ension occasioned by their passage wherever they go is very great.
Nothing serious, however, has yet occurred; and I suppose, if the
necessity for calling out the military can be avoided, nothing serious
will occur. But if these disorderly meetings increase in number and
frequency the police will not be sufficient to moderate and disperse
them, and the troops will have to be called out, and we shall have
terrible mischief, for our soldiers will not fraternize with the London
mob, the idea of duty--of which the French soldiers or civilians have
but a meagre allowance (glory, honor, anything else you please, in
abundance)--being the _one_ idea in the head of an English soldier and
of most English civilians, thank God!

The riots in Glasgow have been very serious; the population of that
city, especially the women, struck me as the most savage and brutal
looking I had ever seen in this country; and I remember frequently,
while I was there, thinking what a terrible mob the lowest class of its
inhabitants would make.

Metternich's resignation, of which I wrote you yesterday, is, alas!
uncertain. I had rejoiced at it for the sake of that beautiful Italy,
and all her political martyrs past and to come.

Good-bye, God bless you. I shall go and see some of those great mobs of
ours. It must be a curious and interesting spectacle.

Believe me ever yours,
FANNY.

KING STREET, Saturday and Sunday,
March 11th and 12th, 1848.
DEAREST HAL,

The "uses of adversity," which are assuredly often "sweet," should help
to reconcile us both to our own sorrows and those which are sometimes
harder to bear, the sorrows of those we love.... I have not yet been
able to accomplish my intention of seeing anything of our great
political mobs; and they are now beginning to subside, having been
rather _rackets_ than riots in their demonstrations, I am happy to say,
and therefore not very curious or interesting in any point of view.

But there is to be a very large meeting at Kennington on Monday, and
Alfred Potocki said he would take me to it, but as I have to act that
night I am afraid it would be hardly conscientious to run the risk of an
accidental blow from a brickbat that might disable me for my work,
which is my duty, though, I confess, it is a great temptation. My
f