text:  A French journal announces that the son and daughter of Lesurques still living pledged themselves on the death-bed of their mother to continue the endeavour which had occupied her forty long years--an endeavour to make the law comprehend that nothing is more tyrannous than the strict fulfilment of its letter--an endeavour to make the world at large more keenly feel the questionable nature of evidence as to personal identity in cases where the witnesses are ignorant and where the evidence against their testimony is presumptive