schoolmaster and pedagogue can rarely become a gentleman, or any thing like a gentleman. The writers in the _National_ at the present moment are, M. Leopold Duras, M. Alexandre Rey, Caylus, Cochut, Forques, Littre, Paul de Musset, Colonel Charras, and several others whose names it is not necessary to mention here. THE SIECLE. We come now to the _Siecle_, a journal which, though only established in 1836, has, we believe, a greater sale than any journal in Paris--at least, had a greater sale previous to the Revolution of February 1848. The _Siecle_ was the first journal that started at the low price of 40 francs a-year, when almost every other newspaper was purchased at a cost of 70 or 80 francs. It should also be recollected, that it was published under the auspices of the deputies of the constitutional opposition. The _Siecle_ was said, in 1846, to have had 42,000 subscribers. Its then editor was M. Chambolle, who abandoned the concern in February or March 1849, not being able to agree with M. Louis Perree, the _directeur_ of the journal. Since Chambolle left a journal which he had conducted for thirteen years, M. Perree has died in the flower of his age, mourned by those connected with the paper, and regretted by the public at large. Previous to the Revolution of 1848, Odillon Barrot and Gustave de Beaumont took great interest and an active part in the management of the _Siecle_. That positive, dogmatical, self-opinioned, and indifferent newspaper writer, Leon Faucher, was then one of the principal contributors to this journal. The _Siecle_ of 1851 is somewhat what the _Constitutionnel_ was in 1825, 6, and 7. It is eminently City-like and of the _bourgeoisie_, "earth, earthy," as a good, reforming, economic National Guard ought to be. The success of the journal is due to this spirit, and to the eminently fair, practical, and business-like manner in which it has been conducted. Perree, the late editor and manager of the journal, who died at the early age of 34, was member for the Manche. The writers in the journal are Louis Jourdan, formerly a St. Simonian; Pierre Bernard, who was secretary to Armand Carrel; Hippolite Lamarche, an ex-cavalry captain; Auguste Jullien (son of Jullien de Paris, one of the commissaries of Robespierre); and others whom it is needless to mention. THE PRESSE.