The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-23 00:00:00

HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE

TIM DAT -:3lornin g39rain. after 8 I Evening 11 min after
To-Kozaow—Morning 43 min. after 9 i Evening 14 min after 10

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JuLT 23.
THE,RMONETEE, CI nue SUADIL
70--highest since noon yesterday.
55—loweet this morning and daring the night.
65—this day, at noon.

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BAROMETER, 2916.
Writ.) S.F.—Morning, heavy rain; Afternoon, hazy.

DAILY WEATHER, TABLE•

Stare of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
Ptrmourri—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Poitramoom—Wind N.E.—very fine.
GOSPORT—Wind N.E.—very fine.
BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Haarisuaa—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SouTHANPTON—Wind W., calm—partially cloudy.
r "KzaToNE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
TuNurimoz--Wincl W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
BasurasToKE—Wind E., gentle breeze—partially dowdy.
GREENWICH—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
SwisDorr—Wind N., light airs—partially cloudy.
HERTFORD—Wind N.W.—fine.
GLoucEsTßß—Wind W. by N.— cloudy. •
CHELMSFORD—Wind S. W.—fine.
COLCHESTER—Wind N. W.—fine.
CM/BRIDGE—Wind N.E,, strong breeze—partially cloudy.
BRARDON-IVind S.W.—fine.
Butmisonast—Wind W. by N.—cloudy.
YARMOUTH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—cloudless.
LowEsTor—Wind N.W.—fine.
Noftwicit—Wind W.—fine.
LEICRSTER—Wind fine.
DEL:null—Wind S.W.—fine.
DERBY—Wind E.—fine.
NOTTINGHAM—Wind S.W.—fine.
Locouf—Wind S. W.--fine.
CHEST
ERFIELD—Wind W.—fine.
litAsnrto'—
CHESTED—
Wind S.W.—fine.
Wind W.— fine.
SHEFFIELD.—ur,vind N.W,..—very fine.
LivßaFoot,--Wind 5..._ lane .
MANCHESTER--
wind S. W.—cloudy.
Hurd—Wind N.
un Inve.—fine.
NoELSIANToN— W.
L LIDS Wind S.E.--- flne•
Toxic—Wind S.W.—fie.
NRWCASTLE—Wind W.—fine.
BaitwicK—Wind
GLasGow—Wind W.—line.
IffnEatituart—Wind W.—fine.
Th% returns from the following )15 indicate the atm-
of
eh"
cloe windk and ther on Blonds,' morning at Line
La" N.W., calm—partially cloudy.
CAltiA3W—WIn. d E gentle breeze—cloudy.
amaxaaa—ahr " t.
ind W., gentle breeze—overcast.
Wind w
FIASTINGS—W _s•t_alm—partially cloudy.
`" w.. gentle breeze—cloudless.
CAXBRIDOE--Wiud
S.W., strong breeze—cloudless.
PR'TERHOROUGII---
cloudy. Wind S.W., strong breeze—partially
CH Ewx—W ind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
LANuAsTER—Wind S.W.,‘ gentle breeze—partiall cloudy.
DARLINGTON—Winn W.s.w
cloudy. strong breeze—partially
WinTEErAviiN Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
BBATTocK—rnc.l N.W., hard wind—cloudless.

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The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.640
in. at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The mean tem-
perature was 58•15', which is 40 less than the average of the
Same week in ten years. The daily mean was below the
average
ge one yery day of the week, and on Thursday fell to
54.9 Q, or 7° below it.

APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGII LI
understand that the preliminaries are arranged fo::%--le
mar-
riageV-
of the lion. Wiliam Bagot, M.P., eldest son 0; Lord
Begot, and the Hon. Lucia Caroline Ellis, eldest daughter of
e
Lady Dover, and niece of the Earl of Carlisle. It is ;
pected the marriage will take place towards the close of the
ensuing month. The nuptials of the Hon. Edward Coke,
M.P., brother of the Earl of Leicester, and the Hon. Caro-
line Ellis, second (laughter of Lady Dover, will take place
meat week. It is now settled that Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P.,
will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the Hon. Miss Crewe,
sister of Lord Crewe. The nuptials of the Hon. Miss Hob-
house, eldest daughter of Lord Broughton, with the Hon.
Captain Strange Jocelyn, second son of the Earl of Roden, is
to take place this week.
tohe
?localpapers mention a considerable mor-
th~
nas, rt get horned cattle in Tipperary, from diiealse of

THE SUN,

on the adage " bear and forbear." The Duke of NEw•
CASTLE, who also opposed the Bill, did so on the not very
understandable ground that because the Church of
.ome had been always intolerant, insolent, and ag-
gressive, therefore we are bound, as we had passed
over some former aggressions, to submit to the present
one, which is tantamount to saying, that because you
do not choose to take the trouble to prosecute a
fellow who has picked your pocket, you
are bound not to resist him, should he attempt to cut
your throat. The Noble Duke also ventilated the
old fallacies on the subject of spiritual and temporal au-
thorities, forgetting that wheresoever spiritual authority
meddles with things temporal (as it does in this in-
stance) its exercise is ipso facto the exercise of tem-
poral authority. The other speakers against the Bill
were Lord MONTEAGLE, who spoke as flippantly and
as verbosely, and as little to the purpose, as though he
were still Mr. SPRING RICE, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Earl of Sr. GERMANS, whose
speech seemed inspired by a fear of Mr. JOHN REIN
NOLDS. The CHANCELLOR spoke well and ably to the
legal portion of the question, and the Earl FITZ..
WILLIAM as well and as ably to the constitutional
portion of it. We congratulate the country on the
prospect of the speedy passing of this most necessary
measure.

Towards the close of the sitting in the House
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Commons this morning it was proposed by the

CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that the Metropo-
litan Interments Bill should be considered in Com-
mittee. In consequence, however, of some objections

to such a proceeding raised by the Hon. Gentleman

the Member for Manchester, the question was post

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poned until the sitting of this day (Wednesday). The
delay cannot be regretted, seeing that the inquiry re-
lates to a measure which can never by any possibi-

lity work to the satisfaction of the multitude. Be-
sides which it will have to be decided whether or not

a sum of 130,0001. shall be appropriated to the carrying
out of this most inadequate project of her MA-
JESTY'S Government. From the first moment the
matter referred to was brought under the• considera-
tion of the Imperial Legislature, we protested against
the scheme chalked out by the Cabinet as one by no
mean calculated to remove the idifficulties presenting
themselves in this particular direction to the sanitary
reformer. Clause by clause the Bill already specified
was passsed by us under review, and we in
no single instance shrank from indicating
what appeared to us to be the principal objec-
tions to the proposed enterprise. A reconsideration
of tJose objections has only tended more and more
to convince us of their reasonableness. We perceive
in the measure too many and too glaring indications

of a disposition, on the part of our administrators, to
truckle to the clerical party to admit, in our think-
ing, of any probable advantages being derived from
the suggested innovations. Hitherto it would seen
to have been imagined that the ministers of the
Christian religion should be induced, by every ima-
ginable contrivance, to exult in the calamities of
the laity, by causing them to flourish in
proportion to the annual mortality. The
burial fees have all along appeared to us to be pro-
vocative of this ghastly exultation. Hence they
have always appeared to us detestable. If we would
act in this matter in accordance with the dictates of
our divine faith, we ought most assuredly to destroy
a system which gives the clergy a direct interest in
the deaths of their congregation. Such, however,
do not appear to be the feelings with which the
subject is regarded by her MAJESTY'S Government.
On the contrary, it would seem as though the Cabi-
net were solicitous by every means not merely to
perpetuate the abominable system alluded to, but to
connect together yet more intimately interests which,
long since, should have been altogether separated.
Already a considerable interval has elapsed since
the passing of the original measure relating to me-
tropolitan interments. In speaking therefore of its
insufficiency we are speaking not from mere conjec-
ture, but from actual experience. What benefit, we
ask, has yet resulted to the community from this
magnanimous and magnificent interference on the
part of the Government? Have the grave-
yards of the capital been closed in conse-
quence ? Has there been any cessation of
that hideous practice of desecrating the sanctu-
aries of dissolution, the first disclosure of which, by
Mr. WALKER, can never be sufficiently commended
Are there no longer witnessed in the burial-grounds
of London and Westminster those scenes of brutality
where the sextons are made to enact the part of
ghouls, tearing to pieces the half decayed bodies of
the departed, breaking up their coffins, and huddling
together wood, flesh, and fragments of skeletons, to
be carried elsewhere, in order to make room for addi-
tional interments, so that more burial fees may be
pocketed ? Repeated paragraphs in our own columns,
recounting such detestable acts as these, will have
enabled the more observant among our readers to
aver that nowhere can be perceived the evidence of
the benefits declared to be the inevitable consequences
of this interference of her MAJESTY'S Government.
The graveyards of the metropolis are still employed
for purposes of sepulture. The remains of the dead
are still disturbed in the manner above indicated.
The fees arising out of these interments are still drop-
ping coin by coin into the purses of the clerical
evaders of the law. And all these things are attribut-
able to the circumstance of that discretionary power
which was left with the ministers of religion by
the enactment, a power which from the very
outset we insisted would prove detrimental to the
interests of the population.
Aware, as they must perforce be by this time, of the
total failure of the Metropolitan Interments Bill as a
means of carrying out sanitary improvements, it
is earnestly to be hoped that the supporters of that
cause will bestir themselves at length in order to
dissipate those evils which have hitherto been
tolerated by the members of her MAJEsTv's
Government. An admirable opportunity presents
itself at the present moment for bringing about
a wholesome change in the law, such as must
satisfy even the most fastidious and exacting. It
rests with the sanitary reformers in the House of
Commons to decide whether 130,0001. shall be
granted for the purpose of enforcing a Bill, which,
when enforced, can effect no reasonable improvement,
or whether another and a very different measure shall
be introduced, prohibiting henceforth within the
precincts of the metropolis all interments whatsoever.
If we would effectually cleanse the atmosphere of the
capital from the contamination to which it is now
subjected by our unwholesome system of intramural
burials, we must extort from the Legislature some such
resolute and inexorable prohibition. Otherwise it
will be vain attempting to build up by a less strin-
gent course of proceeding a regular system of extra-
mural cemeteries. Force must be employed in the
desired direction, now that persuasion has proved so
vain as a means of bringing about the required im-
provement. We look, therefore, earnestly and
anxiously to the present deliberations of the Le-
gislature.

DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION ON THE MARQUIS
OF WESTMINSTER'S ESTATE.—Last night, about a quarter
past eleven o'clock, a fire of a very fierce and alarming
character broke out in one of the newly-erected houses be-
longing to Mr. Hutchinson, the builder in Morton-place,
Pimlico. An immediate supply of water was procured, but
before the flames could be assuaged the premises in which
they began were totally gutted, the only portions left being
the outer brick walls. The origin of the fire is not precisely
known, but the prevailing opinion of the inhabitants was
that it was the work of some vile incendiary. Owing to the
great confusion which prevailed, it was impossible to learn
whether the sufferer was insured or not. Mr. Russell, super-
intendent of the B division, with a strong body of police,
rendered essential service to the firemen by keeping a vast
crowd out of danger.

ME LATE MR. ROGERS, Q.C.—By the demise of
this gentleman, the office of Recorder of Exeter and De-
puty Judge Advocate General become vacant. Mr. Rogers
was called to the bar in 1816, and had a high repute as
author of works on the law of elections, and other legal
subjects. _

Lord Stanley left town yesterday morning for
India, where his Lordship will remain until the approach of
the next session of Parliament. The Earl of Derby still re-
mains confined to his room by a severe attack of gout.

Two failures were announced at Liverpool yester-
day afternoon, the parties being Mr. G. Wright, j un., and
Messrs. T. and W. Stock. Ihe liabilities of Mr. Wright are
supposed to amount to 60,0001., and those of Messrs. Stock
to about 35,0001. The suspension in each case is understood
to have been caused by the fall in cotton.
TESTIMONIAL TO ALDERMAN THOMPSON:On
Friday last about fifty gentlemen, connected with the ward
of Cheap, dined together at the Plough Tavern, Blackwall,
on which occasion an elegant piece of plate was presented to
Thompson, as a testimony of the estimation in
was held. The Alderman, in a speech of much
wAhldicehrmhaen
feeling, acknowledged the compliment paid him, and ex-
pressed the satisfaction he felt at having been adjudged by
his fellow-citizens to have performed his duty.

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