"Rejoicing, however, as we do in this suppression of a mob
demonstration in our Fatherland, we do not shut our eyes to
the fact that the British ministry must keep up with the
spirit and the intelligence of the age, in all possible or
rational meliorations of the aristocratic features of the
British constitution. There is, however, the greatest pledge
that this will be done in the very form itself of the
constitution,--for there can be scarcely a doubt, we think,
that there is now as near an approximation to universal
suffrage in the House of Commons as in our own House of
Representatives,--remembering, as we must, in the latter
body, the _numbers_ and _colours_ of its differing
constituency. The Senate of the United States is no more
based upon 'equal representation,' as all know, than the
House of Peers."
"WALL STREET ON SATURDAY LAST.--If there are any among us
who doubt the close union, social, intellectual, and
commercial, which binds in sympathy our people with those of
Great Britain,--if there are any who deemed Americans mere
passive, disinterested spectators of the revolutionary
crisis, which, previous accounts would have it, was to
provoke a civil war in England, and to submerge all the then
existing law and order there, beneath the turbulent
whirlpool of mob violence--we wish they had been in Wall
Street, or, indeed, in any of the other business
thoroughfares in the lower part of the city, on Saturday
last, about noon. We are perfectly sure that the result of
the intended-to-be belligerent demonstration in the English
metropolis, on the eventful 10th of April, was not more
anxiously awaited in Liverpool, in Edinburgh, or Glasgow,
than it was here in Transatlantic New York, albeit three
thousand miles and more away from the theatre of action.
Early in the morning, as soon as it was proclaimed on the
newspaper bulletins that the steamer was telegraphed off
Sandy Hook, men began to gather in knots at the corners of
the streets, discussing the probable character of the news
at hand,--and, for the time being, all business of
importance was at a pause. Speculation in Ohio 6's,
Pennsylvania 5's, Reading Bonds and railroad shares, was
laid aside for speculation in an anticipated fresh batch of
revolutions and dynasties overthrown. Cotton, flour, and
grain were all forgotten, and the only article thought of in
the provision line was a _Provisional Government_ in the
realms of Queen Victoria. Hanover Street, at the corner of
Wall,--that well-known rendezvous for street
operations,--was in a state of terrible suspense; and even
the stoic who superintends the dog-market in the
neighbourhood of the Custom House, concluded to suspend all
transactions in his quadrupedal profession, till the
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