NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE crisis in Paris has advanced a stage nearer to the end. The Public Prosecutor has examined M. Wilson and M. Gragnon, the Prefect of Police, and has reported to the President of the Chamber that leave should be given to prosecute the former, who, as Deputy, is inviolable. There was, in the judgment of the Prosecutor, sufficient primdlacie evidence that the Prefect had illegally shown the letters to M. Wilson, and that the latter had replaced them with substitutes written by himself. The Chamber was, therefore, on Thursday asked for leave, and appointed a Special Committee to report on the applica- tion. They reported unanimously in its favour, and the Chamber, by the unprecedented vote of 527 to 3, granted the leave required. It was announced at the same time that the Minister of Justice had resigned, and that the Prefect of Police had been superseded. There was practically no discussion, M. Goblet, formerly the Finance Minister, being the only Deputy who thought that no crime had been committed. M. Wile= must therefore be tried, and the agitation in Paris against M. Grdvy increases hourly. He is called upon to resign, but refuges firmly, and the Radicals and Monarchists are dis- cussing means of compelling him to obey the popular verdict. There are no legal means ; but temper is rising so high, that the Chamber may destroy his moral authority by a vote of censure, and even a demonstration in the streets is considered possible.
