be so viewed and appropriately rewarded.  It is a profession of liberty, with a secret intention to return to a government of force, availing itself of such means as offer, of which the most obvious, at present, are the stagnation of trade and the pressing necessities of all who depend on industry, in a country that is taxed nearly beyond endurance.  Neither M. Perier, nor any other man, is the prime mover of such a system; for it depends on the Father of Lies, who usually employs the most willing agents he can discover.  The inventor of the policy, sub Diabolo, is now in London.  M. Perier had the merits of decision, courage, and business talents; and, so far from being the founder of the present system, he had a natural frankness, the usual concomitant of courage, that, under other circumstances, I think, would have indisposed him to its deceptions.  But he was a manufacturer, and his spinning-jennies were very closely connected with his political faith.  Another state of the market would, most probably, have brought him again into the liberal ranks.

The funeral obsequies of M. Perier having been loudly announced as a test of public opinion, I walked out, the morning they took place, to view the pomp.  It amounted to little more than the effect which the patronage of the ministry can at any time produce.  There was a display of troops and of the employes of the government, but little apparent sympathy on the part of the mass of the population.  As the deceased was a man of many good qualities, this indifference was rather studied, proceeding from the discipline and collision of party politics.  As an attempt to prove that the juste milieu met with popular approbations I think the experiment was a failure.

Very different was the result, in a similar attempt made by the opposition, at the funeral of General Lamarque.  This distinguished officer fell also a victim to the cholera, and his interment took place on the 4th of June.  The journals of the opposition had called upon its adherents to appear on this occasion, in order to convince the King and his ministers that they were pursuing a dangerous course, and one in which they were not sustained by the sentiment of the nation.  The preparations wore a very different appearance from those made on the previous occasion.  Then everything clearly emanated from authority; now, the government was visible in little besides its arrangements to maintain its own ascendency.  The military rank of the deceased entitled him to a military escort, and this was freely accorded to his friends; perhaps the more freely, from the fact that it sanctioned the presence of so many more bayonets than were believed to be at the command of the ministers.  It was said there were twenty thousand of the National Guards present in uniform, wearing, however, only their side-arms.  This number may have been exaggerated, but there certainly were a great many.  The whole procession, including