NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HE confused crisis in Paris is still going on. The President -I- has " sent for " M. de Freycinet, M. Bouvier, M. Floquet, M. Dnclerc, and M. de Freycinet again, in succession ; but each one finds it impossible to form a Ministry. Various reasons are assigned for the failure ; but, as we have said elsewhere, the one which seems to us most probable, and which is strongly affirmed by the correspondent most likely to be informed by
Clemencean, is that President Gravy insists that General Boulanger shall be left out. This cannot be effected, partly on Account of the General's popularity, which has been attested by a shower of addresses ; partly for some reason not yet revealed, but probably the determined opposition of the Radicals. By the last accounts, the President had sent for M. Decree, an able man, scarcely known in politics ; but Paris is beginning to grow agitated. All kinds of rumours are in circulation, one being that the Germans insist on a Ministry without General Boulanger—a most improbable story—and another that President Gravy, finding his task impracticable, intends to send in his resignation. This rumour owes its origin to his declaration that he would rather resign than send for M. Clemenceau, whom circumstances are now forcing on him, and who is not only very extreme in his views, but is General Boulanger's sworn friend. It is most probable that he did utter some sentence of the kind, but only as a kind of swearing, to indicate extreme reluctance. The Chambers stand adjourned till to-day,but it may be a week before a road out is discovered.
