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London, England, 1845-04-11 00:00:00

aioners to a vigorous repression of these filthy abomina-
tions. But there were passages in the same debate
which we cannot allow to pass unnoticed. The speech
of Sir JAMES GRAHAM was remarkable for a degree of
bigotry and a deficiency of argument that really sunk
the Home Secretary deeper than the depths in which his
Post-office piracies hid precipitated him. He discovered,
in opposition to Mr. MACKINNON'S argument and the
Commissioners' elaborate researches, that there could
be no serious objection to the practice of intermural
interments in large towns, on the score of danger to the
public health, because, although it prevails to so vast an
extent in London, London is yet the healthiest city in
the world. Perhaps the Right Honourable Baronet's
logic does not recognise the doctrine of proportions.
It thus may not have occurred to him to ask why the
ratio of mortality should not be much less even than it
io, looking to the unrivalled advantage s of sewerage and
ventilation which London, with all its defects in parts,
possesses as a whole over every other capital? More-
over, if he will refer to the weekly returns of
mortality, he will find that diseases of the lungs,
the viscer, the larynx, and the other organs which are
most susceptible to the action of malignant influences,
have been actually increasing, as compared with corre-
sponding periods of the last year or so, since the date
at which the noxious effects of intermural interments
in crowded localities were first irresistibly forced upon
public attention by the pamphlets by Mr. WALKER and
other medical and statistical authorities. To show how
far the bigotry of administration, as well as political
intolerance, may carry a sensible man out of his way,
let us observe the example by which Sir JAMES illus-
trated his opinion. lie apprised the douse, with a be-
coming mixture of solemnity and confidential assurance,
that the present Bishop of LONDON, whilst he was yet
but a beneficed clergyman, resided is the parsonage
house of Bishopsgate parish, looking into the church-
yard ; that he enjoyed a remarkably fine state of health
there during the whole period of his incumbency, and
reared a fine family of children there. Why, surely
the Right Hon. Baronet is not se simple as to imagine
that so stout a churchman as the Rizht Rev.
CHARLES JAMES would wax faint and fall sick in the
high road of his preferment! As to the good state of
health which CHARLES JAMES enjoyed as rector of
Bishopsgate, we take so lively an interest in it, that we
can sincerely state we wish he was still the incumbent
of that parish—and not Bishop of LONDON. The parish
would probably not have fared much the worse--the
diocese would certainly have fared much the better—
had he never removed from his incumbency. Lord
MAHON, with much more reason than Sir JAMES GRA-
HAM, admitting the technical difficulties that might at-
tach to the carrying Mr. MACKINNON'S resolution, ex-
pressed his conviction that the Right Hon. Baronet had
greatly underrated the importance of the question it
involved. His Lordship forcibly argued on the ultimate
inutility and failure of the present extraordinary efforts
for the improvement of the ventilation and drainage of
the metropolis, if such dangerous practices, as had been
proved to exist in connexion with interment, were per-
mitted to infect the air to which those efforts would but
give freer circulation, and to pollute and poison with
the putrescentcy of human corruption, the drainage to
which they would give but freer motion. We shall
await with anxious and vigilant curiosity t'-te first sane-
,ary measures that are to result from the carrying of Mr.
DUNCOMBE'S amendment.

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 2d inst. The
Committee appointed to examine the Budget, had re-
duced the estimates from 1,400 millions of reals

(14,000,0000, to 1,100 millions (11,000,0001.). It was
said also that as the Committee cannot grant to her
Majesty Queen MARIA CHRISTINA. DE BOURBON the
3,000,090 reals (30,0001) demanded for her by the Go-
vernment, in the capacity of Queen-Widow, since she has
married the Duke DI RIANZARES, they propose the sum
being awarded to her " as a testimony of national grati-
tude for the services she has rendered to Spain." This
large sum had excited much astonishment among several
of the Members. The report proposes authorising the
Government to proceed to the regulating of the public
debt, granting it for that purpose 40,000,000 reals
(400,0001.), and a delay of eight years.
The Three per Cents. closed at 34i for cash, and 34-4
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 251 at 60 days ; and
the Debt without Interest at Si at 60 days. In the
evening the Funds rose at the Puerta del Sol per cent.
in the Three per Cents., and a in the Five per Cents.