The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-26 00:00:00

gether beyond the limits of credibility. The mere con-
sideration that their connivance with the Minis-
terial movement in the present instance may give
rise to the establishment of a formidable and dange-
rous precedent must, one would imagine, be of itself
a sufficient incentive to a timely interposition.
Hence it is—from our most anxious solicitude in this
particular—that we look forward eagerly to the re-
ception of the Metropolitan Bill for extramural inter-
ments in the Committee of the Lower Branch of the
Imperial Legislature.

One of the most humane of all the Anglican com-
mentators on the text of ST. LUKE the Evangelist has
emphatically proclaimed, in allusion to the custom
of intramural sepulture—" God, decency, and health
forbid this shocking abomination." For the passage
in which that earnest exclamation occurs see Dr.
ADAM CLARKE'S "Commentary on St. Luke," chap. vii.
Fortunately there is now no urgent necessity for the
demonstration of the truth of such a remark. The
hideous disclosures made of late years, as to the
spectacles visible in many of the graveyards, we may
say, without dread of contradiction, in the vast ma-
jority of the graveyards in this splendid metropolis,
have testified with frightful distinctness the accuracy
of all such condemnatory observations. A signal
proof of this is visible in the very circumstance that
the Cabinet has at length deemed it requisite to come
forward for the removal of a nuisance destructive
alike to morals, health, decency, and true religion.
But for the covert manner in which the Government
are truckling to the powers of the Established Church,
in the very act of bestowing this boon upon the po-
pulation, we should most cordially have welcomed the
Bill now before Parliament, and have advocated its
rapid transformation into a substantial enactment.
Through its specious external appearance of benevo-
lence, however, there are discernible such grave
matters for objection that we recoil from
evincing any sympathy whatever in a proceed-
ing so largely calculated to injure the character
of the movement in favour of sanitary innovation.
Some stern and resolute opposition to the'projected
arrangement appears to us to be so essentially requisite
' for the well-being of the community, that we remain
in eager expectation of the objections requiring to be
made specifically in Committee to the different clauses
' already particularised by ourselves in leading articles
published in The Sun of Saturday, the 20th instant,
and of Monday, the 22d instant. To all those who
may not already have perceived the clauses therein
specified, we would commend the examination of the
Bill itself, seeing that space and opportunity alike
preclude us from repetition.
Supposing that in Committee the Ministerial Bill
for extramural interment, as far as regards the metro-
polis, be amended somewhat in the manner before
indicated in this journal, it is scarcely possible to
estimate duly the immense and immediate advantages
which must accrue to London and its inhabitants.
The atmosphere will gradually become purified, the
rites of sepulture will be conducted with
some decent attention to the Christian ritual,
the churches and chapels in this great
capital will no longer be the hot-houses for
the propagation of pestilence, the burial of the dead
will be effected without injury to the living, and
with regard to the holier sympathies associated with
the memory of the departed. Surely, surely this
would be the conferrence of an inestimable boon upon
the metropolis and its population. Surely, surely it
is a benefit worth striving to secure to the present and
to future generations. Those who imagine that
the proposed arrangements in regard to extra-
mural burial in cemeteries will be calculated
to absorb an inconvenient extent of country
may rest satisfied upon that particular, if only
upon the authentic calculations of a body of di-
rectors well qualified to speak upon the matter from
the amount of their experience—the managers of the
Mensal-green Cemetery having estimated that seven
acres of ground will contain about 133,500 graves.
Besides, even where the space required for sepulture
to prove double that amount in proportion to the
number of entombments, it were obviously preferable
to encroach upon the extramural districts for adequate
room, than to increase the bulk of intramural
mortality by denser packing iu graveyards of
inadequate dimension. The reasonableness,• in fact,
of such considerations is altogether so apparent as
almost to render argument upon the matter ridicu-
lous. Yet so it is. These facts, so obvious to every
impartial judgment, require the most detailed and
lucid demonstration before their recognition can be
forced upon the unwilling judgment of those inter-
ested in the maintenance of the old system. It is out
of this miserable contention between self-interest and
philanthropy that has originated the Ministe-
rial notion of a Metropolitan Extramural Interment
Bill, such as will secure to the clergy both power
and emolument. The Government think, by so
doing, to secure to their measure the sympathy and
support of the ecclesiastical authorities. They may
do so, undoubtedly, but simultaneously they will
excite a formidable and, we believe, an irresistible
amount of popular opposition. Neither the people,
nor their representatives, can assuredly consent to
any such system of cruel and odious compensation.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The deputation appointed to wait on M. EUGENE
SUE for the purpose of ascertaining whether there
was any truth in the rumours that he was disqualified
from sitting in the Assembly, because he was under
the interdict of a judicial council, have returned with
documents proving that in 1830 the interdict was
raised, and that consequently M. EUGENE SUE is not
disqualified.

The army still continues to give large majorities to
the Democratic candidates. Of seventy•five soldiers
quartered at S•. Germains, seventy have voted for M.
EUGENE SUE ; and of the soldiers quartered in Paris
who are entitled to vote for the Soane and Loire,
nearly all have voted for the Democratic candidates.
The Journal dos Debats denies that the Demo-
cratic candidates have the majority of the votes of
the army, but we have not forgotten that the
Journal des Debats published precisely similar denials
before the election of the 10th of March. It is
admitted even by the supporters of M. LECLERC, that
his chances of success do not improve, and that many
of the supporters of M. FERNAND FOY refuse to sup-
port him. Of the importance attached to this elec-
tion, by the reactionary party, our readers may form
an idea by the following extract from the Journal
des Debats

" If we are beaten (says this paper) it is the party of
order which will be beaten altogether, and beaten, too,
in Paris, in the city which yet boars traces of the bar-
ricades of June. The election of M. de Flotte might
have resulted from an error, or a false calculation. A
victory over M. Leclerc could not be explained away in
any fashion. Commercial people know how much they
have suffered by the shake given to confidence on the
10th of March. The 28th April will either re-establish
confidence or annihilate it. Let each then feel his re-
sponsibility on this decisive occasion, and vote as if on
his single vote everything depended. You complain, dear
citizens, of the badness of the times, and you blame every-
body more or less, and especially the Government.
Do not forget, in the name of Heaven, that you are
yourselves the Government, you alone—your fate is in
your own hands. If you perish you do so voluntarily.
You write your own destiny on your voting papers. On
one side you have order—on the other anarchy. Choose!
Your decree will be that of God."
M. Tn inasis about to leave Paris in the dumps.
He has in vain turned renegade, renounced all his
former opinions, aided the Jesuits, been lackey to M.
DE 21014TALEMBEILF, and gone in the most edifying
manner to
willconfession and mass. The parti-pretre
and Legitimatistsnone of him—they ;ft in
him not the devout and pious author of the Educa-
tionulylB3o, and the
Bill, not the friend of M. DE IiONTALEMBERT,
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leader-
ship, and denounce him as not belonging to
the party of order. W
are sorry for M. TIERS, but his fate should
be a warning to men: of all shades,
Moderate Republicans, Bonapartisfs, and Orleamsts,
"
that the Legitimatists and parti-pretre, as of old,
learn nothing, forget nothing," and are not to be
trusted.

M. DUFAURE has gone to Toulon es one of the
Commissioners appointed by the Assembly to investi-
gate and report on the state of the French Navy.
M. DR PERSIGNT has returned to Berlin.
M. FERDINAND BARROT arrived at Turin on
the 21st.

The Prefect of the Dordogne has suspended two
companies of the National Guard at Perigueux, for
having elected a Democrat as captain. This is cer-
tainly
a somewhat extraordinary method of testifying
respect for the principle of election.
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