The amazing trial of Mme. Caillaux ended on Tuesday, when
the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty to the question whether she bad committed wilful murder. The Times correspondent says that no other verdict could have been returned—since the question to the jury was put in this form—unless the jury wished her to be executed or to suffer a long imprisonment. There were enthusiastic cheers in Court, but in the streets there were formidable anti- Caillaux demonstrations. The trial remained irrelevant throughout, according to English standards of jurisprudence, and counsel finally appealed from their different points of view to the nature of the European situation. We may note that the intimate letters which M. Calmette was sup- posed to be about to publish were read in court and contained nothing very startling. Mme. Caillaux consented to the reading of the very letters to prevent the publication of which she had shot M. Calmette.
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