The jury returned a verdict in the Troehu case on
Tuesday. They found that the Figaro had not been guilty of libel, but had been guilty of "outrage on an official," and the editor and manager were sentenced to fines of £120 and a month's imprison- ment. The general feeling of Paris appears to be that General Trochu did promise to defend the Empress, and failed to redeem his promise, not from treachery, but from the weak despondency which impairs an otherwise fine character, and which during the siege proved so fatal to Paris. Everything else which came out at the trial was favourable to him, and although be declared that he was friendly to the Imperialist form of Government, he left the Court
amid strong manifestations of respect. M. Villemessant, the editor of the .Fgaro, was hooted, and the Bonapartist cause has been greatly discredited by the fact that of all the Bonapartists who gave evidence not one had assisted the Empress. She was saved by an American dentist.
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