The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-08 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.

A 'meeting of members of the Stock Exchange
and other shareholders in this company was held
on Friday, Mr. S. Smith kJ the chair ; and after
some discussion it was resd unanimously to re-
commend to their constituents and brother share-
holders, at the general meeting to be held on Thurs-
day next, to recommit the report of the Committee
of Investigation, and to discharge the committee,
to approve the report of the directors, and re-elect
the whole of those who retire by rotation ; to add
Mr. T. Faulconer, a member of the Stock Exchange,
to the direction; and to appoint two auditors to
make a continuous audit of the accounts, with fUll
power of access to all books and documents, and
with instructions to make • a half-yearly indepen-
dent report to the shareholders of the affairs of the
company.

EXTRA-11URAL FUNERALS.

The strictly private manner in which the remains
of the illustrious mother of our beloved Queen were,
on Monday last, consigned to the tomb will, we
venture to predict, be the means of causing a gradual
but decided improvement in the mode of conducting
our funeral ceremonies, and consequently exercise
a most beneficial effect upon every class of the com-
munity. It is calculated to check that unhealthy
revoltinga and expensive
common funerals.aense
than
appetite indulged in by many for gazing with
greedy oye at the mockery displayed in our hitherto
fashionable
What can
that
nbe
more
we do more honour to the cold and insensible clay
by filling the pockets of a mass who, in too many
instances, taking advantage of the agonised feelings
of bereaved relatives, charge what they choose for
their masquerading mummery—a mere mockery of
woe ! It is really a matter of astonishment, that
the system has been allowed so long to continue,
but the encouragement it has received is doubtless
chiefly to be attributed to the fear of what our
neighbours would say were we not to have
.a so-
called respectable funeral. That fear, we are now
happy to say, will be universally removed. For can
we have a more illustrious example than Royalty
itself ? In fact, the whole of the arrangements for
the melancholy ceremony were characterisedby the
greatest delicacy of feeling, sound sense, and judg-
ment. We would wish here to make a few remarks
relative to the generally reprehensible mode we have
in England of carrying out our funeral arrangements.
Keeping, for instance, the body of the deceased in
most cases for a week previous to interment in our
domicile with windows elosed,blinds drawn down, un-
necessarily poisoning the air we breath, is a great
evil in itself. But a far more momentous habit than
this calls for reprehension, viz., the consigning the
beloved remains not to a grave, not to a final resting-
place, but to a charnel pit, full putridity, which is
thrown over the neighbouring earth, thereby filling
the surrounding atmosphere with foetid exhalations,
through which we are obliged to wade for the pur-
pose of witnessing the body actually crammed,
sometimes with difficulty, down between the coffins
of strangers into a watery and offensive receptacle,
from which it must at probably no lengthened
period be removed altogether—where, we know
not—to make room for others, which ultimately
will share the same fate. These great evils should
at once be remedied by the transference of the
homes of the dead to some quiet salubrious locality,
where the extent of ground, nature of the soil, and
beauty of surrounding . scenery, furnish all that
render them at once desirable and sacred. We have
thus briefly glanced at three evils attendant upon
our generally adopted mode of interment—viz.,
lavish and useless expenditure, keeping death with
closed doors in our house, and burying the corpse
in an overcrowded grave. These evils must be
ht.ichliiiteisfamstostsincerely
abolished, and that speedily. Summer is ap-
proaching, typhus may approach also, cholera may
accompany it in all its ghastly varieties. The
means of reforming these abuses fortunately lies
within our reach ; it is, therefore, incumbent
upon us to make immediate use of them for
that purpose. Within one hour's ride from
London there is a gigantic and magnificent
cemetery, comprising 2,000 acres of ground, and
therefore capable of interring all our population
r
for ages to come ; which hundreds visit merely /-
the sake of viewing the beautiful sceneriarau!
grounds dotted here and there with grip:lig
soleums and tombs. It is called the
tery, which is under the direction do
% body of
increasing
the public
wealthy and business men, who
gecropolis has, doubt-
the advantages of economy, deoefercY,
completeness of arerxaaningpeimeewt; elegance, and
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An extraordinary affair lately Oeeurnsd. at a place
called Jeltsch, in. the military confines of Austria. A cer-
tain Jow of the name of Mosey *Adder, having given some
offence to the inhabitants, was ordered to be expelled from
the village ; any accordingly on a given day nearly the whole
population, about 2,000 in number, assembled before his
house, placed all his furniture and household utensils in
carts, and then conveyed him, his family, and his effects,
to the neighbouring village of Remoli, at the same time
prohibiting him from ever returning to reside at Joltschi
Whilst the expulsion was being effected, the church_ bell:
were loudly rung. No harm was done the 52: but
quantity of corn he possessed was declared con.fitsni tea)
ght andn
two of the inhabitants were ordered to watch
populations of the
day. Previously to 1848 it appears,
military confines had the power
to
siding among them, but the
_tribunalst
elate,
be 020 on to decide if tilifi tight still of the district aro to
the
erdict Jews from re•