de Sacy, of too much cleverness, and of too much honesty, not to be one of us, sooner or later." "Not a bit of it," replied promptly M. de Sacy; "_je veux vivre et mourir avec un pied dans le doute et l'autre dans la foi_." SAINT-MARC GIRARDIN is certainly, next to De Sacy, the most distinguished writer connected with the _Debats_. He was originally a _maitre d'etude_ at the College of Henry IV., and sent one fine morning an article to the _Debats_, which produced a wonderful sensation. The article was without name or address; but old Bertin so relished and appreciated it, that he was not to be foiled in finding out the author. An advertisement was inserted on the following day, requesting the writer to call at the editor's study, when M. Saint-Marc Girardin was attached as a regular _soldat de plume_ to the establishment--a profitable engagement, which left him at liberty to leave his miserable _metier_ of _maitre d'etude_. The articles written in 1834 against the Emperor of Russia and the Russian system were from the pen of M. Girardin.--The _maitre d'etude_ of former days became professor at the College of France--became deputy, and exhibited himself, able writer and dialectician as he was and is, as a mediocre speaker, and ultimately became academician and _un des quarante_. Another distinguished writer in the _Debats_ is Michel Chevalier. Chevalier is an _eleve_ of the Polytechnic School, who originally wrote in the _Globe_. When editor and _gerant_ of the _Globe_, he was condemned to six months' imprisonment for having developed in that journal the principles of St. Simonianism. Before the expiration of his sentence he was appointed by the Government to a sort of travelling commission to America; and from that country he addressed a series of memorable letters to the _Debats_, which produced at the time immense effect. Since that period, Chevalier was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the College of France, a berth from whence he was removed by Carnot, Minister of Public Instruction, but afterwards reinstated by subsequent ministers. Chevalier, though an able man, is yet more of an economic writer than a political disquisitionist. His brother Augustus is Secretary-general of the Elysee. Among the other contributors are PHILARETE CHASLES, an excellent classical scholar, and a man well acquainted with English literature; Cuvillier Fleury, unquestionably a man of taste and talent; and the celebrated Jules Janin. The productions of the latter as a _feuilletoniste_ are so well known that we do not stop to dwell upon them. Janin is not without merit, and he is highly popular with a certain class of writers: but his articles after all, apart from the circumstances of the day, are but a _rechauffe_ of the style of Marivaux. THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.