Recit Exact Du Grand Combat Livre A Nancy.

dans le sang cle nos freres le troupes de ligne , & commencer ainsi une animosite qui peut-ctro l ' ori gine des plus horribles malheurs . II faut pourtaut attendre des details plus circonstancies de cette affaire , avant

d ' en pouvoir porter un jugement certain . Quoi qu'il en soit , I'Assemblee nationale pent aujourd'hui donner it l ' armee une bonne organisation , & ecouter des plaintes saus etre aocttsee cle foiblesse . Pour nous , citoyens & soldatsexaminons avec

atten-, tion quels sout les horrible projets cle 1 ' aristocratie , & ne cherchons pas ii lui preparer nous-memes cles triomphes , en entretenant des divisions funestes : songeons que nous sommes tons enfans d ' uiie meme famille & quo les aristocrates seuls

, ne sont pas nos freres . The above is an exact copy of two little pamphlets printed "Chez Garneiy Libraire , " Rue Sorpente , No . 17 . ( To be Continued . )

The Under Current Of Life.

THE UNDER CURRENT OF LIFE .

BY A'EKAX . THE Times has recently called attention , iu a very able article , to a very unpleasant and serious trial which has taken place at

the Old Bailey , in words which Ave feel strongly ought to be carefully perused and considered by us all . From it we A'enture to give some extracts , Avith a few humble ancl concluding comments of our own . Listen to its words alike of warning

and of wisdom , oh good brethren of ours , of all ranks , ancl of all conditions ! " The course of legal business gives us frequently strange glimpses of life , far too eccentric for fiction , ancl yet , as we are forced to acknowledge , true to nature ;

but among the pictures Avhich are thus held up to public gaze , it is seldom that we find a more curious one than was presented at the Central Criminal Court recentl y . The case before the Court was in itself a very simple one . Two men , De Chastolaine and Wetherall , Avere indicted for conspiring to defraud Mr . le

Hunt Doyle , an Irish gentleman of property , of a considerable sum of money . The corpus delicti appears in the form of an agreement for a partnership , signed in November last , between Doyle , Chastelaine , and Wetherall , together with a fourth part }' Sir Edward Cuuynghame

, , who hacl died during the interval before the trial . These four persons Avere to share the profits and losses of a wine business , to be carried on in Burleigh Street , Strand ; they accepted jointly and severally the liabilities of a previous business which had been carried on in the

same place ; and , further , Mr . Doyle undertook to advance within 21 clays the sum of £ 500 , to be employed for the purposes of the new business or otherwise . Mr . Doyle had , it appears , made the acquaintance of Mr . Cunyiighame in 1875 , during a residence at Churn ' s Hoteland

, had had to pay a little bill of £ 500 folium . In November last his acquaintance with Sir Edward Cuuynghame was renewed , ancl he Avas introduced , moreover , to some choice friends of Sir Edward ' s , ancl among others to the parties to the

late trial at the Old Bailey . The intimacy established everywhere congenial spirits , appears to have been of the very closest kind . They were , in fact , made for one another , in much the same sense as the pike ancl the roach , or [ the hawk ancl the pigeon , may be said to be . Mr . Doyle Avas , as we have stated , an

easy-going Irish gentleman of considerable private means . His friends Avere all , more or less , in ' that street , ' and one of them had been in Horsemonger Gaol . Here , then , was material of a very pretty combination , to the profit of at least three of those who took part in it . The interest

of the fourth party was less obvious , and the only difficulty could be to induce him to join with the others . Life with him Avas one long drinking bout . The clay began with champagne cup , and as it hacl begun so it went on , and so it continued

far into the small hours , with tho occasional variation of a decanter of brand y , which we are told was very frequently replenished . As far as liquor went , Mr . Doyle seems to have been ready to entertain not only his friends , but the hotel Avaiters , who had a general authorit y to take anything they pleased . On the 2-1 th 2 p 2