The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-10 00:00:00

MAGA ZI Es, . --(CONTIYUED)

FRASER.

" The French Revolution of 1848, its Causes and
Consequences," is just such an article as one might
have expected to have found in Fraser, in its early
days, when rabid Toryism and more rabid personality
constituted the staple of the articles. The next article,
entitled " Reveries of a Gastronome," is a pleasant
prolusion anent the affairs of the cuisine. " The
Plague of Beggars" is an admirable paper, and the
writer's suggestions for abating the nuiance are
worthy of serious attention. The remedies which he
proposes are as follow
I. Let every man and woman who has hitherto pa-
tronised beggars, withhold all assistance from the whole
race, whenever and wherever they encounter them under
whatsoever form or pretence, whether selling trifling
articles of manufacture in the streets, or from door to
door, or standing with broom in hand at the crossings
of our thoroughfares. Let them turn a deaf ear to every
tale, refuse to read every petition, and adhere rigidly to
the rule of requiring personal knowledge in all cases of
individual charity.
" 2. Let a liberal estimate be made of the money here-
tofore squandeted, and let it be devoted to some work of
true charity, preventive or palliative, giving the prefer-
ence te, the former in the shape of wholesome houses for
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" 3. Let the parochial authorities be urged to sub-
stitute for the street sweeper, nine-tenths beggar and
one. tenth labourer as he is, honest workmen, fairly paid
for keeping entire streets clean instead of crossings
merely, and selecting for that duty such of the existing
sweepers as may be willing to change their ambiguous
employments for the new and more honourable occu-
pations.
" 4. Let every traveller make it a point of conscience
to observe the regulations of the railroads with regard to
douceurs, and do all in his power to encourage the hotel-
keepers to substitute fixed charges for attendance, for
the present degrading system of discretionary payments.
" 5. Let the Government be urged to protect honest
industry against dishonest idleness by flogging every
man or boy convicted of begging, and every male
parent whose child of tender years is found in the
streets so employed; and let the police be instructed to
bring befere the magistrates every person of either sex
found giving money in the street, that the same fine
which is now levied on the drunkard may be imposed
upon the silly people who indulge in this unwholesome
luxury."
We have alreadygiven in cxtenso the admirable paper
on the " Social Position of Governesses," which ap-
pears in this month's Fraser, and to which we would
again fain direct the public attention. " Signs of the
Times" is "a word in season" from Mr. F. 0. Ward,
in favour of the preservation of peace, more especially
between France and England ; and cordially do w•
trust that the efforts now making by the great and
the good, on both sides of the Channel, for the preser-
vation of peace, may prove eminently successful. In
addition to these, we have an excellent paper on
" Indian Railways ;" reviews of " Letters from the
Danube, " and of Lord Campbell's " Lives of the
Chancellors ;" the commencement of a tale, the
scene of which is laid in Germany during the time of
the Anabaptist outbreak, entitled " The Armourer of
Munster—a page from the History of Fanaticism ;"
and the usual current history of the month.