The trial of General Boulanger has ended in the Senate's
find- ing him guilty of treason, conspiracy, and embezzlement. The Conservative Members held that the Court was incompetent to try any one for offences of the latter kind, and retired from it before the judgment was declared, fiifty-one Senators protest- ing against its jurisdiction over such charges. M. Rochefort and M. Dillon are also declared guilty of complicity with the General. After the retirement of the Conservatives, the declaration of the competence of the Court to deal with offences against the State and facts connected therewith, was asserted by 201 votes against 7. The declaration that General Boulanger was guilty of such offences against the State (attentate and complots) was voted by 206 votes ; while MM. Dillon and Rochefort were declared guilty, the former by 124 against 9 votes, and the latter by 183 against 18. On the question of the competency of the Court to deal with em- bezzlement, there was still greater dispute, but General Boulanger was declared guilty of embezzlement by 195 votes against 5. The sentence passed on him and his colleagues was deportation to a fortified place, where they are to be imprisoned, and to pay the costs of the trial.
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