The noting down the daily recurrence of uninteresting events is as dull as the endurance of them.
If reports may be credited, we are on the eve of some popular commotion in France, and the present ministers are said to be either ignorant of the danger that menaces, or unprepared to meet it.

The conquest of Algiers has produced much less exultation in the people than might have naturally been expected; and this indifference to an event calculated to gratify the _amour-propre_ which forms so peculiar a characteristic of the nation, is considered a bad sign by those who affect to be acquainted with the people.

I have so often heard rumours of discontent and revolts that I have grown incredulous, and I think and hope the French are too wise to try any dangerous experiments.
_26th July_ .-- This morning General E---- came to breakfast with us, and announced that the ordonnances were yesterday signed in council at St.- Cloud.

This good man and brave soldier expressed the liveliest regret at this rash measure, and the utmost alarm at the consequences likely to result from it.

Is Charles the Tenth ignorant of the actual state of things in Paris, and of the power of public opinion?
or does he hope to vanquish the resistance likely to be offered to this act?
I hope his majesty may not acquire this knowledge when it has become too late to derive advantage from it.
The unpopularity of the present ministry, and above all of its leader, the Prince Polignac, is surprising, when one considers how estimable his private character is, and that theirs are irreproachable.