§ MR. MACEVOYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he is aware that the Midland Railway Company, having obtained an Act (27 & 28 Vict. c. 231) which by its twenty-third section allows them to pass a tunnel under the old churchyard of St. Pancras (a closed burying ground) are about to make an open cutting through said churchyard, thereby disturbing the tombs and bodies, and whether the Government will interfere to protect the place from such desecration?
§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, in reply, that he had made inquiries on the subject, and he found that by the Act the Railway Company were compelled to make a tunnel twelve feet below the surface of the churchyard. An application had been made to the Church Trustees to allow an open cutting to pass through the churchyard, but the Church Trustees had refused to sanction any deviation from the terms of the Act, and he believed the Company were prepared to acquiesce in the decision of the Church Trustees.