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    418 CemWtties.

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    Cemeteries.

    sown with tombs and burrowed for catacombs , if the check of a Parliametary \ teto had not restrained the mania within reasonable limits . The mourners are henceforth

    not " to go about the stfeets . " City churchyards * more prolific of iron-railing than of grass , already feel the influence of the rural beauties of Kensall Green . Even St

    Giles-inthe-Fields , trembling for burial fees * has hung across the brick front of his ohapel an advertising-board , proclaiming desirable interment in " New Catacombs . "

    So much difference has been felt in the pocket of a Town Rector that his faith was insufficient for restraining him from sending a Petition to the House against these encroachments upon a disagreeable and dangerous custom . * FWnily vaults are secured . —The man of

    Luxury has found out a new pleasure in the erection during his life of his own superb monument . The froth of human vanity rises over the grave itself , intermingled with filthy lucre ; and deformed ambition ,

    unconscious of the hump on his back , has paraded himself in a conspicuous part / of & new cemetery * A living empiric has purchased the unenviable privilege of erecting a ponderous and marble mausoleum ,

    on which his name aafcd pretensions aure impudentl y $ 0 t forth . O that the Everlasting had fixed his canon ' gainst self-

    Cemeteries.

    prafee-f ^ Pliffii ^ dqfiifectatfed ground ft & dM & n ta & i sictitege . There is soinething in this assumption of the office of executor to oneVsfe ^ N ^ tfeis " setting lucre in one ; We , Death in the other ?? ^ -this double

    grasp of the iftoney-bags *& Mi both a livingand ad ^ d fl & hd ^ - this caricature of prosjieclSve fame , which is at once laiigh ^ ble and revolting . We looked not to have such an exhibitibii in an English cemetery * T

    A touching incident associated with the Cemetery at Kensall Green was told the other day of Mr Broughton , the surgeon . Previous to the operation , the effect of wlifch was so fatal , he was driveft in

    his carriage to the gate * and sat there for some minutes looking in . Only a few ^ days from tha ^ t time his body was deposited among the shrubs and flowers and monumental

    stones which he had fchein ai * d there contemplated . In Ms will it was directed that h « should be there buried ; This Story is beautifully ex ^ tferisive of a state of mind calmly making itself up to a

    contingent , not remotely calculated , but felt to be hovering ; awfeliy near . The looking in is better to our thinking than would have been * he going in . Stifeli notJba

    an oeeurreaa ^ e cfruld ' ^ e happened had 4 hei * e been «*> grave-yard , as the A ^ wiericans term ' thei ^ Cemeteyy , liey ^ d the city ' a hum . \ To visit Ihe vaults of St Sepulchred umder

    * See Debates of Last Sesrion . The Petition ^ oi presented by the Bishop of London .

    418 Cemwtties.

    418 CemWtties .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/50/