The Figaro continues its publication of the evidence in the
Dreyfus case, most of which is not sensational. The Generals all refuse to state whether secret evidence was banded to the officers sitting on the original Court-Martial, and all say the same thing, that only Dreyfus could have known the facts betrayed, and that consequently he betrayed them. Major Hartmann, however, an officer with a high record, testifies that all the betrayed facts could have been gathered from military papers and observation. M. Casimir- Perier revealed nothing, except that during his Presidency he was sedulously, kept in the dark about everything ; but M. Trarieux, ex-Minister of Justice, declared that both the German and Italian Ambassadors denied all knowledge of- 'Dreyfus. Count Tornielli Yds° informed him that the reference to " ce canaille _de D—," which has been supposed to establish the guilt, of Dreyfus, referred to a civilian spy known as M. Dubois. Much interest has been excited by the fact that Colonel Henry's secretary, an adjutant named Locrimier, has committed suicide. The authorities say he had fallen into melancholia, which is probably true ; but it seems certain that he knew a good deal about the suicide of a detective whom the Anti- Dreyfusards feared, and expected to--be summoned to Paris to give evidence. The tendency of officers who can give dangerous evidence to commit suicide, a tendency, it will be remembered, in which. Colonel Picquart believes, gives rise to much natural, though possibly unfair, comment. It should be noted that General Gallifet, one of the most determined, if not cruel, of the abler French Generals, gives unhesitating testimony to the character of Colonel Picquart as an' officer who deserved to rise to the highest commands.
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