The Court of Ca.ssation has not released Dreyfus, owing, it
is reported, to a difference of opinion among its members, but has acknowledged its duty to make a thorough inquiry into all the facts of the case. All the secret papers will be called for, and the Generals asked to give evidence in private as to the grounds for their conviction of the prisoner's guilt. The Generale agree, it is said, to give this evidence ; but there is a report that the secret dossier, of which so much has been said, has been burnt. The new Ministry contains men strongly opposed to Dreyfus, but the President is believed to rely upon the adroitness of M. de Freycinet to avoid ary
great explosion. The excitement in Paris does not, however, diminish ; the Radical section of the Chamber is already out of hand ; and any accident may precipitate events. There are, for example, grounds for a furious quarrel between the military and civil powers in the continued imprisonment of Colonel Picquart. Note as a significant incident the publica- tion in Paris of a " prophecy " that Dreyfus will die of joy on the day of his release.
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