The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

rmpl-vment. cryl by competing against the
capital in the liihour nir.rket raise the
we t w ? nl. our law of partnership
i.t-tire to keep down the r.te of wages, of discouraging
p,.-r,q)rii ff• niit s. s•it.g p ions of their capitel in
ihasniuch as by so doing it

ui re 41, r i to- ‘t hole of their property
li•inle fa. -I.e partnership debts ? These are
some of the causes of the social evils under
which ,Ae labour, and those evils in spite of the pallia-
tives of emigration, association, and all the other
ations which have I een suggested, will be of perpe-
tual recurrence until the causes shall have been re-
moved, and those causes can only he removed save by
cheapening capital ; first, by assimilating the laws re-
gulating the inheritance and the sale of landed pro-
perty to the laws regulating the inheritance and the
sale of personal property, so..,that a proprietor of an
estate shall be enabled to dispose of his property with
as little difficulty as the proprietor of a ship;
2d, by eVeticling to the whole of the kingdom the
provisions of the Act for the sale of encumbered
estates, at present'applicable only to Ireland ; 31, by
an extensi in of the principle regulating joint stock
comp ivies to all commercial psrtriershii.,t., or by the
adoption of the French principle of partnership
en eonunantlite; and, above all, by a complete and
thorough reform of our whole monetary system.
Free trade in land and free trade in money
are the effectual remedies for our social evils. On
the principle of fair play, Fraser has this n.onth ad-
mitted a reply to the paper on the negro question
which appeared last month, but the writer of the
reply is no match for Thomas Carlyle. It is a reply,
but no answer. We are glad to find that this Tory
periodical is at It ngth compelled to do justice to
the far-sighted views of Lord Palmerston in
emancipating us from the incubus of the
crumbling empire of Austria, now become
a province of Russia, and substituting for that dan-
gerous, and expensive, and useless alliance, an
alliance with Prussia, France, and Piedmont. In
an article on Baron Bulow's recently published
pamphlet on the German question, Fraser thus
repudiates the rotten policy and the stubborn obsti-
nacy of the Earl of Aberdeen and his followers :
" The faith and the truthful spirit which cling to the
reminiscences of departed worth betoken • noble and a
generous feeling. Not so the stubborn obstinacy which
stands up for the ' vested interests' of rottenness and
decay. We have no friendly feelings towards revolu-
tions. We beheld the revolutions of 1848 with a feeling
of sorrow, not unmixed with shame. The excesses of
that memorable spring caused us to blush; their
inevitable consequences filled us with grief. But we
cannot applaud the prudence, or commend the
foresight, of those vi hose caoutchoue polities yield to
every pressure and contract to their old dimensions. A
revolution with us is afait accompli. As for the Ger-
mans, there is no doubt that they might have done
better. But the present question is,—How can they be
prevented from doing worse? Their only choice lies
between Prussia, Russia. and Mr. Heinzen. There
cannot, to our mind, be any doubt which side they
ought to take. Our be sr wishts are with their choice
whatever it he, but our anticipations of success go with
the Prussian League, and, conditionally, with the Par-
liament of Erfurt."

Want of space compels us to leave unnoticed several
excellent articles in this month's Fraser, but we
cannot close our remiti ks without directing the
attention of our readers to an admirable critical
notice of the literary career of Sir E. B. Lytton,
which appears under the somewhat whimsical title
of " Sir E. B. Lytton and Mrs. Grundy," and to a
masterly resume of the arguments on the subject of
marriage with a deceased wife's sister, the result of
which is the conviction on the mind of the writer
of the absolute necessi►y of legalizing such marriages.

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