The Sun. — 1847-05-06 (London, England)

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S.  The " History of St. Giles and St. James" is concluded in this number. St. James is, of course, acquitted of the murder of Snipeton ; Tom Blast dies of the wound he has received from Snipeton, but before his death confesses that he it was who stole the horse, for the theft of which St. Giles was originally sentenced. His confession, however, goes for nothing, and St. Giles is sentenced to death for returning from transportation. " Briefly, St. Giles was not hanged. No. St. James repeated the good work of his boyhood, and—aided by Capstick, who made his maiden speech in Parliament on the question, calling the attention of the minister to the confession of Blast—St. Giles was pardoned. He married Becky, and lived and died a decent shopkeeper. Indeed, he had so far beaten the prejudices of the world, that era he parted from it, he had been intrusted with the duties of churchwarden. "St. James, a few weeks after the trial, went abroad, made the grand tour, returned, married a duke's daughter, and to the end of his days, supported to the utmost the dignity of " his order. " Mr. Crossbone, defeated in his hopes of cone; preferment, again retired to the country, to cultivate the weeds of life. He, however, had the subsequent:satisfaction of transporting Mr. Robert Willis, for highway robbery ; an operation performed at the cheapest cost to Mr. Crossbone, as the robber pillaged him ofonly four-and-twopence and a tobacco-stopper. "A metropolitan tombstone still attests the pleasing fact. that Mr. Tangle died at the age of eighty-two, " a faithful husband, an affectionate father, and an unswerving friend. His charity was as boundless as it was unostentatious." Thus speaks Tangle's tomb-stone ; and who—save it snag a be the recording angel—shall contrrdict a tomb-stone ? " And Clarissa—What of Clarissa? She shrank from the world, and living, was not of life, but died the daily death of a wasting heart—one other victim to the thousands gone and—to come. "And Capstick, at the end of the first session, took office— became the steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He and Bright Jem went back to the Tub, and many a time would talk of the events that, all imperfectly, we have chronicled in these pages. Capstick retained his old humour to the last. He would often talk of St. James and St. Giles, and would always end his discourse in something like these words : "‘ Well, St. James sneaked away upon a tour, and St. Giles was pardoned; all right that it should be so. Nevertheless, Jem, as it's turned out, it's more like the happy wind-up of a story on paper make it out how it has so happened; for I expected nothing less than that St. Giles would be hanged, and the Lord St. James sent to some foreign court as English Ambassador.' " The " Dreamer and Worker" is continued, and we are introduced to a variety of schemers who, in conjunction with Mr. Walter, are about to start a scheme for the regeneration of the world, and the filling of their own purses at the same time. Archer joins the Walters at Portsmouth, and consents to the postponement of the marriage between himself and Mary for a short time. Paul Bell gives us a pleasant plea for pictures in his paper, "My Lame Boy's Tastes," in which he administers a richly-deserved castigation to the Lakers, and vehemently protests against the blasphemy of Cowper " that man and not God made the town"—a blasphemy which has been repeated parrot-like by every dreamy, half idiotic, idle humbug from the days of the nervous and night-capped fatalist to those of our own, as an excuse f)r neglecting the Divine command "to live by the sweat of his brow." " A Word or Two on Music" is a word in season, and we recommend the paper to the attentive perusal of all the unco guid. " Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued, and we have severcl other excellent articles in this number of L'ouglas Jerrold.