The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1849.

A literary criticism, or rather, we should say, a
m?rely passing critical notice, consisting of scarcely
twelve lines, and containing only four brief, though
we must confess somewhat emphatic, sentences—has
elicited a communication from the editor of M. Louts
BLANC'S journal, "The New World," the introductory
number of which has only very recently been pub-
lished. In another column of this evening's impres-
sion of The Sun will be found the letter addressed to
ourselves by M. F. R. TREHONNAIS, in reference to
our notice of the new periodical edited by himself,
Enci produced under the immediate inspection of the
author of the Organizationdu Travail. It will be ob-
served from that epistle that our correspondent, after an
exordium which conceals no very inconsiderable
amount of spleen under a very large amount of flip-
pancy, impugns our remarks upon " The New
World," as being characterised by a want of truth-
fulness. In commenting (on Friday the 3d instant)
on the appearance of this Socialist publication, written
in French by M. BLANC, and translated into English
by M. TREHONNAI3, we observed that the very first
number then before us contained " a ferocious attack
on Order, Family, and Property." This assertion, ac-
cording to our correspondent, is grossly inaccurate,
for, says he, M. Louis Bwaisc has inscribed the
names :,.of Order, Family, and Property on his
banner "as the watchwords of the social
reform he advocates." We stand corrected.
M. Louis BLANC is the champion of Order,
of Family, and of Property. He has in-
scribed their names on his political gonfalon. His
new journal is a testimony that his efforts are for
their preservation, that his sentiments towards them
SVC° those of reverence. Listen to him in proof of this
—it is at page 11 of his Monthly Review that he
speaks as follows :
"In truth, when I see placing in opposition,
on the one hand, Socialism, and on the other
Order, Family, and Property, I am astounded at
so much insanity, and my heart is divided in pity
which ignorance inspires, and disdain which dis-
honesty deserves !"
Yes ! certainly, M. Louts BLANC is the champion of
Order, Family, and Property. He is the champion
of Order ! Witness it his share in the invasion of
the National Assembly in May !—witness it his par-
ticipation, or, at least, his perceptible sympathy, with the
insurgents of June, those diabolical defenders of the
barricades, whose ferocity is remembered as the
nightmare of civilization! M. Louis BLANC is the
panegyrist and the conservator of Family ! Listen, in
testimony of this, to his strictures on the most sacred
of all the ties of Family, the holy bond of wedlock !
" In one wort," says he, in his Monthly Review pages 8
and 9, No. 1., " What is matrimony in our times, that is
under the sway of capital? If, in order to obtain a de-
finition, I open the code, there I find that matrimony is
an association nearly similar to a joint-stock i
commercial
company; the cede in its various dispositions nclines to
consider matrimony as an establishment of a peculiar
kind, of which the htnband is the manager. If I consult
facts, I find that matrimony is almost always a bargain, a
speculation, a means of making or enlarging one's fortune,
and, according to legal mode of expression, one of
.the
various ways (I acquiring property. Natural
.attraction,
union of two hearts thrilling with love, sovereign laws o.f
sympathy, all come after the deed that regulates matri-
monial conventions. The notary in this case. is the most
important personage;
forms the leyg.al. so much so, that in the order. of
lend,
must prcucle the celebration
of matrimony,
t. those manners have created a lan-
guage worthy of
woman whom they lk,ve•
themselves. People do not n arty a
xtpilcecytatToarry dix, quinze, vignt
milk lions de rents, and ;
Yes, expectations
as they are denominated in the m:tsiimonial grammar
the death of relations!"
r
Yes ! truly, the man who can thus write of mati-
niony—perverting its meaning, falsifying its
prin-
ciples, distorting its influence, and calumniating its
origin—the man who can thus conjure up the phan-
tasms of an impure imagination, and struggle with
them, not as JACOB with the angel, but as QUIXOTE
with the windinills—tha man who can thus burlesque
the most august and beautiful of the institutions,
coeval with civilization, and consecrated by
Christianity—the man who can thus misrepresent
the aspect of wedlock, is assuredly the eulogist and
the defender of Family ! yes !M. Louis BLANC is
not only the respecter of Order, he is the lover of
Family,—he is not only the lover of Family, he is
the conservator of Property ! Yes ! M. Louis
BLANC is the conservator of Property ! Behold, as
tonelusive evidence of this his share in the violation