The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-20 00:00:00

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" It is a great fault in the education of girls, to omit
teaching thew, in some measure, the value of money.
1 hey suddenly find themselves at the head of an esta-
blishment, in which, if large, consi lerable sums pass
through thtir hands ; if email, on them depends the
comfort, or discomfort of the menage; and they are not
aware, (except from theory, which has little to lay to
practice) that twenty shillings make a pound.
" The loss of. Green was an annoyance of daily recur-
rence. Blanche could not dress her own hair; and the
awkward attempts of the shy and frightened red•fisted
maid to brush and to curl, to braid and to creper,made
her every morning come down to breakfast in a rufll
arid uncomfortable state. She found it necessary now
and then to buy herself a cap, and unluckily the bill for
these caps came in at a time when De Molton's finances
were at a very low ebb. Blanche had no pin-money, I
and she applied to him for the requisite sum.
" What nonsense, Blanche,.t.) buy tawdry caps, when
you have all that beautiful brown hair, which is so much
prettier and more becoming than any cap that can be
made.'

" a I never learned to dress hair; and sir.ce Green is
gone, I 6ed it impossible to do without a cap. I have
not quite made up my mind to go about a perfect figure
Jet; but I dare say I soon shall. It is impossible to be
well-dressed without a maid.'

" But surely you could soon learn to arrange your
hair. You told me Mrs. Jones always dressed her own,
aad lam sure it is very smart—in bows, and all kinds of
things.'

" -This was too much for Blanche to endure. To have
been forced to part with her maid ! To bo refused a
cap ! Tu be twitted with Mrs. Jones ! To have Mrs.
Jones set up as a pattern ! Indeed I should be rely
sorry to look like Mrs. Jones !' she exclaimed, with a
heightened colour, and an eye which was very beautiful
in its increased brilliancy; if you wished to have a wife
who should look and dress like• Mrs. Jones, you should
not have selected me ! I hope I may never arrive at
such a pitch of vulgarity as that ! I had rather look like
any body in the whole world than Mrs. Jones ;' and in
her anger and petulance, she spoke, as she would not
have done in a cooler moment, of a person whom she both
respected and liked.

Mrs Jones is a most excellent and exemplary
woman,' replicd De Molton, with some solemnity of
manner; one who performs the duties of her situation
in life cheerfully and admirably. I have a very great
regard for Mrs. Jones. Where is that bill?' he added,
with an awful calmness: 6 I am sorry to say you must
buy no more caps. I have not the means of paying for
them l' He gave her th© money, which she took with
pain and indignation."

LAMARTINE'S NEW JOURNAL. No VIII.
The subject of the current number of Lamartine's
Conseiller du Peuple, is addressed to the majority of
his countrymen, and has reference to the rumour of
a change of Ministry. The theme of the next advice,
we understand, will be Atheism. From the number
before us we translate the following sentences :
"Political Reactions? They are the recoil of ideas!"

• • • • • • • • • •
" The Republic (February, 1843) arose like the rain-
bow of peace over an immense deluge of anarchy and
bloodshed."

• • • • • • • • • •
" The Republic firmly proposed to Europe the alter-
native of Revolutionary War or Democratic Peace.
Europe, troubled, comprehended and respected it."

Further on, M. de Lamartine asserts very beauti-
fully, that a series of beneficent reactions commenced
immediately after February. He says :
" The withdrawal of the army from Paris was the
reaction against the effusion of blood !
" The organization of the Guard Mobile was the re-
action against Sedition!
" The re-opening of the' churches was the reaction
against Atheism!
"The abolition of the punishment of death was the
reaction against Terrorism!
" The convocation of the National Assembly was the
reaction against Dictatorship !
" The 16th of April was the reaction against the
Clubs !
" The 15th of May was the reaction against Demago-
gic Usurpation!
" The 231 and 24th of June constituted the reaction
against the Sovereignty of the Faubourgs and the sedi-
tion of the proletaires

" The sole crime against Liberty under a Republic is—
anal ell) 1"

. . . . •
" The Reactions of the Republic arc the reaction of
re against the decomposition of death."

" ridicule in France is the detonation of opinion."

" Good sense is nothing but the circulating medium
or specie of genius."

M. de Lamartine closes his presezt number with a
declaration of his own voluntary ostracism and that of
his colleagues of February.

cannot fail to be interested in her interesting perplex-
ities, and may be benefited by her warring example.
A dexterity in performing household duties is not
among the least important of a wife's qualifications,
be she a Mrs. Jones or a Lady Blanche :
" Unfortunately, the last remnant of Blanche's trous-
si au was growing very shabby, and her wardrobe
needed recruiting. Green was gone ; the girl Phoebe
was no milliner; Blanche could embroider beautifuly,
and she could now accomplish children's flocks with
considerable success, but she could not make her own
clothes. how should she? She was obliged, therefore,
to have her wants supplied by the country milliners,
and both she and De Molton were appalled at the bills
which were the inevitable consequence.
" Blanche wished exceedingly nct to be expensive,
boi:, she knew not how to avoid being so. She had never
had any allowance when a girl : she had been so amply
supplied with every article of dress upon her marriage,
and had since led so retired a life, that little occasion
to tri end money had occurred until now ; and she was
ignorant how miraculotkly, when once the purse-strings
are ()pact], the contents vanish as it were of them-
selves.