The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

THE DEAD versta rise 'file Jews always
their dead without the city, except those of the tarisi,y.of
David. No burying places should be tolerated withrn.c:oes
or towns, much less in or about churches and chapels. Fins
custom is excessivciv injurious to the inhabitants ; and, es-
pecially, to those who frequent public worship in such
chapels and churches. God, decency, and health, forbid
this shocking abomination: From long observation I can
attest, lb ,t churches and chapels situated in grave ynrds, and
those, especially, within whose walls the dead are interred,
are perfectly unwholesome: and 'natty, by attending inch
places, are shortening their passage to the house appointed
for the living. What increases the iniquity of this annminas
ble and deadly work is, that the burying grounds attached to
many churches and chapels .are made, a source of prices
gain. The whole of this preposterous =duct is as indecor-
ous and unhealthy as it is profane. Every man should know
that the gas which is disengaged from putrid flesh. and par-
ticularly from a human body, is not only unfriendly to, bat
destructive of, animal life. Superstition first introduced a
practice which self-interest and coveteousness continua to
maintain."—By G,,A. Walker, Surgeon in " Gatherings
from Grave Yards.'
PUFFIN ISLAND.—" Priestholine,
or Porno island, will
afford a day of sport to the disciple of Colonel
of information. to the industrious antiquary,—or amusement
to a pic-sic party, and, indeed, to ail the I nigratory tribes
that may be sojourning at Beaumaris. It is nearly a mile
from the shore, to the edge which it slopes in verdant turf on
each 111(1e from its lofty central eminence. The island is in
shape like a lemon, extending a mile in length. and hair
mile in breadth. Near the centre are the ruins of an old
square tower, supposed to have been a portion of a religious
devoti..es, and penitents, and dying
house once subordinate to the priory of peninon, which from
it by popular tradi-
tten `odourat. tr tof saucily'
incsi• per-
thrown around
sons, to its sacred shrine, either as the subjects of pilgrimage
or prayer, or to obtain interment within its holy walls. Of
the brotherhood of this establishment, old Giraldus relates
the following remarkable story: The superior reps..
which this monastery enjoyed, mduced the Welsh princes,
Llewelvn end David, and after the conquest of the country.
Edward 1. to grant to it the revenues of Pennion. Prince
Owen Gwploadd was the founder of this religious horse,
and lies buried here ; and its sanctuary became the refuge at
once of the oppressor and the oppressid, in that lawless rise
to which it belonged. Little remains to attest the presence
of the crowds of devout men who thronged it ; or of the
noble, the wealthy,
its consecrated cemetery. A colony of rabbits has nsnrpcd
and the poor, that Once were interred In
,
their territory, nil
d swamis cf. cormorant, stormy petrtis,
curlews:, and Puffin auks
r sattri g "
liP
and. even, though comparatively
but rarely deco, peregrine falcons, Install to thoseEo
the summer months to breed, and n their
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