The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-17 00:00:00

PIIOIdOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.

PROMOTIONS•—Mate Charles Redstone Read
(1838), late of the Conway, to the rank of Lieutenant.
APPOlNTMENTS.—Commanders—Charles Patey, to
the Powerful : W. Kelly (a), to the Winchester (Hon.
Admiral Percy's flag-ship.
Lieutenants—Edward Little, to the Powerful ; G.
Henry Seymour, to the Will am and Mary yacht, for
service in the Firebrand eteam-vessel, destined to ac
company the King of Pru:s a to this country—(this
appointment to the Firebrand is in addition to the ap-
pointments of Commander John Neale Nott, of the Ex-
cellent, and W.-E. A. Gordon, ,Mate of the Dido) ;P.
-Bisset), to the Dolphin ; Oliver Jones, to the Calcutta ;
E. Gray, to the Bonetta ; Charles Postle, to the Lizard,
%ice Estcourt, promoted.
Surgeons—Dr. Alexander S. Allen, to the Power-
ful; Sir John Hamett, to the Vindictive, vice Allen.
Assistant Surgeons—C. C. R. Kinnear, to the
Howe ; Dr. Thomas Graham, to the Warspite ; John
',Aran, to the Rapid.
Mates—T. Foster, to the Warspite ; F. H. Vyse,
Thomas Miller, P. W. May (from the Excellent), and
Charles Baskerville, to the Carysfort ; Thos. Cochrane,
to the Thalia.

Midshipman—Thos. Falmer, to the' Vindictive.
Volunteers Ist Class—Thoniai H. D. Martin, to
the Carysfort ; Sr. John Coventry, to the Powerful
Wm. Edward Charlton, to the Illustrious.
Second .Master—G. S. Hall, to the Rapid ;
Richard Hartfield, jun.(Actiog, additional), to Victory,
for service in the Lively.
Clerks—C. H. Niblett (in charge), to the Rapid ;
J. E. Styles, to the Carysfort.
The following Gunners' Mates have been promoted
to be Third Class Gunners :—Wm. John Hoar and
Thomas Dewar, of the Calcutta, William Neville, of
the Thunderer, John Emey, of the Impregnable, and
M. W. Turner, of the Excellent.

IN VESTIGATION REGARDING
" SUBJECTS."

There seems to be no end to the " investigations"
which are required into the working of the Anatomy
Bill. We have for some time been aware that another
of these inquiries was in progress; but probably should
have postponed making any reference to it, had not the
daily press taken up the subject. Under these circum-
stances delicacy no longer forbids us to lay the facts be-
fore our readers.

Some time ago the bodies of several• paupers were
taken from the St. Marylebone workhouse, _ and em-
ployed for anatomical purposes in the usual manner.
According to our information, the entire number dis-
posed of on the occasion alluded to was eight, while only
six .were- entered on the "Book of Deaths" kept
by the master of the workhouse ; yet eight,
as we have just said, were entered in the in-
spector's returns, and these were mostly sent, in -,the
first instance, to University College, and, such as were
not required there, were afterwards distributed among
the other schools. Their distribution, however, is not
the point which at present concerns us, but this—that
although, according to the smaller computation, six
bodies had been taken from the Marylebone workhouse,
yet an examination of the register exhibited no sign of
anyburial ever having taken place ; and ti e.attention of
the Board of Directors and Guardians having been ar-
rested by this omission, the subject was brought before
the Vestry, and a considerable degree of excitement was
the result. Inquiries were instituted on the subject; and
from these it appeared, that there is a burial ground called
" Globe Fields,' in the parish of Stepney, Mile-end, to
which place of interment all the bodies alluded to had
been carried. Now the allegation is that the cemetery
in question is not consecrated ; but that thither, never-
theless, the bodies of all, whether of the Church of Eng-
land or otherwi4e, had been taken.

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The funeral service was performed by Mr. Cauch, a
preacher who -officiates for Mr. Tagg, the proprietor of
the burial-place ; and we understand that the ceremonies
of the Church of England arc those generally adhered to.
It is said that, Ifitiring.a period of seventeen months,
viz. from Feb. ).840,. to irk' .1841, above 250 bodies were
thus interred in Globe Fields burial-ground, and a large
amount of fees paid.by the anatomical teachers—a sum,
indeed, which, if we take the minimum of fifty shillings
per body, comes to no. less '-than 6351. But we believe
the actual sum to be'cops4erably greeler than we have
just stated, becauie we linow that the teachers of ana-
tomy are sometimes charged 31.; 'and even 41., by the
persons who remove the bodies from the schools after
the dissection has been completed.
Representations to the above effect having been made
at the Home-office, an investigation has been instituted,
and Mr. J. H. Green and Mr. Newman Rogers are now
employed in examining evidence on both sides of the
question :—we may therefore hope for a fair and satisfac-
tory settlement of the points at issue. Medical Gazette,