One thing that is similar about the narrators in both of these stories is that they are first person narrators. They say "I" and they tell the story from their own point of view rather than just sort of saying what happened. Both narrators are actual characters in the stories, though not the main characters.
Both narrators seem to be able to some extent to see what is going on in other people's minds. At the beginning of the story, Watson is telling us what Holmes thinks. The narrator in the other story can do this at times, saying, for example
If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties...
She shouldn't be able to know why the men leave, but she does.
As far as differences, the main one I see is that the narrator in "Cranford" talks all the time. There is very little dialogue. By contrast, most of "Scandal" is dialogue once the actual action gets going.
I hope that helps a bit...
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