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London, England, 1849-08-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1849.

Elsewhere we insert a communication addressed to
ourselves by M. Louis BLANC in reference to our
strictures upon his new periodical, and upon its edi-
tor M. TREHONNAIS. Before, however, we attempt
any analysis whatever of his arguments, we must be
permitted to remark upon the striking difference of
tone perceptible between the observations of M.
Louis BLANC and those penned by M. TREHONNAIS
—the former characterised by the incoherent violence
of irritation, the latter marked by the calmness of a
logician and the composure of a gentleman. From
the petulance of some sentences, from the abusive
epithets in others, and from the exaggerated rhetoric
with which the entire epistle is brought to a conclu-
sion, we presume that M. LOINS BLANC has a
profound ignorance of even the most ordinary
peculiarities of respectable journalism in Eng-
land. Whatever may be the custom else-
where, in this country a journalist is
habituated neither to slander others for the gratifica-
tion of a prejudice (as M. Louis BLANC appears to in-
sinuate)—nor to rake out calumnies from the ordure
of any literary cesspool (as M. Louis BLANC very
delicately asserts)—nor to refuse admission to the
reply of an individual whose principles may have
been assailed (as M. Louis BLANC evidently conjec-
tured when he wrote his very spasmodic appeal in the
name of Justice, of Truth, and of our own Honour).
While we simply and briefly, yet most emphatically
and peremptorily, repudiate in the name of English
journalism the charge implied in the word
" calumny"—while we repel this accusation, in
the very act of pointing to the course diurnally
pursued by ourselves and our Contemporaries, whether
Conservative, Whig, or Radical—we may, perhaps
be allowed to say that The Sun is not exactly thZ
organ in which a refugee could encounter gratuitous
discourtesies or wilful misrepresentations. In dis-
proof of this, we may surely, with a very pardonable
complacency, direct attention to that popular Testi-
monial, the particulars of which are published every
evening in our columns, a Testimonial which we are
proud to think was immediately originated by our-
selves. As to the refined and gentlemanly manner in
which M. Louis BLANC alludes to a quotation made
by us from Mr. COEKRAN'S " History of the Na-
tional Constituent Assembly" (page and volume
mentioned), when he (M. Louis BLANC) exclaims,
" Now what shall be sail of this anecdote, gathered
from the FILTH of I know not what libellous
production"—we shall content ourselves with inform-
ing him that the work in question is an able narra-
tive in two volumes, issued from the establishment of
not only one of the most respectable, but one of the
most eminent publishers in Great Britain—Ricu&xn
BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.
A gain as to the doubt somewhat coarsely expressed
by M. Louis BLANC, lest we should disingenuously
refuse to give insertion to his communication, we
rest satisfied with the circumstance that the letter,
according to our invariable custom a custom
founded upon the old axiomatic expression audi
alteram parteth, is printed in another portion of this
very evening's impression. And in testimony of the
fact that English publicists are not in the
habit of perversely garbling the words of
an antagonist, we eagerly transcribe into another
column the passages from the " New World," which
M. Louis BLANC conceives we shall fear to do, and
which he consequently challenges us to do, by the
most sacred terms of adjuration. We eagerly tran-
scribe these passages in our present impression (not-
withstanding the inconvenience accruing therefrom
in, consequence of the extreme value of our space),
and we transcribe them thus eagerly not because we
would yield to the defiance of our correspondent, but
because we would furnish the most signal disproof of
his assertions, and the most conclusive refutation of
his arguments.
Aware that we might rest contented with
merely referring the public to that letter
and that quotation, in testimony of the
accuracy of our assertion in regard to M.
Louis &axes "Monthly Review," we shall never-
theless be doubtless excused, under the circumstance,
for offering on our own part a few additional and
elueidative observations. We have asserted, and
stilleassert, that the " New World" contains a ferocious
attack upon Order, Family, and Property. M.
Louis BLANC declares that it does not contain any
attack at all upon Order, Family, and Property.
That i
5 simply the point at issue between us ; and to
settle this point, a portion of the first article in the
new publication—a portion selected by M. Louis
BLANC, himself—beginning at page 7, and ending at
page 10, is printed in exresonrThe Sun of this
evening. M. Louis BLANC regards the quotation as
ii
one affording proof positive that the w World"
does not contain a ferocious attack on Order
and Property. TVe regard it as containi Family,
mprinlyoi
positive that the "New World" does contain a feroci-
ous attack on Order, Family, and Property, Our
opinions as to the meaning of language are thus far
as diametrically opposite as our principles. Let the
public read dispassionately the paragraphs in question
and decide. Why, the very opening words of the
passage are premonitory symptoms of its tendency I
M. Louis BLANC has been speaking of Socialism
and he exclaims in a tone of scornful indignation—
"And against this happy necessity (namely, Social-
ism) what have persons presumed to invoke 7 Order,
Family, and Property." True he subsequently at-
tenipts to emblazon those three sacred names on his
own standard, nay, he does (ss we have already

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observed on a former occasion) inscribe them on his
banner—but he does so after having polluted them
with charges of every imaginary infamy, he does so
after having blackened them with every conceivable
misrepresentation, be does so after having held them
up to derision and abhorrence as the symbols now-
a-days of imposture, atrocity, and despotism. To
repeat an illustrative expression to which we have
already given utterance—Yes 1 M. Louis BLANC
does inscribe the names of Order, Family, and Pro-
perty upon his political banner, he inscribes them on
his banner as the consecrated vestments of the
priesthood are borne on the shoulders of a rioter
through the midst of the orgies and ribaldries
of an Insurrection. M. Louis BLANC, a panegyrist
of Order, Family and Property ! Why, in France,
in England, in every place in which he has ever been
heard of, his name has been associated with that
general disorganization which is the necessary ante-
cedent to the establishment of Socialism ! This, for-
sooth, an eulogium upon Order, Family, and Pro-
perty ! Why every phrase is a libel, every sentence
is a slander, every paragraph is a calumnious im-
peachment! We have insisted, and we still insist,
that it is a ferocious attack upon Order to say, that
now-a-days it is "the conciliation of itself with misery,
prostitution, theft, and murder, with the galleys and
with the scaffold !" We have insisted, and we
still insist, that it is a ferocious attack upon
Family to say that now-a-days it meaus
" brutality," and " adultery," " debauchery,"
and "speculation !" We have insisted, and we still
insist, that it is a ferocious attack upon Property to
say, that now-a-days it is so distributed that, sup-
posing the logic of the writer to be sound, it would be
by no means difficult to demonstrate within the com-

pass of a syllogism that the old notions respecting
meum et tuum are illusive, and that it would be justi-
fiable to re-distribute all terrestrial possessions !
That there are abuses in Order, as at pre-
sent existing, and abuses ranging from the
most petty to the most stupendous acts
of cts
of despotism, is undeniable. Equally undeniable is it
that Family is tarnished as an institution by many
paltry vices, and occasionally by diabolical crimes—
and that Property is so lamentably apportioned that
in many instances the worthless are battening in the
midst of indolence and luxuries, while the indus-
trious are starving, and_the virtuous are abandoned
to penury. But to declare that Property, Family, and
Order are now-a-days en masse so corrupted and so
execrable, is certainly, to our thinking, nothing less
than a monstrous misrepresentation, and an atrocious
attack on what we may term (with the most profound
reverence) the Trinity of Civilization. Why, by
the assertion that existing Order, Family and Pro-
perty are thus infamous when contrasted with some
other ideal Order, Family and Property—we should
be justifying a tremendous and devastating revolu-
tion, such as the world has not yet witnessed ; we
should be goading on class against class, party against
party, sex against sex; we should be inflaming passions
that ought rather to be allayed, and exciting

appetites that would prove insatiable. The truth is
this, that we do not the less clearly than M. Loots
BLANC perceive the evils infesting our present isti-
tutions, but we would REFORM, while he would
DESTROY. We would reform, because we regard
the wisdom of all the aggregated generations as more
than the wisdom of a single age ; and because we
should much less term the wisdom of the Past and the
Present combined, inferior to that of one individual.
He would destroy on the other hand, because by the
removal of the existing system he would acquire a
field for experimenting with the chimeras of his
imagination.
Experience appears to have taught M. LOUIS BLANC
nothing in the way of modifying his theories of ad-
ministration. Has he forgotten already that the fra-
ternal association of tailors in the Rue de Clichy has
turned out a miserable failure ?

Some explanation may be required as to the reasons
from which our original condemnation of a journal
published in this country by a refugee emanated.
They are readily given—in fact, they may be con-
densed into one. Our single reason for branding the
"New World" on its first appearance was—our disre-
lish for the creed upon which all its specious
arguments were concentred—the political creed of
Socialism. We loathed the bare idea of the
masculine mind of England becoming inoculated
with a virus that has already diseased the intelligence
and corrupted the judgment of so many thousands of
the French population. We were distressed to wit-
ness the introduction of this scheme, which is the
heaviest blow levelled at all existing institutions, and
we were the:more pained to witness these seeds of
discontent scattered over our own country by one
who was then, and is at this moment, existing under
the shelter of those very institutions—the encyhe of
the peace, and the strength, and the glory, and the
greatness, of our beloved England.
We have already expressed our sentiments as to the
nature and tendency of Socialism. We will, how-
ever, give another and more energetic definition of it
—a definition given little more than a fortnight back
by a Contemporary on the other side of the Atlantic,
a citizen of the great Republic of the United States.
" &muss'," says the New York Weekly Herald,
July 31st, 1849, " I 3 ONLY ANOTHER TITLE FOR IRRE-
LIGION, ATHEISM, ROBBERY, AND SWINDLING, UNDER

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1849.

GERMANY

AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

A letter from the Polish frontiers of the sth, which
is published in the Borsenhalle of Hamburgh says—
"Major-General Paul Alesandrow, of the suite of
his Majesty the Emperor, as also Count Kankren, have
been sent to the army in Hungary on a special mission.
The former has gone to the theatre of war in the north,
and the latter to the south as far as the corps of General
Luders, at Bucharest. Both are said to be charged with
the most positive orders to make every arrangement for
an immediate termination of the campaign in Hungary.
The Emperor knows too well that the season favourable
fur carrying on the war in Hungary with advantage ter-
minates with the month of August, and consequently
that unless something decisive is effected by the Imperial
troops within the next four weeks, it wilt be expedient
to withraw the main portion of the army, and to be
content with the occupation of Berne places."
The .13orsenhalle adds—" The immense number of
troops sent by Russia against Hungary may Ise in-
ferred from the fact that not only have the Guards
been sent from St. Petersburgh, but large bodies
of men from the remotest parts of the Russian
empire."
The fourteenth Russian bulletin of the war, the
substance of which appeared in the Third Edition of
The Sun of last night, contains an admission with
regard to the position of GEORGE; and an account
of the orders given to the Russian General THEODo-
JEFF, which convinces us that GEORGEY has been
the victor in the series of combats between him-
self and PASKEWITCII, alluded to in that bulletin,
and that the intelligence of the total defeat of the
Great Russian army, which appeared in the Paris
Presse, is true. The passage is as follows :—" The
forces of GEORGE; to the number of 30,000 men,
and numerous artillery, took up a strong position on
the 23d, on the heights near Miskloz, on the left bank
of the Sajo. General THEODOJEFF, at the head of
the 4th corps, attacked the Hungarians. GEORGEY
quitted his position on the 26th, and took the direc-
tion of Tokay. General THEODOJEFF received orders
to give up the pursuit." Why? Evidently because
he had been so severely handled on the
23d and 24th that he could not continue it.

The Hungarians have garrisoned Raab, and have oc-
cupied Hochstrass, Szendahelz, and Wieselburg, and
have thrown a bridge over the Neutra, and in the
North they have occupied Szered on the IVaag.
Should the Hungarians continue to advance towards
the Austrian frontier, Vienna, Upper Austria and
Styria would at once rise and expel the Imperialists.
Su much are they alarmed lest such should be the
case, that WELDEN has caused the position of Scum-
mering, near Vienna, to be regularly occupied by
military.
The Polish Gazette of Posen quotes a letter from
Cracow, which states that on the 2d and id of
August the Hungarians entered Gallicia and took
possession of the districts of Wadawitz, Snaiadetz,
Jaszil, and Stanislawow.

It is admitted by a Russian bulletin, No. 15, pub-
lished at Warsaw, not only that the Magyars have
entered Moldavia, with a force from 4,000 to 5,000
strong, but that they previously defeated the Russians
in the pass of Ojtu, killing 40 and wounding 126 of
their men. After this affair the Russians retired to
Onesski in Moldavia.

The National Zeitung announces the taking cf
Hermanstadt by the Russians, to which the Corre-
spondent of Bucharest adds the following
The post which has just arrived from Cronstadt,
brings the sad news, that after the greater part of the
Austrian army had quitted Cronstadt, to go in pursuit
of the Tzeklas, the hordes of Bern, as if they had
fallen from the bky or issued out of the bowels of the
earth, appeared under the walls of Cronstadt.
Prince ORLOFF arrived at Vienna on the 10th from
the head-quarters of PASKIEWITCH : he brought the
intelligence of the rout of PASKIEWITCH'S army by
GEORGEY. No bulletin had been published, and the
Imperialists in Vienna were in a state of panic. The
communications between Pesth and Vienna are
entirely cut off by the Magyars, who, it was ru-
moured, had retaken Pesth and Buda. The army of
HAYNAU, even if he should have effected his junction
with JELLACHICH, is now completely isolated.