of inquiry, at meetings of the Com-
mittees, to he conveyed to the Commissary-General if
considered necessary, so that the correspondence may be
carried on only by the chairman or secretary of each
Committee.

12. Applications with respect to public works, and
correspondence on matters incident to them, should be
addressed to the Board of Works.

13. The attention of each Committee should be pri-
marily given to the provisions of the Relief Act, recently
passed (9 and 10 Vic , cap. 107), as it prescribes the
mode in which relief is to be afforded by employment on
public works.
14. The Commissary-General will supply each Com-
mittee with copies of the following Acts and papers
Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 107, for Relief Works. Also,
Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 104, granting Fifty Thousand
Pounds in aid of Public Works of utility for Poor Dis-
tricts. _ _

Act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 101, to authorise the advance
of One Million Pounds for the Improvement of Land by
Works of Drainage in Ireland.
The Drainage Acts, 5 and 6 Vic., cap. 89-8 and 9
Vic., cap. 56—and 9 vie., cap. 4 ; and where necessary
the Fishery Piers Act, 9 Vic., cap. 3.
Treasury Minute of the 31st of August, 1846.
Papers on the Drainage of Land.
Papers on the use of Indian Corn and Meal.
15. A most important duty of the members of the
Relief Committees will be, to promote by their influence
and example, improvements in husbandry, the drainage
of land, and reclaiming of wastes.
16. The employment provided by law must be of a
public nature ; and the owners and occupiers of land in
Ireland are, by the Act 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 107,
charged with the expense of such works as are indis-
pensably necessary for the subsistence of the destitute
poor.
17. The Government has also afforded many facilities
towards the general agricultural improvement of Ireland
by drainage, not only of the uncultivated, but also of the
large proportion of imperfectly cultivated land ; and
abundant means have been placed for this purpose at the
disposal of the landowners, more favourable than here-
tofore, both as to the rate of interest and the period of
repayment.
IS. When public works of relief are to be executed,
the several Relief Committees in the barony are to supply
to the officers of the Board of Works appointed to con-
duct them, lists of persons requiring relief by employ-
ment, made up from registries of applicants for relief, in
the following order, and not containing a greater number
of persons than the officers of works shall propose to
employ from each relief division of the barony, having
regard to the extent of the labouring population requir-
ing relief in such division :

sanction of the Government officers. Its opening took'
place yesterday (Monday).
IMMENSE CONTRACT FOR Inox.--There is an accre-
dited rumour here, says the Hereford Times, that Sir
John Guest, Bart., Dowlais Ironworks, has just com-
pleted a contract to supply two hundred thousand tons
of iron rails, at 101. per ton—the total value of which
will be two millions sterling. The same iron, three or
four years ago, would have been sold at from five to six
pounds per ton! It is to be hoped that the operators
throughout these immense works will participate, by a
liberal advance of wages, in the vast profit to arise.
LYNN AND DEREHA3I.—The works on this line, be-
tween Narborough and Swaffham, are progressing very
rapidly, under the superintendence of Mr. Hall, the resi-
dent engineer. The contractors for the line, Messrs.
Frost, Fry, and Matthewson, have upwards of 600 men
employed.
LYNN ♦ND ELY.—The first experimental trip on the
Lynn and Ely Railway was performed on Friday from
Ely to Downham. The train conveyed a number of the
directors and their friends. It is expected that the line
will be opened for traffic in a few weeks.
The South-Western have agreed with Mr. Brassy,
the contractor, for the execution of the Fareham branch.
The works will be commenced forthwith. During the
last few days a survey has been made of the property at
Landport, preparatory to the usual notices being give❑
of the company's intention to apply to Parliament for
an Act to extend their line to the Lion Gate Road.
A second line of rails froth Chichester to Worthing is
rapidly approaching completion.
EXTENSION OF THE NORFOLK STATION AT NORWICH.—
The increasing traffic, which is almost every day develop-
ing itself on the Norfolk line, has rendered a considerable
extension of the terminus at Norwich absolutely neces-
sary. The hamlet of Thorpe, with its beautiful meadows
adjacent to the river Wensom, has been within the last
few months completely changed into a bustling village.
Twelve months ago the only hum of occupation heard to
proceed from its quiet street was the monotonous splash of
the mill-wheel as it performed its daily labour; but now
for 50 acres, almost as far as the eye can reach, the
green sward has been cut away, houses and factories
have been erected, and a little city has sprung up, as it
were, by magic. The entire traffic of the capital of
Eastern Anglia, as far as its carrying trade goes, ap-
pears to be concentrated at this place. The quantity
of agricultural produce transmitted from the various
corn•growing districts throughout the county to the
metropolitan markets is also steadily increasing. During
the last few months 24,432 beasts, 21,500 sheep,
6,272 pigs, and 8,796 tons, or 89,096 quarters, of
grain have been conveyed to the metropolis. The
passenger traffic has likewise considerably increased,
upwards of thirty trains either arrive or depart from
the Thorpe station every day. During the last month
express trains have been running to London and back, a
distance of 252 miles, in eight hours and sixteen mi-
nutes. The London morning journals now arrive in
Norwich by twelve o'clock, and at Yarmouth in about an
hour afterwards.

RAILWAY SLEEPERS.—A diversity of practice appear-
ing to have existed on the part of the revenue officers
in the admeasurement of timbers of irregular dimen-
sions, intended as sleepers for railroad purposes,
the Commissioners of the Customs department have
directed the principals of the revenue at the port
of London, and at the several outports of the Unitsd
Kingdom, to be informed, for the future government
of the officers under their supervision in the matter,
that when the description of wood goods in question do
not exceed two cubic feet in content, the same are to be
taken account of as directed by the seventh section of
the official instructions for the guide of the Customs'
timber measurers, viz., to take the length, height, and
width of the pile, to the full extent in feet and inches,
compute the content to an entire foot, and reject the frac-
tional part ; that when they exceed two feet, and do not
exceed five feet in content, they are to be treated in
conformity with the 17th and 23d sections of the said
instructions, viz.—to take the length to the quarter of
a foot, and the breadth and thickness, at the middle of
the piece, to a quarter of an inch, including, in
each separate content, every fractional part amounting
to the tenth of a cubic foot; and that when exceeding
five feet in content, and not exceedinc, ten feet in length,
and being eight inches square, and roundwood, nine
inches in diameter and upwards, the same are to be
dealt with agreeably to the Board's general order, issued
in April last, viz., that with respect to the recent im-
portation of wood of irregular form, being eight
inches square and upwards, the admeasurement of
which had not previously been provided for by any
existing) order, the following regulations be adopted,
viz. :—that timber and wood, eight inches square and up-
wards, and not exceeding ten feet in length; and round-
wood nine inches in diameter and upwards, not exceeding
ten feet in length, be measured in the following manner—
viz.: the length of each piece to half a foot, and the
breadth and thickness of square, and the diameter of
round timber to a quarter of an inch, the content being
computed to half a foot, with directions to the officers
strictly to govern themselves according to this rule. As
this description of wood is now being imported to a very
great extent, especially from Canada and other of the
British provinces of North America, for the particular
purposes to which it is applied, and which is likely, in
consequence of the large amount of railway operations
in progress and in embryo throughout the kingdom, to
continue to be the case, the mode in which the official
account for the duties is in future to be taken will be in-
teresting and of importance.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.
CLOSE OF THE SIXTH DAY'S POLL.

I. Persons destitute of means of support, who have
the largest families wholly depending on them.
2. Persons with smaller families wholly depending on
them.

3. All other persons requiring employment on public
works, for whose support it is actually necessary.
19. A book for the registry of applicants for employ.
ment will be supplied to each Committee. As the ap-
plications are received, inquiry should be made to ascer-
tain the real condition of every applicant, and none
should be registered but such as shall appear to be in
actual necessity of relief, having no other resource er
means of acquiring subsistence, than employment on
public works.

20. When lists of applicants are supplied to the officers
of the Board of Works, they will issue work tickets to
the persons who are to be employed; and when the lists
shall nct contain all the applicants registered, this
should be stated at foot, giving there the number still
requiring employment. The lists to be revised from
time to time, at the discretion of the Committees.
21. The telief Committees are not to interfere with
the execution of the works, or with the officers or
stewards; but it will be at all times open to them to
draw the attention of the Board of Works to any occur-
rences in relation to the works which in the opinion of
the Committee are deserving of consideration.

The interest taken in this election by the Livery of
London seems to increase as it approaches the con-
clusion of the poll. The Livery have done their work
manfully, and have placed Alderman Wood in a posi-
tion from which no one can entertain any doubt of
his success. Bills and placards around the Guilhall are as
thick, to use a common phrase, as blackberries. We
cannot refrain from selecting the following from amongst
them:—

" Livery of London—Who is it that now stands for-
ward to oppose you and Alderman Wood? No less a
man than Mr. Anderton. Now read his own opinion of
Alderman Wood in 1844:—' I have for some years
watched the worthy Alderman as a private individual,
as a magistrate, and as a professional man,
and I will defy any one to put a finger
upon any one act dishonourable to him, either
as a magistrate, a solicitor, or a private individual.
In all the relations of life there is note single act which
his enemies have ever pointed against him. No man has
performed the several duties of the Corporation with
more credit or honour.' Come up then to the hustings
and poll for Alderman Wood."
At three o'clock the poll closed, and at half-past three
the following was announced to be the state of the poll:
Mr. Alderman Wood 1,412
Sir George Carroll
Mr. Alderman Hooper 2BB
Mr. Alderman Moon
Mr. Alderman Farncomb .. 1

The announcement was received with great cheering.
Mr.BENNOCH then came forward to address the Livery,
and, after passing a high eulogium on Alderman Wood,
concluded by stating that had he adopted the course
that many would have done, and, in fact, that many had
done, instead of being stigmatised, he would have been
praised.--(Cheers )
Mr. • WILKINSON then came forward to address the
Livery, and in a most humourous speech, in which the
Court of Aldermen was not spared, and the Livery in-
structed how to perform their duty, he called upon every
man present to perform his duty, and secure the election
of Alderinan Wood.
Mr. Alderman Wool) then came forward to address
the Livery, and was received wi▪ th the most enthusiastic
cheers. He again, in the most positive terms, denied
the charges that had been made against him,
entered most fully into the statements that had been
made by Mr. Anderton, and concluded by calling upon
the Livery to support him and their own independence.
After some observations from Mr. Holt, the Court
adjourned to this morning at ni▪
ne o'clock.

22. It is not to be desired that Relief Committees
should carry on works of relief of the description for
which provision is made in the Act 9 and 10 Vic., c. 107.
All such works should be submitted for the 'considera-
tion of the baronial sessions, and if sanctioned, they
must be executed only by the Board of Works.
23. When Committees are compelled by circumstances
to provide employment from funds at their own disposal,
it should be limited to small works of local utility; and
they should not give a higher rate of wages, nor exact a
smaller quantum of labour, in any work so carried on
by them, than is given or required upon works carried
on under the superintendence of the Board of Works.
Such works should be carried on by Committees only to
the extent to which private employment is proved
not to be available. The persons so employed should
be paid for their labour in proportion to the work
actually done, and not by any composition in lieu of
wages.
24. The means of providing food for the labouring
population, in lieu of the potato crops lost, are fully
explained in the Treasury Minute of the 31st August.
The importation of foreign grain is most properly left
exclusively to private enterprise ; and, to a certain
extent, the distribution, as well as the introduction, is
left to the same agency.
25. Donations in aid of subscriptions will be made by
his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, which may amount
to one-half of the amount subscribed, and placed at the
disposal of the Committees ; the amount varying accord-
ing to the circumstances and the degree of distress to be
relieved.

26. On applying for a donation, it will be necessary
to transmit to the Commissary-General a list of the
subscriptions actually collected ; but the contributions
from charity funds of any kind should not be included,
or in any way mixed up with the personal subscriptions.
27. A certificate to the following effect should be
affixed to each list of subscriptions, signed by the se-
cretary of the Committee and chairman for the time
being :
We certify that 'all the subscriptions set forth in this
list have been collected and paid to the treasurer of
the Relief Committee, and that there is
nut included in it any sum contributed from funds
applicable to charitable purposes.
It is not necessary that the treasurer's receipts should
be transmitted to the Commissary-General ; they will
be called for by the commissariat officer, who will be di-
rected to issue the donation.
28. The relief fund formed of the balance remaining
from the past period, subscriptions for the present period,
any other contributions obtained, and the Lord-Lieu-
tenant's donation, will he applicable only to the following
purposes :-
1. Providing supplies of Indian corn, or Indian corn
meal, or other food, for sale.
2. Affording, relief by employment, if necessary.
3. Defraying the contingent expenses of the Com-
mittee, including remuneration for the services of
the secretary or clerk.

29. The books, correspondence, papers, and accounts
of the Relief Committees, should at all times be open to
the inspection of Government officers, who will be ap-
pointed to visit each barony, and who should be fur-
nished with copies of any documents or accounts they
may require. Detailed accounts of receipts and expen-
diture in the form of an account current, should be kept ;
and certified copies of them will be required after the
15th of August, 1847.

_ .
W. STANLEY, Secretary.
Commissariat Relief Office, Dublin Castle,
September 24, 1846.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1846.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A young man, named William Payne, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having made
desperate assaults upon the police. He had been fre-
qaently, upon previous occasions, summarily convicted at
the Mansion House, and at some of the Metropolitan
Police-offices, upon accusations of a similar kind.
John M'Dougal city policeman, 659, stated, that at
twelve o'clock on Saturday night, he saw, while on duty
in Bishopsgate, the prisoner strike a young gentleman
in the mouth, and knock him down. Witness inter-
ferred, and tried to prevail upon the prisoner to go on,
but the prisoner began to knock down the bystanders
right and left, and struck the witness, and kicked him
most violently, and in the most dangerous manner.
Several policemen then came up, and the prisoner
severely assaulted them, and tried to do them the most
serious injuries with his feet and his fists. The
prisoner had a mob of vagabonds cheering him on and
assisting him.
Mr. O'Donoghue, a watchmaker, witnessed the violent
conduct of the prisoner, and observed, when the police-
man took him to the station-house, that he was served
right. No sooner had he said the words than a fury of
a woman struck him with her fist on the face. That
was a signal for a severe attack upon him. A crowd of
fellows pressed upon him; kicked him, and knocked him
over head and heels. The behaviour of M'Dougal, the
policeman, was deserving of the highest commendation,
for even when desperately struck and kicked, he showed
no disposition to retaliate, but merely secured the pri-
soner with a firm and resolute hand. The crowd fol-
lowed the witness as far as Sun-street, and kicked and
wounded him upon the head and body. The prisoner
made several attempts to use his teeth, as well as his
hands and feet.
The LORD MAYOR said the complainant had evidently
met with the greatest kindness, and that as summary
convictions had no effect upon the prisoner, the City so-
licitor should prosecute him at the Old Bailey.
Committed to Newgate for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DRIVEN FROItI PILLAR TO POST.—Lacy, one of the
officers of St. George's parish, brought Harriet Arundel,
a widow who had evidently seen better days, before Mr.
Hardwick, for the purpose of stating her melanc holy
case. The woman had resided in the lifetime of her
husband in the parish of St. George's for several years.
Her husband died, leaving her with five young children,
in such reduced circumstances, that she was obliged to
apply to the parish for assistance. As her settlement
was with the parish of Marylebone, her husband having
been apprenticed in that parish, the officers of St.
George's caused her to be regularly passed to Maryle-
bone. No objection was made by the officers of Maryle-
bone to the settlement, and her case being taken into
consideration, an allowance of ss. per week was given
her towards the support of herself and family. As soon
as the New Settlement Act came into operation, in
which it is provided that a residence of five years shall
confer a settlement, the authorities of Marylebone
stopped the weekly allowance. The widow fell into ar-
rears with her landlord in consequence of this proceed-
ing, and finding her children in a state of starvation, she
applied to the officers of the parish of St. George's for
relief. She was told that the parish of St. George was
exonerated from the burden of her support, as she had
been regularly passed to Marylebone. She went to
Marylebone parish, when she was told that she must
apply to St. George's. The woman, acting on advice, went
to Mr. Rawlinson, the magistrate of Marylebone
Police-
court, and was then told to make an application to the
Marylebone board the following board-day. She went,
but was told to go away, as no attention would be paid
to her case. Lacy said he had investigated the poor
woman's case, and had found that she was a very de-
serving object. He knew that her family, all very
young, were in a state of starvation—indeed he did not
know what would have occurred had he not relieved the
poor woman with a trifle out of his own pocket, and had
not the magistrate (Mr. Hardwick) kindly ordered her
last week a trifle from the poor-box.
Mr. HARDWICK looked to the new Act, and said he
did not find any power in it for a magistrate to interfere
in such a case. He was of opinion, that the officers of
Marylebone took an erroneous view of the new Act. It
appeared to him that the woman was still legally en-
titled to relief from Marylebone, and he should advise
the woman to go into that parish and make a regular
claim for relief.
Lacy said, if Marylebone disputed the settlement,
and would pass the woman back to St. George's, he was
sure the authorities of St. George's would be willing to
try the question. In the meantime, however, the poor
creature and her children could not be allowed to starve.
The woman then left the Court, after receiving five
shillings from the poor-box, with the intention of getting
a lodging in Marylebone, and making another applica-
tion for relief.

WORSHIP-STREET.
CHARGE OF STABBING.—Ann Sinnot alias Nance
Ruffey, was charged with having stabbed a man named
Daniel Crawley.
Sergeant King said, that between twelve and one
o'clock on Saturday night there was a disturbance in
Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields, which he quelled,
and he then saw Crawley go into a sort of eating-house
of the lowest kind, kept by the prisoner. Presently he
came out holding his hand to his breast, from which he
was bleeding profusely, and ran towards witness, ex-
claiming, " I'm stabbed! I'm stabbed to the heart! Oh,
stop the blood and save me!" He said that Nance
Ruffey had done it, and after having been seen by a
surgeon was conveyed to the London Hospital, where it
was found that a wound, an inch and a half deep, had
penetrated the chest. The prisoner, on being taken to
the station-house, said her landlady was quarrelling with
her, and had sent Crawley to break her door open, and
that when he came in he threw the meat in her face,
and that she must protect herself.
A certificate from Mr. Wordsworth, house surgeon at
the London Hospital, was produced, stating that Craw-
ley had a punctured wound in the chest, and was in a
dangerous state.
She was remanded for a week.
SOUTHWARK.
ATTEMPTED SIIICIDE.—EIiza Jarvis, the wife of a
wine merchant, late of Bush-lane, City, was brought be-
fore Mr. Seeker, charged with having made a very de-
termined attempt on her life the preceding morning, at a
coffee-shop in the Waterloo-road.
A young woman named Bade, servant at the coffee-
shop, stated that on Saturday night the defendant came
to her employer's house, and, after having taken some
coffee, engaged a bed for the night. The following
morning she requested that her breakfast might be
brought up stairs to her bedroom, and she ordered a
slice of bacon, desiring that a knife and fork might be
provided. Her wishes were complied with, and a consi-
derable time having elapsed, and she not coming down
stairs, the landlord went up and knocked at the bed-
room door, informing her that it was getting late in the
day. The defendant answered in a feeble tone of voice,
requesting that he would send the servant girl up to her,
and the latter, upon entering the room, discovered the
defendant lying on the bed, holding her right arm, from
which the blood was flowing into a basin on a chair by
the bed side. The knife which was sent up with the
bacon was lying close by, and from the marks of blood
upon it, there was no doubt it was used by the unfortu-
nate woman to inflict a wound across her arm; but to
the blade being extremely blunt and jagged was to be
principally attributed the circumstance of her not having
effected her object; as it was, however, a deep incision
waslinflicted across the inside of her arm at the elbow. A
medical man was immediately called in, and he pro-
nounced that, although a good deal of injury was done,
still that it would not be attended with any danger.:
Acting-inspector Simmons, L division, stated that in-
quiries had been made respecting the defendant, and
that it was ascertained she was the wife of a merchant
in Bush-lane, in the City, who had some time since
failed for 44,0001. He had absconded from his creditors,
and a reward of 3001. was offered for his apprehension.
Since the flight of her husband, the defendant had been
lodging at a house in White, street, Southwark, and was
supporting herself on a small weekly pittance which she
was allowed by parties whom she did not know, but
whom she had occasion to believe were friends in the
country.
Her landlady came forward and said, that for some
days she had been in a very desponding condition of
mind with regard to two of her children, who had been
taken away from her, and placed at a boarding-school.
Their board and education were paid for by unknown
parties, and she was possessed of the idea that her chil-
dren would be taken away from her entirely. This latter
circumstance preyed heavily on her mind.
Mr. SECKER put some questions to the unfortunate
woman, with a view that she should explain the cause of
her having attempted suicide, but she merely said that
her misfortunes were great, and that she could not bear
up against them. She, however, now regretted what she
had done in her excited state, and would not attempi the
like again.
Mr. SMILER said, that in the defendant's condition of
mind, he could not take her own word, and that it was
necessary she should find two sureties of 101. each to be
bail for her.
The defendant not being prepared with the required
sureties was committed.

THAMES.
PRIVATE BuntaL-onounDs.—Mr. Rayner, chairman
of the board of guardians of St. George-in-the-East,
accompanied by Mr. George Findlay and Mr. Staples,
also guardians, waited on Mr. Ballantine, for the pur-
pose of calling his attention to the overcrowded state of
a burial-ground in Cannon-street-road,. in the rear of
Trinity Episcopal Chapel, with which edifice, however,
the cemetery has no connexion.
Mr. Findlay said he was constable of the parish, and
he was requested, in his official capacity, to bring the
disgraceful practices carried on in the burial ground before
the notice of the magistrate. The burial-ground, which
was of small extent, was overcrowded with human re-
„plains. For some time past a most disgusting and re-
prehensible- practice had been adopted. The coffins and
bodies had been taken out of the graves, which ought
not to have been disturbed, and after the coffins were
broken up, large holes were prepared, into which human
remains were thrown in a heap. Pieces of coffins were
often seen about the ground, with pieces of decomposed
fl.-sh and hair adhering to them. The parishioners were
most anxious to prevent any more interments in the
burial-ground, and to abate the nuisance, and he was in-
structed to apply for a summons.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he was not aware that he could
interfere at all in this matter. He believed the only
thing that could be done was to indict the nuisance; and
if the parties did so, they would have to pay the ex-
penses themselves, for the auditors would not allow them
to be defrayed from the poor-rate.
Mr. Staples said his residence unfortunately over-
looked the burial-ground, which was choked up with
bodies, and it was impossible to prepare a grave without
removing other coffins and their contents. A nauseous
effluvium arose from the ground, which he considered
to be highly detrimental to the health of the inhabitants.
Mr. Findlay said he had seen flowers and fresh turfs
placed over newly filled-up graves to make it appear A
they.were.of long standing,