New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-25

London Correspondence Of The Tribune.
LoSpox, Friday afternoon, Sept. T. 1879.
The feature Of the week is again the Cholera
and its consequences, evil and good. The mortal
i-y i. ON the increase in London. Last weeks list
for the Metropolis give, 663 deaths for Cholera
a34 for Disrrhee. Ia the last three days-Iaes-
4av. Wednesday and Thursday, the numbers are
reDectively 234 a3a and 30s. One-hali OF the
new. ia the journals is taken 40 with reports OF
meetings on the sl-sbsorbing question oil the pup
lie health. Thisis the good eide Of the Pestiience
# il continue playing at high figures for another
non,h. that nonstroOs iniquty Of burial Ia towns
will be pretty well settled. Such disclosures are
daily brought to light, Is shock all decency. Al
ready 10 this days papers three oil these h'shy
,inks OF human relics and clerical copidity, are
oeremotorly closed By al order ofthe Board OF
Health. Possibly in ysur cities you have little
idea Of the sccamul4lons Of death tina. exist In
London. The Times has well remarked, that If
they were 70 proceed at the present rate, IN q
generation rtTo the place would bs uninhsbta-
bic ia certain seasons Of the year, ike the Cam
Dagna around Rome, aud like other pestiierous
localities. IH macy parts the whole churcb-ysrd
las risen, body after body, into kind OF table
land above the neighbor.ng ground, TO hight OF 2
or 10 feet, or even more.
Nothing can be conceived more dresry than the
aspect Of these ouying places civilization alone
c.uli furnish the sight. A few backish-green
hair. OF vegetation lie upon the badness Of the
seurvey earth. The lowess houses generally
many ,soriss high, hem IN these deserts Of mortal
ity. moke-bsckened srsve-,tones Diversity the
surface, which ca nearer inspection j. sesn 70 be
interpreted with bones and touch~ood Of cofins
The Parsop, and tae Clerk and the Grsye-disgers
Know every foe. OF their estate bus all else re.
gard il with horror, excepting, perhaps the
sous.id Inhabitants Of the neigbborlDg houses.
xhose disgust has lc3g ceased, or has become e
chronic disease. Tor The most part UNDECIDED, owing
70 the pressure ofwsnt, and the superior claims Of
bodily laalsdiss. Such j. the sb0ninstion " bich
s.. requires mortality Of 1900 a week above the
average the opinions oisll enlightened and scienti.
lie persons, the loud voice OF The press. and tho
common senSs Of the whole population, 10 sbste to
even q sight extent. "a for our ivernmeni, il
iol.oNs the nation, and takes no initiatives
v hat yea viii say ia the cause Of the maintain.
ance Of so great and plain an evil
Toe rights Of the clergy are the fra, cause
he Clergy are the anti Christ Of this wickein-a
positively and negatively the great offenders
sgainst public Christianity. There is, however, .
Cause in the people also, but that too is due
g. the clergy. The Pfotes;an: communities have
sud notions u their owa about the resurrection o.
the body. Families like % be buried together, in
order 70 rise together at the last day they re.is
al plans which would osteniibly violate the graves
Of their ioreathers. such IS the removal Of mnsei
Of bones into suburban cemeteries; and they
would consider il harsh separation were they sc
10 lcsslalorially divided In death from those they
!9ved OF course. tie clergy hold the reias Of
these doctrines upon them with the utmost tight