The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-16 00:00:00

THE NAME OF PHILOSOPHY AND PHILANTHROPY."

We by no means say that our opposition to Social-
ism goes to that extreme limit, but we give the fore-
going sentence as the opinion entertained of Socialism
by a Republican of the United States.
In reference to the other portions of M. Louis
BLaiso's communication, we may observe that they
are eminently deserving of perusal. They are in-
tended to be not so much an extenuation of his
principles as a vindication of his career. While
acknowledging, however, that the testimonies ad-
duced by him are singularly and emphatically
in his favour, we cannot but marvel how
so innocent a person came to sneak out of France
with the secrecy of a culprit—or how one so perfectly
exonerated from any share in the May and June
insurrections is skulking up to this instant in
a land of banishment. Strange, too, is it to hear M.
Louis BLANC disclaimingany connexion whatever with
the insurgents of June—and yet the very next mo-
ment standing forward as their energetic apologist!
We mean where he declares that none of their flags
contained the inscription Pillage—although the Paris
newspapers of the time, we well remember, asserted
that many barricades were adorned with banners
marked " Pillage et Viol!" When we find that
M. Louis BLANC elsewhere speaks of M. DE LA-
MARTINE as his antagonist at the very time when he
is quoting that great man's evidence in his behalf—
we cannot but recognise another instance of the
punishment devolving upon the true hero of Fe-
bruary for his besetting weakness—his too eclectic
sympathies.
So much for M. Louis BLANC, his " New World,"
and his Socialism. 1

It was stated the other day by the Limerick
Chronicle, and we sincerely hope that the announce-
ment may be eventually found to rest upon a more
solid foundation than frequently supports the state-
ments of our imaginative contemporary, that " there
is every probability that Government will afford an
advance for the completion of the Waterford and
Limerick Railway, if not directly from the Treasury,
by their influence upon British capitalists, but retain-
ing the mails as a guarantee." What the reasons
were which influenced the Government in restricting
their assistance to Irish railways to a loan of 600,0001.
to the Dublin and Galway, and in disregarding the
superior claims of the line in question, we are unable
to state with any positive degree of certainty. Pro-
bably the influence of the 11.1ost Noble the Postmaster-
General may have had something to do in procuring
this monopoly of aid. At all events they lumped
their benevolence and dropped it in the centre
of the island, as if under the impression that
its radiations would, as a matter of course, extend to
remoter parts of the country, possessing, to say the
least,
equally substantial claims to consideration.
Without
wishing for a moment to speak disparagingly
of Gaiwegian interests, we can see nothing approxi-
mating, in the remotest degree, to a superiority on
their part over those of the teeming. and luxuriant
vallies of East Munster, and of populouse and in-
dustrious towns. If the exertionsitosftC Noble Chair-
man of the Waterford and Limerick
shavde
led to a result, fortunate alike to its shareholders
to the agricultural and commercial interests of the
south of Ireland, the company ought to feel indebted
to him in no small degree for his perseverance and

moral courage. On the evening, towards the close
of the past session, when the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer won golden opinions from Members of every
party in the House by the declaration of even
the solitary instance of Treasury favour above
mentioned, not a syllable was uttered in advocacy of
the claims of the Munster line (which sought for but
a loan of 250,0001., guaranteed on incontrovertible
security) by any one of those dozen representatives
whose constituents are vitally interested in its com-
pletion between the two important terminal cities
which command two of the noblest and most commo-
dious estuaries in Europe. Neither county, city, nor
borough Member for Waterford, Limerick, or Tippe-
rary, deemed it worth while to countenance the praise-
worthy exertions of Lord GLENGALL, in seeking to
obtain fiscal assistance towards the completion of an
undertaking of such paramount advantage to those
localities. Their inhabitants will, we trust, be recom-
pensed ere long for this culpable remissness on the
part of the elected guardians of their interests, by the
extension of the line, and the consequent development
of the resources of a region unsurpassed in fertility
and natural wealth by any in the sister island. The
beauties and capabilities of the smiling extent of
country watered by the river Suir have fallen this
summer under the observation of many English
visitors who were heretofore deterred from a personal
inspection by an exaggerated apprehension of the
lawlessness of Tipperary. The agrarian disturbances
which so long and so unhappily disgraced that fine
county resulted from an insufficiency of remunerative
employment to the labouring classes. This great
evil is to be mainly remedied by the continuation
and completion of the connecting link between the
Shannon and St. George's Channel. Capital will be
profitably invested in fostering the bounties of a
prolific soil and genial climate, and in ameliorating
the condition of an active and intelligent population,
who have needed but fair treatment and encourage-
ment to render them contented, industrious, and or-
derly. A judicious outlay will be amply repaid
where there is so fair a field for regeneration, and
the happy consequences will be felt in an equal mea-
sure by the merchant, the landlord, and the peasant,
throughout no inconsiderable portion of the British
Empire.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel publishes an official announce-
ment of the complete recovery of the PRESIDENT from
his recent attack of cholerine. He yesterday pre-
sided over the Council of Ministers as usual.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of the
EMPEROR. The PRESIDENT Of the Republic and the
Ministers attended mass in the Chapel of the In va-
lides in honour of the occasion.
The Patrie says—
" It was by mistake that it was rumoured that a grand
review was to take place this day. From inquiries made
it appears that ❑o solemnity of the kind is to take place,
or has ever been intended."
Our readers will remember that reports were rife
that this review, to be celebrated on the anniversary
of NAPOLEON'S birthday, was to have been made the
occasion of a coup d'etat against the Republic. After
the speech of the PRESIDENT at Tours it was evident
that he would not take part in any such treasonable
project, and the reactionaries were therefore obliged
to postpone its execution.
Notwithstanding the attempts of the Constitutionnel
to heal the schism existing between M. TRIERS and
the parti pretre, the Univers,! the organ of the
priests, continues implacable, and denounces and re-
nounces, in the name of M. DE MONTALEMBERT and
the Jesuits, M. TRIERS and every member of his
party. According to the Univers, every one who will
not, like M. DE FALLOUI, justify the massacres of St.
Bartholomew, or like the worthy:Fathers of the League,
worship the holy daggers of JACQUES CLEMENT and
RAVAILLAC, is a Voltarian, excommunicated and un-
worthy the notice of the pious DE MONTALEMBERT,
or of those excellent Trestaillons who work with him
for the re-edification of religion. It is curious that
the very day on which the Univers comes out with
its terrible excommunication against M. TRIERS, the
Constitutionnel should accuse the National of ca-

lumny, for hinting at the existence of the slightest
schism in the ranks of the majority, and should de-
clare that the most complete union exists among all
its members.
" We will believe in the existence of this union,"
says the National, " when M. Thiers will show
his confession tickets, and be seen at mass by
the side of M. a. Moutalembert; or, if you
like it better, when M. do Montalembert wilt ac-
knowledge himself a convert to the Voltarianism of M.
Thiers—when M. Berryer shall put his signature of
approval to the famous proces verbal of the Chateau de
Blaye—when there shall only be amongst you zealots for
Divine right, or Monarchists of July, devotees or un-
believers, then, and then only, shall we believe in your
union."

The Journal des Debats is exceedingly wrath with
the Archbishop of PARIS for his letter to the Foreign
Minister on the subject of Venice, a copy of which
appeared in The Sun of yesterday. In the course of
its comments the Debuts says—
" When we find the Archbishop throw out that at a
certain time it might have been glorious and wise to
make war, we cannot but call to mind that the Pope
compromised his temporal throne precisely because he
would not make war. When the Archbishop declares
that we live in times when war is only made for positive
and immediate interests, we reply that he is unjust, fcr
we beg to ask for what position or immediate interest did
we go to Rome, and what are we likely to gain now that
we are there? When, in fine, the Archbishop tells us
that the rights of small states are not less sacred than
those of great, does he nut fear that this argument, in-
contestable in principle, may not be turned against the
Roman expedition, end the re-establisment of the Pon-
tifical authority?"
_ _

The Debats is undoubtedly right in the deductions
which it draws from the ARCHBISHOP'S letter, but we
do not think one whit the worse of the letter on that
account.

The Wornie although seized on Monday, re-
appeared on Wednesday, and contained a furious
attack on LAMARTINE, " whose fickle character," it
says, " enervated the revolution," and who now
" strikes at enemies disarmed by the law." In
speaking of his recently published " History of the
Revolution of February," the Reforme says—
" Open any one page of this book of presumption
and vanity, and you will no longer feel surprised that
Lamartine has gone over to Montalembert and de Falloux,
and that he calumniates the democracy. Ho will never
pardon the party which made the revolution for having had
more confidence in principles than in statesmen, and for
having refused to allow itself to be personified in the
Minister who directed the foreign affairs under the Pro-
visional Government."
The editors of the Eclair of Pau and of the Re-
publicain du Gard, who were prosecuted by the Go-
vernment for sedition, have been acquitted.
General SERRANO is in Paris.
General LE VAILLANT has arrived from Rome.

The trade of Paris is reviving—the Moniieur du

Soir says—
" We have received information relative to the state
of trade and manufactures in Paris, which announces a
sensible amelioration. During the last week there have
been pretty large orders, particularly from abroad, for
rztieles of luxury. The dealers in Rouen goods, hosiery,
and colonial produce, and the cabinet-makers, have
done a great deal of business. The numerous work-
shops in the eighth arrondissement, which had been
long unoccupied, are beginning to:be filled with workmen.
Commercial transactions in general are becoming more
and more considerable."

A murder was committed, at nine o'clock on Tues-
day morning, close to the barrack in the Rue Neuve
de Luxembourg, by a man in independent circum-
stances, named MAGNIEY, on a person with whom he
had long lived in habits of friendship. MAGNIEY
approached his victim, and fired a pistol-shot through
his body. The unfortunate man was conveyed to
the nearest hospital, when his wound was declared
to be mortal. The murderer pleads in his justifica-
tion that the wounded man, although advanced in
years and the father of a family, had seduced MAG.
NIEY'S wife.

Orders have been given by the Minister of Justice
to commence immediately in the departments the
drawing for members of the Councils-General to com-
pose the jury of the High Court of Justice at Ver-
sailles. It is supposed that the Court will assemble
about the 20th of next month. _ _

M. GUIZOT is candidate for a seat in the Council
General of Calvados.

The members of the Mountain in the Legislative
Assembly have, in consequence of the prorogation,
renewed their committee. MM. MicuEL (de Bourges),
MATHIEU (de la Drome), and BAUM, have been ap-
pointed presidents ; ST. FEREOL, MARE, DUFRAIGAR,
and (TOW NEAUX, secretaries; AUGUST CLEMENT,
treasurer, and CHOUVY, questor. They have further
appointed a sub•committee of 12 to remain in Paris in
permanence during the recess.
Yesterday being the Fete of the Assumption, and
a strict holiday, the Bourse and public offices were
closed.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUGUST 15.
East Indian, 3%—Great Indian Peninsular, 55/s—Luxem—
bourg, 2/4—Namur and Liege, 574—Northern of Prance,
31-A dis.—Tours and Nantes, 3.

A freehold Episcopal church, in the suburbs of
Manchester, is announced in our columns to be sold by
auction by Mr. Robins, on the 4th of September. It is
a remarkable handsome structure, with superior accom-
modation for at least 1,500 persons, in an improving and
exceedingly interesting neighbourhood, where a popular
!minister in a short time would secure a considerable and
increasing income.