A FRENCH MYSTERY.

Attempts aro being made by the French papers to invest in mystery the death of M. Chaulin-Serviniere, Deputy for Mayenne. His body was found one morning at halfpast three on the railway near La Mans, horribly mutilated. The station-master, a guard, and a railway inspector identified it as that of M. Chaulin-Serviniere. Apart from their evidence, there were found on him his deputy's railway pass and medal, and a supplemental ticket for a corridor-car to Paris. It is thought that several trains must have gone over him. The most reasonable hypothesis, says a correspondent, is that he leant out of the window, and that the door gave way. The outside doors of corridor-cars in France are so badly fastened that travellers arc warned by placards not to lean against them. They are not fastened outside. M. ChaulinServiniore was 62, and in prosperous circumstances. "here is no ground for supposing that he committed suicide. He was returned for the Le Mans division of Mayenne at the last elections by a considerably increased majority. He called himself »■ Republican Progressist, and was a valuable member when the cavalry section of the estimates were under discussion. He was mayor of Mayenne, and an advocate by profession, but had given up the Bar since he entered the Chamber. M. Chaulin-Serviniere was, moreover, the intimato friend of Captain Lebrun-Renaud, and was ono of the persons who were said to have been informed by that officer of the alleged confession of Captain Dreyfus. It is a singular coincidence that Major- D'Attel, another recipient of this alleged confession, also met with his death on the railway under mysterious circumstances.