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de l'europe m'est degoutant. England is advancing towards a revolution,—L'Angleterre marche vers une revolution. On my expressing a strong hope and belief that she would be spared it, he replied very decidedly:— Non, Monsieur, elle ne laechappera pas. England, too, has no great statesmen now, no great statesmen of any party, and woe to the country whose condition and institutions no longer produce great men to manage its affairs. France, on the contrary, has the Revolution behind her,—La France a la Revolution en dos,—a phrase which he repeated several times in the course of the conversation. She is like a man who has just passed thoroughly through a severe disease. He is not so likely to take it as if he had never had it. But France, too, wants men of ability; Louis Philippe is the ablest statesman they have had for a great while. And then in France there is such a want of stability. On the 7th of next month I shall have sat in this very chair, as the director of the affa