The Times correspondent at Paris forwards a digest of the
Report drawn up by Commissary Hennion on the Royalist plots, which attributes to M. Deroulede and others a planned conspiracy against the Republic, which was to have broken out just before the end of the Dreyfus trial. He reckoned, it is stated, on the support of the soldiery, and bad secured the complicity of General de Negrier. Three brigades, each under a chief sworn to secrecy, were to have held Paris, and marched upon the Elysee, and General Herve was to have been made Governor of Paris. It all looks dreamy nonsense to M. de Blowitz and to Englishmen, but our readers will note that the officers accused are the officers whom General de Galliff' et has removed from Paris; that M. Deronlede is still under prose. cation before the Senate sitting as a High Court; and that the Government intend to ask leave to prosecute any of those implicated who happen to be Deputies or Senators. That is
to invite defeat unless the evidence is strong. It is rumoured, indeed, that the Chamber, which meets this week, intends to avail itself of this opportunity; but perhaps the result may be a surprise. The Deputies have seen their con- stituents, and the electors on the eve of the Great Exhibition will be hardly willing to upset a Government which is at once strong and moderate.
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