How all this is to end I cannot imagine; the cry for a republic, though strongly echoed, will, I think, be unavailing; and the reasonable part of the community cannot desire that it should be otherwise, inasmuch as the tyranny of the many must ever be more insupportable than that of one, admitting that even a despotic monarchy could in our day exercise a tyranny, which I am not disposed to admit.
The tri-coloured flag now floats on many of the churches, while that of the _Fleur-de-lis_ still waves from the column in the Place Vendome, on other public buildings, and the Tuileries.

What a strange state of things! but every thing is strange in this eventful crisis.
-- -- has just been here, and reports that yesterday a meeting of the Deputies took place at the house of M.Casimir Perier, in order to consult on what measures they ought to pursue in the present state of affairs.

He says, that pusillanimity, and want of decision consequent on it, marked the conduct of the assembly.

They lost the time, so precious in a crisis like the actual one, in disputing about words, when deeds ought to have been had recourse to.

They are accused of being influenced by a dread of offending the now tottering power, lest it should once more be solidly reinstated, and yet of being anxious to remain well with those opposed to it; and they are said to have temporised with both, allowing the time for serving either to have passed away.
A bitter feeling towards the royal family seems to pervade the minds of the populace; and this has been fomented by the most gross and disgusting falsehoods dispensed around by the medium of obscene _brochures_, and songs which are sung and distributed through the streets.