The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

JERRoLD'S SIIILLIN6 71.4dANNE.

We have but one chapter of the " history of St. Giles
and St. James" in the present Number of Douglas
Jerrold, and in that the story makes but little progress;
the admirable sarcastic philanthropy of Capstiek, and
mint-ofhunaap=ltiAdness philattlitopy of Bright Jem, as
devgolied in their liefOie, at, and after-tifeal!fast celiirtr-
sations, more than make up for the absence of incident.
The following passage might have been written by
Sterne in his happiest mood
"' There's no whet to the appetite,' said Capstick, like
early dew: Nothing for the stomach like grass and field-
floWtts,,• taked with a fasting eye at five in the mor#irlg.
'TiVas Adana's uttli salad, and that's why he lived to nine
hundred and thirty.'
" Think you, said the visitor, chipping an egg-shell,
'think you that Adam,
.before the fall; ate eggdr
"' I can't eve said 011apstiek i 4 but recollecting the things
I hiVe read, file woilld make a Vet*_ pfetty book.
'TiS A pity the Matter Wasn't stirred two or three hundred
Years ago: How nianv thotisand throats might have been
, tit
iipdn it itiatiY men and women roasted like live
oysters 1 For the wisdom of litimanit; 'Us a great miss.
How popes might have thundered about it! What Te
Deems have been chanted; what maledictions-:.gild All with
the melted-butter yore of a Christian pronounced 1 The
NFttid has had a great loss--;:a very great loss,' And Capstick
sighed: ,
that;' said ;tent, ait seems to me that
"this win never want something to quarrel about,
so long_as there's two straws upon it.'
'" Why, there have beet; the Battles of the Straws,' ob-
served Capstick, althdligfi CeriMn ptifpdse4 the been
called tkqet names.
T " Engilsbrati in Pr rtistla," in it fetleit 9f a curious
aro 6itirttoils , Otiblisbedi &Aided;
gives us some carious fetelatiOnS
of the double-dealing, hypocritical,, ind sp7-ericouraging
beaureaucracy, of, VriiSsia, The " Price of a Garter and
the Price of a hire" i 6 ebinment
upon fwd itbmg of eipend,mire recorded inthe recently
publi6ed ddciiiiietttstlie One an item of
AjOit VIE Oldefa 6t off' the
Garter on the installation of Louis Philippe ; the owe?,
an item of .53/., paid to the crews of five boats for saving
the lives of the crew of the Shepherdess, on the Goodwin
Sands: Will May tho widtkif
" And no*, English reader., do.Yoti not feel Melnik's.; dj
did; to Start wlth astonishment front your seat—
to fling away; AS A illthy Parliantentarysanc-
tinned document—to protect with e4c'o4, of yoOr oul
against the system which sanctions such moral monstrosit
which rates so high the Consequences of an unmerited bauble,
and which pas• almost .with, so to speak, a monetary sneer
PodAds,ShillingA4n&periCe Idelf7'-'9VOr an elwloit in
which precious human lie Was adVentlitedti), *Melt prt3-
clout human life was saved'?"

There is an admirable fader On " Decline of the
Drama" in the present number; and a liltingl3, severe,
because truthful article, on the " Egotisin of the Anstii-
cracy," who, as the writer justly obset.ves-
"Are very excellent masters, of the art of puffing; Few
advertising tradesnien know, betttr het* the paragraph is to
be turned. It is erten at-tinting enotigh to ionitiarti the till;
nbuncetfientt at'the peer and the shopkeeper ; the great di&
feß,`rid'e being that the latter puffs his Wares—the former,
himself. In the next column to the 'alarming sacrifice' of
the tradesman find the still tnot:c alarming sacrifice of
the pex.
" We iiiiderstitid that Lord Thomas goddy has, with his
usual generosity, returned 25 per cent. of the rents of his
numerous tenantry, Would that his Lord.shiVs example were
generally followed!'
14:091 hitiOCint teititi read this and similar
advertisements of landlord generosity without the slightest
idea that tho returned 25 per cent. means the 25 per cent.
imvthich it rd, fchincl impracticable to screw out of an
!luens 'du, rack-rented tenantry: The tremendous sacri-
nce' of Lord Tom Noddy and hold tom Isioddy's tailor mean
114ithinfor an can
precisely the same thing. tut a' B.
of pushing themseii;;; 12cf9r0 the public, v auntinowog their
generosity as tailors and lords !"
The " History for Young England" is continued; but
so is not, we are sorry to say, the "Hedgehog Corres-
pondence." We miss the witty, sarcastic cabman, and
trust that next month Juniper Hedgehog will be again
upon his stand.

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE-ROOK.
"Railway Calls," and Mr. John Bull as " Willibald,"
in The Bottle Imp, holding up for sale the imp " scrip" in
a bottle, the stopper of which is a stag, are two admi-
rable illustrations of the present number of the Table
Book. " The Legend of the Rhine" is continued with
admirable spirit, and is to be concluded in the next
number. The " Hint to Projectors," suggesting the forma-
tion of an " Every-body-his-own-Balloon-Navigation-
Company," for supolving all the world with balloon-
jaekets, is good babble ti],4l:i9,, vorF
quaintly illustrated. We commend the " Old Englishi
Gentleman in a New Light" to the consideration of
" Young England." The writer takes the old English'.
rittleW3 es he appeared in the costume of the clap