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Appearance of ttc Deod.-lt frequent ly happens that the features of the dead retain their entire form and individual likeness for many years after their bnri- |al. Experience, however, has proved that after an exposure to the air some minutes, dust returns to de5t again.

 The following circumstances occur red at the disinterment of the body of Robert Burns, the poet, sometime in the year ISl4, for the purpose of being entombed beneath q splendid monu- ment.

 Ks report had been spread that the principal coffin was made of oak, a hope was entertained that it would be possi- ble to transportit it from the north to the east corner of St. Michael's without opening 1t, or disturbing the sacred de posit 1t contained. But this hope proved iallacious. On testing the coflin,it was found to be composed of the ordinary materials, and ready to yield to the slightest pressure; and the lid removed, a spectacle was unfolded, which, consi- dering the flme of the mighty dead, has rarely been witnessed by single bu- man being. There were the remains of the great poet, to all appearance nearly entire, retaining various traces of vitality, or rather exhibiting the fea- lures of one who had newly sunk into the sleep of death-the lordly forehead, arehed and high--the scalp still cover ed with hair ana the teeth perfectly firm and white. The scene was so inn posing that most of the workmen stood bare and uncovered, as the late Dr. Gregory did at the exhumation of the remains of the illustrious hero of the Bannockburn, and at the same time felt their frames thrilling with some unde- Unable emotion, as they gazed on the ashes of him whose fame is as wide ;;ls-tthe as tthe world itself. But But the effect was momentary; when they proceeded to insert shell or case below the coffin. 1 the head separated from the trunk and the whole body, with the exception of the bones, crumbled into dust.