The trial of the Panama Directors for bribing Deputies and
of Deputies for being bribed, opened on Wednesday, but is, of course, not yet finished. M. Baihaut, former Minister, has confessed ; and M. Sans-Leroy, ex-Chairman of the Lottery Loan Committee, hesitates under cross-examination, though asserting confidently that the allegation of a bribe of 8,000 is false' He received 28,000 when he changed his opinion on the Lottery Loan, The remain but it was from his wife's dowry. der of the accused give simple le denials It is pretty clear from the course of the evidence that the Panama Directors mean to state nearly all they know, and athat as against Deputies the public believes them. The list of the 104 Deputies alleged to have received gratifications is at last to be pub- lished; and it is confidently asserted in Paris that the Oppor- tunist party will be broken to pieces. It was a shock to the audience to hear from M. Charles de Lesseps that M. Cornelius Herz was so intimate with the late President Grevy, that he took uninvited guests to the President's country house, where M. de Lesseps obtained such a conviction of M. Horz's influence, that he thought it futile to resist him. It is all in the style of Constantinople rather than of a Western city.
