Star.
London, England, 1829-11-16 00:00:00

GEO. CRUIKSHANK:SSCRAPS AND

SKETCHES.

" Democritus, who was always saith SteeveLb,
lived one hundred and nine years ;—Heraclitus who was always
crying. only sixty;" and hence taking it fir granted that a long
lire is more desirable than a short one, be inferreth th laughing is
better than crying. On bunie such principle of longevity as this,
we suppose, it is that George Cersikshank—seeing that once merry
England is becoMe a nation of 't crying philosophers"—is ever
and anon coming out upon them with his " Scraps and
Sketches ;" with charitable intent to lengthen their lives by com-
pelling them to laugh at themselves and each other, in spite of the
inanifold miseties with which the " March of Intellect" has some-
how or other envirnned them. Of his ability to do this, it would
be a work of supererogation in us to speak—inasmuch as every
body is very well aware of it ; and so we will content ourselves
with giving them some idea of the Scraps and Sketches" which
he has just published for their relief in the lachrymose premises
aforesaid :
London going out of town is the title of one of them ; anti from
such a title some folks might expect that it is an illustration of the
close of the season, when the town, or the ten is rattling on at the
rate of 12 miles an hour, behind poor panting and perspiring pos-
ters to bathing places, bird butcheries and billiards in the pro-
vinces. But it is no such thing :—it is the march of bricks end
mortar: which, like the starch of intellect, is playing the
wry d-1 with the country. And though such mstaings are
no joke, and but little calculated to excite laughter in those who
are so old-fashioned as to retain any sort of respect for dame Na-
ture in this age of artificiality; yet even these must laugh to se,:
how the artist has animated all inanimate thine% and managed to
bring on said London " in cubic phalanx firm," and " in embattled
squadron, rushing on" agaiust the discomfited and Illitignrosfities.
The Gill Shop, an entirely new version of Hogarth's Oln-lane,"
adapted to the age of intellect ; and showing the admirable work-
ing as that man trap, cheap gin, which the Collective Intellectuality
presented to a foodless population. By the bye, this is still less or
s !wahine matter than them arch of bricks and mortar—unless to
the philosophers of the new school. To them it may he matter of
ehucklii.g 4 okfacti )))) to observe b..w horribly well their spirituous
trap is counteracting •• that pernicious tendency uhich a mod. ion
has to ov. rproduce its OWII
et Sane to Areissioaton Gardens exh:b!t4 an ass.-mblage of " nett •
plc of fashion" in lull pi outroada costume ; and though the •rti.r,
to his sub—itle, ha. very irreverently designated them as t• F.obititis
and Frights," yet he has done them ample pnoice is: every other
respect. Any body, with half an eye, may see that th. y are to reel-
table crease of the very intellectual age in which they dangle.
The Horses going to she dogs, is an illustration of the wundermetit
of those Trip. treble quadrupt de, the horses, at the first appearance
of a steam coach upon the road ; aid their cumnrents soma the same,
with a rather heartless colloquy between " two dogs " touching the
probable effect of the new inviantion on the price of horse-flesh ;
whilst the steam coach, with its smoking chionstles, its spectacled
conductor, arid its guard blowing his horn in derision at the edit reed
horses. rattles along in all the pri le of art against nature.
These are a few of the ;awl. sketches ; but that are others
equally good ; and they are -et round with some eighteen or twenty
exqubite scraps—bright graphic gem.—illustrative of all sorts tit
fashions. fancies, and predicaments is every grade of society. Irons
" my Lady," who pays a guinea an hour to a fashionable Friars's,.
to the poor wounded sailor, who, prostrate on the pay.avient iti the
all -et, endeavours so procure a halpenny by displaying hit skill in
" 11th graphy."

The Russian Ambassador had an interview with the
Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday, at the Foreign Office.
The Earl of Anettneesr, Lord ELLEN ISOIRIUG jj, Mr.
Secretary PEEL, and the CHANCEL Loa of the Ex-
EQU ER, visited the Duko of W r.t.tt wrox, on Sa-
turday, at the Treasury.
Despatches from Sir JAI4 E% KE yr, the Governor-
General of the Canadas, dated up to the I;th ult. were
received at the Colonial Office yesterday.
The Duke of WELL! N6TO s entertainAl the Cabinet
Ministers to dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence
in Downing-street. The Lord Chancellor, Earls Rath-
mat, Rosalyn, and Aberdeen, Viscount Melville, Lord
Ellenborough, Mr. Secretary Peel, Sir George Manny,
the Chancellor of' the Exchequer, and Mr. Vesey Fitz-
gerald, dined with his Grace.
The Lords of his Majesty'a Most HonoureLle Ptivy
Council had a meeting at eleven o'clork on Saturday
morning, in the Council-chamber, Whitehall. Those
present mere—the Lord President, Lord W strford, the
Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Right Hon. Hugh
Elliott. Tl:e hearing of the case Neuiverkirk v. Rey-
nolds, from Rerbice, was resumed. When this appe tl
had been disposed of, exparte Stewart v. ‘White, from
Lower Canada, was heard by their Lordships. The next
appeal was one of considerable importance of a mot tgage
on an estate in Desnarara, of upwards Of 100,0001., that of
Maliere v. Leach, from Dentarat a. lAwd W %Ilford.
on' the part of their Lordships, fixed the c:aim of the ap-
pellants at 77,0001. The last case---Nic. Its v. Le Canals,
from Jersey---was an appeal again-t payment of an
attorney's bill for working out a case of bankruptcy, on
the ground that he did not produce the items of his
charge. The amount of the bill, 75i. 17 s. was the same
as that of an officer engaged in the same case,
and it was argued by the respondeat's Cousel that it
was an invariable rule in the Island to allow the
same fees to the attorney as to the officer in question,
and the Courts in Jersey, by minim the proceed-
ings had been confirmed, might he supposed to be
compstencto correct any surcharge. The jadgments of
these Courts were, however, reversed by their Lordthips,
on the ground that the items in the bill oug'.t i ndoubt-
edly to be insetted. Lord Wynford, us delivering
meut, a!so pointed out certain charges itt the Gtedier s
bill for which there could not be any counterpart in the
respondent's bid, while, at the sans' time, tie amount of
the two bills was made to come directly to the same to a
fraction. The whole of the cases sot down for hearing
having been disposed of, their Lordships adjourned at
four o'cleck.