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Show The It ra; ue Court Martial. Versailles. 11. The session of the Bazaine Court Martial was resumed this morning. Several documents submitted by the prosecution were read, the most important of which was one showing that Bazaiue was responsible re-sponsible for the delay in husbanding provisions in MeU, by neglecting to inform his officers of the situation, and thus preventing them from tricing tric-ing the necessary precautions against scarcity. Kiverro's report was then taken up and its reading concluded. Kiverre says, in relinquishing the chief command of the army, the Emperor Em-peror gave his last order to Bazaine, which was to retreat to Chalons. Thuugh tliis order was repeatedly insisted in-sisted uon, Bazaine armed to escape the Emperor's control, lie deceived the Emperor, and causing, as ho did , by his tiilse information, tiie advance . towards Montmcdy, greatly shared the responsibility lor the disaster at Sedan. Alluding to tho negotiation between Ucguier and Bazaiue, the report says Bazaine never ought to have listened to a stranger without credentials. It was bib duty to tike the field, or if unable to do so, to harrass the enemy by repeated sorties and obtain provisions. Uazaine's army was the only hope of tbt nation. While itexisted nulhingcmild he lost. Bazaine was anxious about the form of government, govern-ment, but the Empress when granting a farewell audience to Gen. Bourbaki, advised him to proceed to Tours and oiler his sword in the cause of the nation, na-tion, rejecting the convention tlie first conditiun of which was the dismemberment dismem-berment of the territory of -the country. coun-try. Upon the conclusion of reading the report tliu court adjourned for tho day. Several officers censured in the previous pre-vious report, have announced their uitentiouof demanding a court martial. |