opinion is with us of the North.  The class to which we refer, if it is not now, will very shortly be, the governing element.  The tendency is irresistibly that way; the signs of its growing power are daily more and more manifest.  That it should be deeply interested in the perpetuity of American institutions, as affecting its own position, is natural.  In the failure of man’s self-governing capacity here, where every circumstance has been favorable to its exercise, the rising spirit of a broader liberty in England must foresee the death-blow to its own hopes.  Our failure will not be fatal to us alone; it will involve the fate of the millions who are now seeking to plant themselves against the tremendous force of kingly and patrician prestige.  They have hitherto derived from our example all the inspiration with which they have struggled upward.  They have been able to accomplish, step by step, important alterations in the unwritten constitution, by the apt comparisons their leaders have been able to make between American and British civilization.  So that, in considering the forces at work to influence those at the head of affairs, it is necessary to consider that force which is imperceptibly, but subtly, brought to bear upon them by the working-class.  Mr. Beecher, and other eminent Americans who have lately visited England, tell us that this class are almost to a man sympathizers with us; and that this sympathy has in many cases worked favorably to us cannot be doubted.  Even the operatives and manufacturers of Manchester and Leeds, at first, a little morose because of the effect of the war on their industry, seem to have come to a better second-thought, and are now outspoken for the North.

The different elements of English feeling toward us may be, we think, stated thus.  The aristocracy would view with complacency the disruption of the Union, because we are a rival power, and they are thoroughly pledged to British aggrandizement; because the success of the Union would belie the principle whence they derive their prerogative, and encourage the opposing element of popular rights to greater exertions for ascendancy; because hatred of democracy is a sentiment inherited, as well as a principle of self-preservation; and because they have not forgotten the former dependence of America on England.  The ministry feel toward us as the servants of a jealous power would naturally feel toward a rival.  The theorists are eager for events to crown them with the flattery of verified prediction.  The commercial classes are ill pleased that their thrift should be curtailed; the manufacturers grumble about the scarcity of cotton.  The timid minds of some honest thinkers did not see the real issue, until the regular developments of the war satisfied them; the lower orders had to be told before they could comprehend that in our destiny they must read the counterpart of their own.  Those pretentious philanthropists who have assumed to direct the anti-slavery party