Mr. Reverdy Johnson, warmed by the Lord Mayor's hospitality, was
so complimentary to England and to Lord Stanley, and to London and to Britisher institutions generally, that he seems to have been frightened when he read the next (lay a report of his own speech. Accordingly, he immediately sent a revised edition in very sobered terms indeed to the paper, which the Daily News prints side by side with the actual oration, remarking on the great convenience of having two speeches for one occasion. The actual speech was, indeed, obviously meant for England, and the second thoughts for America. Whether the Americans will feel at all propitiated by seeing what Mr. Reverdy Johnson would wish to have omitted, when he read his own speech the next day, remains to be seen. Probably they will think his second thoughts best, but demur to being asked to substitute them for his first and only acts.
