between his: osition and charseter_and those of the new Leader of the Liberal Party in our House of Commons. Both are eminently respectable men, with a reputation for genial yood sense and for the capacity to rise to the occasion when called upon. To come so. well out of the crisis is distinctly to the credit of the French Nation. Men think now the Good Ship will weather the storm after all. As for Dreyfus, the new President will no doubt strive to let the affair sink gradually into the background, and such names as Henri, Esterhazy, and' Benurepaire will only remembered as objects of the contempt excited by the infamous business. If Justice takes its course, the unhappy prisoner will be released, but in such a way as not to wound too deeply the amour propre of the army.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.