NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MHE Spanish incident in Paris is not yet closed. A good
• deal of needless mystery is kept up, but, according to the beat accounts, the Spanish Government demanded that an official report of M. Gravy's apology should be published in the ,Tournal Oficiel. The French Government, in reply, published a Note, stating that the report in the " Havas Intelligence" was correct—which it was not—but refused to do anything further. The Spanish Ministry, which has for some time been divided in opinion, thereupon resigned, and will be succeeded by one much more Liberal, which will, it is understood, withdraw the Embassy from Paris. The two countries, therefore, will be formally at variance, probably, for months, because M. Challemel-Lacour cannot bring himself to repeat formally what has already been informally said. M. Gravy, it is believed, is entirely opposed to this policy, as he is to all foreign expeditions ; but he has accepted General Campenon as Minister at War, and the Cabinet is, therefore, in the hands of Gambettists, who hold the Premiership, the Foreign Office, the War Ministry, and the Department of the Interior. It remains to be seen whether they have a majority in the Chamber.
