Mr.Cobden and the Peace Society are pleasing me infinitely just now in making head against the immorality (that's the word) of the English press.

The tone taken up towards France is immoral in the highest degree, and the invasion cry would be idiotic if it were not something worse.

The Empress, I heard the other day from good authority, is 'charming and good at heart.' She was educated 'at a respectable school at Bristol' (Miss Rogers's, Royal Crescent, Clifton), and is very 'English,' which doesn't prevent her from shooting with pistols, leaping gates, driving 'four-in-hand,' and upsetting the carriage when the frolic requires it, as brave as a lion and as true as a dog.

Her complexion is like marble, white, pale and pure; her hair light, rather 'sandy,' they say, and she powders it with gold dust for effect; but there is less physical and more intellectual beauty than is generally attributed to her.

She is a woman of 'very decided opinions.' I like all that, don't you?
and I liked her letter to the Prefet, as everybody must.