What would he say if the Government which succeeds him were to allow his own wife to be insulted in this cowardly manner?
Anything more dreary than the Boulevards now in the evening it is difficult to imagine.

Only one street lamp in three is lighted, and the _cafes_, which close at 10.30, are put on half-allowance of gas.

To mend matters, everyone who likes is allowed to put up a shed on the side walk to sell his goods, or to collect a crowd by playing a dirge on a fiddle.
The consequence is that the circulation is rendered almost impossible.

I suggested to a high authority that the police ought at least to interfere to make these peripatetic musicians "move on," but he told me that, were they to do so, they would be accused of being "Corsicans and Reactionaries." These police are themselves most ludicrous objects; anyone coming here would suppose that they are members of some new sect of peripatetic philosophers; they walk about in pairs, arrayed in pea jackets with large hoods; and when it is wet they have umbrellas.

Their business appears to be, never to interfere with the rights of their fellow-citizens to do what they please, and, so helpless do they look, that I believe if a child were to attack them, they would appeal to the passers-by for protection.
I see in an English paper of the 3rd that it is believed at Versailles that we have only fresh meat for twelve days.