discontinu ance' an account ought to have been rendered to the end of the current quarter, but His Honor ruled that it was the subscriber's duty to pay up at the time of the countermand to relieve himself of liability, and gave a verdict i'fo'r the amount claimed. ' ...,':.•"

A strange discovery bu been made at Autun, Department at Saone et Loire. Masons wore at work on a building formerly an ecclesiastical college, and found m niches made m the wall of a vault upwards of 30 corpses, some retaining their hair. Boots and shoeß were on the feet of many of the dead bodies. The authorities have opened an investigation into this mysterious affair. The latent proposal for tha destruction of rabbits comes from New South Wales. The Government of that colony have inquired of Mr Gillies, of Victoria, m view of the agree ment concerning the importation of live stook, if he would object to rabbits suffering from disease being landed and turned adrift, a,nd.i*.Q>by contamination eventually canoe the extermination of the species. J Hhe Victorian ■Premier; haß communicated- with~the Chief Inspector of Stock , en the subject, and that gentleman has expressed the opinion that more information is needed,, as to th£n'a£a»~6f,liio diseasb/.to; be iritndnbeS'.-tj^the'nlibiisL'ai other animals might be contaminated, 'ana' so a worse pest introduced than the vermin -which the colony is now using every effort to exter minate. ' *'■» ■-■■■" ; ! .■■^•-..'.;.i. !-:b..;.'U> A Swiss correspondent of the Eepvbtyae Francaixt: states that,,- in- looking over, the papers of the eccentrip -J)uke of ' Brunswick, deposited at the library of Genera, £• fOTJttd the draft of » secret mutual a^isfiance fpeaty between, the Duke, andivtheilt^.^WMßbr] ; Napoleon, ' It is dated Ham, ZfithJoirt; 1884, 'and is is not oily' 5 signed ''Louis Napoleon Bonapbrte," Vut *)S{ten''b74i!tb'bg: inibitft eilk pocket-handkerchief m marking ink. The :Frenoh is full of .* Germanisms. The treaty i» ,in.five articles^ and the contracting partiSearii bound by an'tvafchlind their honour, to observe it. In return for themqney which heGerman, prince, was to' burnish the FrenclT one \ntE~to* escape, from. Ham and r»store th* empjre^tbfr latter' was to aid the other to enter again into the poeaession of duchy •tuL&tt his fiefs, «ndj. 