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Most Extraordinary Circunstance.-- Although the circumstance we are a. bout to relate may stagger the faith ot ninety-nine Of every hundred ot our readers, we can assure them that 1t is literally true. As many of oar readers are aware that the body of John Thom- as. who murdered Ellen Braneroft at Everton, after having been hanged was sent to Liverpool for dissection, it is, in fact, now undergoing anatomical exam ination at our Royal Institution. A cast was made from the head by Mir. Clements, of Bold street, in whose pos session it is at present; and 1t IS an ab- solute fact, that since the cast was com pletcd, the hair of the head and the beard have visibly and palpably grown, having, no doubt taken root in the plas- ter of Paris. It is we'll known fact that the human hair, which grows from a root like that of vegetables, will con tinue to increase hng after life is ex- tinct, and that beard which has been close shaved immediately after death, will grow again for some days. Now, in the instance we have been relating, there can be little doubt that the plas ter mould applied to the face of John Thomas, for the purpose of taking east, must, when drawn off the face, have plueked out the roots of the hair with it. The cast which was at- terwards formed from the mould was soft, moist and warm, and continued so for a sufficient time to permit the hair to spring the roots, until the moisture was expended and the plaster had cooled and hardened. The surgeon who act ed as demonstrator on the dissection, has assured US that he shaved the head close immediately before the operation and that the hair has, in the correspon- ding parts of the cast, evidently grown. If we are asked why so singular phe- nomenon has never before been noticed or recorded, our answer is that there is one circumstance connected with this case which may serve to explain the matter. In general, when casts are taken of deceased friends, the face is smeared with soap and oil, in order that the plaster of the mould, when ta- ken of, may not injure or dishgure the flesh or features. No such precaution was ever taken, 1t seems, in this in- stance, and the plaster consequently, ad- hered more tenacionsly than usual to the face, pl,.cking of withit, as we have already stated, the roots of the hair of the head and of the beard. .--Liverpool ..lIercury.