The Sun. — 1838-10-05 (London, England)

LASCAR BURL AL.-Considerahle crowds were of Wednesday attracted to the burial ground adjoining Trinity Church, in Cannon-street-road East, to witness the singular ceremony on the interment of a Lascar, who had recently an ived in this country by one of the East India ships, and who, being in a very delicate state of health durir,!, the voyage, died shortly after the vessel had put into the Si. Katharine's Dock. The hody of the deceased, which was merely rolled up in a piece of thin calico, was placed on a rude and temporary bier, formed of a few pieces of cane-wood, and decorated with several turbans enfolded, and carried on the soldiers of four of his countrymen, and in this manner was followed by about twelve or fourteen other Liscars. The singularity of such a procession, as well as the mariner of those who formed it, which appeared anything but serious or solemn, as most of them smoked their paper cigars, caused a considerable mob of persons to follow it from the vicinity of the docks, and by the time it had reached Cannon-street, several thousands had assembled, and it required the interference of the police to clear a passage to the churchyard. On getting in, however, some considerable delay tock place before the interment of the body could be effected, as it appeared no preparation whatever had been previously made for its reception, and it was sonic time before the Lascars could be prevailed upon to pay the 7s. which was demanded of them by the sextoness for the grave. They at length. however, paid the money, and a grave was in a short time prepared. The body was then handed to two of the Lascars, who had descended into the grave, and who placed it at full length on the earth, as the remainder of them squatted themselves round the edge of the grave, which was about seven feet deep, and with their hands uplifted, com• menced chanting, in somewhat discordant sounds, a prayer or hymn, while the two wko were in the grave continued to roll the corpse over and over several times in the bottom of the grave. Various other ceremonies were subsequently gone through, and on a given signal the men in the grave, with astonishing agility, got out of it, and all commenced with the greatest rapidity to throw the earth into the grave with their hands. The almost incredible quickness with which they performed this was such that the grave was filled in a few minutes, and having then used a shovel to settle and harden the earth on the top, the whole of the party left the ground smoking their paper cigars. The beetroot sugar manufacturers of Valenciennes, Avegnes, Lille, and the department of the Pas de Calais, have held various moetings for the purpose of petitileminGovern-borne ment and the Chambers on the sugFourar Deputies, dutis, to the same ' effect as the growers of Cambrai. Mc-sars. Taillandier, Corne, Dumont, and INlarchant, have promised to support their claims. Carinino Rosso, the itinerant Neapolitan tinker, who, as our readers will remember, committed a barbarous murder in the month of January, at Da person of an ex-friar, named True, was guignan, on the tse executed this day week of the in that town. The last penaltylaw had not for many . fears been carried into effect at Draignati, and, on this occasion the execution was attended with peculiarly horrible circumstances. The knife of the guillotine not being . t•iently sharp, descended three different . tie culprit without severing his head frotrriih his onho dthearigliedck of one the executioners was in the end actually hi' y, • -form 0 lf,l( perform his fatal dace with the aid of a eutlass..—Gailynani.