Two great scandals are agitating Paris. The editor of the
Journal de Paris, M. Weise, recently condemned M. Dump, Minister of Public Instruction, for closing the Normal School. Thereupon M. Duruy's two sons challenged him, and on his refusal to go out assaulted him in his own office. They rely, says Paris, on their father's influence with the Courts. Again, M. Vermoul, editor of the Courrier Francais, wrote the name of M. Granier (de Cassag- nee), the Deputy, as we have written it. His sons also challenged M. Vermoul, and on his refusal to accept the invitation spit at him all down a street on two days runningeand published a full account of their heroism in their father's paper. Application to the police would have been vain, but public outcry has compelled the Prefect to order his subordinates to grant everybody protection— even journalists. The affair has excited great sensation in Paris, which objects, apparently, to see the relatives of leading Im- perialists elevated into a caste above the laws both of the land and of society.
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