§ Lord Mahonsaid, that he had a question to ask the right hon. Baronet, with reference to a subject upon which the hon. Member for Lymington had a Motion on the Paper, the practice of interment 325 in large towns. The House would recollect that a Committee sat upon this subject in 1842, and that that Committee had in their Report earnestly recommended the question to the consideration of the Government. He wished to know whether Government were now engaged in considering any measure to remove the evils complained of?
§ Sir J. Grahamcould assure the noble Lord that he had considered the recommendation of the Committee referred to, and had repeatedly given his attention to this subject; but he was bound to say, that the more he had considered it, the more was he convinced of the difficulty of legislating upon it. He had not been able to frame any measure satisfactory to his own judgment, and he was not therefore in a condition to bring any Bill into the House on this subject during the present Session. He feared that any prohibition of interment within the walls of a city would not be in harmony with the feelings of a great body of the people.