The Duc de Raguse commands the troops, and already several charges have taken place.

This selection, under present circumstances, is not considered to be a good one.
The people are forming barricades in various parts of the town, and some of our servants, who have been out to collect intelligence, assert that no hinderance seems to be opposed to this mischievous measure.
Where are the civil authorities during all this commotion?
is the natural question that suggests itself to one who knows how in London, under any disturbance, they would oppose themselves to check such proceedings.

And why, if the civil authorities are too weak to resist the torrent, is there not a sufficient military force to stem it?
is the next question that presents itself.

No one seems to know where the blame lies, but every one foretells a dangerous result from this unaccountable state of things.
The promulgation of the ordonnances which had led to this tumult, ought to have been accompanied by a display of force sufficient to maintain their enactment.

If a government _will_ try the hazardous measure of a _coup d'etat_, it ought to be well prepared to meet the probable consequences.
I feel so little disposed to sleep that, instead of seeking my pillow, I occupy myself by noting down my impressions, occasionally looking out of my window to catch the sounds that break the stillness of the night.
The heat is intense, but the sky is as pure and cloudless as if it canopied a calm and slumbering multitude instead of a waking and turbulent one, filled with the most angry emotions.
Comtes d'Orsay and Valeski have just returned, and state that they have been as far as the Place de la Bourse, where they saw a scene of the utmost confusion.