THE BEAUREPAIRE SENSATION.

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1899, Page 5

THE BEAUREPAIRE SENSATION.

Vancouver newspapers to hand by yesterday's mail throw some further light on the significance of the resignation of the President of the Civil Section of the Court of Cassation, and the importance attached to it in France. A cable message of the 10th January quotes the opinions of three leading writers as follows : — The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says: — "The action of M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire in resigning is astounding. He throws up one of the easiest and most honorable posts and the salary of £51000 a year, which might have gone on indefinitely, at a time of life when men cease to be fortunate if they plunge into new adventures. It is believed that he intends to stand for the Senate, the Academy, and later for the Presidency of the Republic." The Paris correspondent of the Daily iuail says : — "To-day's revelations of various kinds tend to show that the members of the Court of Cassation are themselves divided into two full opposed camps of Dreyfusards and anti-Dreyfusards. M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire's explanation of the causes of his resignation will probably lead to the Cabinet's fall, since he complains bitterly of the way M. Lebret, Minister of Justice, conducted an interview with him when he offered the Minister a statement of the relations between M Bard, of the Criminal Bench of the Court of Cassation, and Colonel Picquart.'' The Paris correspondent of The Times says : -—"Of all the scandals produced by the Dreyfus affair, this of the resignation of M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire is certainly the greatest. What is beyond doubt is that the Nxitionalists, who have not had a single man whose name was imposing or whose ability was dangerous, now appear to have found a chief, although his aim is still far from clear. With M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire leading the Nationalists and Anti-Semites, M. Paul Deroulede leading the League of Patriots, and M. Godfrey Cavaignac at the head of the Patrie Francaise, the Republic, if it escapes, will have a hard time." A cablegram of the same date to the

Vancouver World said- — The resignation of M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire, President of the Civil Section of the Court of Cassation, revived interest in the Dreyfus case, which had calmed down during the past few days, to fever point, the anti-Drey-fusites doing everything possible to discredit the Court of Cassation, as it is generally accepted in the best informed circles that the Cqurt is preparing to render a judgment in favour of Dreyfus. The Cabinet met this afternoon under the presidency of President Faure, who issued a decree accepting the resignation of M. de Beaurepaire and appointing Counsellor Ballot de Beaupre to succeed him. The Minister of Justice, M. Lebret, announced that M. Mazeau, First President of the Court of Cassation, would preside over the Criminal Section of the Court of Cassation instead of M. Loew, when the Dreyfus enquiry terminated, and the Court meets to take the decision. This step has been taken in consequence of a virulent attack on M. Loew, based on the fact that he is a Jew.