The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

BURIAL OF TAE DEAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln your paper of yesterday you have a paragraph
entitled " Christian Burial," in which it is stated, and
evidently intended as an oblique attack upon the Church
of England, that a clergyman refused to bury the infant
at Buriton, it not having been baptised.
The clergyman could do no other, as you will observe,
if you will turn to the rubric of the rraver Book.
What the custom of the Scotch Birk is Ido not
know, but at all events it is scarcely fair or just to ini-
pugn the English clergy for obeying canons which, at
their ordination, they swear they will observe.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,

AE
[The custom of the Scotch Kirk is to bury the dead
in solencn silence, and the clergy as regards burials make
no distinction between baptized and unbaptized. We
cannot help thinking that the English Church would do
well to imitate the example.]

BRIGHTON RAILwAy.—It is with pleasure we an-
nounce that the traffic on this line is rapidly increasing.
The three first days of the present week, We understand,
turned in 175/. more than on the corresponding days of
the preceding. week, and the receipts on Thursday ex-
ceeded those on that day fortnight by 75/. No coin-
parison, of course, could be made with the Thursday
before Good Friday.—Railway Magazine.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.—ROME, MIRCII 14.
Cardinal Angelo Mai has just completed a work on
which he has been occupied for npwards::of ten years.
It is an edition of the New Testament, with the varia-
tions of all the manuscripts existing in the principal
libraries of Rome and other parts of Italy, and with
numerous notes full of philological research. The text
adopted by Cardinal Mai, as the basis of his edition, is
that of the celebrated manuscript, No. 1,09, in the li-
brary of the Vatican, which dates from the sixth century.
At the suggestion of his Eminence, the Papal Govern-
ment has resolved to publish, at its own expense, a fac-
simile of this manuscript, which is in g:lt uncial letters
and in close writing (seriphs continua)—that is to say,
the words are not separated from each other by spaces.
Our celebrated engraver Milli is to execute a copper-
plate engraving of this fae-amile, copies of which will
be presented by the Holy See to all the, Sovereigns in
Christendom.

MEETING 01' THE ELECTORS OF LEEDS, TO EX.,
PRESS Tima OPiNtoss TO THEIR AlbanEns ON THE
LNCOME TAX.—On Wednesday evening last, a public
meeting of the electors of this borough, convened by sir •
cular, was held in the Music-hall, for the purpose of
making known to their Members, William Beckett, Esq.,
and William Aldam, jun., Esq., the opinions they enter-
tain on the subject of Sir Robert Peers income tax.
Between 900 and 1,000 persons were present, and the
proceedings were marked by the most decided opposi-
tion. Among the speakers on the occasion were Hamer
Stansfield, Esq., James Holdforth, Esq., Mr. Craven,
Mr. George West, and Mr. Alderman Tottie. The
Mayor, W. Pawson, Esq., occupied the chair, accom-
panied by W. Aldam, jun., Esq., M.P., and a great many
other gentlemen connected with mercantile and manu-
facturing operations.

EXTR-AORDINARY DISCOVERY OF WATCHES IN
CRUTCHED-FRlARS.—Between eleven and twelve o'clock
yesterday (Friday), as a man named Brown, a cork-
cutter, was passing
along Crutched-friars, he saw
a parcel lying in the gutter, which, on being opened,
was found to contain fifty-three Geneva silver watches.
Brown lost no time in conveying the property to the
station-house in Tower-street, and delivered it to In-
spector Bradley, who sent a description of the watches
to each of the station-houses, and then took them to the
head office in Basinghall-street. There is ever, reason
to believe that the wrapper had been a pocket to a *rest
coat, and fallen off, as there are several stitches in
At a late hour en the previous evening a foreign steam-
boat arrived at London-bridge 'Wharf, and there is
,re,a-
son to suppose the property had beensmuggled. ihe
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