the people." Here again we have petitions to Government, and demands, and remonstrances from individuals or small bodies--delegates, they tell you, of the people's rights;--some wild and inflammatory, some visionary to the very seventh heaven of political rhapsody, but all flattering to the _Peuple Souverain_, whose voice is the _voix de Dieu_! Here again we have whole newspapers pasted on the walls, with articles calling upon the people to take arms again, since their first duty to their country is "mistrust." Now a proposition to tax the revenues of the rich in a progressive proportion of one per cent for every fortune of a thousand francs, two for every two thousand, fifty for every fifty thousand, "and so on progressively,"--without stating, however, whether those who possess a revenue of a hundred thousand francs are to pay a hundred per cent, or what is to become of those who possess two hundred thousand. Now, a menacing call upon the Government to perform their duty in exacting the disgorgement of that vile spoliation of the nation, the indemnity granted to the emigrants at the Restoration, as belonging to the people alone. Here again are numerous addresses and appeals from and to all foreign democrats in Paris--Germans, Belgians, Italians, Poles--calling for meetings, and begging the "_braves Français_" to give them arms and money to go and conquer the republics of their respective countries by force. Here again, other notices from all trades, and companies, and employments, appointing meetings for the consideration of the interests of their _partie_; tailors, café-waiters, bootmakers, _choristes_ of theatres, _gens de maisons_, (servants,) even to the wandering hawkers on the public ways, and lower still, all wanting to complain to the Provisional Government of the restraint laid on their free rights. Here again, proposals for congratulatory addresses, and felicitations to the Government, from all manner of various representatives of nations resident in Paris. Here again, ten or twelve solitary voices of _braves citoyens_, proposing infallible remedies for the doctoring of the financial crisis. Here again, advertisements, in republican phrase, recommending to the "_citoyennes_," "now that the hour is come, to take up their carpets," some especial wax for their floors; or reminding the "_Citoyens Gardes Nationaux_," that, "in this moment of the awakening of a country's glory, when they watch over the interests of France, and are indefatigable in patrolling the streets of the capital," the _citoyen_ "so and so" will cut their corns with cheapness and ease! And all these are pasted about in confused pell-mell; all are headed with the necessary "_Vive la Republique!_" Wonder then not, at the thick crowds about these documents, all treating of a country's weal, all announcing some new and startling design, all devoured by eager eyes. Wo betide, however, the _citoyen_ who may leave his house door closed for a whole day!--he will find it