er people, who pay no money-taxes and have no right to vote,
(Reglement du Roi in Histoire Parlementaire, as above, i. 267-307.)
assiduously crowd round those that do; and most Halls of Assembly,
within doors and without, seem animated enough.

Paris, alone of Towns, is to have Representatives; the number of them
twenty. Paris is divided into Sixty Districts; each of which (assembled
in some church, or the like) is choosing two Electors. Official
deputations pass from District to District, for all is inexperience as
yet, and there is endless consulting. The streets swarm strangely with
busy crowds, pacific yet restless and loquacious; at intervals, is
seen the gleam of military muskets; especially about the Palais, where
Parlement, once more on duty, sits querulous, almost tremulous.

Busy is the French world! In those great days, what poorest speculative
craftsman but will leave his workshop; if not to vote, yet to assist
in voting? On all highways is a rustling and bustling. Over the wide
surface of France, ever and anon, through the spring months, as the
Sower casts his corn abroad upon the furrows, sounds of congregating and
dispersing; of crowds in deliberation, acclamation, voting by ballot and
by voice,--rise discrepant towards the ear of Heaven. To which political
phenomena add this economical one, that Trade is stagnant, and also
Bread getting dear; for before the rigorous winter there was, as we
said, a rigorous summer, with drought, and on the 13th of July with
destructive hail. What a fearful day! all cried while that tempest fell.
Alas, the next anniversary of it will be a worse. (Bailly, Memoires, i.
336.) Under such aspects is France electing National Representatives.

The incidents and specialties of these Elections belong not to
Universal, but to Local or Parish History: for which reason let not the
new troubles of Grenoble or Besancon; the bloodshed on the streets of
Rennes, and consequent march thither of the Breton 'Young Men' with
Manifesto by their 'Mothers, Sisters and Sweethearts;' (Protestation et
Arrete des Jeunes Gens de la Ville de Nantes, du 28 Janvier 1789, avant
leur depart pour Rennes. Arrete des Jeunes Gens de la Ville d'Angers, du
4 Fevrier 1789. Arrete des Meres, Soeurs, Epouses et Amantes des
Jeunes Citoyens d'Angers, du 6 Fevrier 1789. (Reprinted in Histoire
Parlementaire, i. 290-3.)) nor suchlike, detain us here. It is the
same sad history everywhere; with superficial variations. A