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Mr. Robert L. Patterson, J. P., F.L.S., said they were all 

 indebted to Mr. Workman for his interesting lecture. Mr. 

 Workman did not appear to have ventured very far into the 

 interior, but the information he had been able to gather was 

 particularly interesting just now, as the attention of everybody 

 in this country had lately been attracted to the action of the 

 British Government in Burmah, and in annexing upper Bur- 

 mah, in order to put an end to the misrule, the bloodshed, 

 and the cruelty that had obtained there. A friend of his who 

 visited Burmah last year told him a rather curious circum- 

 stance, which, in connection with what they had heard 

 that evening, it might not be uninteresting to repeat. Mr. 

 George Burns, of Glasgow, being in Burmah, wished to pay a 

 visit to Mandalay, but was informed that the journey was not 

 unattended with some risk. However, he determined to go. 

 He discovered that on the Irrawaddy navigation could only be 

 carried on by day, as the river was not lighted and was full of 

 obstructions. The journey occupied ten or eleven days. One 

 night they observed a curious object on the shore at some dis- 

 tance from the water edge, and on their going near it they 

 were horrified to find that it was a man who had been crucified 

 that morning. He (Mr. Patterson) was unaware until he 

 learned this that the horrible punishment of death by crucifixion 

 obtained in any country, even in an uncivilised country, at 

 the present day. The man crucified was a dacoit or robber, 

 who, as a rule, scrupled little about committing murder for the 

 purpose of accomplishing their ends. After the dacoit was 

 crucified he had been speared to death, and the vultures were 

 at the time gathering to pick his bones. Mr. Burns, when in 

 Mandalay, had an interview with the Prime Minister, but he 

 was not given an interview with the King. Mr. Burns de- 

 scribed the country as being very fertile, and was of opinion 

 that it only required a strong and stable government to bring 

 it to a state of civilisation, in order to make it a good customer 

 of ours. Such a government, he hoped Burmah would have 

 in the future. 



