The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN,

prising Yankee, as well as the indolent Mexican, the
active Frank, as well as the enervated Spaniard, the
astute German, the wily Italian, . the Swede, the,
Dane, and the Russian, the minions of the
Shah and of the Caliph, the Gaiour and the Mussul-
man, the Buddhisland the Catholic—wanderers from
the coffee-plantations of Ceylon and from the tea-
gardens of China, from the sugar fields of the western
and spice groves of the eastern Archipelago—will
congregate in more or less numbers within the Bills
of Mortality, prepared to criticise as well as to be
criticised, to submit the products of their own skill
to examination, but at the same time to scruti-
nize the general aspect of ourselves and our
institutions. It behoves us consequently, so to speak,
to "set our house in order" before undergoing this
somewhat perilous inspection. We should remember
that while the foreigners will contribute their most
precious and ingenious fabrications to the palace of
the Exhibition, our whole system, social and moral,

industrial and political, will be lai i bare to their ob-
servation. In the building itself they will see us as
it were in our gala dress—that is true enough.
But without its circumference they w ill
he enabled to traverse the streets of our
metropoli•i, and there to witness the English
multitude, as it were, in its every-day attire, and en-
gaged in its ordinary avocations. Without arrogating
to ourselves, as a nation, any unconscionable or un-
deserved superiority, we may be permitted to say
that, in the majority of instances, we await this
review of our general appearance with no very timo-
rous anticipations. As if to afford encouragement on
this head to the least sanguine, we have witnessed the
favourable impression produced upon a mind such as
that of M. DE LAMARTINE, on his very recently SW-
veyi7g the aspect of our capital and the surrounding
provinces. In point of industry, of enterprise,
of sobriety, of decency, and even in some degree of
cleanliness, England may look with confidence to the
results of any reasonable comparison. Our healthy
agriculturists, our thriving manufacturers, our shops
crowded with purchasers and filled with the costliest
materials of merchandize, our numerous schools and
churches, and mechanics' institutes and charitable es-
tablishments, cannot fail to excite the wonder and
admiration of our visitors, as they have already called
forth the earnest panegyrics of M. DE LAMARTINE.
Nevertheless, with all these reasons for satisfaction,
on our part, at the prospective arrival of the fo-
reigners in this metropolis, there are several eyesores
and blemishes which, either from their grossness or
their magnitude, must glare upon the eye of every

stranger immediately on his entrance to the capital,
and the mere thought of which fills our minds at the
same moment with shame and indignation. Nu
merous as these eyesores and blemishes are, we shall
only refer to one or two of the most conspicuous, in
the hope that efforts may be made betimes, either for
their removal or diminution. For instance, it were idle
to expatiate further upon the disgraceful insufficiency of
drainage throughout London, and upon the abomi-
nable practice penisted in of polluting the waters of
the river Thames. F.qually fruitless would it be to
demand just now the destruction of Middle-row,
Holborn, that most ungainly and inconvenient ob-
struction in one of our principal thoroughfares.
Neither would there be much utility in calling upon
the Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvement to
cart away the old rotten houses of Holy well-
street to some wa►te land, where dry rubbish
can be shot at pleasure. Farringdon-street must
still remain flawed by the empty space once occupied
by the Fleet Prison, now a void as ugly as the socket
of an eye long removed, or the hollow of a tooth long
extracted. Parties mus t still continue to squabble
about Smithfield ; and St. John's-gate, one of the most
precious relics of metropolitan antiquity, must still
continue a dilapidated tavern of the homeliest cha-
racter. Such useless pomps as the marble arch, again
will of course remain huddled together in some out-
of-the-way corner, a mere heap of damaged bricks
and splintered marble. What we would see, how-
ever, actually placed beyond the reach of derision
before the arrival of the foreign visitors to the Exhi-
bition, may be wry easily enumerated. We would

see—

First—NELSON'S COLUMN COMPLETED!
Secondly—THE CENTRAL PART OF LEICESTER-
SQUARE REDUCED TO SOME SORT OF ORDER

AND DECENCY!

Thirdly—THE IXTERIOR, AT LEAST, OF ALL OUR
PUBLIC BOILDIPIG9 RELIEVED PROM ALL UN-

NEC!. SSADY EOABDING AND CA FrOLDING

Fourthly—THE DIECONYJISUANCR OF THE
GRACEFUL SYSTEM OF TARING HALFPENCE AT
TUE PORCITES OF OUR CATHEDRALS

Before the opening of the Exhibition of 1i5.1 these
four improvements at the very least should be effected,
unless we are desirous of appearing in the eyes of
our 'visitors in a very paltry and disgraceful predica-
ment. That the monument erected to commemorate
the national homage for " the darling hero of Eeg•
land " should remain at this moment unfinished is a
circumstance reflecting shame upon an empire gifted
with maritime supremccy. Let it not be said that
this miserable token of our parsimony and ingratitude
remained in 1851 to excite the ridiculed' ell lettingen t
foreigners! That the other changes before-mentioned
should be accomplished in like manner must be
equally obvious—especially in regard to Leicester-
square, when it is remembered that among
all the localities of London, that is the one
most frequented by foreigners. Experience has
shown, moreover, the ill effects of the long esta-
blished hoardings in front of such slowly improved
structures as Buckingham Palace and the British
Museum. As to the mercenary conduct visible in the
guardianship of a great ecclesiastical edifice like St.
Paul's Cathedral it were unnecessary to argue against
an evil so glaringly and paief.ully conspicuous. Im-
provements such as these should be forced upon the
acquiescence of the different authorities, and the me-
tropolis of England be thereby at length relieved from
evils reflecting disgrace upon our economy and our

For tcnii.lerhble time past e have emleavc ured
cllrt.‘ct the public L'..tention t' the Carrenzy qutstit)n,
We have done so from a thorough conviction cf it,
imtmense, its vital importance to the industrious
clas!_es. The commercial, the manufacturing, the
agricultural interests, and the labouring population of
the country are alike concerned in the proper solution
of the great problem. It is eminently the people's ques-
tion, on which their condition—whether it be one of
prosperity or distress, of happiness or misery—moinly
depends. A circulating medium sufficient for the
wants and exigencies of the country is indeed. the
very life-blood of industry. With it, trade is brisk
and active ; the products cf the loom, the anvil, and
the farm are in full demand; the skilful artisan
and the agricultural labourer are certain of remune-
rating employment, of obtaining a " fair day's wages
for a fair day's work." It is unnecessary to dwell
upcn the reverse of this picture—of the inevitable
consequences of a scarcity of the representative and
measure of value. It has been too recently and
painfully illustrated to require further notice, and
those who are disposed to remain indifferent or spa-
tbetic will be startled into activity by the remem-
brance of the commercial monetary panic of
October, 1847.

That untoward state of affairs was directly pro-
duced by a reckless and improvident tampering with
the currency. It was the natural result of the mone-
tary code established by the injudicious and impo-
litic Act of 1819, and rendered more stringent and
intolerable by the Act of 1844. We do not desire to
accuse the parties by whom these enactments were
carried through the Legislature of any dishonest in-
tentions, or of any wish to increase their own fortunes
at the expense of the community ; but if such
had been the object no snore efficient means could
have been adopted for the purpose. By means
thereof the drones were enabled to extract an in-
creased proportion of honey from the bees in the
national hive ; the turden of every public and pri-
vate obligation was more than doubled—the chains
of the debtors double-riveted, tnd themselves and
families handed ov'cr to the tender mercies of their
insatiable creditors. It was, in fact, the triuropli of
the moneyocracy, to whom the rest of the community
were ruthlessly sacrificed.
It was declared by a competent witness that the
Act of 1819 was carried by the power and influence
of the landed proprietors—that it was the result of a
compact between them and the great capitalists. The
corn-law was the equivalent for which they bartered
the welfare end prosperity of the country. They
vainly hoped that war prices could be main-

FRE FRE

11 RE

PUBLI C

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Patrie continues its marvellous revelations on
the subject of the great Socialist conspiracy which
has been smelt out by the susceptible nose of M.
AMEDEE DE CESENA. These conspirators are terrible
fellows, and according to M. AMLDEE DE CESENA are
as clever as they are terrible, for says this Sir Oracle
of La Patrie—

" We have not yet declared with what art they
conceal their designs of declaring war against all the
monarchies of the earth, nor by what cunning joining
an infernal hypocrisy to a profound perversity they
endeavour to enroll in their ranks ambitious and
credulons young men, by disguising themselves alter-
nately under a Legitimrtist and OrleaniA mask."

The idea of the Legitimatists end Orleanists
(simple•minded men as they are known to be, from
MN/. BERRYER, Tniaus, end ODILON BARRCT down-
wards) being the dupes of the Socialists, led on by
PIERRE LERI,UX at.d PROUDIION, is certainly exces-
sively rich. 'The above quoted passage, however, should
act as a wan ing to the LegititnatMs and Orleanists.
They have for the last eigh'een months brought the
accusation of Socialism against every one who was
not a Monarchist, and have ferociously hunted down
men as Socialists who were even more strongly op-
posed to Socialist doctrines thaa were the Monar-
chists themselves; now,
" Even• handed justics

Commends the ingredient of the poisoned cbalico
To their own lips;"
and the organ of the Ely Fee denounces as Socialists
all who are not Botapartists. Perchance before Christ-
mas we may see 111M.BERRYER and ODILON BARROT
driven into exile upon precisely the same charges as
those brought against M. LEDRU Itommt, and with
quite as good foundation.
The Llloniteur announces that the Attorney-Gene-
ral has commenced a prosecution against the director
of La Mode, and against M. DE BESSELIEVRE, who
'igned an article containing an offence against the
-PRESIDENT of the Republic.
All the Legitimatist journals are now under pro-
secution or have been so since the commencement of the
present month. This fact tends to show that the
paragraph in the Patric to which we have alluded,

was written "with aiu- rpose." It was in precisely
this manner that, at the time the expedition was
sent to Rome, the reactionary conspirators conducted
the plot for the ruin of LEDRU ROLLIN and his party.
They first of all endeavoured to confound him and
the section of Republicans with which he was con-
nected with the Socialists and Communists, even as
now they are endeavouring to do with regard to the
Legitimatists; they then accumulated prosecutions on
all the journals of that party, even as they are now
doing on the Legitimatist journals; and if they do not
" play the play out" it will not be for want of will.
It was rumoured that General D'FIAUTPOUL had
tendered hiA resignation to the PRESIDENT.
The Toulonnais of the 17th says—

" Strong detachments of the 36th and 53d Regiments
of the Line, amounting in all to 1,000 men, were em-
barked yesterday and to-day on board the steam-frigate
San(e and the steam-corvette Veloce, for Civita Vecchia.
It appears that the reinforcements sent to the French
army in the Roman States amount to nearly 5,000
men. A quantity of ammunition was also sent by the
Sat 4.

The municipal elections of Bayonne have been an-
nulled, in consequence of not having taken place in
conformity with the electoral law of the 31st of
May last.
PARIS BOURSE, OCT. 21.—Latest Prices.—Five per
Cents., 93f. 50c. ; Three per Cents , 57f. 95c. ; Bank
Actions, 2,300 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OcT. 21.

Boulogne and Amiens, 81, - Central of France (Orleans
and Yierzon), 141/8—East Indian, 9%—Namur and Liege,
744—Northern of France, 1-ti—Paris and Rouen, 2-04—
Paris and Strasburg, 7%.

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1850.