The French Chambers meet on October 26th, and it is
believed the fate of the Ministry will speedily be decided. M. Heavier will be attacked for his alliance with the Monarchists, who, since the issue of the Comte de Paris's manifesto, are again distrusted, will be adjured to expel the remaining Princes, and will be subject to interpellatione on the relations of M. Wilson with the Presidency. Many Members not Radicals believe that, whether innocent or not of the Caffarel scandal, M. Wilson's influence with his father-in-law has been misused for jobbing purposes, and will bring forward an old story known as the Dreyfus affair. So far as we can see, the evidence against M. Wilson as yet proves nothing, except that he advised the Treasury to return to MM. Dreyfus an overcharge which they had paid ; but he has evidently excited most bitter animosities. M Grdvy, it is asserted, affirms the entire innocence of his son-in-law, but feels the attacks on him so keenly, that he will not be sorry if a good political excuse is offered for sending in his resignation. Such an excuse would be the fall of M. Bouvier, and a conse- quent necessity for accepting a Ch3menceau-Boulanger Cabinet. In such a contingency, the President would, it is believed in Paris, declare that he could no longer deal with the factions without a dissolution, that he was pledged never to dissolve, and that consequently he placed the Presidency at the disposal of the Assembly.
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