although a deed of suppressed violence, than on most of the distracted throngs she illumines in her course over the disturbed city. Good moon! would we could accept thy augury, and hope for holy calm! The scenes thou shinest upon cannot continue thus, 'tis true. A change must come--a change for the better _or the worse_. Heaven grant that our foreboding prove not true--that, when thou comest forth in thy fulness again, another month, thou mayest smile on better order, on calmer groups! Before we part company, old _habitué_ of Paris, we must cast a glance at all the public buildings we pass. On all--public offices, columns, fountains, monuments, churches, dismantled palaces--on all alike floats the republican banner--on _all_ are painted in broad characters the words, "LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ!" "_Fraternité!_" Vain word, when each man grows day by day more and more bitterly his neighbour's enemy. "_Egalité!_" Vain word again, and vain word ever, spite of the efforts of the rulers of France to bring down to one level all the intelligence, the talent, the feelings, and passions of human nature, that Providence, in its holy wisdom, has made so different and so unequal. "_Liberté!_" Vainest word of all! In the present state of things, there is constraint in every scheme, tyranny in every tendency, despotism in every doctrine. But enough. We will not begin to discuss and speculate upon the destinies of France. All this sketch would strive to do, is to convey an idea, however vague, of the present outward state of Republican Paris. THE SPANIARD IN SICILY.[5] [5] _Histoire de la Conquête de Naples par Charles d'Anjou, frère de St Louis._ Par le Comte ALEXIS DE ST PRIEST, Pair de France. 4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1848. Vol. iv.