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N°. 18 463.] LONDON, TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 25

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MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF
SIR JOHN HEPBURN, Knight,
Colonel of the Scots Brigade in Sweden, Governor of Munich,
and Marshal of France under Louis XII[. By JAMES GRANT,
Esq., Author of "➢femoirs of Kirkaldy of Grange," &c.
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r. Campbell Renton. Esq., M.P. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
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Owing to this important improvement in the practice of life
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EARLY SK ATING.—An old-fashioned Winter
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pleasure of

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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
EXTENSON to BIRKENHEAD and BRANCHES ;
BRANCH to JOIN CANAL at CHESTER and ROAD ; POWER
to LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
to USE and to SUBSCRIBE; POWER to CHESTER and HOLY-
HEAD RAILWAY COMPANY to SUBSCRIBE to BIRKEN-
HEAD DOCKS ; REGULATION of CAPITAL ; CONSOLIDA-
TION of SHARES Into STOCK ; RELEASE of PAYMENTS to
WOODS and FORE ,TS ; ALTERATION of TOLLS, and
AMENDMENT of ACTS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to PARLIAMENT in the next session for an ACT to
authorise the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company to make and
maintain the railway, branch railways, mad road hereinafter men-
tioned, with all proper vorks and conveniences connected therewith
'that is to say), Ist, A Railway commencing by a junction with the
Chester and Holyhead Railway, within the limits of the general sta-
tion at Chester, in the parish of St. Oswald, in the county of the city
of Chester, at or near the point at which the mainline of the Chester
and II ilyhead Railway, and the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway, diverge, passing thence in, through, or
into the several parishes, townships, and ex-parochial and other places
following, or some of them (that is to say), St. Oswald, in the county
cf the city of Chester, and St. Oswald the Bache, the Holy and Un-
divided Trinity, Blacon-cum-Crabhall, Blacon-cum-Crabwall,
Crabwall, St. Mary-on-the-Hill, .Mollington, Banastre, Little
Mollinston, Backford, Mollington, Tarrant, Great Mollington,
Lea, Shotwick, Shotwick Park, Great Saughall, Little
Saughall, Capeuhurst, Woodbank, Puddington, Burton, Neston,
Ledsham, Willaston, Eastham, Little Sutton, Childer, Thornton,
Hooton Raby, Great Neston, Little Neston, Hargrave, Thornton
Ii ugh, Thornton Mayes, Poulton Lancelot, Poulton-cum-Spittle,
Spital, Rebington, Bebbington, Bromborrow, Bromborough, Brom-
brow, Brinistage, Storeton, Stourton, Woodchurch, Thingwall,
Thingwell, Barnston, Prenton, Landican, Oxton, .Noctorum, Upton,
Overchurch, liidstone, Bidston, Bidston-cum-Ford, Wallasey, Wal-
lasea, Liscard, and Poulten-cum-Seacombe, all in the county of
Chester, and terminating cn the shore of the River Mersey, on the
north side of Wallasey Pool, adjoining certain land intended to be re-
clainied from the River Mersey, vested in the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods and Forests, land, revenues, works, and buildings,
usaally denominated the North Reserve, situate in the township of
Pollton-cum-Seacombe, in the parish of Wallacey, and the county of
Chester. Secondly-A Branch Railway, with all proper works and
conveniences diverging out of the first-mentioned intended rail-
way, to the warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company at Bir-
kenhead, and which said branch railway will commence by a junc-
tion with the said first-mentioned intended railway in Bidston Moss,
otherwise called Bidston Marsh, belonging to Robert Vyner, Esq.,
in the township of Bidston, otherwise called Bidston-cum-Ford, in
the parish of laidston, in the county of Chester, passing thence in,
through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial
places following, or some of them (that is to say), Wallasey, isidatone,
Bidston-cum-Ford, Claughton-cum-Grange Claughton, and Birken,
head, all in the county of Chester, and terminating at or near the
warehouses of the Birkenhead Doak Company, situate on the south
side of Wallasey Pool, in the parish, township, chapelry, or place of
Birkenhead, in the county of Chester. Thirdly-A Branch Railway,
with all proper works and conveniences, from the said first-men-
tioned intended railway to Birkenhead-ferry, commencing by a
junction with the first-mentioned intended railway, in or near a
certain field or close of land belonging to John Winder Lyon
Winder, Esq., and occupied by Thomas Johnson, in the township of
Prenton and parish of Woodchurch, in the county of Chester, passing
thence in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, or
extra-parochial and other places following, or some of them (that
is •to say), Bebbington, Storeton, Woodchurch, Prenton, Oxton,
Claughton-cum-Grange, Claughton, Bidston, Tranmere, and Birken-
head, all in the county of Chester, and terminating at or near the
Birkenhead Ferry, in the parish, township, chapelry, or place of
Birkenhead, in the said county of Chester. Fourthly-A short
Branch Railway or curve to connect the first-mentioned intended
railway with the railway authorised by the Park-gate Railway Act,
1847 (10th and Ilth Vie., cap. 187), at or near the point where the
said first-described railway will intersect the road from Park-gate to
Bebbington, which short branch railway or curve will be situate
wholly within the township of Thornton Hough, otherwise called
Thornton Mayes and parish of Neston, in the county of Chester.
Fifthly-A Branch Railway, with all proper works and conveniences
connected therewith, commencing by a junction with the Chester
and Holyhead Railway, at or near the point where the
said railway crosses New Crane-street, in the parish of the
Holy and Undivided Trinity, in the city of Chester, and
terminating at or by the west side of the branch canal
belonging to the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Com-
pany, leading from the city of Chester to Ellesmere Port, com-
monly called the Wirral Line of Canal, in or near to a certain
boat-buidling yard, In the occupation of the same Company, in the
parish of St. Oswald, in the said city of Chester. Also to make and
maintain a public road or carriage way, commencing in the said
parish of St. Oswald, in the said city of Chester, at the point of junc-
:ion of Cottage-street, otherwise called Garden-lane, with the road
leading from Canal-street, along the side of a piece of land called the
Tower-wharf or Tower-field, to Little and Great Saughall, in the
county of Chester, which said intended public road or carriage-way
will pass from thence in a westwardlydirection across the said Wirral
Line of Canal, and also across a road in the said city called Whip-
cord-lane, and terminate in the road leading from New Crane-street,
in the said city, to Queensferry, in the county of Flint, at or near
the sluice house, in the parish of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, in
the said city of Chester, all which said last-mentioned intended
branch railway, road, and works connected therewith, will passs
from, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes,
townships, extra-parochial or other places following, or some of them
(that is to say), the Holy and Undivided Trinity, St. Martin, St.
Oswald, and St. Mary-on-the-Hill, all in the said city of Chester and
county of the same city.
And it is proposed, by the said intended Act, to take power to stop
up so much of the said street or road called Canal-street as lies be-
tween the Tower-wharf warehouse belonging to the said Shropshire
Union Railways and Canal Company and the said road from New
Crane-street to the Queen's Ferry aforesaid.
And it is also intended by such Act to take power to stop up,
alter, or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, within the
several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places aforesaid, or
some of them, all such turnpike and other roads and highways, rail-
ways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, sewers, drains, sluices, streams,
and rivers, as it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert, for the
purpose of constructing, maintaining, or using the said intended
railway, branch railways, road, and works respectively.
And it is also intended by such Act to empower the said Chester
and llolyhead Railway Company to purchase lands and buildings, by
compulsion or agreement, and to levy tolls, rates, and duties, in
respect of the said intended railway, or branch railways, road, and
works, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the
payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights and privileges.
And it is further intended by such Act to vary or extinguish all
existing rights or privileges in any manner connected with the lands
and buildings proposed to be purchased as aforesaid, or which would
in any manner impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid, or any
of them, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the said
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company to appropriate and apply
funds belonging to them, or under the control of their directors, to
the construction of the said railway, branch railways, roads, and
works, and to raise money by borrowing on mortgage, or bond, or
by the creation of shares, or by either or all of such means for the
purposes aforesaid ; and it is also intended to authorise the London
and North-Western Railway Company to contribute towards the con-
struction of the said railway, branch railways, road, and works, and
to guarantee the payment of the dividend or interest upon the shares
to be created as aforesaid; and to enable the said two Companies to
enter into and carry.into effect arrangements for the working and
use by them and for the government and maintenance of the said
intended railway, branch railways, road, and works.
And it Is intended by the said Act to enable the Chester and ?Icily-
head Railway Company to contribute capital towards the comple-
tion of the Birkenhead Docks, and to enter into agreements with the
trustees of the Birkenhead Docks, and with the Birkenead Dock
Company, or either of them, as to the application of the capital s
subscribed, and as to the conditions upon which the same shall be
suoseribe,cl. And for that purpose it is by the said Act proposed to
amend, extend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of the follow-
ing Acts re siting to the Birkenhead Docks or some of those Acts
(that is to say), local and personal Acts 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 79 ; 8 and
9 Vict. cap. 4 ; 10 and 11 Vict., cap. 264 and 265 ; 11 and 12 Viet..
cap. 141 ; and 13 and 14 Vict., cap. 100.
And it is also proposed by the said Intended Act to fix, regulate,
and asertain the capital and borrowing powers of the said Chester
and Holyhead Railway Company, and to enable the said Company
to consolidate all or any part of the shares of the said Company
into stock, and to regulate, fix, and determine the right of voting at
meetings of the said Company of the several holders of shares or
stock therein, and generally to ratify and confirm all Acts of the
Company in reference to the exercise of borrowing powers and the
creation of shares in their undertaking.
And it is also proposed by the said Act to enable the said Chester
and Holyhead Railway Company to create new shares for the pur-
pose of paying off the whole or any part of their mortgage or bond
debt, and to attach to such new shares so to be created the same
priority or preference in the payment of dividends over the shares or
stock of the Company as is now given to the interest on such mort-
gage or bond debt, and to enable the London and North Western
Railway Company to guarantee the payment of the dividend or inte-
rest upon the shares to be created as last aforesaid, and to take and
bold part of such shares if they shall think tit.
And it is also intended by the said Act to enable her Majesty's
Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and
Buildings, and the said Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, to
enter into and carry into effect such arrangements as they may
mutually agree upon for releasing the said Company from the pay-
ment of certain annual sums of money to the said Commissioners In
respect of the use by the said Company for the purpose of their
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the existing rates, tolls, and duties which the said Chester and Holy-
head Railway Company are authorised to demand and levy for the
use of their Railway and Works, and to grant certain exemptions
from the existing or intended tolls, rates, and duties.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend,
extend, and enlarge, or to repeal some of the powers and provisions
of the several Acts following, or some of them relating to the Chester
and liolyhead Railway Company-that is to say, local and personal
Acts 7th and Bth Vict., cap. 65 ; Bth and 9th Viet., cap. 33; 10th and
11th Viet., caps.l47, 162, and 233 ; llth and 12th Vict., cap. 60;
12th and 13th Tict., cap. 41 ; 13th and 14th Viet., cap. 111 ; 14th Vict.,
cap. 21 ; and 14th and 15th Viet., caps. 21 and 131. And also the
Act relating to the Mold Railway-that is to say, local and personal,
Act 10th and I Ith Viet., cap. 162. And also the following Acts re-
lating to the London and North-Western Railway Company-that is
to say, local and personal, Acts Bth and 9th Yid., cap. 156 ; 9th and
10th Vict., caps. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 204, 231, 232, 233,
244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, 396; 10th and 11th
Viet., caps. 73, 107, 114, 118, 121, 132, 139, 159, 178, 188, 228, 236,
270, 71, 278, and lith and 12th Vict., caps. 60 and
and 13th Vict., cap. 74 ; 13th and 14th Viet., cap. 36 ; and 14th12th and
15th Vict., caps. 28 and 94.
And notice is hereby further given, that a map and plans and sec-
tions of the said intended railway, branch railways, roads, and
purposes noreethtoe works, and describing
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ber in the present year, with the clerk of the peace for the county
of the city of Chester, at his office, in the city of Chester, and with
the clerk of the peace for the county of Chester, at his office in time
said city of Cheater, and that a copy of so much of the said plan
sections, and books of reference as relates to the several parishes
and extra parochial places in or through which the said intended
railway, branch railways, road, and works are proposed to be
made, together with a copy of this notice, as published in the
" London Gazette," will be deposited before the said 30th day of
November, as follows : that is to say, in the case of parishes with
the parish clerks of such parishes respectively, at their places of
abode. And is the case of the parish, township, chapelry, or
place of Birkenhead, with the clerk of the parochial church called
or known bye the name of St. Mary in Birkenhead, at his place
of abode, and in the case of' any extra-parochial place, with the
parish clerk of some parish adjoining thereto, at his place of abode.
Dated this 12th day of November, 1851.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON 'VIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUT El AND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.
Just published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 25. 6d., or post-free from the Author
for Forty-two Stamps,
SE ['F-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the
Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Matarity, usually ac-
quired at an early period of life, which destroy the physical and
mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and ex-
haust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on
the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debi •
. .

lity, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis. Stricture, andvall
Diseases and derangements resulting from Indiscretion, as adopted
by Lallemand. Ricord, and other eminent members of the faculty of
France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy,
Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining
their structures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that
are produced in there by solitary habits, excesses, and infection.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE,I.:ONDON,
. . .

Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the 'University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Lief:ale,: of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunterian
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative
conditions in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the.
highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo-
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man
who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the
treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted with advan-
tage by all those whose constitutions may have become debilitated
through secret practices acquired in youth, or by the excesses of
later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of
marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of unceas-
ing misery and regret.
Published ley the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchborne-street,
Haymarket Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street; Mann, 23, Cornhill ;
or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence,
who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter,
caity, Cram Ton till TWo, And from $l. till Eight,

TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE
FEMALEORPHAN ASYLUM, LAMBETH.
By Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
The favour of your VOTE and INTEREST is most earnestly and
respectfully solicited in behalf of
MARIA SNELL, No, 32 on the List.
The DAY of ELECTION is MONDAY, December 8, 1851.
Proxies thankfully received by post by Messrs. Millar and Field,
Stationers, and Mr. W. Wootton, Stationer, Westminster Bridge-
road.

METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS.
Yesterday a deputation from the Metropolitan Sa-
nitary Association had an interview with Lord John
Russell at the Treasury, to present a memorial "call-
ing his Lordship's attention to the continuance of in-
terment within the metropolis, notwithstanding the
existence, for more than fifteen months, of an Act
of Parliament passed by unusually large majorities,
by which her Majesty's Government were empowered
to remedy the evils, and guard against the dangers,
proved to attend the burial of the dead among the
living."
The deputation comprised the Bishop of London,
the Rev. C. Hume, the Rev. Rhys Jones, Mr. C. J.
F. Lord, Mr. T. Abraham, Mr. G. Godwin, F.R.S.,
Mr. Lusignan, Mr. A. Barnet, and Mr. Walsh. As
the memorial was of some length, they thought it
desirable not to trespass upon the time of the First
Lord of the_ Treasury by reading it in his presence,
but to request the Bishop of London, in presenting
it, to state generally the object in view.
On the deputation being introduced, they found the
Chancellor of the Exchequer with Lord J. Russell.
The Bishop of LONDON proceeded to explain that
the gentlemen present were a deputation from the
Metropolitan Sanitary Association, attending to pre-
sent a memorial relatiik to intramural interments.
They thought themselves entitled to take this liberty
because the association had'apaerted themselves for
these two or three years witt a view of removing
obstacles to sanitary improethiefits in the metropolis,
and particularly with regard to intramural interments,
upon which, as they conceived, they had furnished
useful evidence and to a certain extent enlightened
the public mind, and contributed to remove prejudices
likely to interfere with the application of an effectual
remedy. A Bill had been prepared by the General
Board of Health, with, it was understood, the con-
currence of the Government, and that Bill received
the sanction of Parliament in the session before last ;
but though it had been in force as a statute for about
fifteen months nothing whatever had resulted from it.
It appeared that the Board of Health had not the
powers requisite to carry into effect the purposes for
which they were constituted. Very late in the day
difficulties had arisen and obstacles had been interposed
in quarters where cordial support and encouragement
might have been expected. The Board had pro-
ceeded so far as to enter into a preliminary agreement,
with the sanction of the Lords of the Treasury, with
two of the existing cemetery companies for the pur-
chase of their cemeteries. He believed the matter
had gone no further, and no actual purchase had
taken place, but this had thrown great doubt and
difficulty upon the whole question. Parishes did not
known what to do. Several of the burial grounds had
been closed, and others ought to be ; but no parish
would at present venture to purchase additional burial
grounds because they expected all such grounds to be
closed by authority. To mention a case :—ln Ken-
sington the existing burial ground was so full that
after the lapse of a few months it would be absolutely
impossible to inter more bodies, and the parish would
be ready to purchase more ground ; but it was felt
to be imprudent to do so in the face of the decision of
Parliament that interment within the metropolis
should be discontinued ; yet the Act which contem-
plated a place of sepulture beyond the precincts of
the town remained unexecuted, and the consequence
would be, that the parishioners would soon have no
place of burial, unless they dealt with the trading
companies. The case of Lambeth was similar, or still
more serious. To be thus driven to the cemetery
companies might not, in the case of the rich, be so
much to be complained of, but it was extremely
hard upon the poor, to whom the expense of the
decent interment of their dead was a very serious
matter ; and one great advantage of the plan pro-
posed by the Board of Health, and, as had
been supposed, sanctioned by the Government
and by Parliament, was, that the poor would
be able to bury their relatives decently and with proper
solemnity at an expense not much exceeding one-
third of what was now paid for that burial which
could not be called duly solemn or even decent. It
would appear that towards the conclusion of last ses-
sion the Chancellor of the Exchequer threw a certain
amount of discouragement—to use a popular phrase,
" threw cold water"—upon the plan, and led the Board
of Health to fear that they should not be able to carry
it out ; and it was intimated that another measure
would be brought forward more in accordance with
the views of those who had always opposed this great
sanitary measure. The object of the present deputa-
tion was was to urge upon the Government the im-
portance of coming to a decision as to what should
be done, and finally settling the question in some
way or other. His own opinion was that it could
never be effectually dealt with except by the
Government, and that a board not acting with the
authority of the Government, and responsible to the
Government, could never carry into effect the com-
plicated and delicate measures necessary. There
were feelings to be considered and tenderly dealt
with that were among the best and holiest in our
nature; and no persons who were not en-
tirely above all private and selfish considerations,
no trading companies or parish authorities could ac-
complish the object satisfactorily. He must say, too,
that he thought it was the duty of the Government to
settle this question permanently. He hoped he should
be excused if he mentioned a rumour which was
abroad, that it was the intention of the Government
to constitute a new board for carrying into effect the
object of extramural interment, such board to have
also the control of the sewerage and water supply of
the metropolis. Surely these were matters which
ought to be kept distinct and separate from one
another. It was difficult to conceive anything more
calculated to offend the people—he had been going to
say to disgust them—to wound some of their best
feelings, than placing under one body the interment
of the dead and the sweeping of the streets and cleans-
ing the sewers, to say nothing of the subject of water
supply. He hoped the rumour was not true, and
that the interment of the dead—probably in itself
nearly, if not quite, sufficient to occupy the whole at-
tention of a board—would be placed under men who
would deal with it with the seriousness and. consider-
ation which its importance required. For himself he
must say, too, he should be grieved to see the conduct
of it taken out of the hands of gentlemen so
highly qualified to manage it as the members of
the Board of Health. He would only add that it
might be remembered that there had been a com-
pany in process of formation—he did not know what
had become of it for the purpose of establishing a
very large cemetery forty miles from London, be-
yond the operation and authority of the General
Board of Health. If new burial-grounds were not
immediately found, the people of London must have
recourse to such a cemetery and convey the corpses
of their friends to Woking or some such place, where
there would be no control, and the regulations neces-
sary for the decent interment of the dead could not
be enforced.
Mr. GODWIN added a few words upon the extreme
importance of discontinuing the burial of the dead in
the midst of the living, and the impossibility of pre-
venting the escape of the deleterious gases thus gene-
rated round our houses. It was not to be supposed
that because we had not had cholera the graveyards
were not doing their work ; low fever and typhus
fever were for the most part preventible, and a serious
responsibility rested upon those who by exertion had
the power very much to prevent them. Agreements
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Mr. ABRAHAM mentioned that in consequence of
the Act not being brought into operation, many of
the parochial burial ;grounds which had been closed
during the cholera, or since, had now been re-opened.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then said, he would make a
few observations with regard to the general ques-
tion. With respect to what had occurred, Sir Charles
Wood would be able to state much better than him-
self the way in which the matter stood at present.

But applying himself to one of the last remarks of
the Bishop of London, he might observe that the ori-
ginal recommendations made to the Government was
that a special board should be appointed for this
matter of interments, and it was only with a view
to save expense and not necessary patronage that this
duty was placed in the hands of the Board of Health.
The Board of Health was a board constituted exactly
in the way which the Bishop of London objected
to ; for the main business of the Board of Health, for
which it was instituted, was to procure an arrange-
ment for the supply of water and sweeping of streets,
and matters relating to sewerage and cleansing in
the various towns of the country; the subject of
intramural interment was only an additional duty
placed upon that board, which did not properly belong
to it, but which it was thought it might execute with
a saving of expense. The difficulties which had occurred
were very much difficulties of detail ; and questions of
this kind, where all might agree upon the principle,
depended very much upon the details. The Bishop of
London had said, and it might seem very desirable,
that the Government should take this question upon
itself; but, then, there occurred matters which one
could not look at as belonging to a Government with-
out considerable apprehension. A Government that
took upon itself a question of this kind was between two
difficulties; either it incurred a great loss, and was
obliged to come to Parliament to supply means for ex-
tramural interment for the metropolis; to which the
country might very well reply, " Why, London is the
richest part of the whole kingdom, and it is very odd
that all the rest of the country is to be taxed for London
interments." But it might be said that this might be
entirely avoided by making the regulations the Board
of Health thought necessary. They:haslzone into great
detail, and it was said their scheme was a very good
one. But he found that when they tried to follow it
out, so as to make it practically work, they, could
come to no other conclusion than that the body in-
trusted with interment should entirely take it upon
itself, and in so doing they would restrict persons
going beyond a certain limit, and having a cemetery
near Woking Common, for instance ; they would
prohibit that, or making the charge for the right of
interment so high that it should not be able to be done;
they would impose fines or fees upon'all persons remov-
ing bodies out of the 'district ; and they would inter-
fere with those feelings which the Bishop of London
so properly spoke of as sacred with regard to the
respect which families wished to pay to the dead body
of a relation ; they would interfere with the liberty
of action in that respect. Now, either of these
things—either coming to Parliament to provide by a
tax upon the whole country for extramural
interment for London, or proposing that the
Government should have in its hands the
power of interfering with every family in this
metropolis, and that no burial shouldlake place with-
out an officer of the Government restricting or direct-
ing the mode in which it should be done—would, in
the first place, rouse great public feeling against it ;
and if a Government did it, there would be no week
in which the Home Secretary, or whoever was at the
head of it, would not be called upon to account for
such a person's body being left too long, or why
another had been removed in an unbecoming way,
and so on. Government had a great deal to do, and
undertaking to be answerable for the removal and
burial of every dead body in a population of 2,000,000
was really a serious matter. With regard to the
cemeteries, he believed those which they had engaged
to buy, in order to meet any great calamity or pes-
tilence that might befal us, were calculated to inter
about 6,000 in a year; it was stated that the whole
mortality of London amounted to 58,000 or 60,000,
and therefore they would evidently not supply the
means of burial for the whole, and it would be ne-
cessary to go much further and buy all the cemeteries.
It was asked why was not something immediately
done ? He would say the Government had not the
power to do it. The Board of Health had supposed
they should be able to procure money immediately
to purchase the whole of the cemeteries ; they found
themselves mistaken in that, and that it could only
be done by applying to the credit of the Government
No power had been taken to purchase more than the
two cemeteries, and it would require an Act of Par-
liament to enable more
.to be procured. He would
❑ow ask Sir C. Wood to state the way in which the
question stood at present.
The CHLNCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed
that it had been said he "threw cold water" upon
the plan. Now, certainly the subject came to him
new, and he had been obliged last session (in conse-
quence of Sir G. Grey's absence) to attend to it, not
baying attended to it when the Act passed in the pre-
vious session. In the beginning of the year he be-
lieved the Board of Health sent in a proposal to the
Treasury, whose consent was necessary, to buy all
the existing cemeteries, and an estimate which seemed

to be very ;mall ; he (the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer) made some inquiries through the Woods and
Forests, and satisfied himself that the sum required
would be three or four times as much as this estimate.

[t was, however, stated substantially that no good
could be done unless the whole were bought. Then
came the question how the money was to be provided.
The whole matter having gone upon the principle
that the Government was not to advance sixpence—
there being no power in the Act to do so—the question
was how the board could borrow. They said they could
borrow from assurance companies. They had proceeded
all along with the full knowledge that the Act contained
no power for the Government to make advances,
that was not the principle of the Act, and that they
were not to have Exchequer-bills, but to get the
money from other sources. Well, why could they
not borrow ? Because they had no power of insuring
the payment of a fee , and they came to this conclu-
sion, " Unless we have the management of all the
barials in London and within 50 miles of round it,
with a power of charging a fee upon every death,
whether the corpse is buried by us or not, we cannot
borrow money." Now, that was a very serious power.
It was near the end of the session, and he (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) thought it was a power
which it was not reasonable, at the end of July or
beginning of August, to ask Parliament to give. Un-
less they had that, the board said they were not sure
of a sufficient income to enable them to borrow the

money. However, power was applied for to warrant
an advance of money to buy two cemeteries for which
the board had engaged in negotiation ; and either or
both might be taken. He might remark that in
Edinburgh no one was buried within the city, but the
whole was managed by cemetery companies ; therefore
it did not seem so absolutely impossible to be done by
private parties.
_ . _

- The Bishop of LONDON observed, that if we were
merely to authorise companies to establish cemeteries,
it would be very hard to prevent parishes from pur-
chasing grounds. However, the matter must be left
in the hands of the Government. But if the objections
of Lord John Russell held good in their full extent,
there was an end of the whole question of extramural
interment ; and under such circumstances he thought
the Government should not have allowed the Bill
to pass.

Losd J. RUSSELL did not think that. But the Board
had found that their original plan could not be carried
into effect, and they had come to the Government for
these fresh powers.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—These very
strong powers.
_ _

Mi. WALSH suggested that there was a difficulty
in borrowing for want of permanency in the Board
of Health.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that
;bat might be cured.

Mr. 4onwiN begged to ask how long, this question
was to remain in this unsettled state ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said it must remain till next
session.

The Bishop of LONDON, as he rose with the rest
of the deputation to withdraw, said he hoped the
Government saw the importance of taking the earliest
opportunity of having the question settled.
Lord J. RUSSELL, as he was also rising, said (as
we understood) that when Parliament met the Go-
vernment would be prepared to state their views,
Mr. GODWIN asked whether the deputation might
assure itheir friends and the public that the Govern-
ment felt the importance of carrying out the measure ?
Lord J. RUSSELL—We feel the importance of the
object, but the manner of carrying it into effect is a
matter for consideration.
The deputation then withdrew.

CHILD MURDER AT BRENTFORD.—Yesterday, at
ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the
King's Arms, Old Brentford, on the body of a newly-born
male child, the illegitimate offspring of Catherine Bridges,
aged 18, a servant to Mr. and Mrs. Hoare. The prisoner
was sufficiently convalescent to be present at the inquiry.
Mrs. Iloare stated that the accused had a room adjoining her
bedroom, and that about three o'clock on the morning of
the 14th instant she heard a noise in the girl's room, went in,
and found her in her gown, and dressed. She saw marks of
blood on the floor, and, suspecting what had taken place,
she asked the prisoner where the child was. She pointed
under the bed, where, tied up in a handkerchief, and
strangled with a tape passed twice round its neck, the infant
lay. The child, a male one, was full grown. Dr. Cooper
was called in, who attended the mother. The jury returned
a verdict of " Wilful murder," and the coroner :directed the
officer to take the prisoner in a fly to Newgate.
We understand that the rule in the Brighton
church-rate case has been enlarged by consent until next
term ; the object of the defendant being to allow an opportu-
nity for the House of Lords to give judgment in the Brain-
tree case before further proceedings in the Brighton ease.—
Patriot,

SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
A meeting of this society was held yesterday even-
ing at their rooms in Waterloo place, Regent-street,
and was attended not only by a numerous and influ-
ential body of the members, but also by several other
persons of distinction. In the absence of Sir Rode-
rick Murchison, the president, who was unable to
attend, the chair was taken by Sir Woodbine Parish.
After disposing of some preliminary matters connected
with Dr. Warren's proposed journey to Arabia,
The CHAIRMAN said the next correspondence
on the
minutes was that regarding Lieutenant Pitn's pro-
jected expedition in search of the gallant Sir J.
Franklin and his companions. It was a subject in
which the society was very much interested, but be
had little to state beyond that which had already ap-
peared in the public papers. At their last meeting a
resolution was passed that the President should apply
to the Admiralty and other branches of the Govern-
ment for pecuniary assistance to enable Lieutenant
Pim to proceed to St. Petersburgh and carry out his
views. Their President had accordingly applied to
the Admiralty, but that department said it was not
in their power to do all that was required ; at the
same time they gave Lieutenant Pim unlimited leave
to act on his own responsibility, and do what he could.
For his own part, he thought it would be better for
the purposes which Lieutenant Pimhad in view, that
he should not be hampered with any particular or-
ders of the Admiralty, and that his success would
chiefly depend on the information and assistance he
might obtain at St. Petersburgh.—(Hear, hear.) Sir
R. Murchison then applied to Lord J. Russell,
Lord J. Russell. Both of those letters
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answer from
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he should wish to be read to the society.
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Shaw, and were as follow : yneadn ta vPe
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" 16, Belgrave-square, Nov. 12.
"My Lord,—A project has been organized to send
Lieutenant Pim, R.N., on an exploratory search after
Franklin's expedition or its remains, in a region to
which no survey has yet been applied.
"It is the belief of this able and zealous officer,
who has served with distinction in Behring's Straits,
that Franklin, after passing through Wellington's
Straits, may in all probability have navigated to the
west and by north in a Polar sea, until he got inex-
tricably encompassed in ice to the north of Behring's
Straits. Admiral Wrangel and Captain Kellett have
both descried such lands in the distance, and have
described them as mountainous.

"In common with Admiral Sir F. Beaufort, the
hydrographer of the navy, and many scientific friends,
I participate in the views propounded by Lieutenant
Pim, who proposes to reach the north-eastern shores
of Siberia and thence to commence his explorations.
" As President of the Royal Geographical Society I
have warmly supported him and have written urgent
letters to the cbief authorities in St. Petersburgh, on
whose report to the Emperor the prosecution of his
enterprise will depend ; and I have good reason to
hope that Russia will afford the aid required.
"Lord Palmerston has, with great kindness, given
Lieutenant Pim all due support, and will make him
the bearer of dispatches on Tuesday next, the 18th,
for her British Majesty's Minister at St. Petersburgh.
"By a resolution of the Council of the Royal
Geographical Society, I am further directed to endea-
vour to procure the countenance and assistance of her
Majesty's Government and the Admiralty. All that
can be required of the latter is that Lieutenant Pim
be rated as a full pay lieutenant during his survey,
which must, under any circumstances, prove of value
to the hydrographical department of the navy.
" To your Lordship, therefore, as First Lord of the
Treasury, I must make my appeal, in requesting you
will, if you deem it right, direct that the aum of 5001.
be contributed by the public to aid in carrying out the
arduous survey proposed, which will occupy two or
three years.
" When I bear in mind the kind and considerate
manner in which, as first Minister of the Crown, you
have encouraged the advances of science, and, when I
reflect on the large sums which have been already so
generously granted under your auspices for the pro-
secution of naval researches to discover the missing
expedition, I trust you will be induced to sanction the
advance of the small sum of money required to enable
us as Englishmen to take our proper share in the
first survey of this peculiar nature which has been
applied to the north-east of A>ia.
" I have the honour to remain your Lordship's
most obedient humble servant,
" RODERICK J. MURCHISON."
"Downing-street, Nov. 17.
" Dear Sir Roderick,—l have just given an order
that 5001. should be paid to Lieutenant Pim for spe-
cial service.

" I trust he will not, in the ardour of his pursuit.
risk unduly his own life. I wish him every success.
" Yours faithfully,
" J. RUSSELL."
The CHAIRMAN continued. After the correspon-
dence he felt it his duty to propose a vote of thanks
of the society to Lord J. Russell, for his very kind
reply to the communication of their President.
The following resolution was then moved. by the
CHAIRMAN and carried unanimously :
" That the thanks of the Royal Geographical Society
be given to Lord John Russell, as the head of her Ma-
jesty's Government, for his kind and prompt compliance
with the wishes of this society, as expressed through
their President, Sir Roderick Murchison, in granting the
sum of 5001. to Lieutenant Pim in furtherance of his
projected expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and
his companions."
The CHAIRMAN continued—The projected expedi-
tion was not without its risks, but, upon Lieutenant
Pim's departure, his friends impressed upon him the
necessity of not running any unnecessary danger:-
-(Hear.) They had committed him to the Russian
Government, and trusted he would receive from it
every aid and assistance ; for that Government and
every
humanity
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of
On the motion of Colonel LLOYD the followingreso-
lution was moved and carried :
" That the thanks of this society be given to the Pre-
sident, Sir Roderick Murchison, for the effective manner
in which he has carried out the expressed wishes of the
society, and secured the pecuniary assistance of her
Majesty's Government in furtherance of Lieutenant
Pin's projected expedition in search of Sir John Frank-
lin and his companions."
Captain OMMANNEY, R.N., one of the commanding
officers of the late expedition, then gave a very suc-
cinct and interesting account of their proceedings,
tracing on the chart the course the expedition had
taken, but without that assistance it would be impos-
sible to follow him satisfactorily through his narra-
tive, and the principal part of it has in fact already
appeared in these columns. It proved that the whole
of the coast as far as the vessels could go along Baf-
fin's Bay, Lancaster Sound, and Barrow's Straits on
either side, the principal part of the Wellington Chan-
nel and the coast of Melville's Island, had been most
carefully and minutely explored, but without success.
The fact however, of Sir John Franklin's expedition
having touched at Beachey Island in April, 1846, was
shown by the tombs of three seamen found there with
inscriptions upon them. In answer to a question
from the Chairman, Captain Ommanney said, the re-
sult of the exploration satisfied him of the improba-
bility of Sir J. Franklin's having gone to the westward
of the Cornwallis Island.

Lieutenant OSBORNE, one of the officers of the ex-
pedition, expressed his firm conviction that Sir John
Franklin had rushed forward to the north-west of the
Wellington Channel. It must be recollected that
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expedition was equipped for four years' service, and
he had recently beard in Paris, from a gentleman we
was well acquainted with Lieutenant Halkett,
Sir John Franklin's officers, and who was conversing
with him just before he started, that the provisions
they carried would hold out for six years if necessary.
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having been absent only eighteen months ?.—(Hear.)
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It had been suggested that
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ter's Sound into Baffin's Bsy' and had there perished ;
but they had heard before of ships being so swept out,
and yet the crews had always been saved. ' To sup-
pose that his ships had been crushed by the ice, and
that the whole of the crews had perished, was, as he
believed, out of the question. He had been at first
opposed to the idea that there was an open sea beyond
the Wellington Channel, but observations which he
had made during the expedition, such as the presence
of white whales and various aquatic birds coming
from the North down the channel, and also the fact
of there appearing to be two tides—one coming from
the northward, and the other from the south, up Baf-
fin's Bay, had induced him to change that opinion,
and to come to the conclusion that there was such an
open sea, and that Sir John Franklin might have
forced his way into it by the Wellington Channel,
and so make his way to Behring's Straits.
Sir BELCEiIig observed that the white whales