91/268 I hear Hebrew while the 'Gazette' hears Dutch--a miracle befitting the subject, or what was once considered to be the subject (I beg Professor Faraday's pardon), before it was annihilated. I won't go on to offer myself as 'spiritual correspondent to the "Athenaeum,"' though I have a modest conviction that it might increase your sale considerably. Ah, tread us down! put us out! You will have some trouble with us yet. The opposition Czar of St.Petersburg supports us, be it known, and Louis Napoleon comes to us for oracles. |