The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-03 00:00:00

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-BOOK.

George Cruikshank, this month, opens " A
Young George
Vision of the:: London Season," which
may be called rather a picture-gallery than a picture.
It is full of spirit, piquancy, and meaning—is exqui-
sitely drawn and beautifully engraved. The two
illustrations to the tale of " Separation" are admirable.
The stage countryman is a glorious bit of fun, and
the editor, Gilbert A'Beckett, gives the following
admirable sketch of his appearance and habits:—
" The costume of the stage countryman is arranged
with an eye to the picturesque rather than the practical.
He frequently wears a very light sky-blue coat with n
waistcoat of the gayest chintz, as if somebody had
given him a window curtain, and he had been seized
with the heureuse idee of having a vest made out of it.
He has dark blue stockings, which are made of silk if
he is the first countryman, but are ordinarily of grey
worsted if he is only one of a party of rustics getting in
the harvest, or assisting at a village festival. The re-
mainder is made up of a red wig and a hooked stick,
with a small bundle slung across it, and a pair of dare •
ing pumps, in which he is always prepared to walk to
London, for the purpose of righting poor sisther
Phoebe,' or telling the great squire' that he (the stage
countryman) has got feelins like,' and that he the (stage
countryman) is as good a mon' as he (the squire :)
thof he (the squire) have gotten a fine coat on his
back'—a home truth which sometimes throws the squire
into a state of pitiable penitence about something or
other which there is no proof of his having been
guilty of.
" Though the dramatic rustic is vividly alive to any
wrong, real or imaginary, inflicted on his own sister, be
is often, as far as his own treatment of the fair sex is
concerned, little better than a domestic ruffian. He is
either contemptibly soft, accepting as a wife some village
coquette, who has been declined on account of her flirt-
ing propensities, by some former lover, or he is brutally
hard, refusing to fulfil the vows he has plighted to some
unfortunate village girl, and setting the yard dog at her
if she persists in pursuing him.
" The occupations of the stage countryman are usually
of the very vaguest character. He appears to have no-
thing on earth to do but to avenge his sister for some
wrongs not very clearly made out, bully the landlord
about fearther,' who is a most unpunctual old man.in
the payment of his rent, flirt with village maidens, grow
sentimental about poor old mither,' and dom' the
young squire."
The illustration to " Alice Brompton" is admirable.
The remainder of the illustrations are all thoroughly
embued with the true Cruikshankean spirit; while the
literary contents of the present number are of a
higher character than those of any of its predecessors

COLBURIV'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE
The article of greatest immediate interest to the
general reader in the present number is the one entitled
" Martin Zurbano." It is a brief but spirited sketch of
the career of that celebrated chieftain, whose heredi-
tary hatred to the French seems to have been the cause
of his ruin. Detesting his ferocity and ;his cruelty, it
is impossible not to admire his fierce fidelity to the
cause of his benefactor Espartero. His were the
virtues and the vices of a semi-savage, and no one who
reads the story of his life but must lament his fate.
Savage as he was, he was worth a host of such
mere self-seekers as Narvaez. Spain has produced
many a worse man than Martin Zurbano. The
article on the War of Succession in Portugal is also
a very interesting article. The other contents of the
magazine, although of a more professional character,
are well worthy of perusal.

THE RAILWAY REGISTER and RECORD
of ENGINEERING and PUBLIC ENTER-
PRISE, for April.
We refer our readers interested in railway compa-
nies to some useful and just remarks on the decisions
of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, in
reference to rejected lines. This is a fruitful subject
for inquiry, as the rejection injures not only the sub•
scribers, but the populous districts through which
they were intended to pass. This number contains
several well executed railway maps.

TROTTING MATCH AT LEWISHAM.--Yesterday
morning a trotting race of two miles in harness came off over
that distance of road near Lewisham. The match was between
Mr. Gray's mare and Mr. Tomlinson 's galloway, and the
race was for 10!. a side. The start having been effected,
they went away at good speed, and at the termination of half
a mile the galloway had the lead of twenty yards, which he
maintained, and concluded the first mile in three minutes
and twenty-five seconds, and was proceeding to the second
mile when it broke out to a gallop, and was immediately
pulled and turned. By this time the mare came up and
passed her opponent, but was quickly overtaken by the gal-
loway, and when within half a mile of the goal they were
neck and neck, and continued together till within three hun-
dred yards of home, when the galloway again broke, which
permitted the mare to go in the winner. The time occupied
in accomplishing the two miles was six minutes and fifty-
four seconds. Betting was even.
FEARFUL INJURIES UT A COW.— Yesterday forenoon,
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Iloyte, who had prepared some gruel for the animal, pro-
ceeded to the cowhouse for the purpose of administering it,
when the cow, in an infuriated manner, rushed upon her
and tossed her with its horns several times in the air, end
then trampled upon her. Tier screams attracting the at-
tention of her husband, Mr. Hoyte repaired to her assist-
ance, when the animal made a similar attack upon hibins.tossed him twice, and gored him very severely, and whilst
on the ground violently trampled upon, and injured him
also in a dreadful manner. A labourer, who happened to be
in the yard at the time, perceiving the danger to which
himself and Mr. and Mrs. lioyte were exposed, took up his
pitchfork and endeavoured to keep off the animal, but
it
rushed at him, and would have served him in a similar
way, but he struck the prongs of the pitchfork at its eyes
and ears, which induced the animal to retreat until it got
into
the a corner, and then, fixing the prongs of the fork
the animal's neck, he kept it in that position until assist-
ance arrived, and it was secured by ropes, and prevented
doing further mischief. Mr. and Mrs. lloyte were 019 re-
moved to their residence in a state of perfect insensibility.
Each of them had several ribs broken, and they were other-
wise so considerably injured as to render their condition ex-
ceedingly dangerous. 'the injuries were principally caused by
the trampling of the animal.
FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday, the
bakers in the borough of Southwark and neighbourhood
lowered the price of the 41b. loaf to 4d. and 4d., and in
some places as low as 3d. At two shops in
Blackrna-
street the poor assembled in great numbers, and literally
besieged the shops, to purchase bread at the reducPel priceir,
and the bakers were compelled, in self-defence, to closetitibe
shops as early as five o'clock, could being unable to satisf
demand, and to give notice that no more Dreahe
supplied till the morning. •