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London, England, 1845-03-05 00:00:00

In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR said that it was not his intention to intro-
duce any measure on the subject of the Ecclesiastical
Courts this session.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

The House of Commons met at Twelve.

Various amendments were agreed to in the Com-
panies Clauses Consolidation Bill, which was read a
third time and passed.

The House then resolved itself into Committee on
the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill.
Considerable opposition, however, arose to the
Mt clause, and ultimately Lord GRANVILLE
SOMERSET consented to postpone the further con-
sideration of it until Thursday, en the morning of
wiich day, the Railway Clauses Consolidation
(Scotland) Bill, and the Land Clauses Consolidation
(Scotland) Bill, are also to be considered. The
House then adjourned, and afterwards assembled at
Five o'clock.

After several private Bills had been forwarded a
stage, and several petitions presented,
Lord GRANVILLB SOMERSET rose to propose the re-
solutions which the General Committee on Railways
had recommended to the House for the regulation of
the railway business of the session. One of these re-
solutions went to the exclusion of Members locally in-
terested from serving on Railway Committees.

Mr. CuawroruEu moved the omission of the
resolution.

A lengthened conversation ensued, and the gallery
was cleared for a division; but, ultimately, Mr.
CHRISTOPHER'S amendment was negatived without a
division, and the resolution was agreed to.
On the seventh resolution being put,
• Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET stated, in answer to
Mr. GISBORNE, that no railway Bills of consequence
would be committed before Easter.

Mr. HAWES expressed his dissatisfaction with the
present constitution of the Railway Committee of the
Board of Trade, and suggested the propriety of
making it an open tribunal.

Sir R. Pam. deprecated any attempt at altering
the constitution of the Board as far as the present
year wren concerned. He knew nothing of their pro-
ceedings except from their published reports, and
looking to them he thought they had elicited infor-
mation on the subject of railway matters, which
never could have been elicited before a Committee of
the House.

Mr. J. S. WORTLEY thought the constitution of the
Board could not he altered for the better, and suggested
the propriety of postponing the further consideration
of the subject until a later period of the session.
Mr. lioasuAN thought the present a very inoppor-
tune time for discussing the question.
Mr. CURTEIS complained of the shortness of the
time allowed fur the inspection of plans of proposed
railway's, and of the exorbitant charge made for such
inspection.

The resolution was agreed to, as were several
others ; but a resolution being proposed, making the
attendance of Members on Committees compulsory,
Mr. BBRNAL rose and opposed the resolution on
the ground of the hardship and inconvenience it

would inflict on Members. He thought a tribunal
ought specially to be appointed to adjudicate upon
railway matters.

Mr. WA RBURTON and Sir R. PEEL both considered
the appointment of any such tribunal would be an
abdication by the House of its powers, and could not
but operate prejudicially on their character with the
country. A Oesultory conversation ensued on the
neglect by Members of their duties as Committee-men,
and ultimately the resolution was agreed to.

On the 19th resolution, which is to the effect,
" That parties promoting railway projects which have
been grouped together by the Classification Com-
mittee, shall be permitted to appear before the Com-
mittee on any railway belonging to that group, and
to offer evidence either against the Bills immediately
under the consideration of the Committee, or in sup-
port of their own project," being put,

the impassable limits of cubical capacity and superfi-
cial area to nevr contributions, week after week, of
human corpses, could be carried no further, except by
the burning of old coffins and the removal of forgotten
bones to make room for new comers.

It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader of
that similar receptacle (of a few square yards) in
Cannon-street, and the swarms of noisome insects
and flesh-flies that it supplied for the annoyance of
the children of a neighbouring national or parochial
school. The story of that gravedigger in the church-
yard of St. Ann's, Soho, to whom an incident cc-
curred,—in the way of his profession,—which the
Westminster Review declared might, in point of over-
whelming horror, have suited the terrible fancy of
EURIPIDES or 2ESCHYLUS,—may form a good exem-
plification of the hideous casualties attaching to the
system of parochial interment which we are still con-
tent to tolerate. One of the several gravediggers
whose evidence was taken—a wretched man in the
last stage of a wasting disease, external and internal,
brought on by the fearful necessities of his calling,
which had constantly subjected him to the mephitic
gases and noxious putrescenses of decomposing bodies
—described the chopping and breaking-up operations
by which coffins and the bodies within them had
been habitually disposed of, to accommodate the
current demands for new sepultures. A colleague of
the mattock had probably been specially employed
in these clandestine operations without his knowledge,
for he seems to have had no expectation of such an
evidence to w hat had been going on as he was pre-
sently to meet. On the occasion referred to, the wit-
ness was digging a deep grave, several feet below the
first one, which he had dug through, very near the
surface. Whilst in the progress of his excavations
the loosened soil from the end of a coffin not long
before submitted to the curtailing violations we have
described fell down, and a female corpse, in a shroud,
still fresh and undiscoloured, fell int) his arms; and
his first shock was succeeded by one of still greater
intensity on discovering that it was—headless! But,
to the best of our recollection, no churchyard in Lon-
don or Westminster was described as being more
disgustingly crowded, mare horribly desecratcd by
the wholesale lopping and disturbance and carting
away of coffins and bones—more alarmingly . dan-
gerous to the health of its very densely-populated
neighbourhood, from the putrescent exhalations pro-
ceeding from it, especially on occasions of opening
what is called the " Rector's Pew," than that of St.
Clement's Danes, in the Strand.

Mr. BANKHS again urged the propriety of appoint-
ing Members possessed of local knowledge to serve
on these Committees.

N3W, it is notorious that, }or some months past, the
average mortality of the metropolis has in many
weeks exceeded that of the corresponding periAd last
year. Will any man venture to say that the in-
creased aggregate of fatal disease in the metropolis
has had no connexion with the continuance of the
abominable abuses of interment, which have been
already so strongly reported upon to the Legislature ?
It is not above half a year ago since a feeling of in-
dignation was excited in the public mind by a scene
in the Portugal-street burying-ground—if we are
correct in our remembrance of the fact—by its being
found impossible to bury a coffin, over which the
service had been already performed, and which was
left to stand on end, about a foot deep in the ground, till
the remonstrances of an agonised relative induced the
interference of the minister, or some other autho-
rity, to procure a grave of adequate capacity to he
dug, in which it was finally interred. The excuse of
gravedigger and sexton was, that the ground was so
full the corpse could not be buried deeper than in the
hole they would have committed it to.

A long discussion ensued, but ultimately the reso
lution was agreed to.

The following resolution was then proposed :
" That in Committees on a Bill or Bills, when such
evidence has been given, it shall be within the com-
petency of a Committee to adjourn their proceedings
until the Bill or Bills for such other project shall be
before them, care being taken by the Committee of
Selection that in all such cases the Bills for the so op-
posing projects shall be referred to the Committee by
which the first Bill or Bills had been considered,"
which after a short discussion was agreed to.
Various motions standing on the paper were post-
poned, and the public business of the House com-
menced at a late hour by Mr. Cov►rus moving for
leave to bring in a Bill authorising and regulating
the granting of garden allotments to the poor.
Mr. MmEs seconded the motion which, after a
short discussion, was agreed to, and the House
Adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve o'clock.

Now we earnestly invite the attention of Members
of Parliament to facts like these—to the weekly
exhibition of graves newly opened, and bodies
newly burled in the over-gorged and reeking church-
yard of St. Clement Danes, and other metropolitan
receptacles of the kind, already denounced by the
highest professional authority as saturated with
human corruption, and giving out, daily and hourly,
the principles of infectious disease and death. The
nuisance has really become as flagrant as it is in-
tolerable ; and whether its existence arise from the
avarice of interested incumbents, or of interested paro-
chial authorities, or from the carelessness and apathy
of the incompetent supervision in other quarters,
to which that supervision has been entrusted ; we
implore the Legislature to interpose the most strin-
gent measures of prohibition and penalty, which may
seem best adapted for its entire suppression.

Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have been received.
According to some of them circulars have been sent to
all the Captains-General of the provinces, net to carry
in future into execution the sentences of death pro
nounced by courts-martial, without first referring to the
Governments. A letter from Vittoria states that the
regiments of Santander and Palencia, which, in conse-
quence of the late arrests, have been deprived of a pert
of their officers and sergeants, had been sent, the first to
Villareal-d'Alsva, and the second to Tolou. Before
they set out fifteen of the officers had keen discharged
and ordt red to return home.

Much business was done on the Madrid Bourse on the
25th. The closing prices were—Three per Cents., 33t
cash, 341 at 60 days ; Five per Cents., 251, at 60 days ;
Passive Debt, 254 at 60 days.

The House of Commons is about to record, on the
motion of an Honourable Member, its deliberate opinion
on the expediency or impropriety of allowing the prac-
tice of interring human bodies in churches and burial
grounds within the boundaries of large towns and
cities. Since the appearance of the last two reports
of the Select Committee on the Health of Towns, we
have, on more than one occasion, endeavoured to
direct public attention to the immense importance of
the statistics therein developed of disease and mor-
tality in the most crowded seats of our population.
The Committee had before them the evidence and
reports of many intelligent witnesses, speaking from
continuous series of observations long and assiduously
journalised. From the more recent results, ar: ived
at by their personal investigations and inquiries,
conducted under every discouragement to the ro-
volting and disgusting exhibitions and exposure to the
influences necessary to be encountered of malignant
and revolting maladies; from their own expe-
riences, therefore, as well as the testimony of others,
the Committee in Vestion accumulated and classified
some of the most appalling facts that were ever
brought forward to illustrate that great feature in any
scheme of the domestic economy of a populous nation
—its system for the disposal of its dead. If there
ever existed, since the first civilisation of organised
society, one city of the world in which the disposal of
the dead muEt necessarily affect, and almost govern,
the health of the living, it is to be found in the re-
dundantly peopled London, with its present popula-
tion of about 3,000,000. Notwithstanding all the
vast improvements already effected, or in course of
execution, in the drainage, sewerage, and ventilation
of particular districts comprised within the extensive
area it occupies—the widening of the thoroughfares
and the removal:of obstructions, and the cleansing
and purification of many among the most confined
and filthy quarters to be found in it within these
twenty years—the surface over which this march of
improvement has, as yet, been effected, is necessarily
of very contracted dimensions compared with that
which still remains unvisited by it. And in these
latter there still subsists, in its widest extent, its most
uncontrolled and unmitigated action, and its most

The intelligence in the Paris papers relates chiefly to
the conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock and the pro-
ceedings of the Swiss Diet. Most of the journals are
favourable to the measure, and blame the Finance Mi.
nister for postponing au important financial operation,
and thereby prolonging fluctuation in the funds and agi-
tation in the public mind. " Were ever more wretched
measures tried," the Cowt:taiionnei asks, " to escape
from a measure which the public interest has been de-
manding for ten years, and which was approved by M.
LACAVE LAPLAGNE himself in 1836 ? It will be easy in
every successive year to find reasons like those which
have been advanced for adjourning the conversions The
fear of a rise or fall in the Three per Cents, must always
exist--the danger of jobbing must continue the same; in
a word, it can never be difficult to imagine grave circum-
stances to warrant an adjournment." The Journal des De-
bats takes a different view of the question, strangely argues
against the injustice of the measure, and absurdly for..
bodes generally confusion by robbing one party to serve
another. "To some up our remarks in a single phrase,''
it says, " the clearest effect of the conversion, will be to
destroy the class of stockholders; there will be nothing
left but stockjobbers! There is no opportune time for
injustice, and that is the reason why, whilst we render
homage to the honour of the Minister of Finance, and
the sincerity of the sentiments which he expressed be-
fore tile Committee on the Budget, we have considered
it necessary to protest against the groundwork of his
opinion. M. LACAVII LAPLAGNE has proved very clearly
that the operation would be inopportune this year ;
we shall be prepared to show that it will be bad at any

'HE WEATLIER.-SuN OFFICE, MAUCU 5.

rIiERMOXETER, Lowest, 23 ; Highest, 30 ; Noon, 29.
BAROMETER, 30.08.—WIND, E.
:lOTA.—The figures whirh follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 34 minutes after 11 I Erezthig .. 0 minutes after 0.

ime."

The Committee on the Budget, however, have taken a
very different view. On Monday they took the proposition
of the Minister into consideration, and, with one exception
only, the Members requested the Government to present
a Bill this session for the conversion of the stock.

The discussions on the Jesuits, which commenced in
the Extraordinary Diet at Zurich on the 27th ult., pos
sess considerable interest. At the opening of the
meeting, the Chancellor of the Diet laid before the
Deputies the petitions praying for the expulsion of the
Jesuits, which are signed by 120,000 persons. M. NEU.
Haus, Deputy for Berne, and one of the most distin-
gaished of the Liberal party, began the debate. The
question, he said, was not whether the Diet had a right
to take steps against the Jesuits, but whether
the Jesuits had compromised and were compromising
the safety of Switzerland. The Jesuits were dangerous,
" first, because with their morals they teach a people
to commit tranquilly the most culpable acts ; secondly,
because they profit by their ecclesiastical character to
introduce trouble and division into families ; thirdly,
because the order of Jesuits inculcates blind and passive
submission, and thus lays prostrate the human mind ;
fourthly, because, having neither family nor social rela-
tions, the Jesuits can no longer be good citizens ; fifthly,
because they are constantly aiming at power a ithout
compunction as to the means ; and, sixthly, because, as
regards Switzerland, the principal object of the order is
the extirpation of Protestantism." 'I his admirable sum-
mary of the qualities of the sect was followed by
a speech from M. SIEGWART, Deputy from Lu-
cerne, who said the Jesuits were not the cause
of the existing agitation, and ascribed it to the
irritation produced in the minds of the Catholics by
the suppression or the convents. Ile declared in the name
of his canton, that it would not subscribe to any of the
chimerical ideas about the influence of the Jesuits, and
would not revoke the decree which had been issued in
their favour. The Deputies of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwald,
Zug, and Fribourg defended the Jesuits, and asserted
that all that had been said against them was mere ca-
lumny. The Deputy for Soleure, M. MUNZINOER, said
" that he represented a Catholic canton, but he was ne-
vertheless in,tructed to demand the Opulsi94 91 the

hideous aspects, that productive source of typhoid and
malignant fevers, ulcerated sore throats, habitual
nausea terminating in paralysis and death, which the
Committee, concurring in the strong opinions of Mr.
\VALLE& and other medical authorities whom they
had examined, reported to the Legislature as the
most active causes of what may be called the local
mortality of certain districts carefully indicated by
them. It will be seen that we allude to the crowded
state of our metropolitan churchyards, and the
continued practice of interring in them. In many of
our more populous borough and manufacturing towns
the same evil prevails in a degree more or less miti-
gated. But we hope that from the notice which the
matter is about to receive in the 'House of Commons,
it will first be dealt with effectually at present, and
permanently for the future—in London and its su-
barbs. We have no intention, ou this occasion, to
dwell upon the horrors which have been several times ,
so prominently brought before the public ; on the
, noxious exhalations from the burial-ground in Pon;
tugal•street, which swept out, like the -besom of des-
tiny, the entire of the inmates, saving one, of a house
with windows that opened upon the reeking and cor-
rupting Golgotha beneath ; or the Wych-street Cha-
pel, with its burial cellar and yard beneath and behind
it, wherein, year after year, bodies were received and
buried, till they reached within a few inches of the
surface and the flooring, and the process of adapting

THE BISN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1845.

Jesuits, for the clergy of his canton were enlightened,
and opposed to the charlatanism of that order. Ile stated
that his instructions were voted by three-fourths of the
Grand Council, supported by 7,000 petitioner,,, whereas,
for the acceptation of the constitut'on of the canton,
there were only 6,000 petitioners. This fact, he thought,
would show the state of public feeling on the question of
the Jesuits in Soleure." After hearing the Deputies of
Glaris and Outer Appenzell, who agreed with the De-
puty for Berne, the Diet adjourned until the following
day.

The Zurich Guzate states that when Mr. MORIER,
the British Minister, presented to the President of the
Diet the dispatch of the Earl of ABERDEEN, he ex-
pressed warm sympathy for the Helvetic Confederation,
and declared that the British Government approved in
its whole extent the circular addressed by the Vorort to
the States.

English
Irish
Foreign

It will be seen from the following proceedings of the
French Stock Market, that great fluctuations had taken
place, with a considerable decline both in the Fire and
Three per Cents.
THE BOURSE--MONDAY, MARCH 3.

First highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five perCenta— 120 70 .. 120 70 120 40 .• 121 40
Three per Cents••• 85 20 .. 85 20 .. 85 5 *5 5
Bank of France
Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1090 ..1093 .. 1085 • • 1085
Belgian Fives, 1840 .. ••.• •• 10414 .. 104% .. 104% .. 104%
1842 •••• •• 1061,-; .. 106% .. 106% .. 10G%
Two-and-a-Half.. •• 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30
Spanish Threes— .• •• .• 40% .. 40% .. 40% .• 40%
Active •••••••• •• •• .. 38 .. 38 .. 38
Passive • 6% • • 6% .. 6% .. 6%
Debt .. 33% .. 33% . • 33%
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 61% .. GI% .. 61% .. 61%
Raman 1e5% 105% .. 105% .. 105%
RAILWAY SRAREIs.
•
St. Germain ••• • • • ••1175 ..1175 • • 1175 ..1175
Versailles, R. 13. • • • • • . • • • • • • 562 50 .. 562 50 .. 562 50 .. 562 50
•••• •••• •• 380 .. 380 .. 377 50 .. 377 50
Rouen ••
Rouen to liavre. ... . 970 .. 970 .. 970 .. 970
Orleans ......... •• •- •• ••••1240 ..1264 ..1240

Strasburg to Bale •• •• 330 .. 330 ..
Avictnon to Marseilles" ••1087 50 —lOB7 50 ..1030
3toutpellier to Cetto
Bordeasx to Teste • • 250 .. 263 .. 240

.•126k
•• 325
-1087 5
.. 610
245

THIS DA Y',s NEWS.

CHANCERY.---(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn-hall to-day. In
consequence of his Lordship's sitting in the House of Lords
yesterday, the Court took appeal motions. His Lordship,
having disposed of one or two cases totally devoid of interest,
rose shortly after one o'clock, to attend her Majesty's levee.

VICE-CHANCEICY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England heard causes to-day, and
at an early hour rose to attend the levee at St. James's
Palace.

SEVONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAmEs.)
NICHOLSON V. WATT.
In this cause, George Nicholson, a seaman, late of the brig
Jane, of Newcastle, brought an action against Mr. Walter
Watt, the master of the said brig, for wages due, to the
amount of 31. 10s. Mr. Medina appeared for the plaintiff,
Mr. Wild for the defence.

It was stated on behalf of the plaintiff, that he had been
engaged in October last to perform a voyage from London to
Shields and back, for which two separate contracts were
entered into, at the rate of 1/. 18s. 9d. for each way, or
3/. 17s. 6d. in the whole. The plaintiff completed this voyage,
but, with the exception of a few shillings, he had never re-
ceived his wages. 3/. 10s. was still due, for the recovery of
which the present proceedings Were instituted.
In answer to this, it was contended that the plaintiff
when first engaged at London was only engaged for
what is called a " run" from the Thames to Shields, and
that when at the latter place' he was paid for this, and a
fresh agreement entered into for a new voyage to London
and back again. This the plaintiff only partially fulfilled,
having left the ship at Gravesend on its way back, thus vio-
lating the articles he had signed for the whole voyage. The
ship was totally wrecked the voyage immediately following
that on which the plaintiff left, and in it the articles of agree-
ment were lost, but the terms of the agreement were proved
by the verbal evidence of the mate.
The jury immediately returned a verdict 11. Os. 9d. being
wages due for one way, an allowance having been made for
18s. which it was proved the plaintiff had received on ac-
count at various times.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.)
BURGLARY.—Thomas Jones was indicted for burglariously
entering and taking from the house of Mr. Thomas Walton,
a corn-dealer, fourteen sovereigns. The offence was proved,
and the prisoner sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour,
for twelve months in the House of Correction.
(Before Mr. Justice PArrEsox and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
Two men, Richard Elliot and Richard Vincent, omnibus
drivers, remanded from the last session, were indicted—the
former for breaking into the house of Thomas Cox, a clerical
robe maker, Southampton-street, Covent-garden, and stealing
therefrom 460 yards of silk and 461 yards of linen ; the latter
with receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen.
Mr. Allen attended to prosecute; Mr. Ballentine was en-
gaged for Elliot, and Mr. Clarkson on the part of the pri-
soner Vincent.

It appeared from the evidence adduced, that Mr. Cox had
left town for Tunbridge Wells, and that on his return he
missed the above property. The shopman stated that he
had left the shop shut up safely on the night of the 24th De-
cember, but when he came to open it next morning, he dis-
covered that the lock had been tampered with, as it would
not yield to the key, and he lost no time in consequence in
sending for a smith to pick it. On entering he discovered
that the silk and linen had been abstracted. Information
was given to the police, and soon after the prisoners were
taken into custody by Inspector Shackell, of the detective
force, part of the goods having been found in their possession.
The jury were addressed by the Learned Counsel for their
respective clients.
Mr. Justice PArrEsoN summed up, and the jury, without
retiring, returned a verdict of Guilty against Elliot, and they
acquitted Vincent. Elliot was then sentenced to be trans-
ported for 15 years.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNEJWAY
We had a fair average quantity of English Wheat. Se-
lected qualities sold steadily; other kinds slowly, at about
stationary prices. Free Foreign Wheat was held firmly, at
full currencies ; but in corn, under lock, we have no sales to
report. Barley and Malt were held at fully Monday's quo-
tations. Although the show of Oats was good, that descrip-
tion of Grain moved off steadily, at previous rates. Beans,
Peas, and Flour without alteration.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
5,060 qrs. 1,440 qrs.
-
....._.
Malt, 6,520 qrs.
4111,11XTECIIMPEL.
Prime Mutton and Pork sold freely, at full prices. In other
kinds of Meat very little was:doing. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s
6d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 38 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 53; and Pork,
2s 10d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcass.
LATEST MANCHE

Oats. I Flour.
5,470 1 5,290
1,430

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MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.
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