The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-05-21 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE WRECK OF THE SCHILLER. MELANCHOLY REMINISCENCES. The special correspondent of the Standard, at tht Scilly Islands, writes The embalmers are eon stantly engaged in preparing bodies for shipment to the homes of their relatives and friends, early in the morning, whilst the preparations for interment are still actively going on. Dr. Hoggan, with Mies Dahme, the honse surgeon at Mrs. Garrett Anderson's College, arrived from London, and embalmed the body of Miss Dymock, the Boston physician. Six other bodies have been embalmed by Mr. Roberts and Mr. J. G. Moyle. The operation was performed in one of the r amas of the garrison to which the bodies were removed from the shod on the qu.iy. The patent shell made expressly for embalming is enclosed in a patent airtight coffin, with massive outer oaken case. In the lid of the coffin there is a piece of glass about eight inches square, throzigh which the face Of the corpse can be seen by removing the lid of the outer case. Mr. and Mrs Friend from Milwardtie, Win, and Mrs. Becker, Mr. Carl Smith, and Marcus Stein, all of New York, are the names cf those that are embalmed. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Friend were found almost at the same time, and within a very short distance of each other. There were several in' stances of this kind. Amongst other bodies brought here on Saturday was that of a lady apparently about twenty-one yearn of age, upon one of whose fingers on the right hand was a gold r.ng, inscribed with the initials • A. W. A. M.,' and the date • 28th April, 1875.' On the left hand was another ring, marked • A. W., from A. 8.,' hut there was neither card nor document of any kind leading to her identific diem Another body that was brought in about an hoar afterwards was that of a gentleman about 23 years of age. On him were a gold watch and chubs, and round his neck was a locket containing the likeness of a lady. On his right hand was a ring, marked • A. M. A. 21., April 27th, 1872,' and in hie pocket-book was his marriage certificate, dated April 27th, 1875. From this it is inferred that they were man and wife, and that they were married on the day the Schiller soled from New York. It has since been sorer. tamed that the names of this young couple were Mr. and Mrs. Augusts Monte, of New York. It is thought more than probable that very few more bodies will be discovered in the neighbourhood of the Schiller, for the simple reason that the current which runs past the Eetsuriers at three knots an hour has carried them many miles away. This supposition is supported by the fact that already five bodies have been picked up at Penzance, and as many again at Land's End, at weich places formal inquests will be held and the remains buried. There seems to he a difficulty as to handing over to the legal owners the money and property found on the bodies. There are at the Custom-house at least a hundred parcels of jewellery and clothing. In numerous instances the friends of the deceased have applied for the property, but the authorities here have refused to deliver it up until they receive instructions from the Board of Trade, but this difficulty will no doubt soon he removed. The public mind is much agitated inreference to the firing of signals of arrivals at sea. It has been stated that that practice is carried out by some of the foreign companies to signal the passing of their vessels at certain points, and it is contended that but for this practice the guns of distress which were fired by the Schiller would have attracted attention and secured assistance, instead of beMg accepted, as they were by the look-out man, merely as a signal of the Schiller's passing the Bishop's Light, a signal which he telegraphed to Plymouth.'  A few days ago a boy named Howe was gored by a heifer in Smithfield Market, Leeds. The heifer was being driven by the lad, when a dog he had with him barked, and the animal turned upon him. The lad, who was severely injured. was removed to the Infirmary, and was subsequently conveyed to his parents house in Albert place, Burley road.  On Saturday morning a policeman found the dead body of a man lying by the side of the road in the Sydenham road, Dulwich. A revolver, which had been discharged, was lying by the side of the body. From letters which were found in the clothee of the deceased, it is supposed that his name was Thomas Bretherick, 15, Park Buildings, Lower Park road, Camberwell. The letters, it is stated, also show that the deceased contemplated suicide. A correspondent aptly says:—At the present time the ambition of our leadang theatres seems bounded by the desire to reproduce the colourless lives and harmonious millinery of the idle classes. This has gone so far that at the Prince of Wale's we have " Shakespeare " with a drawl; and Antonio and Bas.onio gossiping about the yellow hair of Portia and her place at Belmont as if they were two swells in the smoking room at Marlborough, discussing the chances of a likely heiress. On Saturday last a parting dinner was given by the committee of the Savage Club to Mr. .1 Jag •Is Miller, author of the "Songs of the Sierras" Barry Sullivan presided. The amiable Joirinim proposes to take a tour round the world and be back presently. Mr. Miller is a living evidence of the softening influences i.f English society. When first he arrived in this country he used to frequent evening parties in the costume of the chase; now he is the pink of faahlon.—Losidon correspondent.  SERIOI3B COLLIERY EXi'