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were put down and all original common law and criminal jurisdiction vested in county courts, and, if the counties themselves do not run into the bay, how can the courts of any county hold pleas of a crime committed thereon? An old counsellor at law has men tioned to me that a case occurred of a rob bery and murder committed by persons named Robins and Davenport on a John DeCoursi, in the year 1788 in the bay of Chesa peake, that the perpetrators being appre hended in Queen Anne's, they were there held to answer to two distinct indictments; one for murder, which, on account of doubts then existing as to jurisdiction, was never tried; the other for robbery, on this last, with no little hesitation, they were tried, con victed, hung. The trial in this case for the

robbery may have preceded and been main tained on the ground of the stolen property being found on the prisoners, which in cases of larceny, the asfortation of property, is held to be a continuance and repetition of the of fence. The last is supposition only, and per haps it was not a correct principle in the particular case. My informant added that the case mentioned gave rise to a law of Md. of Nov. session 1789, chapter 22 providing for cases of murder when the stroke was given on the bay and the death happened on the shore and the reverse. This last is said to have been considered in the reasoning of the judges on the case in question to apply on the principle of expressio unius exclusio altcrius, but I don't know this and cannot dis cover where the report mentioned of our at torney general can be had.''

A PAIR OF EARS. From the French of Philibert Audebrand by MARY J. SAFFORD. "Ears of what?" M ALFRED NAQUET might have "Ears of a man." • added this document to his file of pap "Cut off?" ers advocating divorce. The incident occurred in the clerk's office "Certainly, cut off." of the Palais dc Justice, where all sorts of "With what? A sabre? A knife? A razor?" things are deposited, stolen articles, corpus "A Catalonian poniard." delicti, and objects tending to prove crimin Then, drawing a steel blade from a leather ality. Last April, a young lawyer, with lorg sheath, he added: non raised to his eyes, was amusing himself "Here is the instrument by which the aforesaid ears were amputated." by examining this judicial bric-a-brac. He went from brass watches to revolvers, silver The words evidently referred to some snuff-boxes to burglars' tools, plunging like drama. Curious, like all men of his age, the youth in the old tale, into a gulf of philo the young lawyer stopped and questioned his sophical reflections. guide: Suddenly he noticed in a sort of velvet "A tragical adventure! Oh, my dear sir, case, two singular objects, round, flat, very pray tell me about it!" peculiar in form, and brown in color. They "Very well! It isn't a long story." looked like India-rubber or parchment. "So much the worse!" "What are those?" he asked, turning to a "Don't interrupt me. About three months young clerk who was acting as guide. ago, just at the close of winter, a strange "Why! Don't you see that they are ears?" affair occurred in an elegant villa near