The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-05 00:00:00

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM

SHIP WRECK.

• , Yesterday! a meeting of the Royal National Life-,
boat Institution was held at its house, J:ohnrstreet,
-Adelphi—Mr. T. Chapnian, F.R.S., in the chair.
Mr. Lewis; the secretary, having read the minutes
of* previous meeting, a reward of £5l was voted'
to the crew of the Pakefield lifeboat, which is in
connection with -the National Lifeboat Ingtitution,
in acknowledgment of their gallant conduct in
rescuing, at •great peril to their lives, eight of the
crew of the barque Jemira, which was wrecked dur-
ing a heavy gale of wind on the Newcombe Sands,
on the ith ult. The lifeboat's brave crew haVe also
received sulstantial Acknowledgments for their ser-
vices. from elsewhere. A reward of £l6 was also
voted to the crew of the Institution's lifeboat sta-
tioned at Dungeness, in acknowledgment of their
gallant serrices during the dark and stormy night
of the 19th ult.,. in putting off with the view of
rescuing the crew of the brigantine Jane Mar, of
Falmouth, which was totally wrecked off No. 2 Bat-
tory. Finding, however, no boats on the- vessel,
and concluding that the crew had left in them
. for the shore, the - lifeboat returned to land after
some hours of incessant and perilous toil. A reward
of £4 10s. was also voted to the crew of the so-
ciety's lifeboat stationed at Llanddwyn, on the
Anglesey coast, for with
off in her during a
.; Jleavy gale of wind with the view of rescuing the
crew of the flat Uncle Tom, of Runcorn, which had
'a flag of distress flying. Some of the lifeboat's
crew having boarded the vessel, afterwards assisted
' her in getting under weigh and in brinTing her to
a place of safety. The thanks of the institution,
inscribed on vellum, was voted to Mr. G. C. Jones;
chief officer of Coastguard, and £2l to his crew, for
going.off in the Skerries
.lifeboat to the rescue of
the crew of the schooner Mary, of Carnarvon, which
was during a heavy gale of wind wrecked off Bal-
briggan on the 9th ult. A whale boat, hoikever,
' manned by five gallant men, as carried over the
• rocks to •leeward of the vessel, and in comparatively
smooth water succeeded in reaching. the wreck and
in taking off her exhausted crew, just as the life-
boat had, after two attempts, overcome the princi-
pal difficulty in 'weatherinc, the point. A large
subscription had been collected locally to reward
the Whale-b Oat's erew, to Whom were also voted the
thanks of the institution on-vellum. It is impossible
adequately to describe the 'courage and self-devo-
• tion of those brave men who constantly man the
• lifeboats. •In the dark.houi ,of he night, when the
tempest, lightning, and-thunder are enough to appal
the:stoutest heart, these men. are •at their post of
duty, and it is worthy of record• that, while scores
of poor creature's have been - saved from a watery
grave, the society has not lia.d.to lament the loss of
a single man, although- its lifeboats are constantly
engaged in the most perilous undertakings. A new
'lifeboat was ordered to be built for Fleetwood, on
the. Lancashire coast,._ The' institution had sent
during the Past ,month four*.ii6i.lifeliOsts to be sta-
tioned at Cromer and- Bacton. (Norfolk), Fraser-
' burgh, and Dundrum-Bay. • .It -was stated that the
receipts of the institution,censidering its extensive
sphere of operations,:Were :comparatively limited,
but that the demands on its fluids were
very heavy,. but that the committee were
• compelled, in order to meet the same, to
sell a portion of the siiCiety's small funded capital ;
it is therefore manifest that, if the National Life-
boat Institution is to maintain its present high po-
sition as one of the most important and useful of
our national societies,. ;the. aid Of. the benevolent
should be liberally extended to it. It was reported
that a lady who•htis on former occasions liberally
contribUted to the institution had presented to it
again £l5O towards the cost of a lifeboat, the same
to be named. after a. brother who "was a sailor, and
who had often heel]: instrumental in saving life from
shipwreck. Some appropriate remarks were made
on the unCea.'siriftittention of the chairman, Mr.
Chapman, to the great interests of this institution;
and Mr. Peake was thanked for an excellent draw-
ing of a lifeboat suitable to localities where few
boatmen are resident. An interesting report was
read by Capt. Ward, R.N., the inspector of lifeboats
to the institution, On his recent inspection of the
lifeboats of the society stationed on the east and
north-east coasts of England. Two cases of resusci-
tation from drowning were reported to the meeting
which had been treated according to the plain in-
structions of the institution. Payments amounting
to £99ofor new lifeboats and other expenses thereon
having been made, and Admiral Gordon, the new
Deputy Master of. the Trinity House,` having been
elected a member of the committee' of management,
the proceedings closed.

THE ALLEGED DESECRATION' OF THE
DEAD AT ST. MARTIN'S CEMETERY.

•
THREATENED RIOT, AND DEPUTATION
TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
. Yesterday, in consequence of tho publicity given
to the disgusting and disgraceful proceedings being
.cirrieg. out under the sanction of the churchwar-
. dens and other. authorities of St. 3Tartin's Cemetery
at Camden Town, Pratt-street, Camden-street, and
the neighbourhood, was thronged throUghout the
• day by thousands of persons, and but _ for the
attendance of a strong body of police there :is no
doubt but a serious. riot would have ensued. Dur-
ing the Morning the same disgusting proceedings
described yesterday were continued by. the band of
roughs and navvies employed to pursue the work
of desecration. Through the boarding the fellows,
who were plentifully. Supplied with gin and beer,
were seen pitching human skulls and bones about
in the most offensive way-, and the proceedings
were continued until between two and three o'clock
in the afternoon, when the -incensed public could
bear the outrage upon humanity no longer. A
considerable portion- of the boarding. was torn
down, and the men employed in desecrating the
dead were assailed with volley after volley of stones, '
and the shouts and execrations of the public rent
the air. - _The navvies being at last unable.to-work
from the missiles thrown, suddenly made a sally
amongst the crowd, and several people were injured.
One mr-boy had his eye nearly cut out by one of
these .brutes, and conveyed to the hospital. • The
stench it the time was abominable. Shortly before
four o'clOkAowever, the navvies struck, some stat-
ing that Jfhey had just discovered that instead of
Bs. a day, 'Which they hadbeen promised, they were
only to receive 3s. 4d. or 3s. 6d. for their filthy and
loathsome labour. Others attributed it to fear, in
. consequence of one or two Irishmen, whose rela-
tives were buried on the spot, declaring that they
would be off and bring between 500 and 600 Irish
labourers, who would soon stop the proceedings.
The entire neighbourhood was in an uproar, and
great apprehensions are entertained that unless
- stopped, the further progress of such conduct on the
part of the authorities will breed a riot.
Whilst this was progressing at the ground, a
numerous deputation, consisting of the churchwar-
dens of St. Pancras, Mr. Wilson,- member of the
_ Metropolitan Board ; Mr. Farrer, Mr. J. Collins,
Mr. Nodes, vestryman; with Dr. Hillier, medical
officer of health; and. a number of the inhabitants,
_ waited upon the Secretary, and saw Mr. Harly, the
• Under-Secretary of State, who expressed regret
that that officer had no power to stop, such dis-
graceful proceedings, but advised an immediate
application for an injunction to the Court of
Chancery. It was stated that the St: Martin's
authorities ,had obtained powers to build over this
place by repreSenting toParliament that there were
no bodies in it. It was ultimately agreed that Mr.
Churchwarden Cameron be requested to make out
the necessary affidavits for an injunction in the
Chancery Court this. day, and the parties will also
have 'to -appear by summons before the Clerkenwell
. police magistrates.. - •

I'ELTING OF THE VESTRY OF ST. MAR
, fast night
I • TIN-IN-THE-FIELDS.
a special•mee•ting-of the representa-
ive vestry 01 '
was held at thethe
parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Churchwardeit'ePvestry-rooni; Adelaide-place;
.Mr.
Mr.
TEmrENyetter in the chair.
which appeared
iilcalled attention to the reports,
in- reference to e‘-ieral of the morning papers.
the cemetery,: the
Camden
desecration of the dead
there was any truth ix the
eil
Town, and inquired if
account of the proceed-
ings stated to base taken place.
:The CHAIRMAN said port ;lust read was of
the re
.. -. the most exaggerated description,
indeed lie might
word rtill•in it, for flume:
• say there was not a
y,p,JAno..half-decomposed bodies, and no bodies to
as
sch were being The re-
, nothing, 'but ,boues which had been they
assured
years ago from the old churehyardr.
the. vestry " that they were flotilla,. ele
was not a veaticreel7
o truth
the de_ •
bonPq• lie repOated *ere, t dr-s-
-done
ill the.stateinent in the public prints as t7O
. • conipo§ed bodieS. • Everything was btg
..dece.ntly. and in.operly; and there was no mg that.
mifid.be detrimental to 'beiilth or to public morals:
-Bias he.was . there. several applications had been;
made, and. the. applicants had .be en admitted, and •
expressed themselves perfectly satisfied that and
bodies had been interfered with.
..Al. Churchwarden - LATCIIFORD confirmed the
statement of Mr. Churwarden Petter in every re-.
spect, stating that he had been there three days
this week- in -succession, but he saw nothing of the
kind as represented.
Mr. CLAY (the late sexton of the ground), en
being questioned, stated that no bodies had been
buried in the ground referred to; theyfwere merely
the bones removed from the old churchyard.
The Vestry, having expressed its thorough satin=
faction
•
. at the statement of the churchwardens, the
meeting adjourned.
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