Apart from the dreadful amount of individual suffering which cries out against us to heaven and earth, this adversity may teach us much, this shock which has struck to the heart of England may awaken us much, and this humiliation will altogether be good for us.

We have stood too long on a pedestal talking of our moral superiority, our political superiority, and all our other superiorities, which I have long been sick of hearing recounted.

Here's an inferiority proved.

Let us understand it and remedy it, and not talk, talk, any more.
[_Part of this letter has been cut out_] We heard yesterday from the editor of the 'Examiner,' Mr.Forster, who expects some terrible consequence of present circumstances in England, as far as I can understand.

The alliance with France is full of consolation.