Mr. Wm. Eassie reports: “During the wars between the English and the Burgundians and the French,—the latter led by Joan of Arc,—the dead were on one occasion piled up outside the city of Paris, and consumed in one huge pyre.” Twelve days after the battle of Paris, on the 30th of March, 1814, 4000 horses, killed during the combat, were burnt by the Germans in the environs of Paris,—the woods of Montfaucon. In the battle at Rivas, Nicaragua, on the 28th of June, 1855, between government troops and Walker’s Filibusters, the latter lost their commander, 12 officers, and 100 men, all of whom were cremated. Many dead were reduced to ashes by the Carlists, after the battle of Cuenca. More than 40,000 human and animal remains had been inhumed in a very superficial manner after the battle of Sedan, during the late Franco-Prussian War. In consequence, the Belgian villages in the neighborhood were visited by epidemics and infectious diseases. The Belgian government was petitioned to remove the evil. It despatched Colonel Creteur to examine into the grievances, and, if possible, remove them. One’s hair stands on end when one reads the report of the colonel on the condition of the Sedan battle-field. The only way to remedy the evil was to destroy the dangerous cadavers by cremation, which was a difficult task, under the circumstances, but which was nevertheless accomplished by the ingenious Creteur. The colonel’s report is full of horrible facts. The bodies of German soldiers in a trench at Laid-Trou were covered so little by earth that carnivorous animals had already devoured part of the hands and faces. Rain-water had caused 30 large pits, containing the remains of Bavarians, to cave in, and had laid bare the bodies. Between Belan and Bazailles, the owners of a field had leveled the elevation of a Bavarian grave. Relics of the dead protruded from the ground. The bodies were covered only by a thin layer of earth, in which corn flourished luxuriantly. Wild bears, foxes, and dogs, relishing the human flesh, helped to scratch away the soil over the remains, as did the numerous crows upon the pit in which the horses had been buried. Dogs, having once feasted on this fare, would not eat anything else. Creteur at first could not obtain men to carry out his plans, as every one who attempted to open the trenches contracted phlyctæna, an eruption of the skin. Finally, by promising good pay, he enlisted 27 workmen, whom he endeavored to protect by saturating their clothing and moistening the graves with a solution of carbolic acid. But this only intensified the phlyctæna. He then determined to cover the graves with a layer of chloride of lime, and to pour diluted muriatic acid upon them subsequently. By this means he succeeded in laying bare the topmost layer of the corpses. He then had large quantities of coal tar poured into the pit, which trickled down among the bodies to the bottom, thoroughly covering the remains. He then had more chloride of