lying the landlords into giving receipts
for their rents, without the usual preliminary ceremony of fingering
the cash. 'Base is the slave that pays his rent' is now the motto of
the mob, and his mobship chalks it up along with 'liberty, equality,
fraternity!' To show, however, that he is really a good fellow at heart,
the said mob no sooner swindles (I am afraid it amounts to swindling in
English) the landlord out of his rent, than he invests a small portion
of the coin in the purchase of a tricolor flag, with which he decorates
the landlord's house. And such is the worthy fellow's moderation, that
even when the landlord has refused to be victimised, the mob has not
inflicted summary vengeance on him; he has only stuck a black flag
before the offender's door, or playfully made his effigy dangle by the
neck from the nearest lamp-post."

In Ireland the progress of sedition afforded a much more favourable
opportunity for displaying the equity and prudence of the French
provisional government. An address was voted to the republic of France
by the Young Irelanders, who styled themselves the people of Ireland,
although they well knew that millions of Irishmen, numbering among them
her most intelligent and influential citizens, repudiated the principles
and proceedings of the party. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Smith
O'Brien and several other gentlemen, were sent to Paris to express the
sympathy and congratulation of the Irish people on the new-born liberty
of the citizens of France. It was well understood in England, and much
better understood in Ireland, that the deputation were expected to sound
the French government as to any hope of assistance in case of a rising
in Ireland; and also to stir up the minds of the French people generally
to more decided interest for Ireland, and a greater willingness to
identify the French republic with Irish hopes and aspirations. On
the 3rd of April the young Ireland deputation was received by the
provisional government at the Hotel de Ville, and there presented an
address in the spirit of their mission. The following reply was read by
Lamartine:--

"_Citizens of Ireland_,--If we required a fresh proof of the pacific
influence of the proclamation of the great democratic principle,--this
new Christianity, bursting forth at the opportune moment, and dividing
the world, as formerly, into a Pagan and Christian community,--we should
assuredly discern this proof of the omnipotent action of