The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S.

The " History of St. Giles and St. James" is con-
cluded in this number. St. James is, of course, ac-
quitted of the murder of Snipeton ; Tom Blast dies of the
wound he has received from Snipeton, but before his
death confesses that he it was who stole the horse, for
the theft of which St. Giles was originally sentenced.
His confession, however, goes for nothing, and St. Giles
is sentenced to death f,r returning from transportation.
"Briefly, St. Gies was not hanged. No. St. James re-
peated the good work of his boyhood, and—aided by Cap-
stick, who made his maiden speech in Parliament on the
question, calling the attention of the minister to the confes-
sion of Blast—St. Giles was pardoned. He married Becky,
and lived and died a decent shopkeeper. Indeed, he had so
far beaten the prejudices of the world, that ere he parted
from it, he had been intrusted with the duties of church-
warden.
"St. James, a few weeks after the trial, went abroad, made
the grand tour, returned, married a duke's daughter, and to
the end of his days, supported to the utmost the dignity of
his order.

" Mr. Crossbone, defeated in his hopes of court preferment,
again retired to the country, to cultivate the weeds of life.
He, however, had the subsequent satisfaction of transporting
Mr. Robert Willis, for highway robbery ; an operation per-
formed at the cheapest cost to Mr. Crossbone, as the robber
pillaged him ofonly four-and-twopence and a tobacco-stopper.
"A metropolitan tombstone still attests the pleasing fact.
that Mr. Tangle died at the age of ei_ghty -two, " a faithful
husband, an affectionate father, and an unswerving friend.
His charity was as boundless as it was unostentatious." Thus
speaks Tangle's tomb-stone; and who—save it may be the
recording angel—shall contrrdict a tomb-stone ?
And Clarissa—What of Clarissa? She shrank from the
world, and living, was not of life, but died the daily death of
a wasting heart—one other victim to the thousands gone
and—to come. _ _ _

"And Capstick, at the end of the first session, took office—
became the steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He and
Bright Jem went back to the Tub, and many a time would
talk of the events that, all imperfectly, we have chronicled
in these pages. Capstick retained his old humour to the
last. He would often talk of St. James and St. Giles, and
would always end his discourse in something like these
words :
"‘ Well, St. James sneaked away upon a tour, and St.
Giles was pardoned; all right that it should be so. Never-
theless, Jem, as it's turned out, it's more like the happy
wind-up of a story on paper than a bit of real life. I can't
make it out how it has so happened ' • for I expected nothing
less than that St. Giles would be hanged, and the Lord St.
James sent to some foreign court as English Ambassador.''
The " Dreamer and Worker" is continued, and we are
introduced to a variety of schemers who, in conjuncion
with Mr. Walter, are about to start a scheme for the
regeneration of the world, and the filling of their own
purses at the same time. Archer joins the Walters at
Portsmouth, and con,ents to the postponement of the
marriage between himself and Mary for a short time.
Paul Bell gives us a pleasant plea for pictures in his
paper, "My Lame Boy's Tastes," in which he adminis-
ters a richly-deserved castigation to the Lakers, aria
vehemently protests against the blasphemy of Cowper
" that man and not Go made the town"—a blasphemy
which has been repeated parrot-like by every dreamy,
half idiotic, idle humbug from the days of the nervous
and night•capped fatalist to those of our own, as an
excuse for neglecting the Divine command "to live by
the sweat of his brow." " A Word or Two on Music"
is a word in season, and we recommend the paper to the
attentive perusal of all the unto guid. "Fables for
Foolish Fellows" are continued, and we have sever,'
other excellent articles in this number of Douglas
Jerrold.

Edited by Albert

THE MAN
..121, THE illuON.
Smith and Angus B. Reach.
Mr. Crindle's rapid career is continued most amusingly.
It is evident that he will soon be in a condition to render
it advisable for him to quit his native land. Let him
not go to Australia or Canada, or any slow place of that
sort. The " States" alone will suit such a go-ahead
gentleman as Mr. Crindle, in which case we recommend
to his study the article in this month's " Man in the
Moon," entitled " Brother Jonathan and the Duel." The
tenth rule of this American manual of duelling is
thoroughly Yankee.
"X. The Sixth Commandment was well enough for a
Theocracy, but is useless in a free and enlightened Republic."
The following is an admirable hit:—
"FINE ARTS.—Motto for Mr. Turner's picture of 'Getting
Tired of the Ball,' in the Exhibition—
" The azure moon that through the verdant clouds
Bathes the -vermillion waves with floods of blue,
Sees nought but yon gondola of pink haze,
And red-hot dots of men."
It is too bad to plunder this "Man in the Moon" any
further, but he is so rich in fun that he will never miss
it, so here goes:—
" A Goon STORY, &c. Sec. &c.—There is hardly a space
of half•a-dozen square inches in the new House of Lords
which is not occupied by countless repetitions, carved in
Gothic characters, of the novel and original legend of God
save the Queen.' The notion is facetious—but somehow the
motto begins to pall upon one at about the hundred and
ninety-ninth reading. Does Mr. Barry expect that his
prayers will be beard for his much' carving? However, we
suppose it is all Gothic and right. By the way—the House
is lighted in the modern fashion. This is wrong—we should
have had mediaeval gas.

THE SPURTING REVIEW.
," The Racing in April," by " Craven," contains a
good account of the events of the past month, probably
the most interesting, though not the most exciting period
of the year to the turfite, New horses make their ap•
pearance, the pretension of many nominal fliers receive
the coup de grace, while others come out in a style and
figure that render them truly formidable to those who have
opposed-them lustily, and excite the hopes of their friends
to the highest pitch; who confidently predict unheard of
tahveou pastr ites
year, yield
inlda
e easy new
wonders as to their future performances. Even the old
favourites
light. Some
t o e me
others
theers victors ofm
they made no account in bye-gene times ;
places are reversed, the last, frequently becomes
first, and the first last. Meanwhile every race is watched
with the closest scrutiny—every indication that, by a
possibility can throw any light on the great event of the
year, is diligently observed and duly calculated on.
Craven is a keen sportsman, and his comments will
be
found worthy of the closest attention of " the betting
fraternity." The continuation of "The Handbook ut
the Chase," by the Editor, gives a good account of some
of " the holiday hunts;" amongst which, the packs of
Lord Fitzhardinge and Redesdale, and of the Duke of
Beaufort, occupy conspicuous places. The present chap-
ter on Metropolitan Horses, by Harry Hteover, is de-
voted to the hack, or road-star. Harry, as usual, is
eloquent on the several qualifications and defects of this
humble description of nag. We shall'allow him to state
for himself one of the essentials:—
" Showy action is now so indispensable in the metropolitan
horse for every purpose, that dealers are aware it is useless
to purchase anything for the London market that does not
possess it : in fact, all the horses that have it are collected in
London. If one of our ancestors was to look at us now, he
would very naturally be struck by the altered action of
London horses, and would probably think we had iin-
liroved, or at least altered, our breed. He would be
right as to the different action of the horses he would
see in the streets; but it must be remembered that
if among the thousands bred, all those with lofty action are
brought here, and those that have it not are left in the coun-
try, it does not follow that our general breed is altered to the
extent he might be led to imagine by what he might see in
London, though I doubt not but that breeders do, as far as 1
they can, now endeavour to get into a strain of high-goers, 1
and probably will even do so with still greater attention ; for 1
a colt, however good he may be in other respects, is now
valueless without this fashionable style of going."
Ladies horses, too, and even the pony, come under his
observation. " Highland Sports and Quarters" is con-
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. tbiitdiudeedn, by Linton, who is tantalised by the sight of for-
The present number opens with a strong article in deer during a journey to a village with the
euphonious name of Ballaiinlish "
favour of Lord Dundonald, the gallant and distinguished Sporting Life from
London," by Lord William Lennox,•
steeple-
but deeply-injured hero. Few have ever had a more chasing, fishing, boating,
dtouches on
brilliant career, or evinced greater bravery during the varied amusements'g accountsn
of ceri.ctigot,ro all of which
period of his service; and few have suffered more antes are given. The transactions noticed are
severely from what, we believe, is now universally ad- very recent date, but they will ever be interesting to
mitted to be an unwarranted condemnation, and the the amateur. Another amusement which may be en-
most vindictive persecution. Lord Dundonald, it is joyed at a cheap rate from London, is Jack-
true,. has been reinstated in the navy. The Royal son's Hunting-grounds, where "a man may have a
pardon has been extended, but that very pardon implies gallop of an hour over a grass country, in which every
the forgiveness of guilt. and that is still painful to the species of fence may be found, for 7s. 6d. " Intercepted
high-minded veteran. He pains that the stain should Correspondence from Northamptonshire" is continued,
be removed from his name, that he should receive wbil,! the followers of old Isaac will be propitiated by
not a pardon but an acquittal, or at least that the " A Week's Fishing in South Devon." "The Resources ,
restoration of all his honours should show that the Go- of a Country Gentleman" urges the national advantages
vernment feel in accordance with the nation at large, derivable from the taste for fie Id sports. Among our
that he was innocent of the crime laid to his charge. lauded gentry, the number of persons engaged arc
" Luther, his Life and Principles," is a slight sketch of roughly estimated as follows :
the Great Reformer's history, taken from Michelet's works, "In the various papers published during the winter
and which professes to be an abstract of his principles. months, it will be found there are four packs of hounds which
The former part will be perused with much attention, hunt five and six days iii the week—Earl Fitzhardinge's,
all the events occurring during the time of so great a Lord 11. Bentinck's, Sir Richard Sutton's, and Mr. Assheton
moral revolution to its chief, must necessarily possess a Senriltohf'sh;orasnesd Ik amconvinced lam not exceeding the num-
thrilling interest. The latter part we are not so well b
fifty ; thus thereptarien
hundredteNavcohestablishmhent by rating them at
horses and allowing a
satisfied with. It is written in the spirit of modern
man to two horses, one hundred men are engaged. The. e
tractarianism, and speaks of the " imperfections of his
, are upwards of twenty packs which hunt four, and occasion-
system," and " the erroneousness of his principles,' ally five days in the week, to which may be assigned as a
and "of the radical defect of the Lutheran Reforms- low average twenty-five horses to each, consequently five
tion, being the contempt in which it held antiquity." hundred horses will give employment to two hundred end
" The Churches of London;" the fourth under that fifty men. About forty packs hunt three days in the week,
title, contains a comparison between St, George's, Han- using fifteen horses each, which, amounting to six hundred,
over-square, and St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, very much employ threresehsuntodreed mi en. Thirty packs two days a week,
to the prejudice of the former, which is railed at, tn he ac 1, will be three hundred horses, and
t4e
consequently one hundred and fifty men. In the numerous
" as pursuing a cold, hearless, defective system,
fox-hunting establishments, therefore, eight hundred men
rigidly formal, in some respects, stiffly puritaniesl,
are engaged.
in others, highly ultra-Protestant in almost all." W "It may be computed that at the very least one hundred
suspect it is to the latter part of the sentence, that the sportsmen are regular attendants upon the four first-named
indignation of the gentleman who styles himself "Rid- packs, who on the-average keep three horses a-piece—of
ley" is to be ascribed. The rigid formality would not, course twiny keep considerably more; they will at that low
we suspect, be so very objectionable to one who utters r ,te have an aggregate of twelve hundred horses and six
such touching jeremiads respecting matters that to hundred men. The twenty packs hunting four days in the
others seem of trivial importance—who is in horrors at week, supposing them to hay- an equal number of attendants,
the prayers being said, and not sung ; and who cannot each keeping two horses, will be two thousand horses, and
one thousand men. Forty packs hunting three days a week,
conceive that the Deity can be worshipped in a church
unless the altar was at the east end—as if there was a
sixty,and reducing
a t it,litier estimate
themtheoltntleerintumehfera ofilo
horse
tohalf
portion of the building where the Almighty was not• ei.iii, wilt be threber th otii and six average
emdred hors'e%anadnda one
" Thoughts on the Pleasures and Amusements of the thousand eight hundred men. There will don' be about
Agricultural Poor" follows, in some degree the preyed- twenty-six packs to account for, which hunt two days in the
ing bias, although it laments—and in so doing we cur- I week: supposing they have only forty regular attendants,
dially agree with it—the want of pleating rcereati,,r. 1-.;.q,.ning the same average number of horses as above, they
for the humbler classes, it more deeply bewails the n .n- hill possess one thou,and five hundred and sixty horses, and
observance of holidays and festivals. We would gladly seven hundred and eig .ty men. Summing them up, we find
see greater attention paid to the happine. a and couleee 8 nearly four thousand men engaged in the care of hunters
Of the agricultural and manufacturing poor, to their alone."
innocent amusements, and social enjoyments, although A considerable quantity of sporting intelligence, " the