The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, IAVEOOIsi, THURSDAY

STATE OP TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.-....1ti our last report we
stated that the lois of confidence had become greater and
prizes lower substleently to Tuesday's market. To-
day, mule and water twist, in the bundle, has been sold
lb.aateidg.oetod!eidsepehrevegenerally yielded more or less, in below the
the
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prevalence of a feeling very much akin to panic; where-
as, there have been transactions to-day, particularly in
:nipping yarns, and offers to a fair extent have been
made, both for them and for some descriptions of cloth,
which serve at least to indicate an opinion amongst the
buyers that it is as well to be purchasing some of the
supplies they may want. The fall in prices is now
very serious, and, singular as it may appear,
stocks are light in the hands of spinners, and by no
means heavy in those of the manufacturers at large.
From Bombay the advice as to yarns and goods are
more favourable than they were expected to be, but they
are not very satisfactory from Calcutta. For the former
market there have accordingly been inquiries and offers
for yarns and goods to-day, but scarcely any for the
latter. The impression produced by the American
letters is, that they point to a larger supply than the
previous ones did.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The flannel market remains
dull and inactive, and the merchants are offering lower
prices. In kvrseys and coarse goods there has been very
little doing. The wool market is still, and former prices
are fully maintained.
HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Not BO much has been
done in our market to-day. The stocks in the Cloth
Hall are on the increase; there have not been many large
buyers in town this last week, and consequently delive-
ries have not been very large. The wool market is
slack, as the manufacturers cannot be induced to buy
until the forthcoming sales have commenced.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There has been but a slender
attendance of buyers in oar Piece Hall to-day ; and the
amount of business transacted has been very limited.
The spinners are asking a slight advance upon yarn,
and a check has consequently been given to the purchases.
Oa some sorts of wool the staplers have obtained a
trifling advance in price, and the quantity changing hands
is scarcely so large as it was.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The markets at the Cloth Halls
to-day were dull, neither can we report much doing to
% order. The shipping houses are rather busy ; but for
- the home trade there is not much doing.

WHERE SHALL WE BURY OUR DEAD?
(From the Leader.)
.% A long and interesting Report, dated "Whitehall,
April 2, ]851," and signed "Ashley, Edwin Chad-
% wick, and T. Southwood Smith," his been presented
to Parliament and published, on Extramural Inter-
ments in the country towns. According to the report,
the country generally is in favour of an Act of Par-
ce liament for prohibiting the burial of the dead within
the limits of towns; and certainly the evidence fur-
nished by the corps of inspectors acting under the orders
of the Board of Health, of the ever-crowded and dis-
'x gusting state of our graveyards, sufficiently warrants the
conclusions of public opinion. The inspectors have ex-
% strained the burial places of 200 towns, and found them
% mainly in as bad a condition as those of London.
A few instances will give an idea of the general
condition of the inspected districts. At Great Yar-
mouth 9,235 bodies have been buried in the parish
'% churchyard in twenty years. At Burslera and other
3,2 towns, bodies are brought into the town from the
country; and at Norwich the churchyards, which
Evelyn declared to be 200 years ago, a " congestion
of dead bodies, one on another for want of

earth, even to the very top of the walls, and some
above the walls," have since received no less than halt
:I( a million in addition; consequently, in the words of the
,54 report, " a very large portion of the soil, for the depth
of many feet, consists of decomposed human bodies."
' Dover, Huddersfield, Portsmouth, and other towns are
16in the like condition. In Penrith the churchyards con-
tain, some twenty-one, others fourteen and fifteen layers
% of bodies. The stench arising from these patches of
'N corruption in summer is so strong and baneful, that one
od instance is reported of the windows of a church opening
on the yard being boarded up.
At Banbury and Beaconsfield, we are told that the
coffins swim about in the 'vaults; the sexton of the
former stating that he always got the water out as nigh
as he could when the parties were coming out of church.
The remedy of these evils the Board of Health find in
a general prohibitory Act, giving adequate power to the
local boards for establishing cemeteries, and reserving to
the central board the duty of supervision. The machinery
crested by the Public Health Act would be available for
this purpose; and it is recommended that general district
rates be levied under such Act where it is in operation,
for meeting preliminary expenses; and where it is not,
those expenses to be charged on the poor-rates. Choice
of sites, plane, burial arrangements, 911 these are to be
7% subject to the approval of the Board of Health. An ad-
ministrative function, the raising and control of the
necessary funds, would be entrusted to the local boards.
Not the least important paragraphs of the report
are those which detail the obstacles in the way of im-
provement. These may be indicated as consisting of
enormous expense attending special Acts of Parlia-
ment; difficulties of inducing unity of action among
the interested parties ; and ignorance among the
local authorities. It is also stated that the provincial
cemeteries have generally failed hitherto, and that, in
,14 spite of the over-crowed state of the graveyards, bodies
are continually sent to be buried.
On the whole the report contains ample proof of the
necessity for burial without the limits of towns ; but it
- may be questioned whether the centralizing tendency
- is not too much introduced into the plan recommended
Ice. to Parliament.