The decision of the Court of Cessation on the Dreyfus
case will not be given till Saturday, or even Monday ; but it is as certain as anything can be in France just now that the Court will order that Dreyfus shall be retried, not by the Court of Cassation, but by another Court-Martial,—the course de- manded by the prisoner's counsel, who declared that Dreyfus had expressly asked to be tried again by his peers. The Report of M. Ballot-Beaupre, the official Reporter, was entirely in favour of revision, and he distinctly declared that in his opinion the bordereau was written not by Dreyfus, but by Esterhazy. 'Yet Esterhazy cannot. be prosecuted and punished, he has Been tried and "acccuittedalready, and no man can, of course, be tried twice for the same offence. It only remains to be said that Colonel Du Paty de Clam was arrested at 7 o'clock on Thursday evening and lodged in the Cherche- Midi Prison. The exact nature of the charge is not stated.
