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
merely passing critical notice, consisting of scarcely
twelve lines, and containing only four brief, though
we must confess scinevaat emphatic, senter.ces—has

elicited a communication from the editor of M. Louis

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,
and 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. TREHONNAIS, 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 BLANC 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
are 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. Louis BLaxc 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 I—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 I—
" 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 commercial
company; the code in its various dispositions inclines to
consider matrimony as an establishment of a peculiar
kind, of which the husband 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,
an,.o
.according to legal mode of expression, one of the
union so y of acquiring property. Natural attraction,
f two r:earts thrilling with love, sovereign laws of
sympathy, all Come after the deed that regulates matri-
monial convention
important personas: The notary in this case is the must
; so much so, that in the order of
forms the legal settlement
of matrimony. And, those must precede the celebration
manners have created a lan-
guage worthy of themselves.
woman whom. they love; the di:c, quinze, vignt
People do not marry a
livres de rente, and e zp(cYtatrinonarrY Ye!, expectations
as they are denominated in the matrimonial
the death of relations!" menial grammar__.
its Yes ! truly, the man who can thus write of matri-
mony—perverting its meaning, falsifying
prin-
ciple=, distorting its influence, and calumniating its
origin—the man who can thus conjure up the phan- 1
tasms of an impure imagination, and struggle with
them, not as JACOB with the angel, but as QUIXOTE
with the windmUls —the 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
tie ac-,p, ct of wedlock, is asi,uredly the eulogist and
the defend2r of Family ! Yun !M. LOUIS BLANC is
not only the respecter of Order, he is the lover of
Family,—he is not only the lever of Family, he is
the conservator of Property Yes ! M. Louis
BLANC is the conservator of Property ! Behold, as j
conclusive evidence of this his share in the violation