[Illustration: _"Touché!"_ Victorious Bancroft and Victorien Sardou.]
_Latest Intelligence._--We are glad to be able to assure our readers
that, in spite of relations between the two parties being somewhat
strained, it is not apprehended that serious international
complications will arise out of "_L'affaire Bancroft-Sardou_;" though
it _is_ now pretty generally known that so grave a catastrophe has
only been averted by the sudden change in the French Ministry.
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