The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-08 00:00:00

THE MODEL DAUGHTER.

Constantly she comes down to breakfast before the tea-
things are taken away. She is always ready for dinner.
She curls her own hair, and can undress herself without
a servant. She is happy at home without going to a ball
every night. She has not a headache when her papa
asks her to sing. She " practises" only when he is out.
She does not have ber letters addressed to the pastry-
cook's, or make a postman of the housemaid. She does
not read novels in bed. She dresses plainly for church,
and returns to luncheon without her head being cramfull
of bonnets. She is not perpetually embroidering myste-
rious braces, or knitting secret purses, or baying a Tur-
kish slipper on hand for some anonymous foot in the
Guards. Her fingers are not too proud to mend a stock-
ing or make a pudding. She looks attentively after the
holes in her fathers gloves. She is a clever adept in pre-
paring gruel, white wine whey, tapioca, chicken broth,
beef tea, and the thousand little household delicacies of a
sick room. She is a tender nurse, moving noiselessly
about, whispering words of comfort, and administering
medicine with an affection that robs it of half its bitter-
ness. She does not scream at a leech, or faint at the
sight of a blackbeetle. She does not spin poetry, nor
devour it in any great quantity. She does not invent
excuses for not reading the debates to her father of an
evening, nor does she skip any of the speeches. She
always has the pillow ready to put under his head when
he falls asleep. She can behold an officer with womanly
fortitude without falling in love. She does not keep her
mother waiting an hour at an evening party for " just
another waltz." She never contracts a milliner's bill
unknown to her parents—" she would die sooner." She
never stitched a Red Turk in her life. She soars above
Berlin wool, And crying " one-two-three-one-two-three"
continually. She knows nothing of crotchets, or
"Woman's Mission." She studies housekeeping, is per-
fect in the common rules of arithmetic, and can tell pretty
nearly how many " long sixes" go to a pound. She
checks the weekly bills, and does not blush if seen in a
butcher's shop on a Saturday. She is not continually
fretting to go to Paris, or dying to see Jenny Lind, nor
does she care much about " that love Mario.' She does
not take long walks by herself and come home saying,
"she lost her way." She treats her father's guests with
equal civility, making no distinction between the gentle-
man and the tradesman. She is not fond of pulling all
the things over in a shop merely to buy " a packet of
pins." She can pass a Merchande de Mode's without
stopping. She never dresses in silks or satins the first
thing in the morning, nor is she looking out of the win-
dow or admiring herself in the looking-glass all day
long. She makes the children's frocks and plays a little
at chess and backgammon, and takes a hand at whist
occasionally, "anything to please her dear father."
Her grog, too, elicits the warmest encomiums from the
old gentlemen who drop in. She does not send home
" lovely" jewellery for her father to look at. She does
not lace herself to death, nor take vinegar to make her-
self thin. She wears thick shoes in wet weather. She
has a terrible horror of coquetting. She is kind to the
servants and conceals their little faults from their " mas-
ter and missus." She never pouts if scolded, nor shuts
herself up in her room to cultivate " the sulks." She is
the pet of her " darling papa," and warms his slippers
regularly on a winter's night, and lights his candle be-
fore going up to bed. She is her mamma's " dear good
girl," as is sufficiently proved by her being intrusted with
all the keys of the housekeeping. There is a terrible
crying when she is married, and for days after her ab-
sence nothing is heard in the house but regrets and loud
praises, and earnest prayers fbr the happiness of the
Model Daughter.—Punch.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE.—The vessel British Sove-
reign, arrived from Port Adelaide, South Australia, has
brought 260 bags of wheat, the produce of the colony,
besides nearly 300 tons weight of copper and lead ore,
and a variety of other articles of general merchandise.
The vessel Winchester, from Launceston, Van Diemen's
Land, has brought the large quantity of 5,000 bushels of
wheat, and also upwards of 700 hams, which latter is a
novel article of supply from that distant colony; and the
vessel Elizabeth Buckham, likewise arrived from Laun-
ceston, Van Diemen's Land, has brought 808 bushels
and 04-i packages of wheat, also of Australian produce.
These supplies from this important colony are of much
interest.

THE MAGAZINES, Stc•

[A considerable portion of the following notices of
the Magazines and Periodicals for June, had been in
type for several days past, but the extraordinary
length of our foreign correspondence, and the re-
markable events which have rendered that corre-
spondence more than usually important—thereby
necessitating its immediate publication—has pre-
vented the appearance of our literary criticism on an
earlier day. IVe are are induced to prefix to them
this candid sentence of apology, because The Sun
has hitherto awarded the earliest attention to the
Magazines and other monthly Periodicals.]
BLACKWOOD.

Without of course sympathising in any way with
the Conservative predilections of Christopher, or
without being able indeed to appreciate his perennial
antipathy to free-trade, we do thoroughly sympathise
with some of his schemes for " Disarming the
Chartists," we do thoroughly appreciate his indigna-
tion at a restricted currency. The introductory
article for June is one of the •most forcible political
chapters that has appeared for many a long month in
Blackwood. It opens with a very rambling,
incoherent, and petulant abuse of the politico-
economic principles propounded by Adam Smith
and advocated by fluskisson—without, however,
mentioning either the illustrious writer or the distin-
guished statesman. The contribution, nevertheless,
becomes more rational, and consequently more read-
able, towards its conclusion. While we 0111"-but
smile at the remark in page 660, that "Government
seems resolved that the nation shall drain the lees of
free trade to the dregs, and taste it in all its bitter-
' ness," we must coincide in the aspiration expressed
afterwards in page 666, that the Cabinet should con-
trive to equalise the supply of currency. Whether
or not the Bankers' Circular is correct in its con-
jecture, that there never has been before 1847
-48
a monetary crisis which has lasted a whole year, it is
certain that the panic and the subsequent
.interposi-
tion n are
quite terrible enough to justify some daring
on the part of the Government. While wheat still
continues (notwithstanding the last bountiful harvest
and the importation of 12,000,000 quarters of foreign
grain) at 51s. a quarter, while butcher'!; meat is still
7d. a pound, while slave-grown sugar is sd. or 6d. a
pound, while there are so many railway undertakings
suspended, that in one locality alone there are no less
than 14,000 railway labourers dismissed ; while in
Manchester there are on the average 9,000 operatives
out of employment and 11,000 working short time,
while in Glasgow there are absolutely as many as
20,000 working short time and upwards of 100,000
persons out of employment—it is surely time for the
Legislature to interfere, to revive confidence, to excite
enterprize, to provoke industry, to lead to employ-
ment, and to prevent starvation. If, in 1793, Mr.
Pitt came forward with a grant of 5,000,000/. to aid
the commercial interests ; if, in 1797, the same
Minister saved the Bank of England by introducing
the suspension of cash payments; if, in 1799 and
1600, the Cabinet relieved the nation from the ill-
effects of two successive bad harvests by sump-
tuary laws regarding food, by stopping distil-
lation from grain, and by importing large quan-
tities of Indian corn to meet the demands of
the population, it is surely not irrational to
demand some sort of assistance in the present
emergency from a liberal and conscientious
Government. Notwithstanding the obduracy evinced
by the colleagues of Lord John Russell in maintain-
ing the odious and abominable Bank Charter Act of
1844. , we do not agree with (Maga in regarding the
Cabinet as implacable as that incorporation, of which
seiwvoxhupi which
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wood, we will extract the pith of it in the following
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" What is wanted is something to equalise the supply
of currency; to contract paper when the precious metals
are abundant, and, consequently, credit is becoming
dangerously expansive, and to expand it when they are
withdrawn, and, consequently, credit is in danger of
being ruinously contracted. Sir R. Peel's system does
just the reverse of this: it pours paper in profusion
through the country, and consequently fosters absurd
and improvident speculation, when specie is abundant,
and draws it in suddenly, and with frightful rapidity,
the moment that the precious metals begin to be with-
drawn, either from the effect of extended importations
or foreign warfare. To go right, and obviate the dread-
ful evils which their system has introduced, we have
nothing to do but to establish a monetary policy pre•
cisely the reverse. What is wanted is a sliding-scale for
paper money,—a system which shall tend to contract
paper issues when specie is abundant, and pour them
forth with restorative and beneficial vigour the moment
that it begins to disappear. Thus, and thus alone, it
was that Mr. Pitt enabled the country to combat the
dangers and surmount the difficulties of the revolutionary
war. Under Sir R. Peel's system, the nation, and every
one in it, would have been bankrupt when the Bank
stopped payment in 1797, and we should long ere this
have been irrecoverably rendered a province of France.
"It belongs to practical men, versed in the mysteries
of Lombard-street and the Stock Exchange, to say how
this important object is to be attained with due attention
to the security of the notes issued, and sufficient safe.
guards against an over-issue, and consequent injury to
capital, by an an undue rise of prices owing to that cause.
That the thing is possible is self-evident. It appears to
be essential to such a system that one of two things
should be done. Either that the issuing of notes should
be left to all banks, under the limitation that private
banks should be obliged at all times—in Bank of Eng-
land paper or gold or silver—and deposit Government
securities to the extent of the notes so issued, to be ap-
propriated to their payment in case of bankruptcy; and
that the Bank of England should be bound to pay its
notes in gold or silver, at the price those metals bear at
the time of presentment. Or, that the issuing of notes,
like the coining of money, should be confined entirely to
Government or its officers ; and that the regulation of
their amount should be entrusted to certain elevated
functionaries—like the Commissioners of the National
Debt—with instructions to them to regulate their issues
by the price of gold and silver, increasing them when the
rise in the value of those metals showed that they were
leaving the country, and contracting them when the price
fell, and it was evident that the necessity for an extended
paper circulation was passing away.
"Of course it would be necessary, under such a sys-
tem, to impose some limit to the obligation of the Bank
of England to pay in specie; but this might be done
either by obliging that establishment to pay in either of
those metals at the current price they bore, in the mar-
ket at the date of presentment, or by providing, that be-
yond a certain amount of notes payable on demand, as
40,000,0001. for Great Britain and Ireland, notes of a
different colour, as red, should be issued, which were ex-
changeable for specie only when the precious metals had
again fallen to a certain price in the market. These
notes should be issued when gold rises to a certain price,
and is evidently leaving the country—just as grain from
Government stores should be issued to the people in
periods of scarcity—and drawn in when it returns, and
the price falls. We throw those out only as crude sug-
gestions, which may or may not be adequate to answer
the purpose in view. What we rest upon, and press in
the most earnest manner upon the consideration of the
country, is the absolute necessity of altering the present
system of contracting the paper when the gold is taken
away—in other words, limiting the issues of bread when the
beef fails—and substituting for it one of extending the
issue of paper when the precious metals are withdrawn;
in other words, increasing the issues of bread when those
of beef have become deficient."
A delightful paper on " Stoddart and Angling,"
written quite con amore, follows the political mani-
festo of Ebony in regard
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" Sentiments and
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better understood the character of the Executive
Commission, and he would better have understood the
Executive Commission if he could have had a pre-
science of the sentence pronounced on Tuesday
before the National Assembly by M. de Lamartine—
Nous emanons de sous sous la forme la plus fugitive
et la plus absorbable ! That is surely not the profile
of any very consolidated despotism ! " American
Feeling towards England," will be read with interest
and satisfaction, for it is not unworthy of
Blackwood.

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DOUGLAS JERROLD.
This is a capital number of Douglas Jerrold. The
editior continues " Twiddlethumb Town" with all the
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Henry Mayhew we are glad to see continues his

metaphysical papers. " What is the cause of
Astonishment ?" is the subject of the present article.
The lovers of fun and intrigue will be delighted with
the tale entitled " Trust not your Eyes in Love:' It
would " adapt" into an admirable petite comedy.

FRASER.
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subject, and is therefore well calculated to correctin f
the egregious blunders of the literary dandy w
perpetrated a shallow, self-sufficient, red-tape article
on this subject in the last number of the Quarterly.
As the writer in Fraser distinctly shows, there has
ever since the days of Beaumarchais been al-
ways a strong Republican party in France, which
has ever counted among its members some of the most
clever and most honest men in the country. Not to
mention the illustrious Girondins, let us look at the
list of Republicans under the Empire, Berna-
dotte, Augereau, Jourdan, Carnot, Massena,
St. Cyr, and the honest, intrepid, and con-
sistent Dupont de l'Eure—to whom we add,
although he became celebrated at a later period—
Ber. aiager. Under the Restoration the Republican
party increased ; they made the Revolution; of 1830,
when they obtained judgment against Royalty, but
were cheated out of the fruits of that judgment by
the craft of Louis Phillippe. Had he been commonly
honest he might have retained the throne which he
bad acquired by chicanery; but he chose to:govern
foT. himself and his Avai!y, and -not kyze_ce and 6-rie-rtth T4otittiiifieiltly A-desire-tor Organic chanke
was manifested at an early period of his reign which
increased in intensity until it broke out on the 24th
of February.
" This desire for organic change was produced wholly
by the retrograde policy of the monarch and his ministers,
and hastened by the dissolution of the refractory com-
panies of the National Guard and the erection of the
detached forts.

" The breaking-up of the alliance with England for
causes purely personal and dynastic, the shameful fraud
and trickery used in reference to the Spanish marriages,
disgusted more thoughtful men than the masses of whom
we have been speaking. No sooner did the affair of the
Spanish marriages convert the entente cordiale into a
feeling decidedly hostile between the Cabinets of SL
James's and the Tuileries, than the animosity of the
National died away, thus proving that the former attacks
of that paper on England were mere attacks on the
Guizot Ministry, which had invoked the British alliance
as a guarantee of peace. But when the nation came
fully to know that the rupture of the alliance with Eng-
land entailed on France the burden and the shame of an
alliance with Austria—that Gallicia, Cracow, and all
Poland must be sacrificed—the Pope thwarted and tra-
versed in every possible way—that the popular mind in
Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, and Germany, must be re-
pressed and controlled, and Jesuits and ultra-Catholics
be supported by a Calvinist Minister,—when the nation
came fully to know and understand these things, its in-
dignation knew no bounds ; and the sous-officiers and
subordinates of the French army openly cried out that
the system could not last, and vowed in their hearts not
to support it.

" trifortunately, the corruption and depravity of the
social system of France became at this moment as patent
as the political was scandalous and servile. The names
of Taste, Cubieres, Pellapra, and Petit, will recur to the
reader ; nor can he forget the Praslin murder, nor the
scandalous trial of Free Leotade at Toulouse. This
monster was one of a confraternity of monks established
in the town, and protected by the ex-Queen of the
French, a bigoted and narrow-minded, though in other
respects as amiable and a good, woman. The villain
irt enticed i ()pis cell a poor bookbinder'i apprentice-girl,
who had ndeliyering newly-bolitd igioka at the con-
vent. In t cell-he ruined and murdered her, hiding
the body in• the convent garden. His confraternity,
numbering nearly two hundred dissembling scamps,
swore through thick and thin to save the brute-beast in
human shape. Half Toulouse, men and women, believed
him to be innocent ; for his cause was.tuatained by the
power of money, and marvellously lYarmonious false
swearing. " Hots of ten to one were offered and taken
that he would be acquitted about the middle of February,
and we will not contend that interest and gold might not
have effected wonders under the old system. But the
Revolution of the 24th of February brushed away the
congeries of prevarications and evasions, and the scoun-
drel was sent to the hulks for life in the middle of April.
" Notwithstanding the existence of four hundred
thousand places, large and small, there needed but the
existence of a sound popular cry to upset the monarch
and his system. In the interval between September
1847 and February 1848 the call for Reform became
loud and general, and about seventy electoral banquets
were held in the departments. The offensive allusion in
the King's speech to the Deputies who attended aroused
a spirit of defiance, increased and exacerbated by the
proclamation to put down the popular voice.
" The rest is soon told. The last banquet was fixed
for the 22d of February, and on the 24th the Monarch
had ceased to reign and a Republic was proclaimed."
The " Armourer of Munster " is concluded.
" Quackery and the Quacked " is a fierce onslaught,
by some regular-bred professional, on mesmerism,
homceopathy, and hydropathy, and "Whig Professions
and Whig Performance," a fierce denunciation of the
double-dealing policy of the Whigs on the subject of
free trade. In the current " History of the Month "
we are glad to find that justice is done to Lord Pal-
merston and to Sir H. Bulwer, as regards their con-
duct in Spanish affairs. Even the language of Lord
Palmerston's first note, at which certain hypercritics
have cavilled, is fully justified. " Any reader of the
Duke of Wellington's Dispatches," observes this
writer, "will comprehend that you cannot deal with
a Spaniard or a Portuguese as you would deal with
the native of almost every other city."