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A PRoTRAcTED Law SUlr.-The following case.
lately decided in the Supreme Court of Berlin,
proves that it ia not ia English and American
Courts alone that there is TO chide the Law
delay. 1t is probably suit of the longest dura-
ton of any on record, being of somewhat over
three hundred gears Standing 1t is very GER
tain that there can be no suits in any OF our
Courts which can compare with it in age. 1t is
stated that the celebrated Count Egemont, who
was bcheaded at Brussels in 1868, by order of the
Duke Of Alva, figured at one time witness in


it. The dispute was between the Arenberg family
and the family of Mandcrschied. The law pre-
cess began in 1889. and the subject in dispute was
a sum of about 100000 thelers, which the first
named family claimed from the latter by virtue of
a marriage contract which was concluded in l5l7.
Eighteen Courts have in succession been occupied
with it. in the last place that of Munster. The
Superior Court at Berlin has condemned the Man


derscheid family to pay to that of Arenberg, the
sum claimed bat without interest, and has deci eed
that each party shall pay its own costs, the whole
of which amount to half as much again as the capi


tall This is then a case, in which, if ever, the
Saxon proverb is true, that he who gains his cause


losses his money. Boston Advertiser.