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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 manifested equal
sordidness of feeling, equal obtuseness of sentiment,
and equally vivacious selfishness 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,
malignant, 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, and brutal, reckless
cupidity of the parties who commit these grievous
offences against the decencies of :society and the in-
stincts of our common nature, have 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 Exmouth-street are content to breathe a tainted
atmosphere, appeals to the magistrate for advice.
Having read in the newspapers of the grave violations
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, corning 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 further 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 ?

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 on the occasion, for the purpose chiefly of
calming the public mind with regard to the security
of purchases already made. In reference to the
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 rwith 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 ceurse, 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 (1801.) 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 servant 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 60 days.

' made the terrors of riot growl, the blade of the poig-
nard 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 for 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
can also be had to the secret ballot when only it is
demanded by twenty Members, either by a written
list or by word of mouth. The concluding scene in
the Chamber, in reference to this question, was
rather amusing, and is thus described by the Con-
stitutionnel

"At the moment when the vote on the ensemble
of the proposition took place, the Chamber offered
a singular spectacle. It was going to proceed to the
vote by assns et leye, as is practised, when a ques-
tion of regulation is treated of, when several Mem-
bers announced their intention to demand the ballot.
It would have been again judged by itself, and
would perhaps again have given a proof of its inconve-
nience. A list was, in fact, being prepared. It con-
tained some names, but in vain was the attempt made to
complete it. It circulated from bench to bench, every-
where meeting with new 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 with 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, op 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
papers :

A letter from Algiers, of the 10th, says :—" The pre-
parations for the expedition against the Kabyles have
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 Bugia, and others which constitute Kabylis. We are
assured that General Changarnier will take the com-
mand, under the orders of Marshal Bugeaud. The ar-
rival of the Marshal is positively announced for the 30th,
but the expedition cannot march until towards the middle
of April."

The Semaphore of Marseilles states, on the authority
of a letter 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 Shaffhausen,
from the obligation to maintain their contingent under
arrnii. The &ate Gazette of Lucerne, and the Federal
Gazi.e of Zurich, attribute this result to the French
note."

The discussion in the French Chamber of De-
puties on the Bill for open Toting 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. DUPIN, who
has still great influence in the Chamber. He sup-
ported vote by ballot, 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 who 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-

on 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 secresy 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 Debals 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. Duna.
M Durirt evoked the solitary efficacious argument
in favour of the secret ballot—fear! In turn, he

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1845.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There were yesterday only 2,000 bales of Cotton sold at
Liverpool, and the marliet was flat. The market is now
closed for the holidays. The sales of the week to last night
were 18,950 bales. The stock is 758,000 bales against
608,000 at this time last year.-Shares were steady and lively.
Barnsley Junction, 6/. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto, New shares, 3%;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4/. Is. 3d. 4s. ; Blackburn
and Preston, 15%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire,
; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% 11 ; Caledonian,
10 ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 47%; Ditto, Half
Shares, at 5 dis., ex div., 233/4 ; Ditto, New Shares, at 33
discount, ex dividend, 39% 1/2, ; Chester and Preston
Brook, 4% 5 ; Churnet Valley, 6% 16s. 3d. 7 ; Clydes-
dale Junction, 7% ; Direct Northern, 4% ; Dublin
and Galway, 2% ; Dundee and Perth, 3 ; Eastern
Counties, ex div., 21% %; Ditto, Perpetual, N 0.2, 1/. 6s. ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div., 61% 62 ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5% ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. ls.
I/. Os. 6d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18 173/4 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 8% ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares,
183/4 ; Great Western, ex. div., Half Shares, 101%;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 51/1;
Hudderfield and Sheffield, 41/2 ; Lancaster and Preston, 54;
Leeds and Thirsk, 4%, % ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 208 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 3% 3/. I ls. 6d.; London and Birmingham, ex div.,
231%; London and South-Western, ex div., 79%; London
and York, 3% ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex
div., 164 164%; Manchester, Bury, and Rosendale, 14% ;
Midland Stock,- ex div., 140 140 3/4 ; Ditto, 401 Shares, 13%
18s. 9d. ; Newark and Sheffield, 2%; Newcastle and Ber-
wick. 14% 3/4 ; North British, Half Shares, 414. ;
North Wiles Mineral, New Shares, 43/4 ; North Wales,
2% '% ; Norwich and Brandon, New Shares, 41. lls. 4%;
Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 31%;
Scottish Central, 514 %; Sheffield and Lincoln, 11. 45.;
Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 113 112; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, ex int , 1314 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6
; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3L 11s. 6d. %;
Shrewsbury,Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ; South
Eastern New Shares, No. 3,8/. Bs. 9d. ; South Wales, 6% I.A ;
Jamaica, 30; Boulogne and Amiens, 11% ; Lyons and Avignon
(English), 2% ; Northern of France (English), 6% ; Paris
and Lyons (English), 4% ; Ditto (French), 4 ; Ditto
(Ganneron's),2l2 21. Ils. 6d.; Paris and Rotten, 45% ; Paris
and St. Quentin, 455. 9d., 465. ; Toulouse and Bordeaux,
2/. 11s. 6d. ; Toulouse, Bordeaux and Cette, 23/4 ; Verona
and Ancona, 1/. ls.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 20.—The sales
are :—Eastern Counties, 22 21%; Ditto, No. 2, 265. 265. 6d. ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5% ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half Shares, 64% ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
17% 34 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 1/t ex new
and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9% ex new and ex div. ;
Ditto, New Quarters, 5% 1-16 prem. ; Manchester, Bury,
and Rosaendale, 14%; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares,
13% 14 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113 ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 134 ; South-Eastern, No. 2, 121 ; Ditto, No. 3,8% ;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% 13-16 ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6% ; Blackburn, Dar-
wen, and Bolton, 4 1-16 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool,
10A ; Caledonian, 9 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% 3/4 ;
Churnet Valley, 7 6 15-16; Direct Northern, 4%; Ely and
Bedford, 2% 7-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 5%; Leeds and Thirsk, 41,1 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 63/4 13-16 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 3% ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4;
London and York, 3%; Manchester and Buxton, 1% 3/4 ;
Newark and Sheffield, 2% 3% ; Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton, 1 15-16 ; Scottish Central, 5.1,4 ; Scottish
Midland, 2% % ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 245.
245. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry; and Chester Junction, 3% ;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 4 f ; Trent Valley,
16 % ex new; West Yorkshire, ; Lyons and Avignon,
2 13-16; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), % prem.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.'
Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibra1tar...............
Ditto, at sight l2 5i Leghorn ....... ..... ..,. 30 90
Rotterdam 2U. 12 74 Genoa ..... .... ...... .. 26 15
Antwerp 26 15 Milan ...... ...... ...... -
Fiamburgh M.B. 13 5i Venice .... .. . , ... .....
Altona — Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 87i Palernso, !_pey oz ll9*
Ditto, 3 months 26 10 Lisbon 534
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 15 Rio Janrito .
Frankfort on Maine.. 1224 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us... Buenos A.yies
Berlin — NowYo!k..:22dyssight

Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 2
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

PERIM BULLION, PER OE.
Foreign .";(ilkl,bars.l3 17 9
Portnisa: qold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubbona 0 0 0
New INAlars 0 4 9.
Silver to tars . 0 0 0

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—The Petrel packet, Lieut.
Creser, arrived this morning from Rio de Janeiro, with
the mails, from whence she sailed on the 16th January.
Passengers—Messrs. W. Wylie and Henry Ousely, and
five miners. Freight, about 35,0001., of which upwards
of 6,0001. is for the St. John del Rey Mining Company.
Exchange, 24 to 25. No Government Stock in the
market for sale.

Left at Rio de Janeiro, her Majesty's ships Alfred,
Viper, and Spider ; American frigates, Raritan and
Congress ; French frigate, Boussole ; and Portuguese
frigate, Diana.
Advices had been received from Monte Video to the
24th of December, mentioning that a difference had
arisen between the Government authorities and the Bra-
zilian Charge de Affaires, which obliged the latter to
repair on board a Brazilian ship of war.

• RE TAWELL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
ESTEEMED FRIEND,—In The Sun of this evening I
notice a very reasonable inquiry from a Correspondent,
as to how it comes, " that in deference to the feelings of
the Society of Friends,"" this unhappy man is not to be
executed in his usual habiliments ? To this inquiry I
can give him a satisfaetory reply, which is, that no such
desire has been expressed. If I know anything of the
feelings of the body, it is entirely opposed to any such
interference. If we have a murderer among us, by all
means let us bear all the odium which can fairly and
justly belong to us. But, if not, if aft individual assuming
our garb, and identifying himself with us in the eyes of
the public, have perpetrated a horrible and brutal
murder, by all means allow him to wear this cloak of
hypocrisy, which has so long masked his real character,
to the very last.
Since the paragraph above alluded to first appeared,
I see it has been contradicted, and that "he is to die as
he lived, in the Quaker garb ;" but I thought it due to
those who, like your Correspondent, put the above query,
to inform them that there is no such general desire
among us, either expressed or felt.
Certainly no one but a man of a contracted mind
would seek to alter the usual course of things in these
cases, for the sake of any morbid sectarian sympathies.—
I inclose niy card, and remain respectfully,
City, 3d month, 20th, 1845. AMIC US.

THE THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The annual " meet"
for the opening of the yachting season of the boats' crews
and commanders of this club took place as usual on Thurs-
day at Greenwich. Though the day was cold, yet the
fineness of the weather attracted a larger gathering than
had been anticipated on the occasion. The preliminary
business of the day having been transacted, the commodore
(Mr. Harrison) and the captains of the yachts present,
together with the visitors, sat down to dinner at the
Yacht Tavern, and after having partaken of the good
things set before them, and drunk the toasts usual on
these anniversaries, went on board their respective
vessels, the tide suiting at a little after three o'clock, and
took their departure for Erith. On passing Blackwell
the fleet of yachts was increased by the joining of Lord
A. Paget and other noblemen and gentlemen. The
fleet made a gallant show, the Gnome, the Naiad, the
Sabrina, and the Clyde being conspicuous in the number.
It is understood that this season will be distinguished by
some excellent matches. The splendid cup, from the
manufactory of Messrs. Hunt and Roskil, valued at 1201.,
and presented by Lord Saye and Sele, to be sailed for,
has already excited great emulation, and it is supposed
that the contest for it will display greater excellence in
sailing and power of speed than has yet been exhibited.
THE SALT-HILL MURDER.—AYLESBURY, TRUES-
DAY.—John Tawell, the murderer, continues to main-
tain his accustomed meek demeanour, but makes no
confession of his crime. He was visited yesterday by a
Quaker, a stranger, who came all the way from Leices-
tershire to see and converse with the culprit. The Rev.
Mr. Wilcox, from Berkhampstead, likewise paid him a
visit, and earnestly and becomingly represented to the
convict the necessity for confession and repentance. He
received the admonition of his friend with respectful at-
tention, but remained inexorable. To-day he has ap-
peared somewhat more cheerful, probably in the expec-
tation of seeing his wife, who arrived from Berkham-
stead at two o'clock, and had an interview with him.
This unfortunate lady exhibits great fortitude and re-
signation, but she is evidently a great sufferer. She is
much commiserated and respected here, and remains un-
shaken in her belief of her husband's innocence. The
interview was less distressing than might have been ima-
gined. The Rev. Mr. Cox is in regular and solicitous
attendance, and the wretched man seems earnestly pre-
paring for his doom. The petition in favour of all who
may be condemned to death has been signed but by very
few people. Lord Nugent has promised to present it to
the Home Secretary.
THE CONVICT JENNINGS.—This criminal, whose
trial and conviction at the Berkshire Assizes, held at
Reading on the 3d inst., for poisoning his daughter
at Thatcham, near Newbury, we recorded at the time
it took place, still continues to manifest the same in-
! difference to his fate that he exhibited immediately
after the sentence of death was pronounced on
him. Notwithstanding the clearness of the evidence
of the murderer's guilt, he steadfastly maintains his
innocence of the crime for which he will to-morrow (Sa-
turday) suffer the extreme penalty of the law, and when
earnestly entreated to make his peace with his offended
God, he either pretends to be, or is, very angry at the
supposition, implied by such advice, that he has perp-2-
trated the crime for which he is to forfeit his life on the
scaffold, and of which no reasonable doubt can be enter-
tained. Preparations for the event are making at the
new gaol, and barriers to prevent the pressure of the
crowd are in the course of erection in the For-
bury. A number of special constables have also
been sworn by the Mayor, Mr. J. Y. Willats, as
an immense concourse of spectators will no doubt be
present to witness the melancholy scene. A period of
eleven years has elapsed since the last execution took
place in Berkshire. We understand that two peti-
tions have been presented to her Majesty from this town,
praying for a commutation of Jennings' sentence, but
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and
also the Learned Judge (Baron Platt) who tried the
prisoner, decline to interfere—consequently the law will
take its course.

On the 9th instant an accident, fatal in its conse-
quences, occurred to Colonel Charles Bayley, at Bud-
leigh Salterton, whose clothes accidentally caught fire,
and who was so burnt that he died from the injuries.
The deceased was seventy years of age, and brother to
General Sir Henry Bayley. On the inquest a verdict
of " Accidental death" was returned.—Exeter Flying
Post.