M. de Blowitz gives in Monday's Times a long account
of a conversation with an open-minded Frenchman who divides his time between Paris and London, and who, as the result of an exhaustive peregrination through all quarters of London on Friday and Saturday last week, was amazed at the calm, the coolness, and the resolution which confronted him. The impression he received everywhere was one of "astounding unanimity": he himself was more feverish than all the Englishmen he talked to. He found them all of opinion that it was an imperious obligation not to draw back now before any sacrifice so long as it was possible to suppose that any sacrifice could result in a happy and definitive solution, M. de Blowitz's friend reports at length, and with evident sympathy, the remarks of an English Liberal who, while holding the Cabinet to have been ill-inspired and badly informed, freely and entirely acquitted them of having intentionally put the country in its present painful situation.
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