The indictment against MM. Boulanger, Dillon, and Roche- fort has
been published, and appears to be exceedingly vague and laboured. There is a - great deal in it in relation to the charge of financial corruption, which does not properly belong to the charge of treason against the State; and what there is directly charging General Boulanger with treason is both old and indefinite. It is contended that if he could have got rid of General Seamier from the command of the Paris garrison, he would have committed an act of overt treason at the time when he was Minister at War. But allegations in the potential mood are not very potential allegations. Apart from the charges of corruption, which, even if supported by evidence, will hardly shock the French people as much as they ought, the indictment indicates pretty clearly that no telling proof of treason has been -discovered, and that the Government have had to make the most of very poor materials.
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