PENRITH HERALD and EAST CUMBERLAND and WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 438-Sixth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission Abroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1874. PRICE 1D. THE New York papers contain some interesting particulars connected with the death of CHANG and ENG, the Siamese twins, who made the round of Europe two or three times for exhibition, and who lived to the advanced age of 62 years. This lengthened term of life indicates that monstrosities, or what are otherwise called "curiosities of nature," may possess average health and see out the threescore years and ten. On the question whether, in the event of one of the twins dying, the other would also die at or about the same time, medical men differed as doctors are proverbially said to do on most subjects. Those who believed that, while the one might die the other might live, were desirous that experiments should be made to test the possibility of separating the unhappy creatures without doing either of them mortal injury. The attempt, however, was never made, and now the fact that the two died within two hours of each other shows pretty conclusively that they could never have been separated by the finest surgical skill, without causing death. CHANG died first, from the effects of a paralytic stroke, and it is said that the immediate apparent cause of the death of ENG was the shock caused by the dissolution of his inseparable companion, combined with the dismay he experienced at the consciousness that his brother had died. He became appalled, we are told, at the death of his other self, and passed from the exhibition of terror into a state of insensibility which soon deepened into the last sleep. Thus in death they were not divided, and we cannot but regard this as a most merciful dispensation of Providence. One of the tortures inflicted in ancient times consisted in binding a corpse to a living man, and it is scarcely possible to conjure up any form of punishment more horrible, revolting, and heart-chilling. The Scripture words, "Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" had probably been the very words that voiced the agonised cry of some hapless victim subjected to this terrible torture. _______________________________________________________________