There has [been a great deal of talk here lately upon the subject of cremation. Lectures have been delivered to large audi ences, who listen with interest, and do not hiss. Articles are written in magazines, which depict the grandeur of the old Koman funeral ceremony; and books are being written en theju.hject. One publishing just now by the Key. H. H. Bawes, entitled " Asbos to Ashes," deals with this subject; bub woe be to the man who so early in the day proposes to carry ifc into practice. -. A gentleman, possessed of these enlightened views, suggested the other, day at West Hartlepool that this plp,n should be adopted in that town a* an alternative to having a new cemetery. The Christian women of the place mobbed him, aud by their charitable expressions seemed desirous of burning him before death to prevent him bwniug their offspring after desth. Burn him'! Give us Christian burial'! they cried, as he made good his-escape to his own house. An English Jady at Dresden, when dying, expressed a wish that her body should.'he: burned, not buried. Her frien.d.B had the, greatest difficulty in obtaining permission' from the authorities to carry qnt.het wishes, aud when they had obtained this, the cere mony had to be performed in the presence of witnesses from the leading religious- bodies, who were bou d by the solemn promise not to divulge what passed within those closed doors. The apparatus, ast might be expected, was defective, aad one of the witnesses turr.e/i traitor, made tho worst of the inci dent, and thereby afforded fres'a weapons for the enemies of cremation. Many tiling this old classical mode will gain tbe day. It was discarded by the early Christians because they were hourly expecting the second coming of Christ, when the doad should rise in the same body as tbat whioh was com-* milted to the. toiab ; and so they laid' their dead d.own tenderly, their faces to the easY that they might rise to greet their Lord in the brightness of His coming. Yet we! shall nob, be Pagans because we have outgrown j tha childish belief of the fiy-st oentnry. ' The Priuee and Princess ot Wales have I been warmly received in the "busy, smoky, Radical city of Birmingham. 