PARIS SLEEPS--THE BELL RINGS On the 2d December, 1851, Representative Versigny, of the Haute-Saone, who resided at Paris, at No.

4, Rue Leonie, was asleep.

He slept soundly; he had been working till late at night.

Versigny was a young man of thirty-two, soft-featured and fair-complexioned, of a courageous spirit, and a mind tending towards social and economical studies.

He had passed the first hours of the night in the perusal of a book by Bastiat, in which he was making marginal notes, and, leaving the book open on the table, he had fallen asleep.