The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

Obituarg.

THE COUNTESS OF ABINGDON expired on Saturday
evening at Wytham Abbey, Beaks. Her ladyship
was the only child of George Harcourt, Esq., M.P.,
and the late Lady Elizabeth Harcourt- She was
married to the present earl, then Lord Norreys, in
1835. She was the mother of five children' six sons
and three daughters, all of whom survive to deplore
her loss.

SIR HENRY JOHN CALDWELL, BART., died recently.
He was born in 1801, and married, in 1839, the
eldest daughter of 1). R. Paynter, Esq., of Dale, in
the county of Pembroke. He succeeded his father in
1842. The deceased baronet was a disioguished
officer in the Austrian service.

COLONEL C. A. FITZHARDINOE BERKELEY, C. 8., of
H.M.'s 32nd Reigment, died on board the Simla, on
her homeward passage to Suez, on Sept. 25th.
Colonel Berkeley was the eldest son of General Sir
George Berkeley, who died a few months ago. He
served in the Scots Fusilier Guards up to the middle
of last year, having been at different times on his
father's staff at the Cape and at Madras. In the
former colony he was distinguished in the Kaffir
war of 18.16-7. He also shared in the glories and
dangers of the Crimea. On the outbreak of the
Indian mutiny, beign desirous of seeing further
active service, he exchanged with Colonel Brooke,
and proceeded to join the 32nd, then beleagured in
Lucknow. Since then Colonel Berkeley has had
several detached commands, in which he highly dis-
tinguished himself, obtaining the warm approval of
Lord Clyde, and receiving the Companionship of the
Bath for his services. He was in his fortieth year,
and obtained the rank of Colonel in the Army in 1856.
LADY LOUISA OsiveLn expired at an early hour on
Wednesday morning at the family seat in Scotland.
Lady Louisa was daughter of the late Earl Craven,
and married, first, in 1840, Sir George Frederick
Johnstone, Bart., by whom she bad twin boys. Her
ladyship married, secondly, in 1844, Alexander
Oswald, Esq. The lamented deceased bad only
attained her forty.tbird year,

GXORGE GAMiI Pa, whose loam 13 30 familiar
to agrioulturists, died at his residenoe, Gloucester-

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gardens, Hyde. park, on Tuesday. Mr. Day, who was
a solicitor by pr of ession, was one of the most active
leaders of the P rotectionist party while the question
of the repeal of the Corn•laws was under the con•
sideration of the country.

A CONTRIBUTION TO LITERARY HISTORY has been
brought to light in the shape of Pope's corre-
spondence with Broome. These MSS., now in the
hands of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of Piccadilly,
for sale by auction, consist of near one hundred
letters, many of them in the hand of Pope, and
nearly all relate to the translation of the Odyssey.
They are said to throw new light on the relative
shares in that work of Pope, the Rev. Mr. Broome,
and Mr. Fenton.

THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT OF LADIES' DRESSES,
says Galignani, has necessitated the const ruction of
trunks of extra size to convey them on railways ; and
as such trunks not only take up great room, but cost
much trouble, the railway companies contemplate
henceforth charging for them by size instead of
weight.

EMBALMING THE DEAD is the subject of a process
patented by M. Falcony, a French chemist, who on
Tuesday exhibited the results to a number of gentle-
men in the Lecture-ball of the School of Medicine,
Grosvenor-place. M. Falcony uses a powder, com-
posed chiefly of a neutral salt, mixed with sawdust,
which absorbs moisture, and so combines with the
most deadly exhalations that no injury can be sus-
tained by persons being brought into the closest
contact with the deceased, and, by preventing putre-
faction for more than a fortnight, will enable families
to be brought together from distant places in time
for the interment. In large cities the possibility of
contagion when people have died of fevers or cholera
will be avoided, as, by the use of the powder, the body
is dried up, and after a time falls into dust. The
'process for embalming is by means of a liquid which
appears to answer its purpose ; but in this the public
will feel less interest than in the temporary pre-
servation of bodies to prevent injury to the health of
the living.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND THE VERNON COLLEC-
TION at Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, will be reopened
to the public on Monday next. The days for public
admission are changed to Mondays, Tuesdays, Wed-
nesdays, and Saturdays ; Thursdays and Fridays
being set apart for the admission of students only.
THE SAD FATE OF MR. COULTHARD, the Australian
explorer, is disclosed in a letter discovered by Mr.
Babbage, who was still prosecuting his exploration.
The body of the unfortunate man lay under a scrub
bush, and at a short distance from him his canteen
and other bush accoutrements. Upon one side of
that canteen, offering a convex surface of tin about
twelve inches long and ten inches deep, is scratched
with a nail or some other rough-pointed instrument
the following inscription :
I never reached water I do not know how long it is
since it is that I left Scott and Brooks but I think it
Monday bleeding pomp to leive of his blood I took his
black horse to look for water and the last thing I can
rem bey is puling the saddle off him and letting him go
until now is not good lam not th shure how long it may
be wether 2 or 3 days I do not know My Tung is
atkig to my mouth and I see what I have rote I know it
is this is the last time I may have of expressing feeling
alive & the feeling exit is lost for want of water My
ey Dasels My tong burn I can see no More
God Help.
THE VISITORS AT BRIGHTON at the present time
exceed 40,000.

THE RANEY SYSTEM has been applied with the
greatest success to a vicious bull, the property of the
Duke of Portland. The operator was a groom whom
his grace had placed under the instruction of the
great horse-tamer.
THE ATLANTIC CARLE, according to a letter from
Mr. Saward, the secretary, has transmitted an intel-
ligib;e message, which, as is observed by the writer,
though encouraging, must not be regarded as a per-
manent state of things, as it is clear there is a serious
fault in the cable, while, at the same time, it is not at
present absolutely clear that any, except the most
extraordinary and, to the cable, dangerous, efforts
can be made, more especially on this side, to over•
come the existing obstacles in the way of perfect
working. The following is the message in ques-
tion :
Bartholomew, Valentin, to Saward, London.
I have just received the following words from Newfound•
land :—" Daniell's now in circuit."
The signals are very distinct. Give me discretion to use
our " Daniell's battery reply."
The necessary authority to use Daniell's battery wag
immediately forwarded to Valenua,