No society notices them." "_February 2._ I can compare the state of things here to an April day, at one moment sunshine, at the next cloudy.

The Telegraph is evidently growing in favor; testimonials of approbation and compliments multiply, and yesterday I was advised by the secretary of the _Academie Industrielle_ to interest moneyed men in the matter if I intended to profit by it; and he observed that now was the precise time to do it in the interval of the Chambers.
"I am at a loss how to act.

I am not a business man and fear every movement which suggests itself to me.

I am thinking of proposing a company on the same plan you last proposed in your letter from Liverpool, and which you intend to create in case the Government shall choose to do nothing; that is to say, a company taking the right at one thousand francs per mile, paying the proprietors fifty per cent in stocks and fifty per cent in cash, raising about fifty thousand francs for a trial some distance.

I shall take advice and let you know the result.
"I wish you were here; I am sure something could be done by an energetic business man like yourself.