At the time of the European revolutions of 1848, when crowns were falling, and ministers flying before the rage of the sovereign people, Chartism never seriously threatened the stability of the British Government, and its great demonstrations were no real menace to the existing order.

Nothing seems able to shake the British confidence in its elected representatives, and in the Government that is supported by a majority of those representatives.

We have never accepted the gospel of Jean Jacques Rousseau; Priestley and Price are almost the only names that can be mentioned as disciples of Rousseau before the advent of Mr.H.
Belloc.
France, still following Rousseau, does not associate political sovereignty with representation as England does.

It never invests the doings of its Cabinet with a sacred importance, and it readily transfers the reins of government from Ministry to Ministry.

France has submitted to the sovereignty of an Emperor and to the rule of kings since the great Revolution, and though its Republic is now forty years old, and at present there are no signs of dictatorship on the horizon, the Government of the Republic is never safe from a revolutionary rising of the sovereign people, and only by the strength of its army has revolution been kept at bay.