I do not accuse even M.
Thiers of want of public virtue.

What he has wanted, has been length and breadth of view--purely an intellectual defect--and his petty, puny _tracasseries_ destroyed the Republican Assembly just as it destroyed the throne of Louis Philippe, in spite of his own intentions.
There is a conflict of ideas in France, which we have no notion of in England, but we ought to understand that it does not involve the failing of _principle_, in the elemental moral sense.

Be just to France, dear friend, you who are more than an Englishwoman--a Mrs.Jameson! Everything is perfectly tranquil in Paris, I assure you--theatres full and galleries open as usual.

At the same time, timid and discouraged persons say, 'Wait till after the elections,' and of course the public emotion will be a good deal excited at that time.

Therefore, judge for yourself.