about noon
`` No banquet ! Why , I thought it was compromised between Guizot and Barrot that the banquet should be allowed to proceed under protest , in order that the question might be brought before the Supreme Court . '' `` Such was the purpose , but a manifesto of the Banquet Committee , drawn up by Marrast , it is said , and , at all events , issued in ` Le National ' this morning , declaring the design not only of a banquet , but of a procession , changed everything . The address sets forth that all invited to the banquet would assemble at the Place de la Madeleine to-morrow at about noon , and thence , escorted by the National Guard , and accompanied by the students of the universities , should proceed by the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe , at the extremity of the Avenue des Champs Elysées , and thence to the immense pavilion on the grounds of General Shian . Only one toast , ` Reform , and the right to assemble , ' was announced to be drunk , and then a commissary of police could enter a formal protest against the whole proceeding on the spot , on which to base a legal prosecution , and the multitude would disperse . '' `` A very sensible mode of procedure , '' quietly remarked the journalist , `` and one eminently calculated to relieve your friend Guizot and my friend Barrot from the awkward dilemma of a direct issue . '' `` But so thought not my friend Guizot .