at last came up with him, seized and held him fast until the arrival of Mr. Schureman and the watchmen who secured him. The jury convicted the prisoner, and the Court sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. _The young gentlemen attending the Medical School of this city will take warning by this man’s fate. They may rest assured, that the keeper of Potter’s Field will do his duty, and public justice will he executed on any man, whatever may be his condition in life, who is found violating the law, and the decency of christian burial!_” The same paper gives the following account of a transaction, which took place at Hartford, in Connecticut, May 17. “Yesterday morning, two ladies were taking a walk in the South burying ground, when they discovered a tape-string, and a piece of cloth, which upon examination was found to be the piece that was laced upon Miss Jane Benton’s face, who came to her death by drowning, and was buried a few days since. The ladies then went to the grave, and found that it had been disturbed--that she was taken out of her coffin, and a rope around her neck. The circumstance has produced great excitement in the public mind; and every one is on the alert to discover the perpetrators of this unfeeling, brutal act. _The citizens turned out in a body yesterday, and interred the corpse again._” These scenes are highly disgraceful, and disgraceful to all, though not _alike_ to all, parties. We do not blame the Americans for abolishing the practice of exhumation; but we blame them for stopping there. We maintain, that it is both absurd and criminal, to make this practice felony, without providing in some other method for the cultivation of anatomy.