charged 6850 francs for a calèche named Screech-owl, and the two horses Babbler and Wrangler.

Citizen FLOCON, ci-devant editor of La Réforme, whom our Parisian friends had likened to Sancho Panza in Barataria, had two carriages; one for himself, and one for his lady; but as they were seldom both cat together, M. Tirel's liberality only debits him with the latter. It was called the Duchess, and drawn by two mares, viz., Calypso and Pomarée-the name of the celebrated queen of the Polynesian Cyprus. On this occasion M. Tirel is ungallant enough to make some insinuations which we are not sure that we quite understand, and should not copy if we did.

CRÉMIEUX, the Jew lawyer, whose unwelcome surveillance and hypocritical attention to the King on the morning of the 24th February were so obtrusively offensive, had a carriage named Cerberus, and one of his horses was Judas.

Citizen CARNOT-that wonderful Minister of Public Instruction -was admirably characterised by the names of his steedsPedant and Midas.

The little orator LOUIS BLANC had for forty days an elegant little britska, named the Humming-bird, with two ponies, Milletseed and Ciron-Ciron being what is called in English, flesh-worm, and in the French dictionary is noted as le plus petit des insectes. On the subject of Louis Blanc and his britska, M. Tirel tells what he calls a 'delicious' anecdote. One evening, after one of his socialist lectures at the Luxembourg, as he was stepping into this smart little vehicle, he attempted to reconcile his position with his doctrines by exclaiming to the crowd of admirers who were about to trudge home on foot, 'The day will come, my friends, when you will all ride in carriages.'

Citizen COURTAIS, who was suddenly invested with the command in chief of the National Guard of Paris, but was dismissed and imprisoned for his incapacity or infidelity, was supplied during his command with four chargers, splendidly caparisoned, but with the ominous names of Soldier, Blockhead, Don Quixote, and Sufferer!

Citizen CLEMENT THOMAS, another extemporised general of the National Guard, and who forfeited both his popularity and his place by having called the Cross of the Legion of Honourwhich he happened not to have a bauble, rode for forty-seven days two chargers, named Bauble and Envy!

Two, and two only, of the new government-DUPONT and LAMARTINE-declined the use of the equipages that M. Tirel had selected for them with more than his usual felicity of nomen

Three functionaries of a secondary rank-MM. Vaulabelle, Bethmont, and Pinard-also declined.

clature,

clature. For Dupont he designed the carriage Doyen, which means exactly President by age, and his horses were to have been Good-man and Upright; and, for Lamartine, the chariot Apollo, with two horses, Pegasus and Enchanter, but, for a second pair, were added Mysterious and Zigzag.

These coincidences (and there are about five and twenty others hardly less curious) will no doubt appear to our readers all very singular, and some quite incredible. It is sufficiently strange that the idea of such epigrammatic insults to his new masters should have occurred to M. Tirel; still more so that he should have ventured to put it into execution; but most of all, that he should have had the second sight of foreshadowing such accidental mishaps as those which subsequently befell Ledru Rollin, Courtais, Thomas, and some others of his victims; but on the other hand, he appeals boldly to the books of the department and the evidence of the servants-both still extant and open to examination-for the perfect accuracy of all his assertions; he gives in an appendix the official list of the names he quotes; and amidst a variety of reclamations and objections made to other topics of his work, we have not seen any doubt thrown on this singular coincidence of character and names. Our guess at the solution of the enigma is this-that Tirel is not quite so clever nor so brave a fellow as he wishes to seem. We suspect that, at the first outbreak, he was willing enough to keep his place by flattering his new masters, and having on his list carriages with such lucky names as Doyen, Apollon, Star, and such horses as Good-man and Upright, Pegasus and Enchanter, Thunder and Lightning, it was a very obvious piece of courtiership to appropriate them to Dupont, Lamartine, and Arago; and we dare say that Madame Flocon would not much resent the being alluded to as a Duchess or even as a Calypso. The complimentary idea being once admitted, the opposite one became equally obvious; and as M. Tirel probably began very early to suspect that he was likely to be dismissed, he may have treasured up a little secret spleen and future ridicule against adverse individuals

quæ nunc condonabitur ;

Sed proferentur post, si pergent lædere ;'

and, moreover, we must recollect that 'an two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.' When, therefore, the more complimentary names were all appropriated, those who came after must e'en put up with those that were less flattering; and as the latter largely predominated, it was a lucky chance, and not a miraculous anticipation, that enabled M. Tirel to horse Ledru Rollin's coach with Montagnard and Poltron-to mount Courtais and Thomas on Blockhead and Bauble-and to moderate his first compliment to Lamartine

Lamartine by relaying Pegasus and Enchanter with Mystery and Zigzag.

Two or three of the thirty-five persons exhibited in M. Tirel's list (but not in ours) have denied any personal use of the royal equipages; and one or two of them assert that they had even hired carriages on their private account-not one, it seems, of the whole administration, unless perhaps Lamartine, having a carriage of his own. But it is not denied that the carriages went every day, by orders of the Bandagiste, to the appointed places; that thirty of them were employed as M. Tirel states, and that the other half-dozen might have been so, for aught he knew; so that on the whole we think that the great mass of what is either important or piquant in M. Tirel's assertions may be taken for authentic. One or two other protesters take the bolder course of admitting that they did employ the royal equipages, but assert that it was only for the service of the Republic, and that, like the ladies in the opera-box, they had a perfect right to do so. We will not stop to inquire whether these, and indeed all the rest of the revolutionary functionaries, had not some excuse for considering these bagages de l'ennemi-so one of the parties termed them— as lawful spoils of war. They had at least numerous precedents for the practice; but the boldest asserter of such a belligerent right would hardly maintain that the carriages and cattle ought to have been-as the ex-comptroller complains that they were—still kept at the king's expense. M. Tirel's view is illustrated and corroborated by the following remarkable fact,-four of the saddle-horses employed in those duties happened to be the private property of the Duke de Montpensier, who, when the first bustle was over, sent to reclaim them, and they were accordingly restored, but not until he had paid the sequestrator of the civil-list the cost of their keep for the time they had been ridden by the republican officers. Here we may dismiss the lighter portion of M. Tirel's work; but it contains, as we have already hinted, much graver matter.

The position of the royal stables, looking out on the Carousel and the esplanade between the Tuileries and the Louvre, and close to the Place du Palais Royal-where the only serious conflict took place—afforded M. Tirel a better opportunity of seeing the popular movement than any witness we have yet heard, and his evidence is very decided on two important points: the first, that the number of the insurgents was exceedingly small-contemptible, indeed, compared to the forces which might have been employed against them, and exhibiting much less than the habitual courage, and rather more than the habitual ferocity, of the Parisian mob: the second, on which M. Tirel insists with sorrowful earnestness, is, that if there had been more resolution and de

cision at head-quarters the revolt would have been suppressed with comparatively little difficulty. We have in former articles discussed both these points; and though we concur with M. Tirel, and indeed with every other credible witness, in the general facts, and in this conclusion also, we still adhere to our opinion, that a victory so obtained would probably have been only a postponement of the evil day, and that it was therefore fortunate-probably for the public interests, and certainly for the personal feelings of the King and M. Guizot-that more blood was not shed in defence of a system which, deriving its anomalous authority from the insurrectionary principle of the July revolution, could never be really safe from a similar catastrophe. We shall not renew this discussion, but shall content ourselves with relating some remarkable facts, of which M. Tirel was himself an eyewitness, and which we suppose will be new to our readers, as they

are to us.

About ten o'clock in the forenoon of the 24th of February an order came to get ready about the same number of royal carriages that were usually employed for a drive to St. Cloud or Versailles, whither M. Tirel very naturally concluded the royal family were about to retire; but judging from the aspect of affairs that this was no ordinary movement, an additional number of carriages were prepared. As M. Tirel has put us on the look out for coincidences of names, we remark, en passant, that two of the carriages ordered for this expedition happened to be called the Thames and the Seine Inférieure-the King having eventually made his escape from the Seine Inférieure (Honfleur and Havre) to the banks of the Thames. The carriages were drawn up in the mews-yard, all harnessed, and the coachmen ready to mount their boxes and the postilions their horses, under the order and guidance of a young outrider, named Hairon; but the steady countenance and loyal enthusiasm shown by the eight or ten thousand regular troops which surrounded the Tuileries gave the occupants of the royal stables reason to hope that their services would not be required that day. About noon the troops disappeared as if by enchantment;' and half an hour after the order came to send round the carriages, which accordingly began to move, young Hairon at their head, in his full livery and laced hat. Just before they quitted the yard, Tirel seeing some angry groups on the Carousel, told Hairon that he had better put on his blue surtout, as his scarlet coat might attract notice. Pooh,' replied he, 'why should anybody hurt us, who hurt nobody? and besides, you know that we never attend the King in our undress liveries.' The great gate opened, and the carriages proceeded; but the two first had hardly passed out when a body of armed mob attempting to force their

way

way in, the gates were precipitately shut, and a straggling fire from the Carousel and the adjoining streets was directed on the equipages which had advanced. Two carriage-horses fell dead; two others were mortally wounded; the horse of the outrider, who had evidently been the chief mark, fell, riddled by twelve or fifteen bullets, but the young man himself had not been hit: disengaging himself as rapidly as he could from the dead horse, he ran for refuge to the Triumphal Arch, but in vain; a ferocious villain ran to meet him, and fired his musket right into his breast; the ball broke the collar-bone, and divided the carotid artery. Hairon fell dead; the assassin seized his gold-laced hat, hoisted it into the air, as a sign of triumph, and invited his accomplices to come and share the spoils. The poor young man was stripped of all his clothes with a quickness and dexterity which showed that the assassins were used to such work; and the body was left lying in a pool of blood, with no other covering than its shirt.

This was the terrible event, which would probably have produced still more horrible consequences to the royal family, if the Duke de Nemours had not, from his station in the front of the Tuileries, separated from the crowd by the great grille, observed the stoppage, and with great presence of mind, availing himself of a lucky accident, been able to send round three little onehorse carriages, which happened to be standing within the grille, to the rescue of the King, who was already on the Place de Louis XV., waiting for the eqipages which had been thus murderously intercepted. The assassin, whose name it appears was Lacombe, lost no time, says M. Tirel, in presenting himself to M. Ledru Rollin, and with poor Hairon's hat in his hand as a certificate of civisme, asked and immediately obtained the place of guardian in the great Museum, under the very windows of which the murder had been perpetrated. M. Tirel's narrative of these facts has been violently contradicted by some of the friends and associates of Lacombe, but has been substantially corroborated by other and, we think, indisputable testimony. The only point of the case on which there is any doubt is as to the minister by whom the appointment was actually made. One witness denies that any such appointment was made by Ledru Rollin; but his account of the transaction has been totally disproved on other points; and on the whole, as the appointment was in Ledru Rollin's department, we are not entitled to refuse credit to M. Tirel on that point, until some better defence for M. Ledru Rollin can be produced. But as to the main fact, it is beyond all doubt that Lacombe presented himself at the Museum with the claim of having shot Hairon, and that a subsequent inquiry made by the authority of a subsequent ministry, established his guilt, and occasioned his

dismissal;