23 OCTOBER 1875, Page 2

The Arnim appeal has now been heard by all appellate

tribu- nals, and the Supreme Court has- given its final decision. It upholds the judgment of the Court of First Instance, and the Count must therefore go to prison for eight months, and pay the costs of the proceedings. There can be no doubt that Count Arnim committed an offence, but the case was just one of those in which a generous prosecutor would plead for a reduction of the sentence to' three days' imprisonment, just sufficient to mark the existence of a law broken almost inadvertently out of haste and pique.