The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

FARMER'S MAGAZINE.

A miscellany devoted exclusively to the con-
sideration of agricultural questions which, gene-
rally speaking, it discusses with clearness and
simplicity. The present Number contains a use-
ful communication on " Cyder Making."

A "NEW HARMONY" IN FRANCE.
The venerable old Abbey of Citeaux, one of the
mast illustrious remnants of the middle age splendours
of France, has just been purchased by an Englishman
named Young for the sum of 1,300,000 francs. The
intention of this purchase, as announced in the foreign
journals, is to erect it into a model " Phalansterium,"
upon the plan of Owen's institution at New Lanark,
which has turned out so complete a failure. The
meaning of the strange and newly-coined word by
which the institution is to be denominated, is that of
" a large number of men or people consolidated to-
gether" in some undertaking ; " Phalans terium" being
merely a composite of the Greek word 4):7,ATA"—
Phalans—a phalanx, and terium, the latter part, being
merely a termination.
The " Phalanstcrium" is to be a receptacle for those
who choose to give in their adhesion to the principles of
Charles Fourrier, the French Owen. It is said that
in addition to the enormous outlay already incurred,
Mr. Young has likewise promised to lay out a million
of francs upon the establishment of the colony. Mr.
Young is spoken of as ce fortune jeune Albionnais,
who is as rich as the defunct Marquis de Carabas.
In the projected Association" (says a pleasant feud-
letoniste), " the young neophyte, or the neophyte
Young—it is all one in the Greek or the English—will
bring all the funds, and the rest will supply the re-
mainder. But he will also have the glory of being
able to say that it was he who created the first Pha-
lansterium in France."

The locality cbosen for this institution is one
of the most delightful in the south of France.
The village lies in a plain which is about four and a-
half leagues from Beaune. About five hundred and
twenty people inhabit it, and in the centre of ;the vil-
lage is an ancient chateau surrounded by fosses which
are bathed by the waters of the Vouge. The hills in
the vicinity produce very delicious wines, known in fact
as the most delicate in Europe. The vines from which
these aro produced at Citeaux abound all over the
Cote d'Or, and the apple-trees are very abundant.
Tee magnificent old Abbey which is about to be
converted to uses so alien from the intent'ons of its
primitive foundation, is one of the oldest in France.
Its extensive buildings were founded by Saint Robert,
Abbe of Molesme, in 1098. The Order which resided
in the Abbey was instituted under the austere and
simple principles of Saint Benoit, who was fifty years of
age at the time of its foundation.
Citeaux, incited, before the abbey-stones came to be
hid, was scarcely more than a frightful and almost im-
penetrable region, but Robert de Molesme, whose de-
termination of founding the Order was irrevocably
fixed, betook himself thither with his devoted troop,
and commenced by establishing the Order, on which
this Abbey afterwards rose, by making themselves eels
formed by the branches of tress, in the midst of which
they fixed their Oratory, where they prayed and sang
hymns.
But after the greatest troubles and afflictions Robert
de Molesme died, and Saint Etienne succeeded to the
pastoral rule. Nevertheless, day after day, some one
or other of this little saintly community died, and it
was almost on the point of extinguishment, when one
day, a gentleman from Dijon, accompanied by thirty
others, arrived at Citeaux, and offered to enrol himself
and his companions in Sairtt Etienne's order. This
young man afterwards turned out to be the celebrated
Saint Bei nerd, who was then twenty-one years of age.
From this day it dated its rise and glory. Years rolled
on, nod the Order grew numerous and powerful.
Queens and Kings, Princes and Princesses, came at
length to prostrate themselves at the feet of its pious
hierarchs, and to request their prayers. From this
solitary abbey planted in the forest of Citeaux, at the
expiration of one hundred and fifty years, there had
sprung up throughout France no less than eighteen
hundred abbeys of this order.
The abbey had attained to its greatest eminence at
the period of the war against the Albigenses, at the
commencement of the twelth century, being then most
richly endowed, and governed by a mitred Abbot,
ribose cruel saying at the siege of Bezieres is recorded
in history. " How shall we know," said the orthodox
soldiers engaged in this iniquitous crusade—" how shall
we know the heretics from the sons of the Church ?"
" Slay all," replied the sanguinary monster, " and
Heaven will know its own !"
In the new " Phalansterium," each man's social con-
tribution must comprise one of these three things— ca-
pital, labour, or talent. Talent will supply the absence
of capital or labour, and reciprocally with the others,
just as at the social banquets of the Barrier des Martyrs,
the half-battle of wine may be replaced by a " supple-
mentary portion" of veal, poulet, &c.
Alrcedy the prospectus of the new community has
been launched into the bosom of the Socialist ocean.
It invites all mankind in general, without distinction,
reservation, or exception, to betake themselves to the
Phatansterium, promising them " a sufficient minimum
of existence," through which they will be enabled to
pass hereafter days Interwoven of silk and golden tissue,
and in brief to live as lived of yore the monks of the
fat Abbey of Citeaux.

PEEL'S GENEROSITY.—Sir Robert Peel has
generously subscribed 50h to the contribution towards
the relief of the starving population of Paisley. That
borough is robbed to the amount of 100,000/. a year by
the Corn and Provision-laws which Sir Robert upholds,
and he returns to it a two-tintsandth part of the amount
of the robbery! His munificent -contribution is exactly
equivalent to the amount of the unjust tax inflicted per
annum on five families. Some fifty or sixty years ago
there used to be some exceedingly generous highway-
men, who after having stopped a coach and taken all the
gold and jewels of those which it contained, most liberally
returned them as much as would pay for their dinner at
the next inn. " What a delightful man Duval is," said a
lady once; " he has robbed my husband of 1,0001., and me
of my diamond necklace, but he has returned me, and
with such a gallant air, my wedding ring!" The parallel
is in favour of Duval. Duval robbed the rich of their
rouleaus of guineas, leaving them the shillings and the
copper. Peel helps the rich to rob the poor of 2,0001b5,
of bread, and leaves them lib. out of the 2,0001 b. to keep
them from starvation.—Manchester Times.
Upwards of one hundred officers and constables
of the City Police Force were actively engaged during
the fire at the Tower, and we regret to hear that the
surgeon reports six of them as incapable of performing
duty. Sergeant Patterson dislocated his wrist, two
constables are injured in their eyes, and three others are
suffering from serious colds.
MURDER ACCORDING TO LANDOWNERS'
LAW.— On Monday an inquest was held, at the Legs of
Man public house, Blackburn, on the body of Jane _Hin
dle, the infant daughter of Catherine Hindle, au unmar-
ried woman. It appeared from the evidence that the
child had been ill for some time, and that the mother was
in great poverty, and unable to furnish the child with a
proper degree of nourishment. The mother only earned
four shillings per week (and sometimes not so much as
that), out of which she had to pay one shilling per week.
for lodgings. t)he had not been in bed for several weeks,
and for the child she made a sort of bed on some chairs.
The verdict returned was that the deceased had died from
want of proper nourishment.—Bolton Free Press.
EDUCATION AND CRIME.—The calendar for
the Salford Hundred Sessions contains the names of 263
prisoners, charged with felouy, of whom 142 are marked
as being unable either to read or write, fifty can read
imperfectly, sixty-four can read and write imperfectly ;
only six can read and write well, and one is not marked.
There are also thirty-two persons charged with misde-
meanours. The educational acquirements of three of
therm are not stated, seventeen can neither read nor write,
eight can read imperfectly, and only three can read and
write well.—Liverpool Chronicle.
DAMAGE BY THE LATE 94TORM.--Intelli-
genee of disasters by the late dreadful hurricane con-
tinues to pour in upon us. We do not hesitate to say
that two millions of dollars will not more than cover the
aggregate loss sustained on our coast. Many lives were
lost, and we shall probably never know the full extent
of the damage done.—New York Herald. Oct. 11.
QUEERPROCLAMATION.--In 1679 a procla7
mai= was issued in Dublin for seizing the near relations
of Tories, and imprisoning them till such Tories should
be killed or taken.—Dublin Evening Register.