‘It is certain,’ said Ampere, ’that the masters are becoming afraid of their workmen.  Pereire brings his from their residences to the Barriere Malesherbes in carriages.  You are not actually insulted in the streets of Paris, but you are treated with rude neglect.  A fiacre likes to splash you, a paveur to scatter you with mud.  Louis Napoleon began with Chauvinism.  He excited all the bad international passions of the multitude.  He has now taken up Sansculotteism.  Repulsed with scorn and disgust by the rich and the educated, he has thrown himself on the poor and ignorant The passions with which he likes to work are envy, malignity, and rapacity.

’I do not believe that he feels them.  He is what is called a good-natured man.  That is to say, he likes to please everyone that he sees.  But his selfishness is indescribable.

’No public interest stands in the way of his slightest caprice.  He often puts me in mind of Nero.  With the same indifference to the welfare of others with which Nero amused himself by burning down Rome, he is amusing himself by pulling down Paris.’

N.W.  SENIOR.

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[We left Tocqueville on the following day with great regret The same party was never to meet again—­the only survivors are Madame de Beaumont and myself and the Beaumonts’ son, then a very intelligent boy of ten years old.

One day my father and I visited the little green churchyard on a cliff near the sea where Tocqueville is buried.  The tomb is a plain grey stone slab—­on it a cross is cut in bas-relief, with these words only:—­

ICI REPOSE

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.

NE 24 FEVRIER 1805.  MORT 16 AVRIL 1859.

My father laid a wreath of immortelles on the tomb.—­ED.]

APPENDIX.

MONTALEMBERT’S speech was afterwards published in the Moniteur but with considerable alterations.  In Mr. Senior’s journal in 1854 (which has not been published), he says, under the date of April 26, I called on Montalembert and took him my report of his speech.  He has promised to add to it any notes that it may require.  “The printed report,” he said, “is intentionally falsified.  Before it was struck off I asked to see the proofs.  I was told that, as such an application was new, the President of the Bureau would meet and decide on its admissibility.  They decided that it could not be granted."’

[The following is Mr. Senior’s report, with M. de Montalembert’s own corrections and additions in French.—­ED.]

At length Montalembert rose.  He stood near the extreme right, with his side towards the tribune, and his face towards the centre gallery, in which I sat.  His voice and delivery are so good, and the house was so silent, that I did not lose a word.  I believe that the following report is a tolerably accurate abridgment of his speech.