The clergy and churchwardens of the parish of St. Sepulchre,
London and Middlesex, have given notice to the parishioners, that, in consequence of an order from the Queen in Council, under the provisions of the recent act "to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in the metropolis," com- manding that the parish-graveyards and church-vaults should be closed, no more interments can be permitted therein, except by persons claiming exist- Mg rights, the licence to use which must be obtained from the Home Secre- tary. The undermentioned graveyards were closed on Wednesday—St. Luke, Chelsea ; St. Giles's, Cripplegate ; St. George's, Southwark ; St. Paul, Shadwell; St. James's, Clerkenwell; Bowling Green Lane, Pentouville, and SpaGelds burial-grounds; St. Swithin, London Stone ; St. Mary Bothaw ; St. Botolph, Aldgate ; St. Matthew, Friday Street ; St. Peter, Easteheap; St. Augustin and St. Faith; the vaults of St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Nicholas Colo Abbey, St. Nicholas Olive ; St. Dunstan's, Stepney, is to close at the end of the present year, except the unconsecrated part, which will be allowed to remain open until January 1855; St. Michael, Paternoster Royal; St. Mar- tin, Vintry ; St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street ; St. Gregory by St. Paul's; St. Andrew Hubbard ; St. Mary, Whitechapel; St. Mary-le-Strand. and the Russell Court burial-ground ; St. Gabriel ; Fenchurch Street ; St. Margaret Pattens ; the Holy Trinity, Minories; St. Mary, Newington; St. Peter, Vial- worth; and St. John the Baptist, Horton.
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