25 FEBRUARY 1871, Page 3

General Ducrot's account of his escape has been investigated by

a German court of honour, and tested by evidence, and he has been unanimously acquitted,—a fact we recommend to the large Anumber of persons who in the teeth of evidence persist in asserting that French statesmen and generals uphold breach of parole. There may have been cases of course, as there will be in large armies, but there never has been the faintest evidence of any desire on the -part of French politicians to approve such a course, or of French generals to follow it; when they have intended to escape, they have :given notice, and renounced the advantages of the parole.