A riot was the welcome which awaited the French admiral at Boston.

The increasing riot in Main Street undoubtedly was a most potent spur.

The Boston riots of 1770 and 1773 were the heralds of the revolution, and the first battle was fought at Bunker Hill, not far off, now included in it.

And yet could the Irish revolutionists of thirteen years ago have had the advantage of a ministry like that of Mr. Buchanan,had every Irish officer and soldier been false to his honor and his allegiance,had Ireland been supplied and England stripped of arms and munitions of war by the connivance of the Government,the riot of 1848 might have become a rebellion as formidable as our own in everything but territorial proportions.