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Evening Post, Issue 253, 29 November 1865, Page 3

Tub Skelbton op Jebemt Benth*m.— Dr. South wood Smith has been the intimate friend of Jeremy Bentham. It was the wish of the venerable philosopher that his body should be dissected, and for that purpose he left it to the enlightened physician who had been his attendant at the time of his death. Having called upon Dr. Smith at his house in the city, as I was going away, he said, in his quiet manner, "Would you like to see Bentham?" I could not quite comprehend him ; but leading his way into the hall, he unlocked, with a small key that hung to his watch chain, a mahogany case, something like the sedan chair of a past generation. Behind an inner covering of plate glass sat the figure of the oldjuriatin the identical clothes which he had worn living ; a waxen face, round which was clusteting the white hair, covered with his well known broad brimmed hat, and he leant on the trusty stick with which he had so often paced the Green Park. 1 long stood absorbed in many thoughts of the great man's career. Dr. Smith the glass, opened the few buttons of the waistcoat, and then showed the skeleton, which preached the same lesson to the pride of human wisdom as the skull of " poor Yorlck" did to the gibes that were wont •' to set the table in a roar."— Knight's " Passages of a Working Life."