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E1trnordinary sceRe.-The Cronioue de

 Paris relates the following extraordinarv scene as having taken place al the Court of

 Assizes, the truth of which however we do

 not take it upon ourselves to vouch for. A youth of abon, nineteen years was brought ln trial for having broken the window of bakers shop and stolen two pound loaf. 2 The PreSident-" Why did you steal the loafw prisoaer--"l was driven by hun- ger.' Why did you not buy il7' Because

 I had no money But you have gold ring on your tinger, why did you no. sell it?' Il am foundling. When was ta- ken from the bank of n ditch this ring was suspended fro" my neck by siIken cord, and l keep i' ih hope of thereby discover ing at last who were my parents. l cannot dispose of it. Tho Procureur du Roi made violent speech against the prison- CT, wh" was found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years. Immediately upon this woman, more worn by poverty iiaa age, came forward and made the fol- lowing declaration :-' Gentlemen of the Jury. twenty years ago young woman was seduced by young man of the same town. who after deceiving her, abandoned her. Poor and distressed she was obliged lo leave her child to the care of Proyi. dence. The child has since grown up, and

 the woman and her seducer have grown

 older; The child in poverty, tho woman

 ih misery, and her scd0cer tn prosperity. They are, all three now in court. The

 child is the unfortunate prisoner whom you have just pronounced guilty, the mot her Is

 myself, aud there sits the faaher, pointing | ,O the ProcsTeur da Roi. A "SN