§ Colonel Foxbegged to call the attention of the Tight hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department to a matter which he considered to be of considerable importance. The House would recollect that, about a year 84 ago, the notice of the House was called to a nuisance arising from the number of bodies buried beneath the floor of Enoch Chapel. The Chairman of the committee for the improvement of towns, in company with him and other Members, had recently visited the chapel, for the purpose of inspecting it. They were informed that upwards of 1,200 bodies had been interred beneath the floor of the chapel since 1824, in a superficies of sixty feet by thirty, certainly not so large as that House. The floor was composed of planks merely, without any brick work, and yet this building had been let as a school for Roman Catholic children, and was to be opened for that purpose on Monday. He wished to know whether the right hon. Baronet could take any steps to prevent the disastrous results which might be expected to result from the application of the building to such a purpose.
§ Sir J. Grahamsaid, that until the hon. and gallant Member courteously intimated his intention of putting his question, he was unacquainted with the subject. He doubted whether he had authority to prevent the building being applied to the purpose stated, but he would exert his influence for that object.