n petticoats and mob-cap. Thus,
in the streets of Lombards, in the street of Five-Diamonds, street of
Pullies, in most streets of Paris does it effervesce, the livelong day;
no Municipality, no Mayor Pache, though he was War-Minister lately,
sends military against it, or aught against it but persuasive-eloquence,
till seven at night, or later.

On Monday gone five weeks, which was the twenty-first of January, we
saw Paris, beheading its King, stand silent, like a petrified City
of Enchantment: and now on this Monday it is so noisy, selling
sugar! Cities, especially Cities in Revolution, are subject to these
alternations; the secret courses of civic business and existence
effervescing and efflorescing, in this manner, as a concrete Phenomenon
to the eye. Of which Phenomenon, when secret existence becoming public
effloresces on the street, the philosophical cause-and-effect is not
so easy to find. What, for example, may be the accurate philosophical
meaning, and meanings, of this sale of sugar? These things that have
become visible in the street of Pullies and over Paris, whence are they,
we say; and whither?--

That Pitt has a hand in it, the gold of Pitt: so much, to all reasonable
Patriot men, may seem clear. But then, through what agents of Pitt?
Varlet, Apostle of Liberty, was discerned again of late, with his pike
and his red nightcap. Deputy Marat published in his journal, this very
day, complaining of the bitter scarcity, and sufferings of the people,
till he seemed to get wroth: 'If your Rights of Man were anything but a
piece of written paper, the plunder of a few shops, and a forestaller
or two hung up at the door-lintels, would put an end to such things.'
(Hist. Parl. xxiv. 353-356.) Are not these, say the Girondins, pregnant
indications? Pitt has bribed the Anarchists; Marat is the agent of Pitt:
hence this sale of sugar. To the Mother Society, again, it is clear that
the scarcity is factitious; is the work of Girondins, and such like; a
set of men sold partly to Pitt; sold wholly to their own ambitions, and
hard-hearted pedantries; who will not fix the grain-prices, but prate
pedantically of free-trade; wishing to starve Paris into violence, and
embroil it with the Departments: hence this sale of sugar.

And, alas, if to these two notabilities, of a Phenomenon and such
Theories of a Phenomenon, we add this third notability, That the French
Nation has believed, for several years now, in the possibility, nay