CHAPTER XVII.
_January 17th._ The papers publish reports of the meetings of the clubs.

The following is from the _Debats_ of to-day:-- "At the extremity of the Rue Faubourg St.Antoine is a dark passage, and in a room which opens into this passage is the Club de la Revendication.
The audience is small, and consists mainly of women, who come there to keep warm.

The club is peaceable--hardly revolutionary--for Rome is Rome no more, and the Faubourg St.Antoine, formerly so turbulent, has resigned in favour of Belleville and La Villette.

Yesterday evening the Club de la Revendication was occupied, as usual, in discussing the misery of the situation, and the necessity of electing a Commune.

An orator, whose patriotic enthusiasm attained almost to frenzy, declared that as for himself he scorned hams and sausages in plenty, and that he preferred to live on the air of liberty.