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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1845.

The House of Commons met at Pour.
Several rail ;,vay and other private Bills were brought
in and read a first time. . . _

Sir R. PEEL moved that the House, at its rising, do
adjourn to Monday, March :it, which was agreed to.
Among the notices of motion given was one by
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, for the Bth of April, of a Bill to
secure letters from being opened at the Post-office ;
ad cos ki Vssz, for the ad of April, of a
MOM eo the itubjeot of the out tte llayrootb.
Ia ieference to this subject, Mr. WARD gave notice

that he would, at the time it was most fitting to do
so, move that all further money grants or the pur-
poses of religion be made out of the funds at present
appropriated to the maintenance of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

that had occurred in that respectable receptacle, she
applied in her anxiety to learn whether or not his
remains had been disturbed, to one BIRD, not inaptly
termed in the report one of the " managers" of the
grave-yard. This person and his colleagues, by
public advertisement, had offered to open any grave
in their ground on application from the relatives of
persons interred there, so as to show that their re-
mains had not been disturbed. This was a clear
trick enough, but the poor widow's application was
of course rejected. 'We take for granted the allega-
tions of the report. From these it would seem that
BIRD refused the woman's prayer on various pretences.
First, " the ground had not been opened for fifteen
years ;" second, when she demonstrated this to
be false, BIRD'S will was " It should not
be opened ;" thirdly, on the wretched wo-
man's importunate pressing of her application,
" that she had got teeth enough to dig a grave her-
self." We have no space nor time to follow the
story of what ensued in the attempt to neutralise
this ruffianly denial. Enough for our purpose that
the vestry-clerk of the parish, coming forward under
instructions to prosecute the " managers" of this
Exmouth-street Golgotha, made this impressive and
appalling statement :—" He had evidence to show
that the corpses were tumbled out of the coffins in
heaps, and thrown upon a mound of clay, then beaten
and chopped up with the clay, and, when compounded
together, the whole was thrown to the bottom of a
pit dug for the purpose."
Any furhor remarks of ours could but weaken
this official testimony to such incredible horrors in a
Christian land, in the head-quarters of civilisation
and refinement. We content ourselves with asking,
Can the municipal, the district, the parochial autho-
rities—can the magistracy, the Government which
appoints them—or the Legislature, which controls
the action of that Government—continue any longer
to slumber in drowsy apathy for the remainder of a
session—nay for a month, a week—after the ensuing
recess, with the loathsome stench of such sickening
horrors in their nostrils ?

On the motion of Mr. CuRisTIE certain returns re
lating to the Universities were ordered to be laid be
fore the House.

The evidence taken before the Dartmouth Election
Committee was ordered to be printed.

In answer to Mr. DENNI;TOUN, Sir J. GRAHAM
said that he was not prepared to propose any measure
to prevent interment in towns.

Mr. AIORRISON moved the following resolutions

1. That it is the duty of Parliament, ir. giving its sanc-
tion to the establishment of new railways, to render them
the means of affording to the public the best and safest
communication, and the greatest amount of accommoda-
tion, at the lowest possible rates.
2. That the clauses heretofore introduced into Rail-
way Bills to limit the amount of tolls to be demanded
fur the use of the railway, having proved practically in-
operative, it is expedient to make more ( ffectual pro-
vision against the undue enhancement of the cost of
travelling and transportation in every future Railway
Bill, by fixing the highest rates which the railway com-
pany shall be allowed to charge for the conveyance of
passengers and goods.
3. That for this purpos. every Committee on a Rail-
way Bill, introduced in the present or any future session
of Parliament, shall report a table of fees and charges,
the lowest NS hir.th they shall judge to bs consistent, under
the circumstances of each case, H it h a fair and reasonable
return for the capital to be invested.
4. And that every Committee to which two or more
competing proje.As for new raily.nys may l e referred,
shall require the promoters of each to put in state meats
as to the rate of charge for the coiiveyanee of passen-
gers and goods to which they are content to be limited,
and the amount of accommodation whil.h they will bind
themselves to provide for the public at those rates ; and
that, in determining on the comparative merits of coin-
peting schemes, regard shall be had to the extent and
nature of the advantages which can be thus reserved to
the public from each.
In the course of his speech the Hon. Gentleman
complained bitterly of the conduct of the railway
companies in regard to third-class passengers. In-
stead of attaching third-class carriages to all their
trains, a plan which would be more economical to the
company, and more convenient to the public, they
preferred starting separate trains for the third-class,
which travelled at a much slower rate, thus incurring
additional expense for the sole purpose of inconve-
niencing third-class passengers.
Mr. WARBURTON seconded the motion, and sug-
gested the propriety of adopting a maximum of rates
beyond which a company could not charge.
Lord G. SOMERSET admitted the justice of some of
the complaints which had been made ; but he doubted
whether the remedies proposed were calculated to
meet the evil. He would advise the Hon. Member
to withdraw these resolutions. But if he could de-
vise any other mode of attaining the object he had in
view, so much was he impressed with the importance
of the principle, that he was quite ready to go with
MIL For instance, if he would propose some altera-
tion of the standing orders of the House, which
would have the effect of obliging railway companies,
before their coming to Parliament, to lay down
some rate of charges, it might accomplish the end
desired.

The Lord Bishop of EXETER is a man of consistent
contumaciousness. He has long acquired a notoriety as
extensive as that of his compulsory divom from the
Rectory of Stanhope for his high-flying principles of
prelatical infallibility, and of the inherent supremacy of
the spiritual over the temporal jurisdiction. From a
period long anterior to the time at which he polemiciscd
himself into a factious importance, and the political re-
version of a bishopric, by running a tilt at the projected
concession of the Roman Catholic claims, to the present
time, he has lost few opportunities either of dis-
playing the " prel itica superbitt" or vesting the odium
theologicum so congenial to his nature. It is a pity—(for
the Bishop)—that the times have passed away when a
true soldier of the Church availed himself of the abun-
dant opportunities which offered for vindicating the
prowess of the Church mi►itant on her temporal enemies.
In those good times your fierce Bishop doffed his mitre
and assumed his helmet with as much nonckdance as,
now-a-days, a young cornet exchanges his smoking cap
for his shacko. These hierarchical pastors moved to
consecrati'ms or to battles with equal alacrity. If they
were ready to preleh or preside at the preaching of the
Christian doctrines of peace and humility, w ith an array
of armed partisans, resembling the splendid retinue of a
powerful military baron, or with a sumptuously habited
cleat and clergy (numerous enough to have gratified
Lord J. MANNERS' yearnings for the revival of Convoca-
tion), they showed no unworthy weakness of purpose—no
diffidence about their moral justification in marching to
the more exciting pastime of war. Like WALTER
Scorr's modern Irish soldiery, " they move to death
with military glee." Many a hard blow, in border
forays, was dealt by Bishops of DURHAM or CARLISLE;
and Bishops of WINCHESTER and of SAINT ANDREWS
are recorded to have fought in pitchwl battles with a
zeal not less intenre than—and we may surmise about as
holy as—that which animated Pope Jumers, when work-
ing in the trenches, or directing in person the opera-
tions of the siege and the assault. Bishop PHILLPOTTS—
HENRY of EXETER, we mean—is a most worthy repre-

Lord HowicK had heard with great satisfaction
the declaration of the Noble Lord,• that though he
did not coincide altogether in the terms of these re-
solutions, yet that he was prepared to accede to the
principles which they contained. And if the Hon.
Member should be induced to withdraw them, he
hoped that her MAJESTY'S Ministers would adopt
some other mode, and that speedily, to accomplish the
object at which these resolutions aimed. At any
rate, he trusted that the Government would take up
the matter, and give it their best attention before the
great macs of Railway Bills which had been intro-
duced this session were committed. He thought it
would be well to introduce some enactment by which
lines of railway should, within a certain period after
their formation, revert to the Crown.

Sir R. PEEL acknowledged the great difficulty of
the subject. How could they erect a tribunal to
adjudicate upon the prices which railway companies
might charge g The great doubt in his mind was,
whether such a tribunal would not establish too high
a rate. He thought that Committees on special
Bills, keeping the principle of these resolutions in
view, might be safely left to take care of the public
interest.

Aftcr a few words from Mr. DENNISON, Mr. S.
WORTLEY, Sir G. GREY, and Mr. PARKER, the
motion was withdrawn.
After a short conversation between Mr. HUME and
Lord LINCOLN, on the subject of lighting the House,
the report Gf the Committee of Supply was brought
up and received.
The Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill (Scotland)
was read a third time and passed ; and Mr. WAKLEY
having given notice of a motion for the production of
the Secretary of State's warrant, authorising the
opening of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE'S letters, the House
adjourned at Twenty Minutes before Eight o'clock.

'We have often directed public attention to the la-
mentable and fatal consequences to be apprehended
from the continued practice of interring human
bodies within the churches and in the burial-grounds

of the metropolis and other great towns. In advert-
ing to the " Reports of the Committee on the Health
of Great Towns," we have over and over again had to
deplore the fatuity which perpetuates a prejudice re •
suiting in cons( quences the most revolting and dis-
gusting to all the instincts of our nature, and in
defiance of the most awful visitations of infection and
disease that can visit on the living the most dis-

astrous reminiscences of the dead. It would be a

painful task to refer our readers to the tedious details
disclosed by witnesses to whose credibility no excep-
tion could be taken or was attempted to be hazarded.

But we may remark in few words that they esta-
blished the existence of a system of desecration of the
sanctuary of the grave in the churchyards, situated in
the most populous localities of our metropolis. The
custom of those to whom the care of these receptacles
of the last remains of mortality is confided by local
and parochial authorities, as well as by the comma
law of the land, has evidently been to levy a guilty
reveaue from the abuse of the functions invested in
them. The parties who have possessed the interest
in the land devoted to the reception of their corpses
who are summoned by the fiat of PROVIDENCE to re-
incorporation with the original dust from which their

primal creation was supplied, whether they have pos
_ _ _

sessed the freeholds as ministers of the Establishment,
or of congregations dissenting from it in the multi-
plied forms which religious dissent has assumed in its
separations from our Church, have manifest, d equal
sordidness of feeling, equal obtuseness of sentiment,
and equally vivacious selfi hness in making the
highest possible market of the superficial areas
and cubical capacities of the grounds that they had
thus to farm to the uses of the dead. In vain spotted,

maligni-nt, typhoid fevers of various intensity dis-
played the encouragement which was afforded by
such a state of things to their influences. The
horrors of such corrupting charnels, as those which
still disgrace the localities we have often indicated in
the neighbourhoods of Drury-lane, Portugal. street,
Cannon-street, and elsewhere, still exist. The Gol-
gotha of St. Clement's Danes Churchyard, to the
disgrace of the metropolitan police, the scandal of the
parish authorities, and the imminent peril of a densely
peopled vicinity, is still permitted to be opened for
the entombment of additional putrefaction into its
reeking and pestiferous bosom. It has been our duty
to show how the sordid avarice, end brutal, reckless
cupidity of the parties who commit these grievous
offences against the decencies of society and the in-
stincts of our common nature, hare endeavoured to
accommodate the capacities of the limited space under
their control to the unlimited, ever-increasing de-
mands of local mortality. Every fair and reasonable
inference that can be founded on the facts before the
public and on the discouraging results of compara-
tive mortality in the last year, embraced by the reports
of the Registrar-General, as compared with the pre-
ceding one, compels us to suppose that the latent
cause of aggravated and extended fatal disease is
really to be found in this still continued practice of
intermural interment. Were any further evidence
necessary to confirm such a deduction we should find
it in our police report for Wednesday last. At the
Clerkenwell office.a poor widow,
whose husband had
been buried in that enormous sewer of human de-
, composition called the Spa-fields Burial-ground, in
the disgusting purlieus of which the people who reside
in Extnouth-street are content to breathe a tainted
atalnaph," appeals to the tuagibtrate for ativlcip,
Having read in the newspapers of the grave violations

sentative of the bishops-belligerent of our historical tra-
ditions. Could our times be rollcd back to that remote
point at which the enlightened toleration and Christian

liberal ty of a few such unbigoted and self-denying
priests as this Right Reverend Father would heartily
desire that they should be, how astounding a lesson
would he_read to some of those meddlesome laymen who
now presume to interpose their unwarranted opinions
in matters ecclesiastical ? Why, we would
not trust Mr. CHARLES BULLER, for example,
after a debate in which Puseyite innovations
wnd their Episcopal patrons had been somewhat frce'y
handled, within ten miles of Exeter city, were Bishop
HENRY in residence there, armed with the old hierar-
chical authority and power. In our mind's eye, we can
fancy our gentle Bishop, mounted on his Barbary jennet,
and eased in that" harness of proof" which still seems

to render him insensible to the rudest assaults of his

adversaries, heading his body guard at a fierce gallop
to the spot where private information had led hint to
believe he might full in pith the luckless Member for
Liskeard, on his unsuspecting return from a legislative
campaign, to the head-quarters of his family in Devon
shire. Oh ! with what a fiery glance of anticipated triumph
would our good Bishop—followed by his deans and his
canons and minor canons, his prebendaries, priests, and
deacons, his proctors and precentors—all armed like him-
self, to the teeth, despite the cassock or the stole—have
betaken himself to the spoil of such a Philistine ! But
the days of practical prelatical doughtiness are past. If
the Bishop of EXETER expect the advent of the most
furious anti-Puseyite protester, by the fastest special
down-train, in these deplorable days of radicalism and
railroads—he cannot, publicly, venture ever to anathe-
matise anything more sentient than the boiler of the
locomotive. He may exorcise the demon-whistle, or he
may threaten the stoker with the censure of the spiritual
courts ; but it is doubtful whether he would be much
more successful in stopk,ing the momentum of the train
than he has been in staying the impetuous current of
anti-Puseyite feeling. Yet still, the Right Rev. Father,
albeit shorn of the good old power of other days, and
oppressed by the accumulating forces of that freedom of
thought and independence of action which the disas-
trous tendencies of the reformed constitution of our
Anglican Church have so fatally fostered in the laity—
still he retains the ancient instincts of his caste. He is,
even in defeat, haughty, domineering, and litigious--
smooth of speech, but eager end reckless in the indul-
gence of once adopted prejudices. Courtier enough ti
have studied the science of dissimulation proftundly, he
is so much of a churchman as to permit the expression
of his constitutional temperament sometimes too un-
guardedly to develop itself.

The Bishop of Ext:TEst has been of late too much, too
often, and too discreditably, we must say, before the
public •in connexion with what, notwithstanding his
Lordship's testimony to its solemnity and importl.nce,
we shall take the liberty to designate as one o' the
most worthless and impertinent squabbles that has t ver
vexed the repose or disgraced the dignity of the Es'a-
Wished Church. He has, in that unhappily offic;ous
spirit which, since his elevation to the Bishops' bench,
has always been embroiling him in some shape or other,
put himself forward as a determined champion of the
offeasive peudo-papittical observances, which make
small Birmingham. martyrs of the WARD and PALMER
disciples of Dr. PUSRY'S school, but which offends and
disgte-ts about four-sixths of all the congregations of the
E.aablislitnent in the United Kingdom. We had hoped,
from the signal nature of the reproofs lately administered
by every organ of public opicion, that our excellent Bishop
would have been, by this time, aweary of the controversy.
He has bet n already compelled—and compelled against
his own declared convictions to the contrary—to abandon
the ceremonials he had most vehemently contended for
in a most elaborate correspondence. , Yesterday we re-
corded another case of defeat. The curate of Falmouth
has given up, it. seems, the Puseyite forms which had so
much estranged his parishioners from his church. Bishop
PUILLPOTTS writes to him and the churchwardens in
a sulky, " I won't-give-in-though-I-am-beaten" sort of
style—that though, for the sake of peace, he had con-
sented to this abandonment of particular forms, " he
could not permit, in any of the churches of his diocese
the discontinuance of any part of the Liturgy (as ordered
by the Rubric) ss hich was used there at the date of his
last letter to the clergy (Bth January last). He must,
therefore, require that the reading of a sentence of the
offertory, and of the prayer for the Church militant,
after the morning service at Falmouth, be continued as
before."

Pcor Bishop ! He would have thought it graceless to
leave Hs concession an act of grace ! Is there no retir•
ing fund on which Bishops, after certain periods of active
ervice, may be pensioned I)ff the bench ?

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 13th inst.
On that day the Chamber of Deputies was again en-
gaged in discussing the Bill for restoring the unsold
Church property, and the report of the minority of
the Committee was rejected by a majority of 117 to
27. 'MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA made an eloquent
speech ou the occasion, for the purpose chiefly of
calming the public ming! with marl to the security
of purchases already made. In reference to the

THE SCN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1845

general measure, he said " a solemn and official de-
claration of the Holy See has been communicated to
France and Austria ; the Father of the Church pro-
claims that the hour has come for entering again into
negotiations [with Spain. The Government having
faith in this declaration, hopes that these negotiations
will soon end in a desirable concordat. The Holy
See approves of the conduct hitherto pursued by the
Spanish Government ; nothing can, therefore, pre-
vent a most satisfactory arrangement." The Bill,
of course, will be carried by a large majority. The
following account of a burglary and capture of the
thieves appears in the Castellano

" A band of thieves who had expected to find millions
at the dwelling of M. Carriguiri, the capitalist, have cap-
tured but 18,000 reals (180/.) They had been admitted
by one of the banker's servants, to whom the most
splendid offers had been made. As the miscreants in-
tended to return and murder M. Carriguiri, if need were,
in order to find the treasure, the repentant sers ant se-
cretly warned his master of their design. Eleven persons
have in consequence been apprehended."
The Three per Cents. closed at 34 9-16 for cash,
and 35 at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 24 at 60
days; the Five per Cents. at 26 at 60 days ; the Vales
at 104 ; and the Debt without Interests at 8 at GO days.

The discussion in the French Chamber of De-
puties on the Bill for open voting has been brought to
a close by the partial adoption of the measure. Vote
by ballot is still to be allowed, but can take place only
on the demand of twenty Members in place of forty,
as proposed in the original. The modification was
adopted chiefly owing to a speech of M. Durist, who
has still great influence in the Chamber. He sup-
ported vote by ballet, but not with forty Members
demanding it, for that was too many, but with twenty.
" As for me," continued M. DUPIN, " who am a Con-
servative, but aho do not belong to the Conservative
party, and who have no object to preserve for a longer
or shorter period in power such or such men,
or to place there certain others, I am of opinion that
publicity may one day produce almost miraculous
effects, and the next, he attended with most detes-
table consequences. I consider that the ballot is ne-
cessary for the future safety of the country, for the li-
berty of this assembly. When there are so many factions
around us, when we live in the midst of such great
vicissitudes, I am at a loss to discover how the abo-
lition of the ballot can be called for ! There are
various kinds of tyranny—the tyranny of insurrec-
tions, the tyranny of power. Happy are they who
have the courage to brave everything in the day of
trouble, and declare their opinions aloud ! But there
are others who have need of secrecy to venture to
vote according to their conscience. Do not take
from them the protection they require. Re
move not from your regulations a guarantee
which is useful in times of calm against corruption,
and in times of agitation against popular tyranny."
The Journal des Debats is satisfied with the result, but
most of the Opposition journals complain that the
evil is by no means removed, and that secret voting
in all important cases will still be resorted to. "The
discussion which preceded the vote," says the Presse,
"has very feebly answered our expectations. Count
DE SALVANDY did not come up to what he promised
on Monday. During his ridiculously solemn evoca-
tion, M. GuizoT, who was doubly weary of M. DE
SALVANDY, both as a colleague and as an orator,
whistled between his teeth with a sneering air,
beating time with his wooden paper-knife ; but he
said nothing, for he has left off saying anything, this
poor Minister ! After M. DE SALVANDY, M. BARROT
occupied the tribune, and found no difficulty in
throwing down the whole scaffolding of sophisms
so clumsily raised by the illustrious author of
Nathalie ' and Alonzo.' In fine, the secret ballot
found its last advocate in the man who is the best
personification cf the unclassed species, in M. Durix.
M. DUPIN evoked the solitary efficacious argument
in favour of the secret ballot—fear ! In turn, he
made the terrors of riot growl, the blade of the poig-
nerd glitter, the muskets of insurrection flash and
explode in the eyes and ears of his adversaries, and he
conquered. This result, we repeat, is to be regretted.
Happily, however, it is not definitive. An institution
which can be defended by only such miserable argu-
ments cannot continue long in existence." There
will now be three modes of voting—by assis et leve,
by actual division or the public vote, and by the
ballot. The vote by division will be given through
the means of two urns placed upon the table, one
white and the other black; the first destined to re-
ceive the balls in favour of the adoption of
the measure in question, and the other the
balls fur its rejection. As the colour of the
urn indicates the vote, it will, of course, be public.
In cases where at present the vote is taken by
the secret ballot, the vote by division becomes a right.
On the demand of ten Members it must be granted,
even after a vote taken by assis et leve. Recourse
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the Chamber, in reference to this quensgtoaionscnwlye,
rather amusing, and is thus described by the Con-
stitutionnel

"At the moment when the vote cn the ensemble
of the proposition took place, the Chamber offered
a singular spectacle. It was going to proceed to the
vote by assts et ley, as is practised, when a ques-
tion of regulation is treated of, when several blem-
burs announced their intention to demand the ballot.
perhaps have. given a. proof of its inconve-
It would have
againbeen again judged by ittulf, at.d
was, in. fact,. being prepared. It con-
tained some names, but t in vain was the attempt made to
complt to it. It circulated from. bench to bench, every
inconve-
nience. A list
where meeting with r.iew refusals, whilst the Chamber
complacently waited for. the
. determination of this useless
journey. At last, the faithful defenders of the ballot on
its last day, despairing of finding 20 signatures, tore up
their list. The Chamber proceeded will its business,
and the secret vote, dying of itself, was condemned by a
public vote. The Chamber had scarcely separated when
there were seen to pass, on the shoulders of two work-
men, the urns now proscribed, which have served for the
ballot. They were taken away, no doubt, to give them
the colour required for their new destination. They
thus passed mournfully in the midst of the Deputies, and
were greeted with universal laughter."
The following are miscellaneous extracts from the

The pre-
,
papers :
stahyes I:i—al;les have
elgxipetrds,itoiofnthaegalointsht,
paAratlieotgrfofrromtheA
commenced. The Vautour left this morning with nearly
30,000 cartridges, which are to be deposited at Bugia,
and 600 cases of biscuit for Dellys. It appears that a
column will leave from that point, and another from
Setif, and that they will proceed towards the mountains
of Bugi9, and others which constitute Kabylta. We are
assured that General Changarnier will take the coin-
mand,"under the orders of Alarshal Bugeaud. The ar-
rival of the Marsh=al is positively announced for the Both,
but the expedition cannot march untiltowards the middle
of April."
The Semaphore of Marseilles states, on the authority
of a h tter from Algiers of the 10th, that there was
found in the ruins of one of the powder-magazines which
was blown up the body of a negro or moor which could
not be recognised, and that this person is supposed under
the influence of fanaticism to have been the cause of
the disaster.

A letter from Zurich of the 15th inst. says :—" By
a circular letter, dated the 12th, the Vorort has freed
the cantons of St. Gall, Thurgau, and Shzdfhausen,
from the obligation to maintain their contingent under
arms. The State Gazette of Lucerne, and the Federal
Gault,; of Zurich,
attribute this result to the French
note."