The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-12 00:00:00

NAVAL I T.E;LLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 10.—The royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
G.C.H., received her crew this afternoon from the Royal
George hulk, and hoisted the pennant and ensign.
The Fox, 42, has been removed from dock to the
basin to-day, repaired for re-commission.
The annual inspection of the Royal Marine Artillery,
Colonel-Commandant G. A. Gibsoue, has not yet taken
place, but will in,a few days..
It is reported that on the arrival of the Vengeance,
84, from the Mediterranean, she is ordered to be paid
off all standing, and to be re-commissioned forthwith by
the same captain, Sir Heary M. Blackwood, Bart.
The Fairy royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch,
will embark the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiniagen, and suite, at Cowes, on Wed-
nesday morning, for Gosport, on their return to London.
PLYMOUTH. JUNE B.—Her Itlaj,sty's steam-tender
Myrtle. Mr. S. Bradden master, arrived on Thursday
from Holyhead,

Captsiii Lord John Hay, Commodore• Superintendent,
has issued an order for the officers and men of the Royal
Dock-yard Battalion for the next two months to drill in
the Granby-square-field, for which the permission of the
Board of Ordnance has been obtained; the Infantry to
leave the yard at 2, and the Artillery at half-past 4.
Notice ass also been posted in the yard that one man
at Sheerness and one at Deptford have been dismissed
from their respective battalions, and rendered incapable
of further serving her Majesty, in consequence of dis-
obedience of orders.
Wind, N.N.W.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMRIDGE, JUNE 10.
CHANCELLOR'S ENGLISH MEDALLIST.
The Chancellor's gold medal for the best English Ode
on the late Queen Adelaide has been adjudged to Julian
Fane, of Trinity College.
SIR WM. BROWNE'S MEDALS.
These medals have been adjudged to the under-men-
tioned :
Greek Ode—Philip Perring, Trinity College.
Latin Ode—Win. Psynes, Clare Hall.
Epigrams—Win. Wayte, King's College.

SUMMER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.
Yesterday the days for holding the assizes on the
Northern, Nortolk, and Western Circuits, were finally
arranged and fixed by the judges appointed to proceed
thereon, viz.—

NOMMERN.—Judges, Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr.
Justice Cresswell—Yorkshire, Wednesday, July 10,
at the Castle cf York; City -'of York, the same
day, at the Guildhall of York; Durham, Wednes-
day, July 24, at Durham; Northumberland, Monday,
July 29, at Newcastle; Town of Newcastle, the same
day, at the same place; Cumberland, Thursday, August
1, at Carlisle; Westmoreland, Monday, August 5, at
Appleby; North Division of Lancashire, Wednesday,
August 7, at Lancaster; South Division, Saturday,
August 10, at Liverpool.
NORF-LK.—Judges, Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr.
Justice Patttson—Buckinghamshirs, Saturday, July 13,
at Aylesbury; Bedfordshire, Tuesday, July 16, at Bed-
ford; Huntingdonshire, Thursday, July 18, at Hunting-
don; Cambridgeshire, Saturday, July 20, at the County
Court, Cambridge; Norfolk, Thursday, July 27' at the
Castle at Norwich; City of Norwich, the same day, at
the Guildhall of Norwich; Suffolk, Friday, August 2,
at Ipswich.

WESTERN.—Judges, Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr.
Justice Talfourd—Wiltshire, Wednesday, July 10, at
Devizes; County of Southampton, Saturday, July 13, at
Winchester; Dorsetshire, Friday. July 19, at Dorches-
ter; Cornwall, Thursday, July 25, at Bodroin ; Devon-
shire, Wednesday, July 31, at the Castle at Exeter;
City of Exeter, the same day, at the Guildhall of Exeter;
Somersetshire, Wednesday, August 7, at Wells; Bristol,
city of, Tuesday, August 13.

'The days of the Oxford, Midland, Home, and North
and South Wales bare not been finally fixed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.
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The following case occupied an hour and a half of the
time of the sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton.
The charge, as it appeared upon the police-sheet, was
against a man, rather shabbily attired, and who gave his
same Richard APAlliater, for having been found near the
premises of Miss Bellew, Stockky House, Primrose Hill-
road, Regent's Park, for an unlawful purpose.
Several witnesses having given evidence,
Miss Bellow was sworn—She said (under much ex-
citement) for the last three years I have lived in terror
of my life through this creature (looking at defendant),
and I dismissed him from my service in consequence of
improper conversation used by him in the kitchen. This
time two years he attempted to seize me and drag me
from my carriage on my return from Epsom races, and
he declared that my carriage and horses were his, and
the house also.

Mr. BROUGHTON—Has he ever slid anything to you
personally about marriage? Miss Bellew—No.
After some further proceedings the defendant was
asked what he had to say in answer to the charge.
Defendant—l hupe your Worship will send the case
to the sessions, when I shall be prepared with counsel
and witnesses.

Mr. BROLTGIITON—I shall not adopt that course.
Defendant—Very well, Sir, then I'll go on. Miss Bel-
lew made a positive engagement with me to become my
wife, and assured me that nothing else could ever make
her happy, and she has told me that she purchased the
house she is living in for ourselves.
Miss Bellew—l declare most solemnly that there is
not a word of truth in what this man has stated.
BROUGIITON said he should require defendant to
put in bail, him,,elf in 501., and two sureties in 25/. each,
with notice, for his ki-eping the peace, and being of good
behaviour towards Miss Bellew and all her household for
a month. . _ _

Miss Bellew—l'm surprised, Sir, that you hare only
secured this man for a month.

The defendant was removed by Mitchell th© gaoler
and Miss Bellew, with her relations and friends, then
quitted the court.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JUNE 10.
STOCK EXCHAPIGII.—The market remains much the same
as on Saturday, the only alteration being in Bristol and Ex-
eter, which were done at 65.
LIVERPOOL. JUNE 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was firm to-day at the
quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9 11-16 dis.—Great Western, 57%9—
London and North-Western, 107%—Ditto New Quarters,
par—Midland, 363/{—Ditto, Halves, 26L,* dis.—Ditto, Ere-
wash Valley, 56—Dutch Rhenish, 53A dis.
MANCHESTER, JUNE 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of business
done to-day, and prices were firm. The transactions were
as follow:—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 401 A—Ditto, Fifths,
9 11-16 dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 8 dis.—London
and North-Western. 107%—Ditto, New Quarters, Is (113—
Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 1671, —Ditto, Quart ers
so. 1), B%—Ditto, Preference, B—South-Eastern and
Dover, Consolidated Stock ( No. 4), 5.
BIRMINGHAM, Jimra 10.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There was nothing done in the
loading lines of railway to-day. The only transactions re-
ported were Shropshire Union, 4A dis.'--South Stafford-
shire, 31. 18s. 9d. dis.
YORK, JUNE 8.
Sivacit EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Great Northern, lOLA—Caledonian. 93/4 York
Newcastle, and Berwick,l4 lA—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 114'

•
MILITARY KNIGLITS OF WlNDsoit..—The aggregate
sums specially provided in votes by Parliament for the re-
pairs and alterations of the buildings for the accommodation
of the Military Knights of Windsor from 1840 to 1850
mount, according to a :aura latoly issued, tv 9,7 S 4

IMPERIAL PARLLIMENT,

HOUSE OF GOIIIIOIVS, June 11.
METROPOLI I'AN IN !'Elt'vIEN'N BILL,
(Continued from our Afternoon E‘tition of yesterday.)
Mr. Aid: man COMLts,.ND said ho had gt-cat objec-
tion to the 30 clans- witn rospect to tiPt amount of corn-.
pellation. He would ask the promoters of the Mil if
:hey thought they were dealing tatrly with true public?
Th rate of 6s. 2d. tor each in-erment would very
greatly increase the aAioutit of burial tees to be paid.
Taking Shorechtch, he f ,und the average amount of
fees on each burial was 2s. 4d. In Islington it wit,, cer-
tainly, 6s. 6d. In Bethnal-green it sank to is. 6d., and
in Lambeth to 3s. 6d. Now was the Right Hon. Bar, net
prepared to increase the fees of burials in those districts
witeee, though the people were poor, they still took an
honest pride in burying their own dead, from Is. 6d. to
6s. 2d.? It would have the eff,et of raising the expense
of interment, fees very materially indeed to all but the
pauper classes. In Bethnal-green the increase would no
400 per cent. He would venture to titer into a statis-
tical argument with the Noble Lord at the head of the
Board of II:41th, and to maintain that instead of B.s.
being the average amount, 4L was more correct. stud
that with respect to ail classes. Flo would urge upon
the G.,vernment to lower the sum of de. 2d. to 4s. 4d.,
whiar he was convinced was a much more just amount.
Sir GEORGE GREY said that he bditived the sta-
tistics of the Noble Lord (Lord Ashley) were the most
correct, and he could not consent to lower the standard.
Lord DUDLEY STUART said he must again put
the question which had not yet been answered, and
that was whether the Board of Health was to have the
disposal of the surplus fund which it was expected might
p.,,rhaps accrue, and if not, who was to have the dis-
posal of it?
Sir G. GREY said that it would be devoted to make
some provision for the spiritual aid of the large and
growing population of those districts. He thought the
principle was one which was well worthy of being en-
tertained by the Committee.
Lord DUDLEY STUART said the Right Hon.
Baronet had stated the objects of the fund, but had not
mentioned who was to have the disposal of it.
Sir GEORGE GREY could not answer that question
at present.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clause 31 was struck out.
On clause 32,

Sir B. Hall was proceeding to make some remarks
which were entirely inaudible, when some Honourable
Members round him desired him to speak louder.
Sir B. HALL said that he was speaking as loud as
he could. He had addressed some thousands of persons
in different large meetings, and he had never had any
difficulty in making himself heard, but this only showed
the necessity of what had been suggested last night, that.
a Committee of some five or six gentlemen should be
appointed to decide what should be done with this
House.—(Hear, hear.) But, however, with respect to
the clause he was proceeding to show what had been
done in several cases in the metropolis by clergymen
with a view to increase their incomes by burial fees,
and in particular be would instance the Rector of Sr.
Giles, who was a
gentleman too well off, a prebend
of St. Paul's. It had been elicited in evidence
that in the burial-ground of St. Giles,
which was to full to allow of more burials,
when an interment took place, all the loose earth was
thrown over the body until the friends left the grave, and
then the body was taken out and placed in a private
vault, and afterwards made away with, body and coffin
and all, in order to make more room for other inter-
ments, and to increase the amount of burial tees.
This had been done so late as last November,
.During three years and a half ending 1849 the number
of burials infthe burial-ground of St. Giles was 12,221,
and that burial-ground contained about four acres of
land. The rector of that parish, he (Sir B. Hall) con-
tended, had rec-ived 4,0001. odd more for burial fees thae
he ought to have received. Now he (Sir B. Hall) con-
tended that special cases of that kind ought to be taken
into consideration. It frequently happened that the
fit ad bodies in that burial-ground were dug up ano
carried away in a wheelbarrow, with the body divided
from the head, and thrown into a hole, there to putrefy
and decompose, in order that more ground might be
found for that most exorbitant rector of St. Giles. Yet
that man had said that hts burial-ground was in a moss
admirable slate. The truth was, in addition to what
had been stated. that the rector kept a part of the ground
for the burial of the higher classes, from whom he could
get higher fees than be got from the lower classes.—
( Hear, hear.) The sexton of the Reverend Gentleman.
the rector of St. Giles, began his life as a soldier, was
afterwards a parson. then he became sexton to this Rev.
Gentleman who made those exactions, and then he be-
came, as the natural course, an undertaker and stone-
mason.—(Laughter.) He (Sir B. Hall) now gave notice,
on the bringing up of the report, that he would move a
clause for the purpose of meeting such abominations as
those. _ _

Sir GEORGE GREY bad not the least information
on those subjects; but he believed the rector of St.
Giles was utterly incapable of giving his sanction to
the proceedings described by the Right Hon. Baronet
the Member for Marylebone.
Mr. GOULBURN was understood to question the ac-
curacy of those statements, believing, it they had been
true, they would long ago have been redressed by the in-
habitants of the large parish in question.
Sir B. HALL said, in November last an examination
was instituted into the state of the burial-ground of:St.
Giles, at the instance of the Board of Health. Mr.
Tyler, the rector, was in the chair, and objected to the
representatives of the public press being present to re-
port the proceedings.—(Hear, hear.) The gravedigger
said, in his evidence on that occasion, " We do pretend
to fill up the grave when the mourners are present, hut
eo soon as they are gone we must make room, and we
remove them to the family vaults."—(Hear, hear.) The,
rector refused to allow this evidence to go forth to the
public. if the House were to make compensation for
abuses such as that a great portion of the fund would be
taken away.
Mr. WAKLEY regretted to say that all that the Hon.
Baronet (Sir B. Hall) had stated was but too true, but
in all probability the Rev. Mr. Tyler was not himself
aware of those proceedings until the inquiry revealed
them, because the funeral service was performed by the
Rev. Mr. Pratt, his sexton.—(Laughter.)
Lord ASHLEY was understood to say he had no
official information as to the proceedings spoken of by
the Hon. Baronet (Sir B. Hall).
Mr. BRIGHT asked the House if they would per-
mit this stonemason, sexton, undertaker, soldier, and
parson, and this rector, to carry on their nefarious
trade? The graveyard in question was pur-
chased for the parish of St. Giles by the
ratepayers of that parish; and it did appear to him a
monstrous thing that the ratepayers should be called on
to subscribe money for this burial-ground, and that the
clergyman should put into his pocket all the profits
which arose trorn burials there. As a Dissenter he
(Mr. Bright) did not care much to meddle with those
matters; but to suppose that men should tolerate within
their own chip* r a system like that only made him
wish that every such churchman should carry a parson
on his back to the last day of his life.—(Laughter.)
frora an inhabitant of the parish to confim his account
respectwiSthirß.BALL
thestaateloeft °the' which he had received
churchyard. The write,
stated that several coffins were not more than nine inches
to read
from the surface. His house overlooked the graveyard, and
said be saw two men at work recently, one disinterring a
coffin and dismembering the body, and the other dig-
ging a hole for the reception of the mutilated remains,
adding that the shroud was almost perfect, and that he
believed the body had only been buried five weeks pre-
viously, and had been treated in the way described in
order to make room for other coffins.
Colonel THOMPSON thought these tales of horror
committed in certain graveyards had only been brought
forward to induce them to make all possible baste with
the Biil.—(Hear.) They, however, gave rise to a
point of some difficulty. There was a story told
of a merry monarch, who put a question to
the Royal Society for solution, viz., the
reason why a dead body weighed more than
a living one. The Royal Society occupied
a considerable time in endeavouring to solve the pro-
blem, forgetting to ascertain in the first instance whe-
ther the King was right in assuming the fact which he
had submitted to them.—(A laugh.) Now he would
like to know how much less ground it would take to
bury a body in when cut up and mutilated,
than when in a whole and perfect state ?
He hoped Hon. Members would not give
credence ts all
these tales of horror.

The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 33 to 36 were then passed
after some verbal
amendments.

amendments,
Clauses 37, 28, and 39, with some slight verbal
were agreed to after a short discussion.
Clauses 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51,
and 52 were agreed to without discussion.
On clause 53 being proposed,
Lord DUDLEY STUART rose and said he felt
great objection to the clause; in fact it was the most ob-
jectionable clause in the Bill, and had caused the
greatest repugnance in the minds of the inhabitants
of the metropolis towards the measure. It violated a
great constitutional principle, because it interfered with
the valuable privilege of local self-government.—(Hear,
hear.) The greatness,
the prosperity, and the liberty of
this country could be traced to the maintenance of that
principle, and no Government had a right to disturb it.
This clause gave power to a board of Government Com-
missioners to levy a tax upon the inhabitants of the
metropolis. 1 True, it would only be to the extent'of a
penny in the pound, but even that would produce 35,0001
a year, and he, for one, must object to such a sum being
raised by an irresponsible board of commissioners, with-
out the people being permitted to express an opinion
upon the expediency
of the rate either by themselves or
their representative (Hear.) In fact, in all respects,
the clause was one of the most objectionable character,
and he, therefore, called upon the Committee to resist it.
Were they justified in a case where there was no abso-
lute necessity, where there wes a probability of its not
being required, were they justified in violating one of
the first principles of the constitution? were they to set
an example which might be adopted in other Bills?
He thought the Coral:nat. e would not be doing their duty
if they aid not resist this clause.
Sir B. II ALL said he should here move the addition of
a proviso which had originally been intented to have been
inserted by the Hon. Member for Montrose after the 38th
clause :—Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing
in this Act contained shall be construed to hinder or
prevent the vestry of any parish, having a local Act for
its governance, :from providing a cemetery or burial.
ground for the use of the parishioners of such parish,
provided such cemetery or burial-ground be con.
secreted within twelve months from the passing
of this Act, and provided the site of such ceme-
tery or burial-ground be previously approved by
the said General 80,4zd of Health ; and, ter the pur-
pose of enabling !ho respective vestries so to provide
such cemeteries or burial-grounde, It shall be lawful for