The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

711 E LATE COLONEL KENNEDY, C.B.

An event which has created a most painful im-
pression on English society at Alexandria was the
death of Colonel Kennedy from neglected dysentery
on the night of the 18th of December. Among the
many officers who have been lately added to our
colony few were so generally esteemed among the
small circle of acquaintance which they have made
during their short stay ; and apart from this there
were other circumstances which tended to render
the event still more sad. Connected with the
Transport service for the Abyssinian Expedition,
his work seemed, for the time at least, almost com-
pleted, "and while he was looking forward to
spending his Christmas at home his wife is sum-
moned out to attend him in a serious illness, and
will arrive only to hear that he is dead. The body
was to be sent home; general invitations signed
by Colonel Ross, C. 8., the deputy-quarter-
master-general, announced that the funeral cere-
mony would take place at 3 o'clock on the, 20th
with military honours, and there were few who did
not appear to pay this last :tribute of respect. The
cortege assembled at the house of the deceased, on
the hill of Corn el Dik, about one mile from the
town, but the procession was formed further on, at
the Rosetta gate, _just without the walls of the
city, under the direction of Colonel Ross, whose
friend and comrade he bad been. Everything was
arranged with the utmost care indeed, but with
perfect simplicity. The hearse, preceded and sur-
rounded by marines and seamen, led the way in
dead silence across the desert where the pretty little
English cemetery is situated; then, in full uniform,
the military and naval officers of the Terrible and
the French frigate, Colonel Stanton (the Con-
sul-General) walking between the Egyptian
authorities, Scherim Pasha (Governor of Alex-
andria), and Lattif Pasha (Admiral of the
Port) ; then the representatives of the British
and other Consulates, closed by a crowd of
civilian friends. It was a simple and impressive
sight, as the long and silent procession moved across
the desert ; the very absence of music increased the
effect, the stillness being only broken by the report
of the minute-gun of the Terrible in the distance.
Arrived at the cemetery, the plain deal coffin was
carried out by the Marines and placed upon a stand
in the centre of a group of trees. The bat, sword,
and medals of the deceased were then laid on the
bier, while the chaplain, standing by a roughly-made
cross serving as a tombstone to some grave, read
the service in a voice which hardly broke the silence
of the dense crowd. Many of those who had known
the deceased best were visibly affected, and even to
those who knew him but slightly there was, apart
from the respect that the man himself had so tho-
roughly inspired, something even more than ordi-
narily touching in that homely service as it was
read over the corrse so far from home. No salute
was fired ; the body was placed in the deadhouse,
and conveyed the next day on board the Crocodile
for England.

LIVERPOOL COTTON .111ARKE1—This Day.

Market opens dull and easier. Sales probably
8,000 bales.

ACETATE OF LEAD.

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This substance, also known under its old name
of extract of Saturn, an :important element in ma-
teria medica, is prepared in various ways, and the
new French pharmacopias or Codex, published in
1866, gives a process which, in the opinion of its
authors, will free it from every particle of copper;
for which purpose, among other things, it is re-
commended that the operation be conducted in
earthenware instead of copper vessels. On this
point M. Magne Lahens, in a paper inserted in
Dr. Caffe's " Journal des Connaisances Medicales,"
differs from the authors of the Codex, and con-
tends that earthenware vessels are extremely incon-
venient, especially when it is required to put them
into a water-bath, and are moreover apt to crack,
while copper vessels are exempt from this drawback.
It is true, they are subject to another, viz., that of
communicating particles of copper to the extract;
and it has been proposed to avoid this by boiling
in the vessel the water required for the opera-
tion before introducing the compounds of
lead. This answers the purpose to a certain ex-
tent, but is far from yielding an acetate of lead
perfectly exempt from copper. M. Lahens next
examines another method, which consists in putting
grains or plates of lead into the copper vessel while
the operation is in progress, and this, especially in
the case of leaden plates, he finds to answer infinitely
better, since it not only prevents the liquid from
borrowing any copper from the vessel, but also
causes all the copper with which the compounds of
lead are usually tainted to be precipitated on the
plates, proVided the following rules be observed :
—l. The surface of the leaden plate must he
completely renovated by scraping just before using
it; 2. The leaden surface should be proportioned
to the quantity of acetate to be made ; 3. The
leaden plate should be bent circularly, and be nar-
row enough to be entirely immersed in the liquid ;
it ought also to be so placed as to have its lower
border in contact with the copper vessel in as many
pGints as possible. In this way the two metals con-
stitute a sort of voltaic pile, which acts long enough
to cause the precipitation of all the particles of
copper contained in the extract, either on the leaden
plate or on the sides of tho vessel. This is an im-
mense advantage, which could not be secured if
earthenware vessels were employed.

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