This American is a sort of transatlantic Bunsby.

He talks little, but thinks much.

His sole observation to me as we walked away was this, "They will squat, sir, mark my words, they will squat." I received this oracular utterance with respect, and I leave it to others to solve its meaning, I am myself a person of singular credulity, but even I sometimes ask myself whether all I hear and read can be true.

Was there really, as all the newspapers this morning inform me, a meeting last Sunday at London of 400,000 persons, who were addressed by eminent M.P's, and by the principal merchants and owners of manufactories in England, at which resolutions were adopted denouncing the Queen, and calling upon Mr.Gladstone either to retire from office, or to declare war against Prussia?
The Tuileries correspondence, of which I gave a short summary yesterday, reveals the fact that both M.de Cassagnac and Baron Jerome David were regular pensioners on the Civil List.

The cost of the Prince Imperial's baptism amounted to 898,000fr.