The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-07 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BURYING GROUNDS.

THE following is an amended copy of the order
which has lately been published with respect to the%
closing of the burying grounds in this town
At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 18th day-
February, 1854—present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council,
Whereas, the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerstoni,
one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, after
giving to the incumbents and churchwardens of the
parishes hereinafter mentioned ten days' previous notice
of his intention to make such representation, has, under
the provisions of an act passed in the last session of par-
liament, intituled "An act to amend the laws concerning
the burial of the dead in England, beyond the limits of
the metropolis," made a representation stating that, for
the protection of the public health, no new burial ground
shall be opened in the borough of Liverpool, or within two
miles of its boundaries, without the previous approval of
one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State ; that
burials shall be discontinued in the said borough, with the
following modifications :
Burials to be wholly discontinued in St. Paul's church-
yard, St. Thomas's churchyard, St. Ann's churchyard and
under the church, St. Philip's churchyard, Trinity church-
yard and under the church, St. Mark's churchyard, St.
Andrew's churchyard and under the church, Christ church-
yard and in the vaults under the church, in the Baptist
burial ground, Everton-road ; in the burial grounds of
All Saints' Roman Catholic Chapel, of Great George-street
Chapel, of Newington Independent Chapel, Renshaw-street,
of St. Nicholas's Roman Catholic Chapel, Copperas-hill, of
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Chapel, Seel-street, and in the
vaults under the last two chapels ; in St. Peter's church-
yard, in St. Nicholas's Church and churchyard, in the
burial ground of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Chapel and
under the chapel ; and in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
burial ground, Upper Stanhope-street.
With the exception of private vaults and graves, no
more than one body to be buried in any grave in the
burial ground of the Necropolis, and of St. Mary's ceme-
tery, of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, Rodney-street,
and of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Chapel, Scotland-
road ; and burials to be wholly discontinued in the three
last-named grounds from and after the Ist January, 1855.
With the same exception, no more than one body to be
buried in any grave in St. John's churchyard, and burials
to be wholly discontinued therein from and after the Ist
of May, 1854.
With the same exception, no more than one body to be
buried in any grave in St. Michael's churchyard, and
burials to be wholly discontinued therein from and after.
the Ist of January, 1855.
With the same exception, no more than one body to be
buried in any grave in St. George's churchyard, Everton.
With the same exception, no more than one body to be
buried in any grave in the burial ground of St. Anne's
Chapel, Edge-hill; no burial to take place within 20 feet
of the schools ; and, with the same exceptions, burials to
be wholly discontinued therein from and after the Ist of
January, 1855. Burials in the vaults under this chapel to
cease forthwith.

Burials to be wholly discontinued in St. Martin's church-
yard from and after the Ist of August, 1854; in the burial
grounds of Brunswick Chapel, Moss-street, and of the
Unitarian Chapel, Renshaw-street, from and after the Ist
of January, 1855 ; and in the Quaker's burial ground,
Hunter-street, from and after the Ist of January, 1856.
Burials to be wholly discontinued in all that part of St.
Martin's parochial cemetry which has already been buried
in, and to cease wholly from and after the Ist of August,
1854.

Burials to cease in St. James's churchyard, Toxteth-
park, from and after the Ist of January, 1855 ; to be dis-
continued forthwith in all that part of the Independent
Chapel burial ground, Toxteth-park, which is situated to
the east and south of the chapel, and to cease wholly
therein from and after the Ist of January 1855.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty in council is pleased hereby
to give notice of such representation, and to order that
the same be taken into consideration by a committee of
the House of Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, on the Ist day of April next.
And Her Majesty is further pleased to direct that this
order be forthwith published in the London Gazette, and
that copies thereof be fixed on the doors of the churches,
or chapels, or on some conspicuous place within the
parishes affected by such representation, one month before
the said Ist day of April. Wm. L. BATHURST.

Tun NECROPOLlS.—Considerable anxiety has been occa-
sioned to many persons interested in the Necropolis, by an
order in council of the 18th ult., relating to burials, which
has been placed on the burial grounds, and also on some
of the churches and chapels of this town, for consideration.
By mistake, the above order states that the burials are to
be wholly discontinued in the above grounds on January
Ist, 1855. The mistake has been acknowledged by the
General Board of Health, and the only alteration in the
Necropolis affairs will be the discontinuance of interments
in the public graves after due notice has been given.