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The opening of the debate on the address, in the

Chamber of Peers, was signalized by the utterance of an unwelcome but a wholesome truth to M. Guizot. M. Mesnard, an old political friend, plainly declared that the Minister was ignorant of the state of opinion in France; the desire for reform being universal. If M. Guizot could make use of salutary information conveyed by a person so moderate and so friendly, he might retrieve much

of his lost ground. But it is understood that he still relies more on royal than on popular and " constitutional" support, and that he will continue playing Polignac to King Louis Philippe's per- formance of Charles Dix.

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