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Long Speeches.—In the year of Rome 702 a law was passed, called de ambitu, limiting the pleadings in criminal cases to one day, allowing two hours to the prosecutor and three to the accused. There was some sense in this, independently of the saving of time. There can be no greater absurdity than to suppose a good cause can be benefited by pleadings, the beginning of which must be quite forgotten before they come to an end.

It is stated in French papers, that a still-born infant was carried to M. Portal, of Paris, for dissection, who conceived the idea of inflating its lungs. The experiment was tried for a few minutes, when the air returned warm, the blood began to circulate, and the child was sent back alive to its parents. A surgeon at Lyons recently made a similar experiment with complete success.