The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

DOUGLAS JEKI‘OLD

We have an additional chanter of " St. Giles and
St. James" in the present number. The scene is laid
at Snipeton's house at Hampstead, where Beckey
and St. Giles have arrived as servants, and have been,
by Clarissa, introduced to the household. Crosshone
arrives with the horse, which he employs Tom Blast
to hold, and that worthy is on the point of making off
with the animal, when he is stopped by St. Giles.
Blast terrifies St. Giles, by a threat of disclosing the
history of his early career, into giving him a shilling,
and almost promising him a guinea a week, and hints
a* a plot for purloining Snipeton's, plate. The scene
is short, but it is admirably drawn :

" What have I to do with Mr. Snipeton's plate, but
to see nobody steals it ?' said St. Giles, firmly.
" To be sure ; and yet when there's so much silver
about, and a guinea a week—well, I'll say a pound, then
—a pound a week would make a fellow-cretur happy,
and silent for life—l said, silent for life'—

"St. Giles suddenly paused and turned full upon Blast.
Go your ways, man—go your ways. Silent or not
silent, you do not frighten me. What I may do for you
I'll do of my own free will, and with my own money,
such as it is. And, after all, I think 't will serve you
better to hold your tongue than'—
" wouldn't kill the goose for all the eggs at once,'
said Blast; grinning at the figure.
"St. Giles felt deadly sick. He had thought to brave
—defy the ruffian ; but the power of the villa►n, the fate
that with a word he could call down upon his victim,
unnerved him. St. Giles, with entreating lloks, motioned
him away ; and Blast leering at him, arid then tossing
up the shilling with his finger and thumb, passed on,
leaving St. Giles at the garden gate, where stood Clarissa,
brought there by the earnest entreaties of Crossoone, to
view the horse—the wondrous steed that was to endow
its mistress with new health and beauty."

Paul Bell, in his " August Vi-ions," draws an
amusing contrast between the doings of August,
1846, and those of August, 1746—the trials of the
rebel Scotch Lords, &c., as detast d in Horace Wal-
pole's letters. The article on `• R ..ilroads in Egypt"
is written by one ,%ho is, evidently intimately ac-
quainted with the country, and who exposes the
manner in which the French consular agents have
constantly endwavoured, in that country, to thwart
British interests, and to prevent the tormation of the
railroad.

Low remains only to inquire how it is that we
have ,ctifer,•,l France soece.,4ully to oopose us in this
partieui,4r. th,-re has not been any remark-
able reittetaNee on the part-of our Government to give
it suiiport. Opinions have changed since a. British
Minister so singularly thwarted the desire of Mohammed
Ali, and rekcted his overtures Lord Aberdeen, in
October, 1843, after the French Consul had dissuaded
the Pscha from e:mmencing the railroad, forwarded the-
most positive instructions to Colonel Barnet, our Consul-
General,in Egypt, to give every support to the under-
; hut we are sorry to say that the ,upineness or
indiff;tence of this gents- min. or it may h• the per-
suasten of his bosi.tu friend, !he French Consul G..nerni,
p.evented him trom futfilling those in-trti 'ions, and in-
duced him to 1 eg'ect, I. a most si,.gol.ir manner, his
duty to his employ, rs and his country On him rests
the responsii.ility of having b.en th.• mean, of. prevent-
ing instva,t of ss,;j4ing. the t xerution of a wot k of such
pax...mount impo7tanee 10 British intersiAts, both in
co mn,rc ,ti -11! oint

Colone B.trile,, we are happy to ,ay, is now re-
moved; but if he have been guilty of the neglect, or
something \Norse, here imputed to him—it British
in'erests h.. v.• been sacrificed, either wilfully or care-
lessly, ..urely he .honl,l be brought to account and
punished. as an example to others. At all events,
some inquiry should he instituted into his conduct.
The " Fable for foolish Fellow." is a capital bit of
drollery, but "Pearls for Popish places" is dull;
it is, however, the only dull paper in the number,
which contains more than the average quantity of
good, readable matter.

SI tfMONDS'S COLUIVIAL MAGAZINE.
Decidedly the most intelligent contribution in the
present autumnal number is the one entitled "Can-
not England's Colonies do more for their Mother
Country ?" What we glean from the waiter as his
paramount recommendations are, first, "to encourage
our native fisheries with more liberality than here-
tofore ;" secondly, " to introduce a radical reform in.
the treatment of internal pauperism ;" and thirdly,
to remodel our existing system of emigration, and to
afford greater encouragement to the colonisation of
distant and more fruitful regions of the globe. Many
sagacious hints are scattered through the article;
and its general character is so em'asontly suggestive
of good that we can award it our cordial comities-la-
tion, though many of its arguments are in direct con-
tradiction to our own opinions. A singular poem,
entitled " Brotherly Love;. written by Abd-el-Kader
on his separation from his brothers," is here given
from the literal 'translation published in French.
The heart of the heroic Emir is warmed by the
domestic affections as well as elated byz ambition.
Mr. llooton's " Peregrinations in Texas, the paper
on the origin of basaltic colunins, the continuation of
" Reminiscences of Cuba," and the contribution on
'" Colonial Postage Reform," are all eminently de-
serving of consideration, as is the magazine generally.

THE SPORTIIVG REVIEW.
Another of 3 Herring s " High 'nettled Racer.,"
n
from a sketch of Cooper's, called
form the appropriate embellish-
ments to this number. The editors merry and
"Fefol " Hand-book of tlteC!);‘,” and the renewal
of the " Lite ..f a Poch•iuil," by John Mills, would
lf them • e!v s render the ,Cporting Review worthy
its n t, its ri•:lit joral clay', even supposing
we witi! the " Racif,g for Septem-
h"r." Craw;. whh " Lestrerinngs the Lt g," or
:kith" Roarers. Grtmters." by Barry
Ilieover. From a capital &rifle by Lori William
Lennox," On S:,ooting, we extract the following
pithy awl morceaux of advice to the un-
learned.