The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-10 00:00:00

has a kindly nibble at his ear as he lies dreanl, vil
among the grass by the lake side at Fawley.
House of Vipont arrives at a Crisis that—thanks,
Darrell—proves Not to be a Catastrophe. Darrel
finding a wife at last in the " Caroline of Old," tr
turns to public life as the saving genius of tv,
Government. Greatest surprise of all, however,'
the expectant and long tantalised reader—at le',
—at last—the key is vouchsafed to the mysteryl
Sophy's parentage. Not the fruit of vice, not v,
daughter of infamy,. offspring of neither Jast
Losely nor of Gabrielle Desmarets--" No I\l°,
the Outlaw-Child of Ignominy and Fraud, but 1,
Starry Daughter of Poetry and Art." lirbt
Frank Vance, the famous painter, suddenly bone'
ing out from the garden entrance of Fawley
the midst of the assembled persons of the romalt,
then and there, to the amazement of Lionel,
indicrnation of Waife, and the confusion of Wia"
fancied grandchild, kisses Sophy into a knOwl,
that she is no other than the orphan child of
sister and the poor dead poet Arthur B
thwaite—the incident comes like a sunb
Everything, brightens under its influence ; eve
body is happy—and the whole is so clear, so ritt
ral, so reasonable in every particular. Perb
the secret of a romance was never more admirtt
preserved until the very eve of its terminate
Yet—when disclosed—it proves, nevertheless,.
have been, so to speak, in no way overlaid 10
concealment. The foreshadowings of it now are
cognised clearly enough peeping out here and Of
through the course of the previous narrative. °
only marvels, now that it is told, that it was nel
conjectured beforehand—in all which there
surely evidence of high art on the part of
novelist. Towards the conclusion of the work
are only in one particular really and truly
satisfied. It is in the instance of Fairthorn,
musician, who unexpectedly reveals certain
tesque traits of character that anything but end
him to us. The impotent spleen, of which we cs
a glimpse in that mowing face of his, half hid
hind the curtains, lurking in the doorways, sk.
ing among the shrubberies—topples down as
trievably as Humpty Dumpty in the nui
rhyme, our previous estimate of his eccen
character. Insomuch that we fancy we should it,
been bored ever afterwards even by the dill
melodies of the ,auto magico—should have ,
disposed ill-naturedly to purloin On 6 of the
jz
joints of it, and to have looked on with a spit°
chuckle of satisfaction while he vainly essayed tot
screw the beloved instrument together. The do w 1
is a disappointment to us—for hitherto it was 111
us one of the most charming memories of the bac
the thought of Fairthorn, with his flute, haunts'
the green thickets about Fawley Manor
dingy, shambling' human nightingale. Char'
,
there are still left to us in the work, however—
marred—beyond the reach of deterioration. 6i
Darrell—after whom we would fain have had
romance called, rather than by its present fants'
designation—Darrell, the great lawyer, the 0
orator, the illustrious statesman ! Waife, dear,'
Waife—that "grand creature, a grand actor,
who, as he listed, " was the Fool, WAS Leari
" luminous, unconscious critic, bringing out beat,
of which no commentator ever dreamed!" Colo
Morley, most kindly and perfect of true gee!
men ! Handsome Lionel, cordial Vance, wv
sical Merle, preposterous Rugge, gr,,
gentle Arabella, simple-hearted Hartopp, ridiclv
Samuel Adolphus Poole, of Alhambra Villa 10 f
Cockney suburb—terrible Pocket Cannibal t.°,
ing upon the same (that is to say, not 'l,l
Alkambra Villa, but upon S. A. Poole)—the
the best; the loftiest, the lowliest of the cone();
—as they pass away from us now, we are loth to I
sight of them altogether, we are fain to linger'
awhile over the familiar pages that here r'
their history, with the charm of a style that it
taken the laborious life of a man of rare genil
attain ! As we close this latest romance, cornP
ing the full score of his elaborate prose worbs
fiction—as we remember the diversity and 0
the splendour observable among its nineteen
dec9ssors—as we remember the prizes woli b 3"
same indefatigable ambition in so many other,
such totally dissimilar, intellectual department'',
a dramatist, as a historian, as an orator, as a ''
as a statesman—there comes floating to us one
those Horatian particles familiar to the el,
atmosphere of Fawley, " to Darrell medicinal,
Fairthorn morbific,"

4, —Nil fuit unquam
Sic dispar sibi'
And so adieu to the Novelist, en avant to
Statesman !

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF

SWINDLING:

A woman, fifty years of age, of the nag/
Dereinsberg, was on Saturday tried by the Til&
nal of Correctional Police for.swindling ; ancl".o
females, named Roux and Girard, were tried
' her for complicity. The first mentioned woman„
' employed by a tradesman named Blot to ea"( 4
ladies of rank and offer for sale, dresses, ie)
and other articles. When she announced t
' she had effected a sale, goods were confided to n
' and if for ready money, which was very rare
she brought the money ; if on credit it
entered on the book, and after a delay of
months, she was charged to get the bill
In either case she deducted a Certain per tentage
her commission. In February last she gave Ili
ous extensive orders for different ladies, but IQ
some months after, Blot directed her to get in
money., she was unable to bring him any. ,
accepting various excuses time after time for de'
he at length made an investigation, and he •
vered that the greater part of the alleged 0
were never made to the ladies in whose
they were entered, or were to people who did P,
exist. Thus the woman had obtained 64f. We
of pocket-handkerehiefs for, as she said,
Countess de Moray, but Blot was told on appl
for payment that the countess had never orde
and never received anything from him. Other P
tended sales were made to the Princess de Chin°
the Princess Kotschouberg, &c. Among the '
sons who did not exist was a Countess de
not, who was said to reside in the Hotel Volt,
All the goods which the woman obtained by tliti
false pretences were either pawned or sold by
woman Roux, who received part of the proceeyt,
But she did a still more audacious thing :—ln
ber last she ordered various articles of the valae4
585 fr. for Queen Christina, and wanted to take they:
away, but Mme. Blot said she should like to deh;f
them herself. She, however, on some pret/
did not take Mme. Blot to the Queen, and, fo4
a few days' delay, she announced that her Maje'i
would call at the shop ; but the Queen never ice
Mme. Blot having expressed surprise, the WO
, said, ‘• Well! take your things, and let us go
Malmaison, where the Queen is !" They went,
Malmaison, and, on entering the porter's log
found an elderly female dressed in a sort of reli to,
costume. " This is her Majesty's housekeeper,'
the woman. Mme. Blot then said that she P
brought some articles for the Queen, and wished
e,'
show them to her Majesty herself. " Oh, Madame
answered the housekeeper, "it would be coot
to etiquette for the Queen to receive you, but lei/
me the things, I will show them to her Make ;
and you may call to-morrow to know whether D)
Queen accepts them or not !" Mme. Blot left 'fr
things, and returned next day. Addressing the eckj)
cierge, she said, " Tell the Queen's housekeeper-1
lady I saw here yesterday—that I am waiting to
her Queen's housekeeper" cried the so
That !"Th
old woman ! Why, she only comes here
beg charity !" " And my things ?' ' She took the
away, and I, of course, not knowing why you ga
them to her; had no reason to prevent her!" It "ci
then discovered that the woman who thus au&
ously personated the Queen's housekeeper -WO
widow named Girard. The tribunal, after hen
these facts, condemned Dereinsberg to two ye9ri
imprisonment, Roux to 15 months, and Girard
employed at the Hotel Voltaire, w:e
12 months; and each besides to 50f. fine. 0
Menneval,
tried with the women for complicity, for hot
as alleged, represented to Blot that the preterwl4
Countess de Viganot lived in the hotel, and 8c;)
solvent ; but the case was not made out, and he IC
acquitted.

DARING ESCAPE PROM A GAOL.—On WedneSaq
last an escape was effected from the county of Cork it
which for daring ingenuity almost equals. any of u,
recorded of the famous Jack Sheppard. A person nay'
William Johnson, who was awaiting his trial on a chy
of sheep-stealing, was sent to a small ward where natti
prisoners were generally confined, for the purpose of clef
mg it out, and being locked in alone, he determined on efle;joi
ing his escape. Having got a couple of sheets from °,ldl
of the cells, he tied them together, and then fastened an e'eti
of one of them to a hand-brush about a foot and a quarto!
long, which he had been using. He next made a pretty 108
pole by rudely splicing together the handles of some svondl
ing brushes with twine, which he had made from oakum,
by means of this he succeeded in inserting the hand-br4el
crosswise, inside the bars of an upper cell window. V`
sheets being torn, served him as means of drawing hiro'd;
up, and he thus succeeded in getting on the wall of the $l/1)0
yard attached to the ward, from whence he scrambled on to
roof. Between this and the outer wall of the gaol was ell
insulating passage, over 8 feet wide, and the outer wall g
was between 30hnd 40 feet high, and he must have ' sprvfio
across this passage, and either lit on the wall from whence
he let himself down by some means, or else have cleared to
passage and wall both at a jump. In either case the feat 'WA
a most astonishing one, when the breadth of the passt,',s
and the height of the wall is considered, but that such si;ti
the way in which he got out there seems,no doubt, for so,vd
of the slates were found displaced on the roof where he °,,,J
stood, and the marks of his feet were found deeply indent
in a bed of clay, which was close under the gaol wall ni,ter
adjoining orchard, and on which he must have alighted 10 tit
his descent. Johnson, who is an able young fellow, of o°4
29 years of age, was for some time in the Dublin police, I'3o I
was afterwards a porter on the Great Southern and West°,
Itail \Nay, but latterly he gave himself up to robbery
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