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Show CREMATION OF AN ENGLISH LADY. Mrs. Dilke, whose body haB been subjected, on the 10th of last October, ' to the new process of cremation in the oven of Mr. Siemens, at Dresden, according to an expressdisposalofher last will, died on the 5th of October, in London. The prayers and religious ceremonies cere-monies used in the Anglican church j were performed in the presence of the brother-in-liw of Mrs. Dilke and of a number of aavants, and then the coffin in which the body had been laid down was placed in the oven, Five minutes were sufficient to burn the coffin; in five minutes the flesh was separated, and in ien minutes all fleshy parts were entirely consumed, consum-ed, save the skeleton. Ten minutes were necessary to reduce tho bones into ashes. From the introduction of the coffin into Mr. Siemens' oven the whole operation w:is perfected in an hour and a quarter, and then only six punds of ashes constituted tho remains of tho body. They were ! placed in an urn and presented to j the relatives of the deceased lady. L. A. B. |