Emile de Girardin and his friends had a sublime scheme of going over in a body to England, and establishing a Socialist periodical, inscribing on their new habitation, 'Ici c'est la France.' He actually advertised for sale his beautiful house close by in the Champs-Elysees, asked ten thousand pounds (English) for it; and would have been 'rather disappointed,' as one of his sympathising friends confessed to us, if the offer had been accepted.

I heard a good story the other day.

A lady visitor was groaning politically to Madame de Girardin over the desperateness of the situation.

'Il n'y a que Celui, qui est en haut, qui peut nous en tirer,' said she, casting up her eyes.

'Oui, c'est vrai,' replied Madame, 'il le pourrait, lui,' glancing towards the second floor, where Emile was at work upon feuilletons.