Sir,--I tell you my thoughts as calmly as possibly, but my heart burns! Heaven, what injustice! To France--ah, I say not her name without emotion!--to France I offered my sword, my service, my life! She refused them! Ingrateful country! Me who--but I go to be calm! When CASIMIR-PÉRIER resigns I voyage without to lose an instant to Dover, I wait, I receive each instant some despatch, I regard the coast of France and weep, I am photographed! Me, the descendant of St. LOUIS, I am photographed! But in vain! I desire even to die for France, but I may not! By blue, what ingratitude! And now she proclaims the amnesty and I am forgotten! Me, the descendant of St. LOUIS! Me who desire the struggle, the efforts of a life of soldier, of a life of king, me I rest here in simple renter of province! Me who wish to die for France, I am obliged to live in England! To live, just heaven! And in England, which I despise, though she shelters me! Perhaps she is not worse than Belgium, Buckingham or Bruxelles! It is equal to me! Nor the one nor the other is France! Again I weep! Ah, if I could shed tears of blood! I can not! Heaven, that I should not have even that consolation there! And ROCHEFORT returns! He may die for his country, for France! Once more I weep bitterly! But me I may not! I conclude, and my last word shall be a word of order! It shall be, though she spurns me, though she mock herself of me, "Live France!" Again I weep! Receive, &c. P. * * * * * [Illustration: SUCCESSFUL SANITATION. _Anxious Tourist._ "SINCE YOUR TOWN HAS BEEN NEWLY DRAINED, I SUPPOSE THERE IS LESS FEVER HERE?" _Hotel-Keeper_ (_reassuringly_). "ACH, YES, SIR! ZE TEEFOOSE (TYPHUS) IS NOW QUITE _ZE EXCEPTION!_"] * * * * * "VOICI LE SABRE DE MON PÈRE!" ["Let all know that, in devoting all my strength to the welfare of the people, I intend to protect the principle of autocracy as firmly and unswervingly as did my late and never-to-be-forgotten father." _The Czar to the assembled Deputies and Delegates in the Winter Palace._] [Illustration: "VOICI LE SABRE DE MON PÈRE!" "I intend to protect the principle of autocracy as firmly and unswervingly as did my late and never-to-be-forgotten father." --_Czar's Speech, Jan. 29._]