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running from Versailles to Paris. He seemed to be in a joyous frame of mind, and rubbed his hands with an air of satisfaction, as if he had just completed a most excellent bargain. As the coach rolled along, he hummed an air from the latest opera, — "Si Zerbin e"tait roi, Zerbine serait reine. {To be <

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Who was this man, — Du Coudray at Paris, Beaupre at Versailles? What secrets did his mysterious movements conceal? That is what we shall learn from the story of Deskues. Desrües, a name celebrated in the annals of crime! Desrües, the most finished type of the hypocritical poisoner! tinned.')

JUDICIAL COMPLIMENTS. By Joseph Ullman. "While the defendant bore an assumed name, THE learned counsel who were "sat upon " by the courts in the cases cited • he was physically at all times within this State, in the article " Animadversion of Counsel by and there was no hiding or concealment of his the Court " in the " Green Bag " for April, person except as he assumed and bore the ficti may perhaps be consoled by the reflection tious name. It passes my comprehension how, by that courts are as severe in rebuking and any process of reasoning or metaphysics, such a person continually present in the State for nearly commenting on inferior tribunals as they are ten years can be said never to have come here, on counsel. The following instances are from and to have been continually absent from the late reports of the New York Court of Ap State." — Earl, J. Engel v. Fischer, 102 N. Y. peals. All of them are reversals, and the 400. remarks have reference in every case to the "The proceedings in the Surrogate's Court, propositions and rulings of the courts below, and the decision which closed them were without and not to the arguments of counsel. It any apparent regard to certain well-established must be remembered, also, that appeals to our equitable principles; to the recognition and pro highest court are taken, not from the deci tection of which every person is entitled, while sions of the court of first instance, but from accounting in that court for his acts as executor th,e court in banc (general term), which is or administrator. . . . There is something in this an intermediate appellate court, composed which shocks the legal as well as the moral sense."— Gray, J Matter of Niles, 113 N. Y. 547. usually of three judges. The following com ments therefore apply to adjudications which "We think the judgments of the courts below had been approved generally by four judges in this case have proceeded in disregard of the (in two courts) below. elementary rules referred to." — Thomas v. The Musical, &c. Union, 30 N. Y. State Reporter, "The current of authority has been, for a long 563, Court of Appeals, April 15, 1890. course of years, uniform and unbroken in the highest courts of the State; and as no opinion "We are of the opinion that the courts below was rendered in the courts below, we are at a loss have erred in their views of this case, and that to know the theory upon which they proceeded the question presented by the exception has in giving judgment to the plaintiff."— Ruger, been repeatedly adjudged in favor of the plain C. J. Candee v. Smith, 93 N. Y. 349. tiff by the courts of this State. ... It seems to