The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-10 00:00:00

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INVIOLABILITY OF 71 1 oliAr
A correspondent of the _Builder eof y--It ifl drought
even by some who mean the best, 1.010, a pruv;a.oa to
leave graves undisturied for eighty years is :.,uietente
are
They neve no right to be disturbed as long esthffer
two yards of ,ground iu the country not inirt!a 01. 1
believe there is no country or island hut this, where
they cannot afford their dead a grave in perpciuity; by
which I do not mean the surface kept from cultivation or
other uses, hut the grays from invasion. Even in the
smallest of the Antilles I never heard of burying twice
in the same ground, and some of these islands are more
thickly peopled than Great Britain, and more cultivated
than Surrey. But those who say there is any place
where men cannot afford their dead each two yards of
ground for ever if they choose, are not worth answering
but by giving them the lie direct. Which is the more
essential to " Christian burial"—a ridiculous acting and
aping of a medimval baron's finery, or a decent treat-
ment of the body for a generation or two after? Which
is the more indecent treatment, reconverting the ground
into a common cultivated field, or into an English so-
called " burial-ground?" Is the heaping up and stowing
away bodies on these piles burial at all, or the pile itself
gtoundat all? Any use or cultivation of the ground again
would surely be more Christian and reverent than this
pestilent and abominable mockery. But cultivation is
nowhere necessary, at least nothing nearer to it than
timbur-grovring, which is the very kind of cultivation
this country can never get from selfish enterprise, and
therefore needs continually more and more, as Evelyn
and others have said.

TILE FIRE
FI AN
SKERTD LOSS O .
F LIFE AT
ON
NEWARK, TuEsDaY.--The terrible calamity briefly
described iu yesterday's Sun has proved more dis-
astrous than was anticipated, five individuals, instead of
fear, as was at first supposed, having lost their lives.
The mill destroyed was five stories high.
At the time this catastrophe occurred, John Bailey, a
miller's apprentice was coming out at the dour, and was
driven forward by the rush of wind oocasioned by the
chopping of so great a weight of roofing, flooring, flour,
meal, &e., within. Henry Britton, a labourer, who was
in the doorway just behind Bailey, with a sack of
flour on his back, was knocked down, and partly buried
in the ruins, but being dragged out, it was found that
he was not mortally injured, though his nose and left
shoulder were seriously bruised. A man named Rey-
nolds, and another named Britton, directly behind
him, and following him to the door, each with a sack
of flour or grain on his back, were knocked down and
smothered; as also were two others, named Lloyd and
Robinson, who were further from the door. Mayfield,
the head miller, who it is supposed was loading the
others, each in turn, was found standing up with his
face to the wall at the western end of the building. Ho
was the only one who was burnt, his head being
thoroughly roasted. A man named Sleight and his son,
a young man about 22 years of age, were also buried in
the debris, bat fortunately they happened to be near a
window at the time, which they smashed, and let them-
selves out at the northern side of the building. The
son's arm was slightly bruised, but this was the only in-
jury either of them sustained.
In the evening of the same day, Mr. Falkner, the
coroner, held an inquest on the bodies. They were
found to be William Stimson, aged 30, labourer of
Rollestone ; John Reynolds, aged 21, labourer, employed
in the mill; Frederick Lloyd, aged 22, butcher, of Rolle-
stone; William Mayfield, aged 28, waggoner, employed
at the mill; and Jas. Robinson, 30, foreman and engii,:esr
at the mill; Robinson was the only one who was mar-
ried, and he, unfortunately, has left a wife and five small
children. A verdict of " Accidentally Killed" was re-
turned.
The premises were occupied by Mr. Joseph Marriott;
he was insured in the County-office for 5001. Tho
build-
ing belonged to Mr. Chambers, of Tibsheif, Derby, and
it is understood was

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.
Yesterday a court was held. Deputy Peacock was in
the chair.
Some conversation took place after the court was
opened on the reports of the several inspectors, but no-
thing of public importance was elicited.
With reference to the fall of premises in Cannon-
street, City, it was agreed that the matter that after-
noon should be submitted to a view.
OPENING O THE WESTERN AREA OF ST. PAUL'S.
Mr. BARBER, the originator of the scheme fur the
opening of the western area of St. Paul's Churchyard,
desired that the clerk (Mr. Daw) should be requested
to write to the Dean and Chapter for the purpose of
ascertaining on what day it would be convenient for
them (the authorities) to receive a deputation from that
court.—(Hear.) Ile had understood that the Members
for the City of London would attend the deputation if
they were invited to do so, as well as several influential
parties.
Decided that the application be agreed to.
Mr. H. Blake, jun., having been chosen assistant clerk
in the room of Mr. Tickner resigned,
The report of the medical officer was brought up and
read.-------

THE MURDER IN SOMERSETSILIRE.
BATH, DEC. 9.—After the prisoners charged on sus•
picion of being concerned in the murder of George Bush
were remanded yesterday, information was received by
Mr. Hughes, the chief of the Bath police, which in-
duced him, with Inspectors Brown and Drake, to pro-
ceed immediately to Farnborough, a village about two
miles from Priston, where the murder was committed.
The police there succeeded in apprehending a young
man named James Evans, a butcher, living in the
village, and whom they at once brought in custody to
this city.
The prisoner was to-day brought up for examination
before the county magistrate, when Mr. Slack, solicitor,
attended on his behalf. The proceedings occupied till
pest fivo o'clock.
Several witnesses were examined, including the two
police inspectors, Win. James, a coachman to the Rev.
Mr. Hammond, of Priston; George Lewis, gardener
th toe
the same reverend gentleman; and Mrs. Weeks,
landlady of the Ring of Bells public-house.
The principal circumstances affecting the prisoner, as
deposed to by them, were that on Monday, the day of
the murder, he was at the. sale at Pristcm,after whic.h
ho was drinking at the Ring of Bells public-handhouse, in
the same village, in company with the
.an-
other man named Ricketts. Between seven and eight
o'clock, the deceased Bush having shor
he landlady totly before disap-
peared, Evans, the prisoner, called to t
know the reckoning. He then discovered that Bush had
not paid his share; and he was heard to say to Rickette
that
he (Bush) must be ad— mean fellow, and
he ought to have his head chopped off. He also. said
ts
that he should like to do it too. Ricketts told him to
bush up, but directly afterwards they left together; and
after being away about twenty minutes they returned,
and called for another pint of beer. Evans had
before paid Bush's share. On their return they
did not appear so lively and cheerful as
before, especially the prisoner Evans, who ex-
pressed a wish to go home, and asked a man
named Perry to accompany him. Ricketts asked him
if he was fidgetty, to which Evans replied, " No, I'm
if I be." Evans, Ricketts, and Perry soon after left, to
go home together. After the return, Evans took a quan-
tity of silver from his pockets and counted it. On being
apprehended, a half-sovereign and some silver was foundd
upon him, and also an instrument called a Bloodplilem,
use
for bleeding cattle, and which had blcod upon it.
was also found upon his clothes, but, being a butcher, of
course that circumstance does not bear so strongly
against him as it would against persons of other avoca-
tions.
The. prisoner was remanded till Friday, Mr. Hughes
observing sent h had other information, which he was
not at present prepared to lay before the bench in the
shape of evidence.
Mr. Slack applied that the prisoner might be admitted
,o bail, but the magistrates declined to accede to the up-
on.

plicatii

AN AMERICAN OUTRAGE.
The Opclosuas Gazette of the 9.9:h ult. gives the
following account of an outrage in the parish of
St. Landry :—" On last between the hours
of ten and twelve o'clock, one Dr. J. W. llopkins,
of Plaquemine l3rulee, entered the house of John
D. Moore, eighteen miles from this place, in our
parish, accompanied by a negro, armed with a
double-barrelled shot gun. Hopkins attacked Moore
with his pistols and bowie-knife. Moore being
unarmed seized him and threw him down, and
was about to wrest from him his bowie-knife, intend-
ing to use it in defence of his life, when llop
shoot him
upon which the negro replied that he could not shoot
without killing both. Hopkins then said, " Shoot
anyhow." Moore then sprang to the negro, seizedithe
gun, and was about to take it from the slave, when
Hopkins, who had raised himself from the floor, ad-
vanced towards him with his pistols and bowie-
knife. Moore then endeavoured to make his escape
through his back door. Hopkins pursued him, and
fired without effect. Hopkins then returned into the
house, demanded'of Dloore's wife the keys, and bid her
give him John Lyons money (the father-in-law of
both Moore and llopkins). She replied they had none
of John Lyons' money. He took the keys, searched
the house, and found sixteen dollars in the press. He
then turned to her and said he would leave no witness
against him, that he intended to kill her. He took
her by the arm and endeavoured to turn her round in
order to shoot her in the back. Ile then fired. She
threw up her arms for protection, and the ball struck
her hand, nearly cutting off two of her fingers, it then
struck her abdomen, when luckily it glanced, and did
not penetrate the intestines or 'bowels The monster
then mounted his horse and fled. There are now six
men in pursuit of him. We learn they are now on
his track, and will doubtless arrest him. He is a man
of slender form, about five feet nine or ten inches in
height, and light blue eyes. It is reported here that
Hopkins fled from Virginia for killing a man.

REDUCTION IN OMNIBUS PARES.—The large body
of proprietors of omnibuses on the Oxford-street line, forming
the London Conveyance and P.,ddington Association Com-
panies, have announced an arrangement which affords faci-
lities for omnibus travelling on this most important line of
road which have not hitherto been attainable in the metro-
polis. The most remarkable portion of the new table of
fares is, that it not only enables the public to ride from the
Edgware-road to Tottenham-court-road for Id., or to Far-
ringdon-street for 21., by any of the regu'ar omnibuses on
the line, but also to and from Tottenham-court-road to tho
bottom of Holborn-hill for Id. also; so that there are two
distinct fares of Id. each, or 2d. for the whole distance, from
the Marble Arch, through the heart of the metropolis, to the
bottom of Holborn-hill, a distance of nearly three miles.
These concessions to the public feeling in this matter will
afford universal satisfaction.