The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-14 00:00:00

mAGAZINtS-(CONTINUEL._,

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SIIILLIAG MAGA-
,PIIIVE;
This is the striallest slid cheapest or all the magatines
—t: e least pretending in appearaneP, btu the most
impottant in its stibjects: The avowed adtocate of the
rights bf the pobri it end, arours to shadow forth their
Many sorrows in the faint hope of inriehing the hearts
of the powerful. In the story of " 6t. Gillis anal St.
James" we have a striking illustration of the ellectS t;`f
education, " as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
Two boys, originally endowed with equal moral and
intellectual capacities, but widely separated by
the accident of birth, rich and poor—of " two nations,"
—these are the heroes of the tale. We fell9w their
varying fortunes. We find every luxury that tohho-
ment can suggest combined to soften the path of the
young lord, while the hapless child of poverty drags on
a weary life—a childhood without smiles, a year without
a spring. Can we then wonder that their characters as
men should bear the impress of their early training ?
Young St. James grows up to manhood surrounded
by friends and instructors, with every incentive to virtue,
and comparatively few temptations, while St. Giles, suf-
fering for the crimes of his companions, escapes the scat'-
fold only to consume the best years of his life in
a foreign prison. In the present Number the story
increases in interest—we are introduced to our heroes
when they first meet as men, St. Giles having returned
from transportation. The following is a beautiful de-
scription of " tired Nature's sweet restorer," sleep :
" ' God be with you,' said the girl ; and the words cf gentle-
ness, the happy, hopeful tone that breathed in them, fell like
balm upon the felon's heart ; and in a few moments he was
sunk in the deep happiness of sleep ; he was far away in that
neutral region of life, where Emperors put off their crowns—
where the arrogance of earth is calm and harmless—where pride
and ostentation have not their blatent trumpets blown before
them—where the purple of Dives is cast aside on the same
heap with the rags of Lazarus—where the equality to all, that
death shall everlastingly bring, is once a day rehearsed by all
men—where life is simple breathing, and the slave loses the
master.

"For many nights had St. Giles slept in the open fields.
Ragged, and worn, and hunger-stricken, he had, nevertheless,
slept; and only when the daylight came felt for a time his
sinews cramped and stiffened with the dews of night. Still,
with the sky above him, no more sheltered than his neighbour
ox or sheep, he had slept: he had—despite of fortune—
cheated misery with forgetfulness. Nature for a time had
blessed him as she had blessed the happiest man."
"A History for Young England" contains an account
of the second Norman Sovereign, William Rufus• If
the present account be correct, few historians
have dune justice to the red king. " Man and the Cri-
minal" is a gloomy catalogue, not of crimes, but of their
punishments. Truly, if men were as ingenious in framing
plans for improvement, as they are ready in devising
methods of punishment, we should have occasion to build
schools instead of prisons, and have more need of the cler-
gyman than the executioner. " The Bishop's Km ck" is
a legend of the south-west, founded on a true and Me-
lancholy incident:—a bishop having been invited to per-
form the ceremony of baptism, arrived in his state
carriage, his footman knocked vehemently at the door,
and the violent noise frightened the infant heir into con
vulsions and occasioned his death. " The Anti-Corn-
law Bazaar" contains an interesting account of the late
free-trade exhibition, concluding with the following
words:—

" We might go on for days and weeks enumerating the
contents of the League Bazaar. Let us content ourselves with
drawing from their obvious moral, with recording their silent
pleading.
" They represent Industry ; they demand Industry's rights.
Here, in this island, are hands and mouths ; the labour of the
one should be the food of the other. The spirit of Selfishness,
powerful for a time, has said No ! ' The people may not
exchange what their hands have made, for the food which it
would bring them. The struggling, honest, willing labour of
the masses, is paralysed for the luxurious, selfish idleness of
the few !

" Here, in England, is ingenuity to invent, and strength to
execute, industrial achievements such as the world never before
saw? Abroad there grows teeming food, the gift of the Deity.
We would barter the products of our hands for the products of
our neighbours' fields.
" Selfishness forbids the bargain : backs in one land shall be
kept bare, in order Lhat stomachs in another may be kept
empty ; food shall rot in the fields of this country, because it
may not be exchanged for merchandise, mouldering in ware-
houses in that.

" But Common Sense, Common Humanity, Common Jus-
tice, call aloud, and with a God's voice proclaim, that God's
gifts to all men shall not be marred by the foul will of a few ;
that the industrious shall not starve when there is food ; that
trade shall be as free as the sun, and the breeze, and the rain ;
that the great Religion of Commerce, which is civilising,
humanising, fraternising the world, shall no longer have a
Custom-house for its Church, or a hostile tariff for its Bible !"