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N°. 17,9143.] 91 '"-11 '5"3
LONDON, MON DAY ,SY ,4„,
P 115, FEBRUARY 2.5, 1850.

]PUBLICATIONS.

CONTRACT for MOULMEIN TIMBER.
De pat tmcnt of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, Feb. 23, 1860.
The Commissionttrs for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingd oir of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
Notice that on TVESDAY, the 26th March next, at One o'clock,
they will be ready t 0 ;treat with such Persons as may be willing to
Contract for supplying her Majesty's several Dockyards with
4,040 Lo,ults of MOULMEIN TEAK TIMBER.
Half to be deliweretd in the year 1851, and the remainder in the
year 1852.
A Distribution as d st Form of Tenier may be seen at the said °Mee.
No Tender will be., r =eyed after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
nor any noticed, u nle ss the party attends, or as agent for him,
duly authorised in \tilting.
Every Tender mu st be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-ha nd corner the words "Tender for Moulmein
Timber," and must tilso be delivered at Somerset-place, accom•
panted by a letter sig.eed by two responsible persons, engaging to
become bound with the, person tendering, in the sum of 5,0001. for the
due perfermnce of the Contract.

THE NEW ROMANCE BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF
WILLIAM COLLINS,
Li 3 iol 1. post itvo.,
A. N T O l‘T I NA;
Or, TIIE FALL OF ROME.
By W. WILKIE COLLINS.
Author of " The Lite of William Collins, ILA."
Will be published To-morrow.
Orders received by all Booksellers.
Richard Bentley, New PAlrlington-street. "

CONVEYANCE of her MAJESTY'S
MAILS betwecut HOLYHEAD and KINGSTOWN, DUBLIN.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Se, !vices, Somerset-place, Feb. 22, 18M.
The Commissioner • Oar executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingd, sto of Great Britain and Irelaad do hereby give
notice, that on Tuxsturr, the sth March next, at One o'clock, they
vrtll he ready to treat, :under conditions, which may be obtained at
the above office, for :the- Conveyance of her Majesty's Mails, in
Steam-vessels, twice * day each way, between HOLYHEAD and
KINGSTOWN.
All Tenders to be made upon the printed form I,revided for the
Purpose, which may tie ,obtained upon application at the said Office,
or to Commander Bevis, R.N., Liverpool, and to be addressed to the
Secretary of the Achill ratty, at Somerset-place, with the words
" Tender for the Conveyance of Mails," and " Comptroller for Vic-
tualling and Transport Services" in the left-hand corner of the en-
velope.
No Tender wilt be recrilved after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
ner will any be notimsd.,, unless the party attends, er as agent for
him, duly authorised ini, writing.
Every Tender must bAs delivered at the above Office, awl it must
express when and wh(!re the vessels will be ready for survey, and
when they will be cop letely ready for sea, and also state the ad-
dress of the party teneleri ng.

TIDAL WATERS AND NAVIGABLE
, RIVERS.
APPLICATIONS gp PARLIAMENT FOR LOCAL BILLS,
VICTORIA JOCKS (opposite Woolwich) BILL.
NOTICE. •

The Lords Commission ers for executing the office of Lord High Ad-
mi ral,und er an Act passe( tin the twelfth year of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled " A .et for amending an Act passed in the ninth
and tenth years of her .pr erent Majesty for making preliminary En•
entities in certain cases ;of Applications for Local Acts," in so far as
the said Act relates to Lin intended application to Parliament for an
Act in relation to the V is torte Docks Bill,
Do hereby give Notice, that JAMES H. RENDEL, Esquire, Civi, En-
gineer, the inspector a ppointed by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, will attend on Tuesday, the twelfth day of Atarch, 1850,
at the Brunswick Hotel, ' Blackwall, at half-past ten o'clock in the
forenoon, for the purpose; 'of making an examination, survey, and en-
quiries in relation to t.hee proposed Act, and of investigating such
ether matters relating thereto as the said Lords Commissioners hove
by their order directed hint to make and investigate. And we do
hereby require the pro rooters of the said intended work to appear
before him, at the time :ir.d place aforesaid, and to produce all such
surveys, plans, sections, estimates, documents. and evidences, as will
be necessary to support :to eh intended application.
The Lords Commission er s of the Admiralty do hereby further give
notice, that all persons tlecireus of being heard in•opposition to such
intended application do appear before the said JAMES H. RENDEL, the
Inspector, with witneSS,M, plans, sections, maps, books, or other do-
cuments relevant to the tutt.cl enquiries.
As witness our hands, this eighteenth day of February, 1850.
(Signed)
_ALEXANDER MILNE,/ Lords Commissioners for executing the
W. COWPER, Office of Lord Hi:h Admiral.

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•
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On the Ist of March, Prfee Is.. No. T. of
THE " CHRONO-THERMALIST ;" or, Poo-
l_ pie's Medical Adviser—a monthly Jou. nal, for the diffusion of
correct Medical Information among all Classes,—will contain a Ilis-
tory of Chrono-Thermalism, by the Author of the " Fallacies of the
Faculty," with other papers of interest.
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This day is published, Bvo., 21s. cloth,

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a Co nplete Collection of Magisterial Forms and Precedents
fur practical use in all matters our of Quarter Sessions, adapted to
the Outlines of Formsin Jervis's Acts, 11 St 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, with an
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NEW EXHIBITION.
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A PICTURESQUE TOUR to the BRITANNIA
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THE NICOLL PALETOT, or Patent Coat ;
and the original invention, the Registered Paletot (6 and 7
Vict., cap. 65). Tho West-end Warerooms for the sale of these
graceful and useful articles of dress are in Regent•street, and extend
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Cornhill, the Shipping Department being in the rear—viz., 'Change-
alley.
Many have assumed the use of the word rA LETOT, but H. J. and
D. NICOLL are the sole Proprietors and Patentees of the design or
material.
The prices are One, Two, and Three Guineas, and according to
the climate or purpose for which they are required.

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS!
The acknowledged efficacy of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEU-
MATIC PILLS, by the continued series of testimonials which have
been sent to and published by the proprietor for nearly twenty years,
has rendered this medicine the most popular of the present age ; and
in corroboration of which the following extract of a letter, written
by John Mollard Whee'er, Esq., Collector of Customs, Jamaica, hav-
ing been handed by his brother, at Swindon, to Mr. Front for publi-
cation, will fully confirm.
" I knew you have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but
let me emphatically tell you, in mercyito any friend who may suffer
from gout, rheumatic gout, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, or any
branch of that widely-allied family, to recommend their using them.
In this country they are of wonderful efficacy : not only am I person-
ally aware of their powers, but I see my friends and acqu intances
receiving unfailing benefit from their use I would not be without
them on any account. If taken in the early stage of disease they
dissipate it altogether; if in a later, they alleviate pain and effect a
much speedier cure than by any other means within my knowledge."
Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London; and by his appoint-
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Kingdom. Pi'ice 2s. 9d. per box.
Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe
the name and address of " Thomas ('rout, 229, Strand, London,' im-
pressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each boX of the
Genuine Medicine.

A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &o.

Yol. IT

THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENSES OF
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID-
"That three score years and ten our course may run."

A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the yonng, besets the man of plepure, business, or study, and em-
bitters old age, with tables and rifles for the diet and physical regu-
lations of every-day life.

IV.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what Improve,

Truth; as refined as Athens ever heard."

SunrEcr :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
of the passions. Chastity and its infringement 4. The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remedlative. Advocacy of early marriages,

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
PROGRAMME:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, Complexion, and
flgure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and Its conversion.
Cases, &c.
By R. J CIILVERWELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
,ratters. Reception hours daily till five. Evenings, seven till nine.
10, Argrll place. Regent-street.

DR. LA'MERT ON TILE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF 'YOUTH
AND MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two
Stamps,
SELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of lift, which enervate
the'physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Ohservalion,s on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their stracianes, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MEBT, M.D..
37, EDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
This work contains an accurate. and complete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un-
fortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul-
gence and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con-
sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi-
cian 'for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erro-
neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of
art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking or assistance where
alone it can be procured. Dr. LA'RIERT has taken the highest
medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his
practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experi-
ence, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these

&Beasts.
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52, Paternoster-row; Hammy, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne-
street, Haymarket ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Gordon, 146, Leaden_
hall-street, London; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, from
the Author's Residence, 37. Bedtord-souare London.

FIRE AND PROBABLE LOSS OF

LIFE.

On Saturday afternoon a fire of a very serious nature,
and nearly attended with fatal consequences to two or
three persons, broke out in the extensive range of pre-
mises belonging to Messrs. Heathfield and Burgess,
the experimental chemists, carrying on business in
Princes-square, Finsbury. From the fact of the pro-
perty in which the disaster occurred being contigwaus
to the congreve factory of Messrs; Hynau and
Co., and the hot-pressing works of Messrs. White, a
most fearful conflagration at one period was antici-
pated. It appears that shortly before three o'clock,
whilst three or four of the workmen were engaged in
the still:house attending to the distillation of some
chloroform or naphtha, the man-hole of the still, from
some cause, not clearly ascertained, blew off, and in
an instant about ten or twelve gallons of the spirits
became ignited, when the whole blazed upwards, and
rushed the ough the rocf threatening every thing
around. Two of the workmen who were nearest the
still were burned by the flames coming in contact with
their persons, and it was with the greatest difficulty
that the other men on the premises were enabled to
effect a safe retreat. The firemen were unable to get
the flames extinguished until several gallons of chloro-
form and naphtha were destroyed, the roof of the still-
house partially burned off, and the:l emainder of the stock
in trade, with utensils in that part of the premises con-
siderably damaged by fire and breakage. The two
poor fellows who were so seriously burned remaining
a very precarious condition. On the same evening a
fire, which it is feared will be attended with fatal
results, occurred at No. 20, Bell-lane, Spitalfields, in
the occupancy of Mr. Lewis Symons. Jt originated
in the first floor back room, from a spark flying out
of a lighted candle on to a bed, and a young woman,
about seventeen years of age, who was in the place,
became surrounded with flame. With the aid of an
abundant supply of water, the fire hr the room and
about the fsmale was extinguished ; but so seriously
was► she burned, that little hopes are entertained of
her recovery. This fire had barely been subdued,
when the firemen were called to another atNo. 7,
Upper Park-place, Dorset-square, in the occupancy
of Mr. George Collins, which was not extinguished
until considerable damage was done. About the
same time another fire happened at No. 3, Adelaide-
place, Whitecross-street, belonging to Mr. Henry
Smith. The firemen and. engines were soon in at-
tendance, and the fire was happily confined to that
part of the premises in which it commenced.
Another fire happened at No. 173, Brick-lane,
Spitalfielde, belonging to Mr. W. S. Stubbs, a sur-
geon, caused from an escape of gas, which, becoming
ignited, set the shop in flames. The inmates and
firemen, however, succeeded in getting the fire out
before any considerable amount of damage was done.

THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
Illnstrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engraving: on Steel.
')l4 ririnicAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA PA.
CITY, .AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRLA.GE.
clew Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
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111:1M SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
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:chain indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain d:;-
itmlifications. Illustrated by 26 Colenrca Engravings. Ity R. and
L. PERRY and CO., Consultiag Surgeons, 13, Berners-street, Ox-
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ittude,l3, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; arid Gorden, 146, Leaden-
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PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART It, treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveindul-
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aed bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative neapacity.
Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, other :n
the primary or secondary form, and cmtaiaa explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Engravings.
Papa' IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
by a simple application, by which the danger of infection .s ob-
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Psear F. is devoted to the considefation of frarriere, and its
I duties. The canoes of unproductive union are also zeasiderad, and
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ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Fremington-house, three
miles from Barnstaple, the seat of Mr. W. A. Yeo, the
high sheriff of Devon, was on the night of Tuesday, the
I 9th inst., the scene of a most cold-blooded attempt at
murder. Mr. Yeo had returned at eleven o'clock at
night from Barnstaple, and his coachman William Sy-
mons, was placing the carriage in the coach-house, when
a pistol was discharged at him from behind some shrubs
adjoining. The unfortunate man fell, and on assistance
arriving from the mansion, it was discovered that he had
received &mound which penetrated below the left ear,
rupturing a branch of the carotid artery, from which
blood was copiously flowing. A bullet is supposed to be
lodged in the region of the throat, and little or no hopes
are entertained of his recovery. The person suspected
of this cowardly crime is John Lillycrop, a coachmsker,
lately discharged from Mr. Yeo's service, in consequence
of some information given against him by the unfortu-
nate man Symons. lie had been seen late at night on
Tuesday in the vicinity of Fremington-house; but, since
the occurrence, the most diligent search for him has
hithert r been unavailing. Lillycrop was a man of
violent temper, much addicted to drinking, and had fre-
quently been heard to express his determination "to
serve Symons out" for the part he had ta'ten against him.
He was known to be in possession of a large sum if
money, and had obtained on the day preceding the assas-
sination 2501. in sovereigns from the Barnstaple old
bank.
HINT TO WATER COMPANIES.—It has been calcu-
lated that the metropolis might be supplied with many
thousands of gallons of water obtained by being /opt,.
rated from the London milk. If this be true, whatever
Dr. Buckland may say, a pretty abundant source of water
supply exists in the chalk formation.--Pwtch.

INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS..
IMPORTANT REPORT OF THE •BOARD OF
HEALTIL-THE REMEIIIES STATED AND

RECOMMENDED:

The Board of Health bas made its long-looked-for
report on the subj et of intramural interment ; and :has
propounded in it "A qeneral Scheme for Extramural
Sepulture." This report is a deeply interesting d'.cu-
m-tit, full of Bets, and abounding with information on
the subject of which it treats, which is considered in all
its bearings. But it is more than interesting ; it is,
perhaps, the most important public paper that has been
submitted to the country for a very 1 ng period ; and
few who read it can fail to be impressed with the mag-
nitude f the evil that rxists, or With 'the practical wis-
d-}m thet is exhibited in the plan 'proposed f,r its
amendment.

tion intently occupied with the concerns of their daily
traffic, in whom the funeral procession of strange-s can
avvaktn! no sympathy, but who become familiar with such
Apectnelf,s from their frequency, under circumstances in
which it is impossible to arrest att: ration or create re-
spect, has a tendency to lessen and destroy those feelings
regarding the corpse which it has been always considered
of tne highest importance to chnish individually and
nationally. Among those masses the pa.sing bell at-
tracts no attention; the rum ral procession excites no re-
spect, nn religious thought or emotion;* and hence that
hardening effect is produced which must generally result
from the sight of mourning and suffering when viewed
with indifference. "Not even the hearse," says the R. v.

:Mr. hiilman, "in its gnrgeous gloOrr, with all the pomp
of heraldry, and . followed by the carriages of half the
nobility of the land, will arrest fur an iiistanf the noise
and confusion of our streets, or awaken any deeper im-
pression with the mass than idle curiosity. While the
poor man, borne on the shoulders of men as poor
as h'mself, is jostled off the pavement, the
mourners, at some crossing, are either in danger of
being run over or set a-ated from the body; in the
throng ( f passers no sign of reverence, n:s stirring of
conscious mortality in the heart" And yet, though the
poor are sensibly aliva to the due divossl of the last re-
mains of their deccaied friends and relatives, thty cannot

obtain'other than " maimed rites" 1)r their ashes, unless

upon the payment of a gum to the officiating clergyman
incomptablo with their miierable means. Oh religion!

THE REMEDY.

These.facts being established, it remained to seek a
remedy on the part of the public body entrusted with the
consideratioe of the subject of intramural interments;
and such a remedy has been propounded by the. Board of
Health accordingly. SAtiog out with the proposition
that "considerations such as those which have been
offered, involving alike the physical and moral well-
being a the people, are sufficient to satisfy the Legisla-
ture and tie public that a t All change in the practice
of interment is absolutely necessary; and laying it down
as a principle that if interment in the nee'ropolis is t,
be wholly discontinued, provision must be made for
the removal of 52,000 corpses a year, or of -1,000
a week and upwards, to considerable distances
from the places at which the deaths occur, and also for
the decent, orderly, and impro3sive interment of this
number of ttle dead;" they reduce the remedies for the
aril t) three, namely, the grant of powers t) parishes se-
parate or in combination; the encouragement of private
cemeteries, such as those of Kensal-green, Norwood,
Sze., and the appointment of a special board or commis-
sion. It boots not to enter upon the course of analysis
followed only in the discussion ef these plans; and it will
theref ire suffice to say, that having rejected the first as
incompatible with the requirements of the case, on the
ground that parochial practice has hitherto been the
source of almost all the evils complaiced ef ; and, having
rejected the second on the ground that death should not
be the subject of trading speculation, as it would be if
public cemeterfei were to be made the sole property of
private companies ; they hare decided upon the adop
lion of the third, namely—the appointment of a
special hoard or commission—on the following grounds,
" That these public officers should be bound to ac-
quire the requisite knowledge of the principles and dc-
tails of the department of the public service they would
be called upon to administer—that they would to bound
to he performance of this and their other duties by a
direct and personal responsibility—a principle under the
control of which neither parochial boards nor the direc-
tors of joint-stock companies can be brought—that the
grrataess of the scale on which the arrangements would
be made would give them simplicity, unifomity,effi-
ciency, and economy—that the saving of expense in all
ways would be so great, that, there would be ample
means of interring even the very poorest with increased
propriety and solemnity—that -several of the requisite
changes—such, for example, as the removal of the body
by the propose I line of • river conveyance, with the sys-
tem of intermediate reception houses—could not be car
vied into efftetual operation by any but a single autho-
rity—and finally, that there is no other mode by which
the scheme of sepulture proposed can be carried into
effect as a whole, and administered as one system under
one direction and control."

It is in favour of this conclusion, that the system
which it involves has been tried in other countries with
the most satisfactory results: in the chief cities of the
continent sepulture is under the direct control of the
State, and all classes are satisfied. In all the cities
visited by Dr. Sutherland, as the agent of the Board of
Health, the Government had provided by very stringent
laws and regulations for the decent burial of the dead,
and for the prevention of imposition on the living; at
Frankfort the conducting cf funerals was placed in tho
hands of a commission; at Munich it was under the
magistrates; and it was the same in other towns. The
various bodies entrusted with these important functions
issued regulations and superintended their execution.
They buried the dead according to a fixed charge, in a
variety of classes, so as to suit the means cf all descrip-
tions of families, leaving at the same time ample

liberty as to extra matters of expense. In some cases
he found the charges included all the items of expense;
in others, only the removal and conveyance of the dead
from the house to the place of interment. From the
fa• is and arguments, of which the preceding are ab-
stracts, however, the Commissioners of the Bead of
Heath have arrived at the following conclusions, which
they submit in this form in the report under notice, " as
the foundation of a General Scheme for Extramural Se-
pulture:"—
" 1. That with a view is remedy the evils of intra-
mural interment, as at present generally practised, it
will be necessary to obtain separate Acts fur London and
the country.
"2. That, after the passing of the Act for London, all
interments in churches and within the precincts of the
metropolis, except in special cases, under license issued
by the Metropolitan Interment Commission, should, as
soon as the necessary preliminary arrangements are
completei, be strictly forbidden.

3. That public burial grounds be provided at a
suitable distance from the metropolis; that, with a view
to prevent the near approach of the population to such
burial grounds, no new dwelling-houses be permitt“d
within a distance proportioned to the size of the
cemetery and the number of interments for which it is
calculated; and that, in order to render possible the al.
vantages of extramural interment, without, at least, en-
hancing the cost to the poor, to secure the proper de-
cencies of burial, and to put an end to the injurious
kiluence to health occasioned by the careless and un-
checked disposal of bodies, it bs, with the exceptions
above referred to, unlawful to inter in any ottser place
thin the public burial grounds within the prescribed pre-
cincts.

" 4. That, considering the river as a highway passing
through the largest extent of densAy-peopled districts,
the facilities for establishing houses of reception on its
banks, the convenience' arising from the shorter dis-
tances within the larger portion of the same area for Vie.
removal of the bodies to such houses of reception, the
advantages of steam. boat conveyance over that by rail-
way in respect to tranquillity, and the avoidance ( f any
large number of funerals at any ono point at any one
time, and of any interference with common traffic and
with the throng of streets; and, lastly, taking into ac-
count its great comparative cheapness, it is desirable that
the chief metropolitan cemetery should be in some eligi-
ble situation accessible by water carriage.
" 5. That it be unlawful to inter in any burial ground
more than one corpse in one grave.
6.
series That e the
f se pa
irei ca eeor fe fl ua
anseeria;l sa be ed regulated
waccording
to‘ai
prise of each funeral be included in the charge fixed for
its cliss, and be paid for in ono sum.
'' 7. That, it being essential to the success of the pro-
posed improved practice of interment that it be adminis-
tered on one system, under one responsible authority,
all public burial grounds and the whole arrangement for
burial be intruded by commission to a smell body, not
exceeding five, of whom not less than ono should be
paid, specially qualified and responsible.
" 8. That in every cemetery there be a part conse-
crated and a part unconsecrated, and that in the conse-
crated past there ho erected a church stiaptecl to the
purpose, and fitted also for full services according to the
doctrine and discipline of the Church of England; and
that in the unconsecrated part there be erected a com-
modious chapel.
9. That the new consecrated grounds be under the
same ecclesiastical jurisdiction in matters spiritual, and
in respect to the performance of the service and the
superintendence of the chaplains, as the parochial burial
grounds for which they are to serve as substitutes now
are; that the inhabitants retain the same right cf sepul
ture as they would have had in their, respective burial
grounds, subject to the general provisions which may be
necessary for the public health and the convenience of
sepulture; and that the incumbents have the right of
performing the burial service for any of their parish-
ioners in the public cemetery, subject to the regulations
established for the same.
" 10. That, inasmuch as the fees and voluntary offer-
ings paid to the clergy constitute one of the least of the
charges incident to interment, and at the same time
form in some instances almost the whole, and in many
instances the greater part, of the funds on which they
have been accustomed to rely, provision be made for
compensation to the benefice, on account of the receipt
of fees for interments, on the average. of three years be-
of the Act.
‘ i. the
Ping
That compensation be made to the proprietors of
pforriev aite
burial grounds and to the holders of cemeteries
established by Act of Parliament according to the awards
of juries.
" 12. That provision be made for placing the existing
burial grounds under such regulation as may be most
conducive to the public health and advantage.
s. 13. That although, if the whole work were to be
done afresh for the first time, one part of a general
scheme of extramural cemeteries would have included
the formation of a corresponding set of intramural
officers to receive orders, to give instructions, to collect
and enforce payments, and to transact other general
business, yet, to avoid the unnecessary creation of new
offices, it be provided that the present parish clerks or
and their offices made use of for maintaining the paro-
sexton, or both, as the case may be, should be retained,

chial connexion with the cemeteries.
" 14. That the whole immediate outlay. for carrying
into effect this scheme may be obtained without any e id
from the Treasury, and without the levying of any new
rato, in the fullow;ng way—that is to say, by loan; the
principal and interest of such loan to be defrayed out of
the receipts of the cemeteries, security being giTea by

Act of Parlian ent for making; good froth the rates what-
ever deficiency may occur, should there be eventually
any."
There is reason, however, they state, to believe Olt,
along whh the equitable arrangements as to compenet-
lions, and even with a considerable reduction oil the ex-

isting charges for int :rment, there_ will be no defi.mency
to he defrayed by rates. The Commissioners then pie=
seed to explain more in detail some pa, ti of the sel:enas
proposed by them; to state the estimated expense of
carrying it into effect; and to point out the purpose that
may be expected to.be fulfilled by the adoption of it.
"It appears to lisv" they say, " to be essenral that as
soon as provision shall be made for interment in public
burial grounds, interment within the district included in
the Act, in any other place s whatever, should be
strictly prohibitert, excepting in Special cases under
the sanction and regulation of the Interment Commis-
don, and excepting also in cases in which, at the dis-
cretion of f_tmilies, the body is removed for burial b:-
yond the district."

" With these exceptions they regard the absolute prc-
hibition cf interment in any other than public burial
grounds as essential to the success of the scheme:—
" 1. Because it is indispensable to such success that
control sbolld be exe.reiscd over the whole of the inter-
ment , tad this cannot be effected unless the whole are
placed under the direction and mansgeme,A of ono au-
thority. _ _

‘• 2. I.3eraits9 if interments are not restricte Iby law
to the public burial grounds, interments may still go on
in the old burial grounds, iu which case the old evils
will be continued; and in. the present joint-stock corn-
ail, a' cemeteries, in which case the objections already
urged against the principle of allowing the burial ( f the
decd to be tho subject of commercial speculation and
trading profit, will apply in their full force.
‘.3.Because unless the whole of the interments are
placed in the hands of -one authority, and are under
one mantr,rement, the expensa of int •rtne it cannot be
diminished.

"4. Bei•ause in all countries, as far at least as our in-
quiries hare extcndel, wherever the practice of inter-
ment has been placed under legislat•ve regulation, it it as
been found nett: ssary that some adroini,trative and re-
sponsible authority should 6,, charge.] witn the control
and management of places f burial, as well as of burial
itself."
The Commissioners argue the three last objections;
but the conclusions at which they have arrived are only
necessary in a notice of this description. A supplemen-
tary conclusion, however, is of a nature not to be over-
looked. Interment in public burial grounds under the
supervision cf the State would, they infer, " operate as
an additional check in the prevention of crime, by in-
creasing the difficulty of the disposal of the body in the
case tf murder, and in all other instances where con-
cealment for illegal purposes may be desired. Were the
interdiction of ibterment in any but a public'or national
burying-ground," they add, " invariably consequent on
;he opening of a public one in any district, the oi-covery
of a dead body any where within that district, except
tug in c :use !rated or public ground, would be in itself
positive proof of an unlawful tat, and presumptive proof
of a criminal set."

The Commissioners then proceed to devolope their
system in this manner:— -

" If the whole plan for extramural sepulture fur Lon-
doll were now to be devised for the first timc, we should
probably recommend the formation of two cemeteries
only, placed in districts the most convenient of amess
the western and eastern extremities of the metropolis.
But there are several suburban comet,-ries, on which
large sums of money have been expended, and to which
certain powers have been granted by Act of Parliament.
Our opinion of the gereral condition and maosgement
of those cemeteries may be gathered from .what has
been already sated. "
" It appea7s that there are a'toge.her eight cemeteries
in the immediate neighbourhood of the me .ropolie, com-
prising at the present time about 282 acres of ground, of
which about 17 acres have been used, exclusive t f the
space occupied by roads, plantati.ins, and building*.
These cant teries are—

Acres.
Kensal Green, containing or ground about 54
Norwood ... 50
Elighcate
Nunhead
Brornpton
Tow( r Hamlets
Abney Park...
Victoria Park

... 50
... 39
.... 30
... 30

" To-Kensall Gm:en, the first established, and, upon
the whole, the best, it would appear to be easy to make
any degree t f extension that may be deemed desirably
in one direction by the addition inacfinitely of ne of por-
tions of land. All the other cemeteries are more or less

limited in their capacity, and there are rely few of them
which it would be ee,irable to extend, if their extension
were practicable and easy.
" Almost *ll of them are already, on some sides at
least, closely approached by the habitations of the liv-
ing, their outward boundary being, in some instance!, as
in that of Norwood, separated from dwelling-homes
scarcely more than by the width of an ordinary st-eet;
The only means by which it would appear to be practi.
cable at the present time to interpose between these
burial•grounds and the advancing population, the de-
sirable distance is to confine interments to the centre
of the ground, and to obtain from the outer pot tion the
space that may be necessary, an expedient which must
of course be attended with a great loss of ground.
" We apprehend that the whole of these grounds must
be purchased, and it is proposed that they should be
taken upon jury compensation. The Kemal Green
Cemetery at present divides 7 per cent. upon their
outlay; two o;hers, the Highgate and Nunhead pay 21
per cent.; and the Brompton pays only 1 per cent. On
account of the distance of these cemeteries from the
great masses of the metropolitan population, no provision
having been made for convenient removal to 'them, but
the only mode of conveyance being by carriage proces-
sions, they have been placed entirely beyond the reach
of the very poor ; equally beyond the reach of the
respectable class of artisans; much beyond the reach of
the larger portion of the middle class; and their general
use has cons quently been confined to the more wealthy
part of the community. Still with apprcpriate adapta-
tions and provisions for easy access to them by scone-
mical means of removal, it appears that several of them
might fur some time to come be made avai'able for the
purpose of sepulture, and it is probable that from vari,ms
circumstances they retold be often selected for interment
in special cases.