Certain communications from Lord Clarendon to Panizzi contain acute and pertinent remarks on the illustrious Frenchman. For ourselves, we have always believed that an intimate feeling of _Anglomisos_ (to coin a word somewhat milder in significance than _Anglophobia_) materially influenced Thiers. Himself the very incarnation of the Gallic _indoles_, it is not to be wondered at that he looked on the most prominent and obnoxious traits of English character as antagonistic and repulsive. Englishmen seemed to him the collective impersonation of a Sabidius, or of a Dr. Fell; but however much he might have disliked the English as a race, he was ever ready, owing to his candour and love of truth, to render full justice to England as a nation, whilst the facility with which he made intimate friends in this country is too well known to require illustration in these pages. The following letters are, however, suggestive:— [Illustration: Lord Clarendon] “Bowood, Oct. 12, 1845. “My dear Panizzi, I am exceedingly obliged to you for your information _in re_ Thiers, whom I should have been delighted to ask to The Grove, but I fear there will be no chance of catching him during his short stay, as previous arrangements will not permit of our inviting him before the 25th. He really flits about Europe like a flash of lightning, and if he means to know anything about this country and its inhabitants he ought not to come only for a week at the deadest time of the year, though to be sure that is only in harmony with his usual system. Don’t you remember his famous note to Ellice when he (E.) was Secretary of the Treasury? ‘_Mon cher Ellice, je veux connaître à fond le systême financier de l’Angleterre quand pourrez vous me donner cinq minutes?_’ Lord Lansdowne has asked him to come here, and if he does not I shall try and find him on Wednesday on my way through London to join Lady C., whom I left at Gorhambury with her father, who is still very ill. When we are re-established at the Grove I need not say how much pleasure it will give her and me to see you there. We heard from Charles that you were well and prosperous, and had returned more _devotedly attached_ than ever to the Duke of Modena. Yours, &c., &c., CLARENDON.” ‘Bowood, Oct. 14, 1845. “My dear Panizzi,