nothing  to  say  about  St.  Bartholomew's  day  ?"  He  replied
"  on  that  occasion  God  Almighty  was  obliged  to  me  /"

Can  any  person  acquainted  with  the  confession  of
Ravaillac  entertain  a  doubt  as  to  his  insanity,  and
moral  irresponsibility,  at  the  time  he  assassinated  Henry
the  Fourth,  of  France,  for  which  he  suffered  the  pro-
longed and  agonizing  tortures  of  the  rack,  followed  by
being  torn  to  pieces,  by  four  horses  drawing  in  opposite
directions  ?

A  young  gentleman,  aged  twenty-nine,  died  of  con-
sumption.  A  post  mortem  examination  of  the  body  was
made.  The  brain  itself  showed  no  marked  deviation
from  health,  but  the  dura,  and  pia  mater,  presented
evidences  of  organic  change.  The  former  membrane  was
found  to  be  three  times  its  healthy  consistence.  In  ap-
pearance, it  was  like  a  piece  of  tanned  leather  !  There
were  also  tubercular  depositions  on  the  pia  mater.  The
alterations  discovered  in  the  meninges  immediately  in-
vesting the  brain,  must  have  existed  many  years,  and
these,  no  doubt,  disordered  his  mind.  This  person,  had
for  some  time,  been  a  cause  of  much  unhappiness  to  his
family,  without  their  suspecting  him  to  be  insane.  He
drank  to  a  frightful  excess,  indulged  in  the  society  of
the  most  degraded,  depraved,  vicious  men,  and  women,
and  squandered,  in  a  few  years,  a  splendid  patrimony.
