A furious quarrel has broken out in the Bonaparte family..
The heir, Prince Victor, to whom his cousin, the Prince Im- perial, bequeathed such rights as he had, has long been desirous of more independence, and recently quitted his father's roof to set up for himself. He had no means of his own ; but it is understood that a Bonapartist champagne grower, or some other- person, has settled on him £2,000 a year. Prince Napoleon denies his son's right of independent action, and insists on knowing where the money comes from ; but the managers of the new party, already called the "Victorians," decline to tell him. The dispute has been made public by the publication of some confidential letters between father and son, in the last of which the son says plainly that he has his own ideas, and wilt go his own way ; and it will, it is believed, rive the Bonapartists in two, the Voltaireans declaring for Prince Napoleon, and the Clericals for Prince Victor. Practically, however, the elder- Prince is an impossible candidate and has no followers, and the numbers of the whole party grow smaller every year, as the Republic continues- prosperous.
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