15 OCTOBER 1898, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK • R UMOURS were in circulation on

Friday evening of the discovery of a military plot in Paris. The intention, it is declared, is to remove the Ministry, but to leave M. Faure in possession of the Presidency. Precautions, it is said, have been taken against the contemplated movement, the head of which is a General not named. That France is in danger of a revolution we believe to be true, but these stories read to us like those premature rumours which are apt to precede great ebullitions.