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

THE SUN,

cannot fail to be interested in her interesiing perplex-
ities, and may be benefited by her wartiog 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 cf Blanche's trous-
st au was growing very shabby, and her wardrobe
needed recruiting. Green was gone ; the girl l'hcebe
was no milliner; Blanche could embroider beautiludy,
and she could now accomplish children's frocks 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 Melton were appalled at the bills
which were the inevitable consequence.
" Blanche wished exceedingly not to be expensive,
bat 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 spend money had occurred until now ; and she was
ignorant how miraculously, When once the purse•strings
are °pried, the contents vanish as it were of them-
selves.

" It is a great fault in the education of girls, to omit
teaching thew, in some measure, the value of money.
'They suddenly find themselves at the bead of an esta-
blishment, in which, if large, consilerable sums pass
through thh it hands ; if small, on them depends the
comfort, or discomfort of the menage; and they are not
aware, (except from theory, which has little to say 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 crdper, made
her every morning come down to breakfast in a ruffhd
and 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,
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.'

" I never learned to dress hair; and sitce Green is
gone, I find it impossible to do without a cap. I have
not quite made up my mind to go about a perfect figure
yet; but I dare say I suon 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,
and 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 be refused a
cap ! To be twitted with Mrs. Jones ! To have Mrs.
Jones set up as a pattern ! • Indeed I should be ♦ery
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 lite
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,' replied De Molton, with some solemnity of
manner; one who performs the duties of her situation
in life c heerfully and admirably. I have a very great
regard for Mrs. Jones. Where is that bill?' he added,
with an awful calmness: I am sorry to say you must
buy no more caps. I have not the means of paying for
them 1' He gave her the 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 countrytmn, 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, 1848) 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 1
" 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 1
" The 16th of April was the reaction against the
Club* !

" The 15th of May was the reaction against Demago-
gic Usurpation!

" The • 23d end 24th of June constituted the reaction
against the Sovereignty of the Faubourgs and the sedi-
tiun of the'proletaires 1"

The sole crime against Liberty under a Republic is—
an= ch) I"

" The Reactions of the Republic are 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."

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

RAILWAY RETURNS
RittwAT TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

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ending

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