The Government will maintain this until the end." Yesterday afternoon we "manifested" against peace.

We "manifest" by going, if we are in the National Guard, with bouquets at the ends of our muskets to deposit a crown of _immortelles_ before the statue of Strasburg.

If we are unarmed, we walk behind a drum to the statue and sing the "Marseillaise." At the statue there is generally some orator on a stool holding forth.

We occasionally applaud him, but we never listen to him.

After this we go to the Place before the Hotel de Ville, and we shout "Point de Paix." We then march down the Boulevards, and we go home satisfied that we have deserved well of our country.