The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-07 00:00:00

WESTM NSTER.

A NOCTURNAL AMUSEMENT, AND SUSPICIOUS POSSES-
Goozee, a young man, was charged with
unlawfull) ringing house bells, and further with being in
possession of some tobacco.

Henry Sparks, 186 B, said he was on duty at Brampton
at two this morning, when he eaw the defendant go up to
the door of No, 1, Brompton-crescent, and ring the house
bell, after which he hurried away to 21, where he pulled
another bell, and was then taken into custody by witness.
On searching him at the station, there were two half-
ounces of tobacco, in different papers found upon him.
Mr. Arnold—What have you to say, defendant ?
Defendant—Nothing particular. I can account for the
tobacco.

Mr. Arnold—You are described as a barman out of place.
Defendant—l got the tobacco from a retired publican,
Mr. Sladdow, who used to keep the Adam and Eve, and
now• live‘ at 38, Dartmouth-street, Westminster, and I
expected somebody would have been here from him, but
there has not.

Mr. Arnold—Did the defendant give a correct address ?
Yolic,•man—Yee, he did ; and I have been there. It is a
respectable place where he lodges.
Mr, Arnold-4 don't Think it necessary to say anything
more about the tobacco; lAA what is your reply to the
charge of ringing the bells.
Defendant—l did not know there was any harm in it.
Mr. Arnold—You must have siratage notions of things if
you don't think there is any harm in wantonly ringing at
houses in the dead of the night and disturbing the inmates.
Were there any complaints made where he pulled the bells P
Constable—Yes, both complained ; and the gentleman at
No. 21 came to the gate and complained at the time of the
ringing.

Mr. Arnold—This annoyance, which is a very senseless
amusement, must be put an end to. You are fined 205., or
14 days.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, May s.—ln yarns there has been
a fair amount of business done for India and Cbina.
Cop yarns for the home trade have also been in-

quired for, and the Germans are buyers of small
quantities where prices are suitable. Yarns for

India are about Id. per lb. higher than this day
week, and some spanners are asking as much as ld.
per lb. higher, but extreme rates have a tendency
to check business. The twist and cops most in-
quired for are 30's to 60's for manufacturers. Other
counts are dearer in proportion. In cloths also
there has been a considerable business. Prices are
a shade higher, and the quotations of last week
have bee❑ more easily ob:ainable. The chief busi-
ness has been in shirtings suitable for India. Other
goods, though 6rm, are not in such active request,
though there is evidently more desire among buyers
to operate. Tne opinion obtains ground that the
improvement in the cotton trade lately has been
considerable. In addition to the weekly returns 01
Mr. Parnell showing a steady decrease of the un-
employed factory hands, it is observable that a
greater number of chimneys are smoking. It is
thought, in fact, by many that the trade has LOW
attained as good a position as can be expected with
the present supply of cotton, and an improvement
in prices was to be expected under such circum-
stances.

NOTTINGHAM, sth.—At the exchange hall to-
day the amount of business transacted was limited.
The attendance was tolerable, but the demand for
Lace yarns was inactive at Friday's rates. For
hosiery yarns the inquiry was also slow, but
bolder obtained full rates. The demand for
brown nets was exceedingly flat, and prices had
again a tendency to recede. There is very little
alteration to quote in the value of any description
of silk.

hOCEILALE, 4th.---The flannel trade keeps active.
The manufacturers are working full time, and the
demand for goods keeps close to the suply. Under
such circumstances, Ls might be expected, prices
are firm. Indeed, the manufacturers are so stiff in
their demands that buyers purchase more to meet
immediate than prospective wants. Some few
orders for the spring shipping season have been
given. Yorkshire goods, especially the lower and
cheaper sorts, are in fair request. Wools are
without change since last week, but manufacturers
bay cautiously. The new clip promises to be a
good one, but sheep farmers are demanding high
rates.

DUNDEE, May s.—To-day there was a good in-
quiry for flax, and a number of sales, chiefly small
parcels, are reported. At a slight concession in
price some large transactions could have been
ffectt d, but al sellers would not give way, the ne-
goeiations are for the present broken off. The
business done was at the full rates of last week, and
the market closed strong. Prices continue too nigh
in Russia to warrant any abatement here. In tow
and codil:a there is no change either in demand or
value, and only a small business was done in them.
Jute is still unsaleable here, at prices equal to those
paying in England. There was a moderate demand
for flax and tow yarns to-day, and previous prices
were generally paid. Jute yarns are quiet, and
prices in favour of the buyer for some sizes. Ex-
port hes,ians are in less request, in consequence of
the want of activity in the American market, but
the letters received thence to-day hold out the
prospect
of a better demand ft, ortly. The better
elassofiinens made in the district go off freely, and
on hand.
no stocks of almost any description of goods

pence

Cecil Beaumont. By the Hon. Chas. Stuart Savile,
3 vole. Hurst and Blackett.

" Of that I am perfectly aware," observed our hero; and
pray, may I ask you to name what terms P"
" What would you say to five thousand francs for the
first edition, the money to be paid in advance ?" said Mon •
sieur Isaac, blandly.

This was a sum so much beyond Cecil's expectations,
that for a few moments he was too much agitated to
reply.

" I can assure you that they are the best terms I can
offer, in duty to myself and my children," said the pub-
lisher, mistaking the reason of his visitor's silence; "for,
sir, I am the father of a large family."
" I was about to say that I am perfectly satisfied with
your terms," responded Cecil; "and am ready to sign the
agreements directly. I suppose you have got a receipt
ready ?"

"You are right, air, since you propose that the payman
should take place at once."

And going to his desk the publisher took from it some
papers, upon on' of which he wrote some words.
" Five thousand francs I" soliloquised Cecil ; how fortu-
nate it is that I did not wait for the arrival of Jules'
Mocenas I"

"Here is the receipt, sir," observed Monsieur Isaac.
"I have signed both it and the agreement; you will have
on your side to sign the duplicate of the latter yourself."
" Why have you signed the receipt ?" exclaimed Cecil in
astonishment; "it is for me to do that, as it is I who am
to receive the money,"

"I beg pardon, sir," remarked the other, "hut I do not
exactly understand you; to what money are you Mind-
ino P"

replie" TodC the five thousand francs you are going to pay me,"
ecil.
" Y u mean the five thousand francs you are going to
pay me," retorted the publisher.
" I going to give you five thousand francs, sir ?" ex-
claimed our hero. " What for ?"
"For publishing your novel, sir I"
The disappointed author returns to his lodgings,
and flings the MSS. in despair into the corner of
hashis room.been
awayn next day, to his dismay, he finds it
as
the property of somerubbish, and, according to
French custom, become
chjonnier. As a very different specimen to the
scene above quoted, we %ill give a description of I
the funeral service of a young musical composer,
who had himself,
posed his own requiem :--
like Mozart, unwittingly corn-
"At first it was a plaintive harmony, full of soft melan-
choly, as if the sounds Were the voices of Pitying angels
asking pardon of God for mankind The tone of the music
then changed, and was intended to represent the voice of
the eternal God, thundering in wrath fuming the ingrati-
tude of sinners, and announcing the chastisement merited
by their evi, doings.
"At this moment there issued forth from the orchestra
sounds of wondrous import, now imitating the fury
of the
tempest, now the rolling of the thunder, and with this wild
harmony mingled the roar,ng of demons rejoicing in the
wratu of the Deity falling upon the human race; and at
the same time there seemed to arise the agonised cry of
souls condemned to eternal fire.

"At this magnificent expression of divine indignation
and human suffering, the hearts of all present quivered
with emotion ; but by degrees the fury of the orchestra be-
came softened; the groaning of the damned and the roar-
ing of the demons ceased and the voices of seraphs seemed
to implore pardon from heaven. Then a gentle melody
appeared to explain to the faithful that God had just made
a new compact with man, and had said to him Go forth
and glorify my name.'

" Strains of majestic gravity succeeded ; mortal
man,
with his forehead in the dust, adored and blessed his
Creator.

"As was to be expected, the congregation was enraptured
by this powerful compoEition, at one moment plaintive and
touching, at another sombre and terrible. All present had
felt the emotions of the artist l o their very heart's core ; and
in turn trembled at the wrath of God, and hoped in his divine
mercy. While the peals of tnunder resounded beneath the
arched roof of the temple, they had bowed their heads sub-
missively; when the souls of the damned had groaned in
anguish, they had also sobbed and groaned ; and when at
length the pardoned world glorified its Creator with strains
of love and prai.e, that crowd, in which were mingled fer-
vent and lukewarm breasts--that crowd had with one
accord fallen upon their knees upon the church pavement,
their hearts overflowing with hope and faith."

If this eloquent outburst be deemed somewhat ex-
travagant, what will be said of Cecil's rhapsody
about love towards the conclusion of the third
volume in Mr. Disraeli's
~
Henrietta
! Never,Te Temple"—that
love story" with-
etehpatting"
out parallel in the extraordinary extravagance
of its emotions—have we read of such ebullitions of
transport as those indulged in by Cecil Beaumont.
Like the lover of Henrietta (and like him alone,
within the range of our literary experience) Cecil
Beaumont foams at the mouth in the paroxysms of
his affectionate emotions! For example, here is a
scene that occurs when Cecil receives a letter from
a friend to say that the family of his beloved have
returned to Paris:—

impulse that pervaded the frame of the
perused these few words. A typhoon
It would be useles to attempt to describe the wild, deli-
rneguaisinnhgehis poul—a mighty wind, dispelling in its
csyroeieouumurnssegedruilhroanevdgedsiullen clouds and vapours of lung days of sus-

He was silent for a fow moments, for he was tongue-tied,
though the big drop of perspiration that quivered on his
brow (1), and the slight foam, that rose to his lips (1 1),
proved the excess of his feelings. But, as the wind clears
the heavens, sudden, unexpected good tidings tranquilise
the soul.

The tumult of his mind gradual subsided ; the scudding
thoughts that for a moment had eouresd about in such wild
order, vanished and melted aw
. and a sentiment of bright
log and
serenity
circumambieut hope, succeded—a sense of beauty and joy, and of hover-

Iu hpi next work the author of Cecil Beaumont
most put a little restraint upon the ardour of his
imagination and temper the fervour of his descrip-
tions. We the more readily find fault with pas-
sages like the above, Which are, to our thinking,

" Ce cil Beaumont" is a book that is pleasant to
read. It is well written, the style throughout
is simple and animated, and the scenes and charac-
ters described are full of freshness and vigour. We
have been a good deal disappointed with the con-
cluding volume, we must admit. During two
volumes and more we bad followed the fortunes of
the hero with interest, but after his varied and
numerous misfortunes the transition in his fortunes
is so abrupt, and the finale to the tale so couleur de
rose, that it reminds us of that last scene (who can
ever forget it ?) where Lord Dundreary, waving his
hand in a back-handed idiotic manner, exclaims to
his valet and his sweetheart—" There! bless you—
bless you! I suppose that's the ordinary thing !"
&c. Before alluding further to the conclusion, which
has disappointed us, we will first speak of the earlier
portions of the story with which we have been at
times greatly pleased. The scene is laid in France.
Cecil Beaumont is the son of a locksmith of Cosset,
a small town in the interior of France. Having
evinced great abilities, and having distinguished
himself at the college of the department, he is
brought to Paris by a speculative schoolmaster,
who for five years administers to his intellectual,
while he neglects his
physical, culture, and sends
him back, at the expiration or his term of agree-
ment, emaciated and starved—a living skeleton—
but loaded with prizes and honours won at every
examination. Cecil, imagining himself to be " the
very type of a great man," begins life, like so many
before him, with exaggerated dreams of ambition
and a yearning for ideal felicity. One by one these
delusions are, of course, dissipated. At first he is
appoicted under-clerk to a notary of his native
town, and is here initiated into the secret of law-
writing. "The most essential thing," says the
head clerk, who is instructing him, "is to
manage to stretch out what you write, so
as to make as many words as possible
and to write in large hand. Now the act of say-
ing very little in a great many words constitutes
the principal element of an avoue's science. The
man who possesses that art in perfection is pretty
nearly certain of making his fortune." That art,
however, is not possessed by Cecil, who is forced
to seek for fortune in another direction. He goes
to Paris, is enrolled as an avocet, but being too
honest to plead any cause unless convinced of its
justice, he makes no profit by his profession. He
afterwards turns author, takes a play to a manager
for perusal without obtaining any receipt, and the
play is brought out under another title as the
manager's own, and Cecil has no redress. He then
concocts a sensation drama, rightly called "a mon-
strosity." By the proceeds of this, of which he is
heartily ashamed, he manages to exist for a time.
We do not propose to follow him step by step in his
miscellaneous and interesting adventures, some of
which are sufficiently amusing. On one occasion he
has taken a manuscript to a Jew publisher, wLo is
willing to bring it out at the author's expense, and
the following ridiculous equivoque occurs:—
"You see, sir, that the publication of a work of the sor
will e, tail a heavy outlay."

ridiculous, because, on the whole, we have been so
much pleased with the book and with its writer.
The spirit that pervades the whole composition is
genial, and generous, and impartial. It presents a
refreshing contrast to some of the " sensation" novels
of the day, and we shall gladly renew our acquaint-
ance with the author of "Cecil Beaumont."