The French Government must be conscious that its power is
at a very low ebb. President Loubet, with a humanity for which we give him every credit, has pardoned Alfred Dreyfus for being _innocent, but the Government, in fear of the consequences, concealed the pardon till they could smuggle the victim out of Rennes. The pardon does not reinvest him with his rank, or exempt him from any civil .consequences of his sentence. That will require either , a • law, or a at of the Court of Caseation. The whole affair will once again come immediately before the Courts, for M. Zola is to be tried for libelling the Army, and will, he says, in his defence produce absolute proofs of Dreyfus's innocence. That depends, of course, upon the nov.Aist not being shot in the back like Maitre Labori, or being proved by forged documents to have sold secrets to Menelek.
