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LONDON, TUESDAY. jiTLY 15, 1851'

In
tle Rouse of Lordsllo:triii;
The Bishop of Outman, on night,
of the Bilhop of
GLOUCZeTHR, entered into a long explanation on the
subject of the leasing of the Horfield Manor Estate.
The Bishop of LONDON, Lord CAMMILL, and the
Earl of HARROWBY bore testimony to the high charac-
ter of the Right Rev. Prelate.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the first reading
,of the Court of Chancery and Judicial Committee Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM, in expreshing his approval of the
prteeple of the Bill, took occasion to state that it was
the last time he should address their L•lrcbkhips during
the present, bepsion, its his health required his absence
from 03. it deliberattons: .
Bill read a first
t tele.

Sc vent! Bills were forwardvd u stage, and their Lord.
adjourreti.
Iri thy H, use or Common*,
Lnrd J. RUSSELL stated that it iaaa not probable that
any ltgislati ,n on the subj. ct of the Metropo:illn watt,
Supply sv,,uld vitro place during the pre'eot sbasion; and
Mr. C. LE:via said that as yet the Board of Health
had , ff cted no purchase of erabeteries.
On th,4 nvatoe tor goin;r into Committee of Supply.
Mr. IttisNoLDs moved an amenOrmnt, to the *frees
that it wii unju.c and imp-litic to reduce the amount
of rile .flatlibigraut worrh hid been allosied in 1848 and
111.41:1ecerteiVy.ars to th«, Dub iu hospi als.
r sohe;;whist ternithe, ed diseuision, Mr. REY..
NOLDS'S motion1219j,rit„ was on diviiiouguegativid by 106 go 43,
nakun it 63.

After s smart discussion between Mr. 14011811 AN and
Mr. GLADSTONE. on the subject of the Bishop of G.L.011-
oEBTER and BRISTOL and the Horfield estate,
The House then went into Committee of Supply upon
civil services, civil contingencies, and commissariat esti-
mates, the discussion occupying the remainder of the
night.

One of the most satisfactory sales which has as yet
taken place in the Irish Encumbered Estates Com.
mission Court was that of the Langford property, in
the county of Meath, on Friday last. The biddings
appear to have been made with spirit and rapidity,
and a sum of 100 2851. was obtained with. ut any
difficulty for a rental of 5,7881 per annum, being at
the rate of all but seventeen years and a half pur-
chase. This, we would fain hope, is a token of in-
creased vitality on the part of the purchasers of land
in Ireland. It cannot be denied that many estates have
already changed owners on terms below their in-
trinsic value, although, in the majority of instances
we believe fair prices to have been obtained, notwith-
standing the general absence of competition on the
part of wealthy capitalists. Whilst we should regret
to see purchasers make a ruinous investment, on the
other hand there is something very deplorable in wit-
nessing the forced sale of ancestral acres at a depre-
ciation likely to swamp alike the interests of the in-
heritor and of the tail creditors, and we therefore
gladly recognise a favourable symptom of a healthy
tune in the land market of the sieter kingdom.
There is one peculiar feature consequent on the
operations of the Encumbered' Estates
oftates Com-
missioners, and which cannot
ultimately highly beneficial to the interests
of the island, and that is, the creation of a
middle, or yeoman class. That great element, so
conducive to the soundness of the social system in
England, was in Ireland, we may say, altogether un-
known. It now, however, appears, from the report
184 furnished by the Commissioners, that out of the
estates sold up to the 31st of March last nearly one-
half have been purchased by parties for sums not ex-
ceeding 1,0001. Thus is gradually constituted a
class of small but independent lauded proprietors,
scattered throughout the extent of the country, form-
ing, as it were, the advance posts of civilization and
the rallying points of industry and self-reliance.
These men, although of fortune and education
sufficient to ensure the respect of the peasant class,
are yet not so far placed above it as to excite sensa-
tions of envy, such as cannot fail to exist on the part
of the poorer ranks of society towards those elevated
far above their heads, in a position which they can
never expect to attain. The opportunities now af-
forded to persons of moderate means of acquiring the
social position and importance of " a landed pro-
prietor," cannot but tend to foster and develope an in-
dependence of feeling, a habit of self-thought, the
want of which has been one of the most grievous
defects in the Irish character hitherto. The
example, too, of these small proprietors will be found
to confer upon ihe localities in which they reside bene-
fits of a nature both new and important. Where the
suggestions for agricultural improvement which ema-
nate from a wealthy proprietor are viewed with dis •
trust by those who have no money to expend on
" hobbies," the improvements made by a practical
farmer in the neighbourhood are regarded with a
very different eye. He is known to look to the re-
turn of the money sunk as the primary consideration,
and to keep an accurate account of the actual amount
expended. The humble peasant will not hesitate to
copy his improvements, to the extent of his sphere and
his ebtlity, nor will he have that backwardness
in seeking instruction by oral inquiry which would
unavoidably exist with respect to one of the landed
aristocracy, feeling himself somewhat on level ground
and emboldened to a frank intercommunication and
consultation on private affairs and difficulties. In
many cases, indeed in most, these small purchasers
become proprietors of ground on wbich their own
manual labour had been formerly employed. An
estate which thus happily passes into industrious
bands, into the proprietorship of a score of active and
hardworking owners, from that-of a single landlord,
embarrassed, despondent from his debts, unable to
manage his hopelessly involved affairs, and, of course,
to assist others, will speedily present a thriving and
smiling aspect.

The great national resources of Ireland will be
materially brought into play by the institution of this
new class of independent yeomen, in whom we may
confidently expect to find " the friends of industry,
the supporters of the laws, the advocates of order,
the instructors of the poor."

Extramural interment becomes every day more de-
sirable. Hence we cannot be deterred from dragging
this oft-debated question again under discussion.
However much we have been disappointed in our
hopes of improvement, however much we have found
our remonstrances disregarded, however much we
have at intervals despaired of witnessing any genuine
amelioration in regard to an evil so immediately and
largely affecting the health and morality of our me-
tropolis, we nowhere discover reasons for neglecting
the consideration of the enormous difficulties which
in the matter referred to still remain to be overcome
by the advocates of sanitary innovation. On the
contrary, we perceive in the indifference manifested
in reference to this subject, both by the Legislature
and the Administration, additional cause of soli-
citude, and more powerful inducements to reiterate
again and again the arguments which are
none the less true because they have
been so resolutely and pertinaciously despised. Bar-
ing from the very outset predicted the insufficiency of
the measure of last session affecting the burial in-
terests of London and Westminster, we may be per-
mi!ted to speak with the more emphasis as to the ne-
cessity still existing for the interposition of her MA-
JP.STY'S Government. Experience has shown with
only too melancholy distinctness the circumstance
that the Bill here mentioned has proved altogether
inoperative. Apparently to the undiscerning and un-
inquisitive it promised to relieve the atmosphere of
the capital from that rtephitic contamination which
had hitherto resulted from the detestable and irreli-
gious practice of bur 3 ing our dead in the very midst
our most crowded thoroughfares, and in the heart
of our most densely-pi pulated localities. Tested,
however, by the considerable interval whir* ti has
elapsed since the period of its being passed into an
enactment, the measure has turned out in every re-
spect a failure, and one the more lamentable from the
fact of its having been looked upon so confidently by
malty as the inauguration of a vast and beneficent
improvement. Repeated announcements are con-
tained in our columns, and in those of our contempo-
raries, of the interments made in defiance of the newly-
established law in the already occupied burying-
grounds
of our metropolis. Under the very window
of the apartment in which we write the ashes of the I
departed are occasionally disturbed to make room for
the remains of others of our fellow-creatures recently
deceased. This, be it remembered, in the little grave•
yard of the Savoy, generally speaking one
of the best regulated places of interment
to be found within the entire circumfer-
ence of the capital. Generally speaking, its.
appearance is that of a grass-grown enclosure,
sprinkled with memorial stones in a state of excel-
lent preservation, and resembling in its refreshing
greenness the verdant precincts of some village church,
those beautiful and picturesque localities where "the
rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep," their rest undis-
turbed andvenerated. Such, nevertheless, is by no means
the aspect of the two hundred other receptacles of
the dead which are intermingled with the abodes of
the living in a metropolis containing no less than two
millions of inhabitauts. Several of them, for exam-
ple, like St. Clement Danes, being literally nests of
the filthiest abomination, generating disease among
the surrounding population, and converting the evi-
dences of dissolution into anything but a semblance
of sanctity. Seeing these Golgothas of the British
metropolis still
permitted to rankle among,t us like
veritable manufactories
of contagion, we find
-our-
selves compelled to recur with undiminished earnest-
ness to a matter which we have already discussed so
repeatedly.
Our present revival of the question of intramural
interment is perhaps principally attributable to the
fact of our having very recently observed the publi-
cation of certain reielations iu reference to grave-
yard management, revelations indicating a consider-
able amount of double d
- ea r ing oa the part of the clergy
of Leeds, and the full particulars of which were given
verbatim et literatins, on the 21.4 •
ultimo in the columns
of the Leeds Mercury. From
may be perceived at a ewe that the np ' • lately
iury