The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

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GRATIS.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED).
JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE.
This magazine opens as usual with a continuation of
the "History of St. Giles and St. James." St. Giles
, has been sent off to the borough of Liquorish, to join
young St. James, whose return for that borough is being
contested by a rich parvenu. The van in which he is
proceeding to his destination is upset, and St. Giles, and
various drunken musicians, who are of the party, aro
tumbled into a ditch. Having extricated his com-
panions, St. Giles proceeds for assistance to a neigh-
bouring cottage, which he finds tenanted by Capstick,
the muffin-maker, who, having made his fortune and
lest his wife, had built himself this cottage, which, out of
respect to the memory of Diogenes, he had named " The
Tub," and who had taken Bright Jem to live with him.
St. Giles has previously met Kitty Muggs, now the
widow of Caesar Gum, whose son is- a footboy in the
service of one of the Marquis of St. James's daughters,
so that we are getting gradually back among our old
acquaintance. "Serving the People" is a pendant to tho
paper which appeared in the last number on " Serving
the Country," and is well worthy the attention of all
those who wish well to the cause of that social re-
formation which has already begun, and which it is the
glorious mission of this magazine to urge onward. " The
Englishman in Prussia" makes some very curious revela-
tions as to the self-sufficient selfish bureaucracy, which,
by means of its secret police and its organised spy
system, holds paramount sway in that country alike
over the monarch and the people. Of the "History for
Young England" we have the seventh chapter, which is
devoted to the early English Churchmen from the fourth
to the ninth century. It displays great research and
much critical acumen. The friends of "Legitimacy"
would have acted wisely had they consented quietly to
let the statue of Cromwell take its place among those of
the other chief magistrates of England. Such papers as
" Cromwell in the Shades," in the present number of
this magazine, cannot but tell with damaging effect upon
the "right divine of kings to govern wrong." In
another part of this number we have on this subject the
following magnificent sonnet—a sonnet which would not
have been unworthy of the muse of " that blind man
eloquent" who, as Foreign Secretary to the Common-
wealth, achieved as mighty victories for his country
with the pen, as his Highness the Lord Protector had
done with the sword:—

ON THE PROPOSED EXCLUSION OF THE STATUE
OF OLIVER CROMWELL FROM THE NEW PAR-
LIAMENT HOUSE.

O EnglishpeopTe,That in Time's long date,
Slow piling stone on stone, have raised on high
A stately house of freedom, where to lie
Secure and smile, though kings beat at the gate :
Do not, in this your ease, do not forget
Those your forefathers, that in times gone by
Did toil and sweat, and all their lives long ply
At the foundations of your free estate.
Hutchinson—Vane--Hampden, that with his blood
Mortared the stones, and that chief architect,
Oliver Cromwell, he whose heavy hand
Smote the false Stuart. Him would they new eject
From his well-earned honours, and o'erflood
With base neglect that ancient glorious strand!