512 LIFE OF COBDEN, [oms?.

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gress are over, and I am able to say that it has proved very
successful ; each day more and more auditors of a highly”
respectable class, and the last day thousands are said bo
have gone away without being able to enter. Everybody
is astonished that upon such a subject, and at this bot
season of the year, in Paris, too, a room holding 2000 persons
should be crowded for three days running, and upon the
same subject. However, soit is: Everything is sure to 820°
ceed that has a good principle in it. All our good Quaker
friends are in capital spirits. There can be no doubt that our
meetings will have done goed. Everybody has been balking
 about them during the week, and the subject of pea?
has for the first time had its hearing, even in France. My
first speech, although there is really little in it, produced 3
famous effect in the andience and has been almost univer
sally lauded in the papers. It ought to have been well
received, for it cost me a good deal of time with the aid of
Bastiat to write and prepare to read it. My good friend
Bastiat has been two mornings with me in my .room
translating and teaching, before eight o’clock. The G0
vernment has shown a very friendly disposition towards us:
We have had all the public buildings and monuments
thrown open to us. On Monday the Versailles water
works and the water-works ab St. Cloud are to be seb 0
play for the special gratification of the members of the Con
gress. These works play but four times a year on Sunday 5
and the Monday has been chosen on this occasion, in del”
cate compliment to the religious feeling of the English. Tonight
 we are all invited, men and women, to De Tocque
ville’s, the French Foreign Minister. On Tuesday the 49°
putation returns, and the members ought to be highly
delighted with their visit.”
“ Paris, dug. 28. ( ,, )—After writing to you on Sunday
[ found that the post did not leave that evening, and