Almost all are usually crowded; the proceedings at most of them are more or less disorderly; the resolutions carried more or less absurd, and the speeches more or less bad.

With the exception of the Protestant pastors, and one or two others, I have not heard a single speaker able to talk connectedly for five minutes.

Wild invectives against the Prussians, denunciations against Europe, abuse of every one who differs from the orator, and the very tallest of talk about France--what she has done, what she is doing, and what she will do--form the staple of almost all the speeches.
_Evening._ I went down to Belleville this afternoon.

Everything was quiet.

The people, as usual, in the streets doing nothing.