La Mennais and his coadjutors published in _La Reforme_ an honorable and manly protest, which the public rushed to devour the moment it was out of the press;--and no wonder! for it was the only crumb of comfort offered to those who have the nobleness to hope that the confederation of nations may yet be conducted on the basis of divine justice and human right.

Most men who touched the subject apparently weary of feigning, appeared in their genuine colors of the calmest, most complacent selfishness.

As described by Koerner in the prayer of such a man:-- "O God, save me, My wife, child, and hearth, Then my harvest also; Then will I bless thee, Though thy lightning scorch to blackness All the rest of human kind." A sentiment which finds its paraphrase in the following vulgate of our land:-- "O Lord, save me, My wife, child, and brother Sammy, Us four, _and no more_." The latter clause, indeed, is not quite frankly avowed as yet by politicians.
It is very amusing to be in the Chamber of Deputies when some dull person is speaking.

The French have a truly Greek vivacity; they cannot endure to be bored.

Though their conduct is not very dignified, I should like a corps of the same kind of sharp-shooters in our legislative assemblies when honorable gentlemen are addressing their constituents and not the assembly, repeating in lengthy, windy, clumsy paragraphs what has been the truism of the newspaper press for months previous, wickedly wasting the time that was given us to learn something for ourselves, and help our fellow-creatures.