The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-07 00:00:00

THE CHRISTIAN COMMON-

WEALTH.
Before Mr. J. M. Morgan, who is on his way to England
from Italy, left Rome, he submitted the following summary
of his views to several Cardinals and to the Agricultural
Commission. A copy of the summary was also laid before
the Pope :
That which peculiarly distinguishes the proposed Christian
colony from the constitution of society in general, is the
power which it affords of maintaining the supremacy of
religion, not only in theory and in precept, and in framing
the laws and regulations, but in spirit and in truth, by sup-
pressing or prohibiting 11:,institutions, practices, and influ-
ences, calculated to impair the love of God and man, as the
ruling principle of action ; thereby strengthening the motives
to good conduct, by discouraging the temptation to evil,
and more especially by rigidly excluding competition and a
spirit of rivalry.
It is this pernicious principle of competition that has been
the great impediment, both in Catholic and Protestant
countries, to the existence and diffusion of vital Christi-
anity. It has perpetuated war, and left Christian Europe
little to rejoice in from any liminution of its barbarous
conflicts since the ambitious conquests of Pagan Rome. It
has perverted the blessings of peace, and inflicted misery
upon the people, no less fatal to their general improvement
and happiness than the scourges of war, and it is the chief
cause of the present famine.
If Europe has the power, as no one can doubt, of produc-
ing food in superabundance, and of laying up a store of three
or four years' supply for all its population, to guard against the
consequences of bad harvests, why has it not been done ?
Because competition limits production to the market demand,
and the market demand is limited not by the actual wants of
the people, but by their inability to purchase.
It the wants of a neighbourhood require 1,000 quarters of
corn, and 1,200 quarters are brought to market, there is a
competition among the sellers, in order that they may not
be the holders of the 200 quarters unsold, and the prices fall
if, on the contrary, 800 quarters only are brought to the mar-
ket, there is a competition among the buyers, that they may
not be among those who are left destitute, and the prices rise.
It is this uncertainty, under a system of competition, of
obtaining a remunerating price, that limits the growth of
corn and the quantity of all useful productionF.
When the people are organised in communities, or Christian
colonies, with such moditications as the monastic orders and
other religious societies of the present day might suggest
for the further advance of mankind in religion and virtue,
and for the greater and more beneficial progress of science,
the uncertainty of markets will cease, as the communities
in different localities will adopt a system of exchange, and
their mutual wants will be for several years anticipated.

HEALTH OF THE KING OF HOLLAND.—The follow-
ing bulletin was issued under date Hague, May 4 :—" The
intermittent fever under which his Majesty is suffering con-
tinues to abate.—The Hague, May 3.
" P. F. EVERARD, M.D.
" BECKERS, M.D."

THE INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT AT CAM-
MUDGE.—We are enabled to state, upon the best authority,
that it is the intention of her most Gracious Majesty the
Queen, as well as his Royal Highness the Chancellor of the
University, to honour Cambridge with a visit at the ensuing
commencement. It is expected that her 'Majesty and her
Royal Consort will be present at the performance of the in-
stallation ode in the Senate House, on Tuesday-, July 6th,
and will pass two nights in Cambridge. The foregoing an-
nouncement is in itself a contradiction of rumours which have
prevailed, to the effect that the installation will very likely
be postponed. But in order to remove all doubt upon the
subject from the minds of our readers, we beg to state as
explicitly as we can, that the installation of Prince Albert as
the Chancellor of the University will positively take place at
the ensuing commencement, and that even the great stum-
bling-block, a general election, will not be allowed to inter-
fere with the arrangements that have been made.—Cambridge
Chronicle.
ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL.—On Wednesday at three
o'clock a meeting of the friends and supporters of the Royal
Asylum of St. Anne's School, Brixton-hill, which is esta-
blished for maintaining, education, and clothing the children
of those once in prosperity, was held at the Asylum, for the
purpose of distributing rewards to the females who bad been
in the school, and who received testimonials according to the
length of time they had respectively filled the situations
they had been placed in. The Bishop of Winchester pre-
sided, and several of the clergy of the neighbourhood at-
tended. The school-room was crowded, the majority being
ladies residing in the vicinity. The whole of the children of
the school, amounting to 150 boys and 80 girls ware also
present, who, with the candidates, were addressed by the
Right Reverend Prelate, and who forcibly impressed upon
them the importance of a strict attention to their duties
through life. There were 36 young women who were appli-
cants for the several rewards, which consisted of money,
bibles, and other religious books. They were presented by
his Lordship. The proceedings lasted about two hours.
A DISTINGUISHED CHARACTER.—" The most cu-
rious incident," says the Union 111onarchigue, "that occurred
at the meeting of the officers of the National Guard in the
galleries of the Louvre, was that of beholding a chief of
battalion, dressed in his grand uniform, and whose breast
was covered with twelve decorations—five crosses, four cra-
chats, and three collars Pending the two hours during
which the officers waited in the grand gallery, that officer
was constantly surrounded by a crowd anxiously inquiring
in what kingdoms, in what battles, and for what exploits he
had gained more orders than ever figured on the breast of
Turenne or Massena? The enigma was soon solved. The
name of M. Alexandre Dumas' having been uttered, curi-
o.tity ceased, and made room for raillery."
AMATEUR DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE, ST. JAMES'S
Tsle AT ItE. —iler Majesty, we understand, has commanded
her box to be retained for the second amateur performance
for the benefit of the distressed Scotch and Irish, which is
to take place at this theatre on the 13th inst. Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent has also retained a box for
the occasion. The performance will consist of Lord Elles-
mere's adaptation of -Victor Hugo's romantic play of Her-
tzani, and Planche's comedy of Faint Heart Never Won Fair
Lady.