THE TRIAL OF MARSHAL BAZAINE.

Evening Post, Volume VIII, Issue 311, 5 February 1873, Page 2

THE TRIAL OF MARSHAL BAZAINE.

It is stated that M&Tsliul BAtainf willbe tiled noVnierety fdtf failihg *to< do his .duty as the Commander 6t the' Army at Mots, hut also for high treason against the French R«pablio^4n? having attempted* to netfdcii&J yfitlx] the enemy in the ';aaine\of tWjElmjje-, rbr, who had been 'declared no . loiigerthe Sovereign of France, j*nd 'having* made overtures . to t the Emnress, as Regent 'of Francfe, to gam better terms than the German military authorities offered to the garrison. The military pavb of the prosecution hA3,"it is^Baid, broken down altogether. QX evidence given.' by; hpzttisjb, well-rae&tiing -trit* nessess there has been enough! to suffice for a court-martial that -wtiuld last * couple of years. , But it is affirmed that nCthing '-tangible^ or definite enough upon .which to found the charges has been made "but. One fact, however, became plainer and plainer as the questioning and . 'cross-questioning went on; namely, that if JSaaine was fortnd guilty of not doing Ids duty" at Mete, there would be sorrie twelve or fourteen generah— including Marshal Canrobert himself— who would have to be tried upon charges much akin to those laid at the door of the Marshal Commanding-in -Chief, Npw, since nearly all these officers hold high commands — one is Governor* of Pgfris, another commands the corps cf armee now in the capital, a third holds a like command at ttf-ons, a fourth is Minister of "War, and so on — it would have been, to say the least, not a little inconvenient to make prisoners of men in their positious, and gefcvup cases against them in the, method adopted with respect to Bazaine, These are some of the reasons why the military portion of the case is considered likely to form comparatively tin unimportant element in this great triair*

CCk Have you heard my last speech/ asked a political haranguer of a "wit, J ( I sincerely hope so," waa the reply. Flipkins says that there are three sexes — the male sex, the female tex } and the insects. An inquirer is informed that ire know of no female dates, although 1 mandates are plenty.