"I am master here," he said; "when I call a speaker to order he must leave the tribune, until then he remains." The club listened to the words of the sage with reverential awe, and the orator was allowed to go on.

"This, perhaps, no one will deny," he continued.

"I took an order from the Citizen Flourens to the public printing establishment.

The order was the deposition of the Government of National Defence"-- (great applause)--and satisfied with his triumph the lieutenant relapsed into private life.

After him followed several other citizens, who proposed resolutions, which were put and carried.