I cannot help feeling alarmed at the consequences likely to result from such performances.

Sparks of fire flung among gunpowder are not more dangerous.

Shewing a populace what they can effect by brutal force is a dangerous experiment; it is like letting a tame lion see how easily he could overpower his keepers.
Mr.Cuthbert and M.Charles Laffitte dined here yesterday.

Both are excellent specimens of their countries; the former being well-informed and agreeable, and the latter possessing all the good sense we believe to be peculiar to an Englishman, with the high breeding that appertains to a thoroughly well-educated Frenchman.
The advance of civilization was evident in both these gentlemen--the Englishman speaking French with purity and fluency, and the Frenchman speaking English like a born Briton.

Twenty years ago, this would have been considered a very rare occurrence, while now it excites little remark.