The investigation of The Affair, as everyone now calls it, is still far from'its close. Contrary to expectation, Major Esterhazy has returned and is now favouring the Court of Cassation with evidence which will no doubt necessitate recalling other witnesses, To escape the reporters he has taken refuge in a private hospital kept by a religious fraternity, where, miravile dictu, he has made himself quite at home. There does not, however, seem to be any immediate prospect of his conversion. is us confident as ever and does not hesitate to promenade in the corridors of the Law Courts in the intervals of giving evidence. For the present the Chamber will have to keep its hands off the affair, M. Dupuy having declined to answer any! more questions about it until after the Estimates are voted. The anti-revisionists will try to Bill to take the final hearing out of the hands of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation and entrust it to the other two Chambers of the Court. In other words they wish to alter the law so as to affect a special case alrendy under investigation. Fortunately the Senate is not likely to sanction such an uncons'itutional mano-ure even if it should find a majority in the Chamber.
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