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iliay Interest some of our tegdt friends. N are not aware that these cases are found in ssour books of reports we shall therefore be con- sdefed as rendering a service in laying them be- fore our readers.-U. s. Gag.

 Criminal suits ogouaa .d0in,als.-Tle above title may excite smile of iacrcdulity; it is nc- vertheiess true, that judges have even recently been found derogating from the dignity of their character, by citing before them maggots, cat terpillars, hogs, and other animals, accused off offences and crmes.-These suits were accom- panied with all the customary legal formalities. such as the citation of the accused. hearing wit nesses, pleading for and against, and occasional y public execution of the criminal by the com mon hangman.

 Chassineux, president of the parliament of Provence, n q work published in l53I. discusses the question whether animals are amcnable to q court Of justice, and decides in the affirmative. lie gives the detail of a prosecution against some snay bugs of Beanne, and other suits a. gainst some snails at Autun in l4S7. at Lyons in l59G, at Macon in I4SS, and against number oi rats at Autun in the same period. 1t, more over, appears, according to detailed report ef the president then, that Cbassineux vas the counsel employed for the defendants in the las. case. viz: the rats; and that after the subpoena. ssned by the magistrate acting in the name of the public minister he endeavored to have the cause put of. He represented that a single sub pona was insufficient, as his clients were scat tered over the village. X new summons was is sued, which was read at the public square ofthe town at the conclusion of the mass. At the conclusion of the time allowed to the advocate to assemble his numerous clients. he explained to the court the difficulty he experienced in mee ting tue rats. in consequence of the general mo- flee which had been given, by which the cats, had become informed of the proposed meeting, and threatening 10 take advantage of their ap- pearanee abroad. Having exhausted all his eloquencc. inc lawyer threw his clients upon the humanity and justice of the court.

 In l266, a hog was burnt alive at Fontenay- aux-Rose~, by order of the officers of justice, for having devoured an infant. In 1886, sentence of the judge of Falaisc condemned SOW to have her fore foot and her head cut off, on con viction of having caused serious injury to child. The execution took place in front of the city hall, and cost I0sous 6 denicrs-the animal hay ing been previously dressed in the habit of q maa. Tn 1889, a horse was likewise condemn- ed to death for having killed his master. Not to go so far back-Gaspard Rally, an attorney at law in Chamberry, published n i6tS, trea- tsc protesso upon this species of suits, in whichhe gave the formula of subpoena, Of Judg- ment, &c.

 Among the manuscripts belonging 10 the roy al family, there is one containing the original of pronounced by the judge of Lasig- ny in Dourgogne, against 3 sow with her six pigs.

 