The Sun.
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. TREIIONNAIS
—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. Louis 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. COBJEILAN'S " History of the Na-
tional Constituent Assembly" (page and volume
mentioned), when he (M. Louis BLANC) exclaims,
" Now what shall be said 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—Rionenn
BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to her _Majesty-
A gain as to the doubt somewhat coarsely expressed
by M. Louis Bnexc, 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 portent, 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 BLANC'S "Monthly Review," we shall never-
theless be doubtless excused ,
toad the circumstance,
for offering on our own par few additional and
elueidative observations. We have asserted, and
still:assert, 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 is 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 extenso in The Sun of this
evening. M. LoniaßLasic regards the quotation as
one affording proof positive that the " New World"
does not contain a ferocious attack on Order, Family,
and Property. We regard it as containing proof
positive that the "New World" does contain a feroci-
ous attack on Order, Family, and Property.
Our
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opinions as to the meaning of language are thusueifoair
as diametrically opposite as our principles. Let
s the
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public read dispassionately the paragraphs in a
and decide. Why, the very opening words of the
passage are premonitory symptoms of its tendency
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 ? Order,
Family, and Property." True he subsequently at-
tempts to emblazon those three sacred names on his
own standard, nay, he does (as we bave aireivlY

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 ! M. Louis BLAric
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 BLArlc, 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 means
" 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 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 th(
midst of indolence and luxuries, while the indus-
trious are starving, and theatvirrtruoopuerstay7Faabmainlydo,nanedd
to penury. But to declare tb
Order are uow-a-day 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. Louis
&law 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 taughtM.Louisßwoic
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 encylx 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.
" SOCIALISM," says the New York Weekly Herald,
July 31st, 1849, " IS ONLY ANOTHER TITLE FOR IRRE-
LIGION, ATHEISM, ROBBERY, AND SWINDLING, UNDER
THE NAME OF PHILOSOPHY AND PHILANTHROPY."

We by no means say that our opposition to Social-
ism goes to that extreme limit, but we give the fore-
going sentence as the opinion entertained of Socialism
by a Republican of the United States.

In reference to the other portions of M. Louis
BLANC'S communication, we may observe that they,
are eminently deserving of perusal. They are in-
tended to be not so much an extenuation of his
principles as a vindication of his career. While
acknowledging, however, that the testimonies ad-
duced by him are singularly and emphatically
in his favour, we cannot but marvel how
so innocent a person came to sneak out of France
with the secrecy of a culprit—or how one so perfectly
exonerated from any share in the May and June
insurrections is skulking up to this instant in
a land of banishment. Strange, too, is it to hear M.
Louis BLANC disclaiming any connexion whatever with
the insurgents of June—and yet the very next mo-
ment standing forward as their energetic apologist 1
We mean where be declares that none of their flags
contained the inscription Pillage—although the Paris
newspapers of the time, we well remember, asserted
that many barricades were adorned with banners
marked " Pillage et Viol!" When we find that
M. Louis BLANC elsewhere speaks of M. DE LA-
MARTINE as his antagonist, at the very time when he
is quoting that great man's evidence in his behalf—
we cannot but recognise another instance of the
punishment devolving upon the true hero of Fe-
bruary for his besetting weakness—his too eclectic
sympathies.
So much for M. Louis BLANC, his " New World,"
and his Socialism.

It was stated the other day by the Limerick
Chronicle, and we sincerely hope that the announce..
ment may be eventually found to rest upon a more
solid foundation than frequently supports the state-
ments of our imaginative contemporary, that " there
is every probability that Government will afford an
advance for the completion of the Waterford and
Limerick Railway, if not directly from the Treasury,
by their influence upon British capitalists, but retain-
ing the mails as a guarantee." What the reasons
were which influenced the Government in restricting
their assistance to Irish railways to a loan of 600,0001.
to the Dublin and Galway, and in disregarding the
superior claims of the line in question, we are unable
to state with any positive degree of certainty. Pro-
bably the influence of the Most Noble the Postmaster-
General may have had something to do in procuring
this monopoly of aid. At all events they lumped
their benevolence and dropped it in the centre
of the island, as if under the impression that
its radiations would, as a matter of course, extend to
remoter parts of the country, possessing, to say the
least, equally substantial claims to consideration.
Without wishing for a moment to speak disparagingly
of Galwegian interests, we can see nothing approxi-
mating, in the remotest degree, to a superiority on
their part over those of the teeming and luxuriant
vallies of East Munster, and of its populous and in-
dustrious towns. If the exertions of the Noble Chair-
man of the Waterford and Limerick Company, have
led to a result, fortunate alike to its shareholders and
to the agricultural and commercial interests of the
south of Ireland, the company ought to feel indebted
to bbim in Ao small degree for his perseverance And

moral courage. On the evening, towards the close
of the past session, when the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer won golden opinions from Members of every
party in the House by the declaration of even
the solitary instance of Treasury favour above
mentioned, not a syllable was uttered in advocacy of
the claims of the Munster line (which sought for but
a loan of 250,0001., guaranteed on incontrovertible
security) by any one of those dozen representatives
whose constituents are vitally interested in its com-
pletion between the two important terminal cities
which command two of the noblest and most commo-
dious estuaries in Europe. Neither county, city, nor
borough Member for Waterford, Limerick, or Tippe-
rary, deemed it worth while to countenance the praise-
worthy exertions of Lord GLENGALL, in seeking to
obtain fiscal assistance towards the completion of an
undertaking of such paramount advantage to those
localities. Their inhabitants will, we trust, be recom-
pensed ere long for this culpable remissness on the
part of the elected guardians of their interests, by the
extension of the line, and the consequent development
of the resources of a region unsurpassed in fertility
and natural wealth by any in the sister island. The
beauties and capabilities of the smiling extent of
country watered by the river Suir have fallen this
summer under the observation of many English
visitors who were heretofore deterred from a personal
inspection by an exaggerated apprehension of the
lawlessness of Tipperary. The agrarian disturbances
which so long and so unhappily disgraced that fine
county resulted from an insufficiency of remunerative
employment to the labouring classes. This great
evil is to be mainly remedied by the continuation
and completion of the connecting link between the
Shannon and St. George's Channel. Capital will be
profitably invested in fostering the bounties of a
prolific soil and genial climate, and in ameliorating
the condition of an active and intelligent population,
who have needed but fair treatment and encourage-
ment to render them contented, industrious, and or-
derly. A judicious outlay will be amply repaid
where there is so fair a field for regeneration, and
the happy consequences will be felt in an equal mea-
sure by the merchant, the landlord, and the peasant,
throughout no inconsiderable portion of the British
to I Empire.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel publishes an official announce-
ment of the complete recovery of the PRESIDENT from
his recent attack of cholerine. He yesterday pre-
sided over the Council of Ministers as usual.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of the
EMPEROR. The PRESIDENT Of the Republic and the
Ministers attended mass in the Chapel of the In va-
lides in honour of the occasion.

The Patrie says—
" It was by mistake that it was rumoured that a grand
review was to take place this day. From inquiries made
it appears that no solemnity of the kind is to take place,
or has ever been intended."

Our readers will remember that reports were rife
that this review, to be celebrated on the anniversary
of NAPOLEON'S birthday, was to have been made the
occasion of a coup d'etat against the Republic. After
the speech of the PRESIDENT at Tours it was evident
that he would not take part in any such treasonable
project, and the reactionaries were therefore obliged
to postpone its execution.
Notwithstanding the attempts of the Constitutionnel
to heal the schism existing between M. TRIERS and
the parti pretre, the Univers,' the organ of the
priests, continues implacable, and denounces and re-
nounces, in the name of M. DE MONTALBMBERT and
the Jesuits, M. TRIERS and every member of his
party. According to the Univers, every one who will
not, like M. DE FALLOUX, justify the massacres of St,.

Bartholomew, or like the wOrthy:Pathers of the League,
worship the holy daggers of JACQUES CLEMENT and
RAVAILLAC, is a Voltarian, excommunicated and un-
worthy the notice of the pious DE MONTALEMBERT,
or of those excellent Trestaillons who work with him
for the re-edification of religion. It is curious that
the very day on which the Univers comes out with
its terrible excommunication against M. THIERS' the
Constitutionnel should accuse the National of ca-
lumny, for hinting at the existence of the slightest
schism in the ranks of the majority, and should de-
clare that the most complete union exists among all
its members.
" We will believe in the existence of this union,"
says the National, " when M. Thiers will show
his confession tickets, and be seen at mass by
the side of M. de Montalembert; or, if you
like it better, when M. de Montalembert will ac-
knowledge himself a convert to the Voltarianism of M.
Thiers—when M. Berryer shall put his signature of
approval to the famous proces verbal of the Chateau de
Blaye—when there shall only be amongst you zealots for
Divine right, or Monarchists of July, devotees or un-
believers, then, and then only, shall we believe in your
union."

The Journal des Debats is exceedingly wrath with
the Archbishop of PARIS for his letter to the Foreign
Minister on the subject of Venice, a copy of which
appeared in The Sun of yesterday. In the course of
its comments the Debats says—
" When we find the Archbishop throw out that at a
certain time it might have been glorious and wise to
make war, we cannot but call to mind that the Pope
compromised his temporal throne precisely because he
would not make war. When the Archbishop declares
that we live in times when war is only made for positive
and immediate interests, we reply that he is unjust, for
we beg to ask for what position or immediate interest did
we go to Rome, and what are we likely to gain now that
we are there? When, in fine, the Archbishop tells us
that the rights of small states are not less sacred than
those of great, does he not fear that this argument, in-
contestable in principle, may not be turned against the
Roman expedition, and the re-establisment of the Pon-
tifical authority ?"

The Debats- is undoubtedly right in the deductions
which it draws from the ARCHBISHOP'S letter, but we
do not think one whit the worse of the letter on that
account.

The Riforme, although seized on Monday, re-
appeared on Wednesday, and contained a furious
attack on LAMARTINE, " whose fickle character," it
says, " enervated the revolution," and who now
" strikes at enemies disarmed by the law." In
speaking of his recently published " History of the
Revolution of February," the Reforme says—
" Open any one page of this book of presumption
and vanity, and you will no longer feel surprised that
Lamartine has gone over to Montalembert and de Falloux,
and that he calumniates the democracy. He will never
pardon the party which made the revolution for having had
more confidence in principles than in statesmen, and for
having refused to allow itself to be personified in the
Minister who directed the foreign affairs under the Pro-
visional Government."

The editors of the Eclair of Pau and of the Re-
publicain du Gard, who were prosecuted by the Go-
vernment for sedition, have been acquitted.
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" We have received information relative to the state
of trade and manufactures in Paris, which announces a
sensible amelioration. During the last week there have
been pretty large orders, particularly from abroad, for
crticles of luxury. The dealers in Rouen goods, hosiery,
and colonial produce, and the cabinet-makers, have
done a great deal of business. The numerous work-
shops in the eighth arrondissement, which had been
long unoccupied, are beginning to:be filled with workmen.
Commercial transactions in general are becoming more
and more considerable."

A murder was committed, at nine o'clock on Tues-
day morning, close to the barrack in the Rue Neuve
de Luxembourg, by a man in independent circum-
stances, named MAGNIET, on a person with whom he
had long lived in habits of friendship. MAGNIET
approached his victim, and fired a pistol-shot through
his body. The unfortunate man was conveyed to
the nearest hospital, when his wound was declared
to be mortal. The murderer pleads in his justifica-
tion that the wounded man, although advanced in
years and the father of a family, had seduced MAG-
NIEY'S wife.

Orders have been given by the Minister of Justice
to commence immediately in the departments the
drawing for members of the Councils. General to com-
pose the jury of the High Court of Justice at Ver-
sailles. It is supposed that the Court will assemble
about the 20th of next month.
M. GUIZOT is candidate for a seat in the Council-
General of Calvados.
The members of the Mountain in the Legislative
Assembly have, in consequence of the prorogation,
renewed their committee. MM. MicHEL (de Bourges),
MATUIEU (de la Drome), and BAUM, have been ap-
pointed presidents ; ST. FEREOL, MARE, DUFRAIGAIS,
and JOIG NEAU X, secretaries; AUGUST CLEMENT,
treasurer, and CLIOUVY, questor. They have further
appointed a sub-committee of 12 to remain in Paris in
permanence during the recess.
Yesterday being the Fite of the Assumption, and
a strict holiday, the Bourse and public offices were
closed.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, AUGUST 15.
East Indian, 31/2—Great Indian Peninsular, s%—Luxem—
bourg, VA—Namur and Liege, 5Tg —Northern of France,
31/2 dis.—Tours and Nantes, 3.

A freehold Episcopal church, in the suburbs of
Manchester, is announced in our columns to be sold by
auction by Mr. Robins, on the 4th of September. It is
a remarkable handsome structure, with superior accom-
modation for at least 1,500 persons, in an improving and
exceedingly iuteresting neighbourhood, where a popular
minister in a short time would secure a considerable and
increasing income.