The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-16 00:00:00

' MAGAZINES-(CONTINUED).
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGA-
ZINE.
This is the smallest and cheapest of all the magazines
—t -.e least pretending in appearance, but the most
important in its subjects. The avowed advocate of the
rights of the poor, it endeavours to shadow forth their
many sorrows in the faint hope of touching the hearts
of the powerful. In the story of " St. Giles and St.
James" we have a striking illustration of the effects of
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 follow their
varying fortunes. We find every luxury that refine-
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
u spring. Can we then wonder that their characters as
men should bear the impress of their early tra:ning ?
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 scaf-
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 raturned
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 of gentle-
ness, the happy, hopeful tone that breathed in them, fell like
balm upon the felon's heart ; and in a few momenta 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 tortune—
cheated misery with forgetfulness. Nature for a time had
blessed him as she had blessed the happiest wan."
"A History for Young England " contains an account
of the second Norman Sovereign, William Rufus. If
the present account be correct, few historians
have done 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 4tor improvement, as they are ready in devising
methods of punishment, we should hare occasion to build
schools instead of prisons, and have more need of the cler-
gyman than the executioner. " The Bishop's lint ek" 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 %ewer. 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 ! ' 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 that 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 !"

THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE.
The first plate in this number represents " Aristides,"
a beautiful race-horse belonging to Lord Eglintoun, and
a winner at Goodwood in 1842 and 1844. " Touch and
Take" is a spirited engraving, illustrating an important
and anxious moment. Lord William Lennox has con-
tributed a paper on " Hunting in Prance." There are
also some remarks on the "Sporting Subjects in the
Exhibition," an amusing tale relating to "an Irish
Justice of the Peace, thirty years ago;" " Thought
Hunting ;" " The Game-laws ;" shooting, and a variety
of subjects of similar interest.

THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE.
The principal feature the present number is a
" Design for a Farm Establishinent"—the house, the
garden, the barns, stables, in short every particular spot
is marked out with exactitude, and we doubt not the
plan itself and the remarks accompanying it will be both
useful and interesting to all concerned in farming.
There is a paper on rent, remarks on ploughing, ma-
nures, the destructiveness of hail-storms, and c,ther
subjects of agricultural interest, and also an engraving!:
of " Buchan Nero," the property of Sir Charles Tem-
pest, and the winner of the first prize at the meeting at
Berwick in 1841.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE.
This number contains a sermon and meditations for
each Sunday in the month, with a pleasing variety of
sacred poetry. There are also descriptions of the Palace
of Linlithgow, the Lake of Como, and the old Abbey at
St. Alban's, each illustrated by an engraving. Sketches
of natural history are continued, and among a variety of
interesting miscellanies we find a short account of the
" Origin of the Censorship of the Press."

THE SPORTING MAGAZLIVE.
The principal engraving in this number celebrates the
grand event of the last month—the " Derby Day." The
moment selected is that immediately succeeding the race,
before the excitement has subsided, when the eager mul-
titudes crowd round the " stewards' stand," anxious to
view the winner. The literary department is, as usual,
confined to sporting subjects. The " Chasseur au Chien
d'arret" is as amusing as ever; some of the remarks with
regard to poaching show the difference between the gen-
tleman breaking the laws for amusement and the poor
man instigated by necessity.

THE METEOR. No. 11.
Almost every department of arts and literature can
boast of some publication devoted to its interests. There
are magazines relating to politics, science, the united ser-
vice, foreign affairs, sporting—in short, to almost every
subject. The Meteor is to be the organ of the hitherto
" unrepresented" theatrical department, and to j udg° from
the commencement, it seems well suited to the part. The
name of the editor, Buckstone, is " a host itself." The
present number is embellished with an engraving of Mr.
Webster, and contains a biographical sketch of that
spirited manager. There is a pleasing variety of light
tales and epigrams, and an effecting memoir of the late
Mr. Strickland, from which we quote the following
" The loss of Mr. Strickland will be severely felt by all the
lovers of sterling acting, and by the Haymarket company
especially ; his style and figure were eminently adapted for the
characters he sustained in the comedies of that establishment--
while the contrast he presented to Farren, greatly assisted in
completing the picture always formed by the first-rate com-
pany of the Haymarket Theatre in their admirable represen-
tations of the higher order of comedy. Who, like Strickland,
could stand as Sir Oliver Surface, by the side of William
Farren's Sir Peter Teazle? nr as Gripe, with the latter actor's
Moneytrap, in The Confederacy ? Where is now the Hay-
market Falstaff ?—the best the London stage has known for
many years. Where the amorous Sir William Fondlove ?
and the renowned Christopher Sly, the drunken tinker of
The Taming of the Shrew? Where the kind-hearted and
much-bewildered Tom Noddy? Where all the oily, angry old
men that Buckstone was wont to worry in the hundred-and-
one farces that sent the Haymarket audience, season after
season, laughing to their beds ?—' And is old Double dead ?
No actors in the Haymarket will miss the rich humour of their
departed colleague more than Farren and Buckstone ; a perfect
understanding always appeared to exist between them ; a
playing into each other's hands, without which feeiing on the
part of the actors no dramatic representation can ever be
genial or perfect."