17 DECEMBER 1881, Page 3

The efforts to discover the body of the late Earl

of Crawford have entirely failed, and it is believed that the family will very soon give up the search. They wish it to be known, it is stated, that they are certain the body did come home, and was laid in the vault. The entire failure to obtain any evidence whatever, though subordinate agents familiar with the grounds musthave been employed to open the tomb, is not the least strange part of a strange story. The latest theory started is that the abstrac- tion was the work of some medical students, anxious to ascertain the latest methods of embalming, in which Italy far surpasses all other countries.