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The Illustralion.—A Portait of Murillo, from a Painting by
self, drawn on stone by H. C. Maguire.

AN ORIGINAL BALLAD BY S. WYLDE.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"To all lovers of the fine arts we recommend the Connoisseur.'"
—Northern Star.
" It ought, and we have no doubt will continue, to receive the
same patronage and extensive circulation which it has hitherto done
among persons of taste in the culture of the arts and sciences."—Cam-
bridge Independent Press.
" For those who take an interest in the fine arts, music, and the drama
—and who does not P—this work will be considered almost indispens-
able."—Durham Chronicle.
"An admirable record of the fine arts, music, and the drama."—
Keeme's Bath Journal.
" We have glanced at many critical journals, but we have met
with none more intimately imbued with the delicious inspirations of
' high art.' "—Edinburgh Weekly Register.
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LONDON IN SEPTEMBER.
Every one you meet at this time of the year seems to
shirk being seen, avoids you as he would a Dun, or the master
of ceremonies at a watering place ; and if you stop him he
drawls about the dullness of town, and declares that he is
only passing through on his way to his shooting quarters.
Now, it is all very fine to descant upon the emptiness of
London, but the fact, is, there are of railway directors alone at
present in town sufficient to people a moderate metropolis ;
and the exertions of the tradespeople augur no diminution of
their habitual business. The front of Barry's shop in Picca-
dilly still teems with piles of those costly luxuries which
would make even Quintin Matsy's misers loose their purse-
strings, and scarce any of those fairy-like fabrics which
abound in his shop are to be found there on the following
day. Amongst his most recent importations is a writing ,
table, on whic lie all appliances and means for authorship or
correspondence—and all this looks " stationary" enough, to
borrow a time honoured jeu de mots, but in the middle a por-
tion of the table is lifted up and reveals an elegant jardiniere
Then he has numbers of couteaux poignards set with st„,
ivory-carved prayer books, with miniatures of chr4act„,
whose praise has been hymned in sacred song, arl. although
designed each and all
all of • these things come from abroad, they ar
s"..iio abhor buying
designed by Barry himself, so that peo
of reflecting that
foreign goods may have• the satisfactio
Of Browne's magnifi-
they are encouraging native talent.
and articles of vertu, of
cente v e
ry scollectionz ad ofde s
er marbles,
ipti
0 iptapi nt,tai
onv-Is us again to speak, and
again to recommend our re :tiers to visit his splendid reposi-
tory of works of art ; and a:ie take this opportunity of renew-
ing our exhortations to them to drive up and pass a morning
in University-streets lest the advice which we gave them on
this subject sow, weeks since should have passed unheeded
during the btlitle and hurry of the waning season. Mr.
Browne's establishment is the storehouse of art ; every
country and every age since the time of Phidias and
Praxiteles has furnished its quota towards this superb
collection. The chefs d'auvre of art seem to have
assembled here by mutual agreements, in order to enable the
"artists in stone" (as Bulwer says), and other more perish-
able materials, to improve their tastes by the contemplation of
these accumulated beauties.
We shall hardly be accused of descending from the sublime
to the ridiculous, if we pass on in re vestiarih, and take a
turn round Doudney's show-rooms in Bond-street or the Bur-
lington-arcade. The Doudney Brothers are indeed "Arcades
Ambo" themselves, and have done well to take up their abode
in an arcadian quarter, instead of wasting their well-cut coats
and quaint variety of waistcoats upon the desert air of Lom-
bard-street. Their short cloaks, with the wide sleeves, are
making a great sensation, and next winter we shall see all the
best-dressed men of the day encasing their persons in these
graceful garments. They have already received the meed of
royal approbation, but their merits and utility will do more for securing the general adoption, even, than the illustrious
patronage which they enjoy. Meantime, Doudney's confrere,
or perhaps we should say competitor, Becker aine, the Schnei-
der of the Rue Neuve des. Petits Champs, is not idle, but
exercises his inventive powers to, the utmost in designing
new fashions for the fastidious Parisians. The goats jaunes
who flaunt and flicker about the Boulevards and Bois de
Boulogne are mostly indebted to Becker aine for their gay
attire, and he rarely fails in pleasing even the most exigeant
and fastidious of his customers. The habit of paying tailors,
which had long fallen into desuetude in Paris, has of late
been revived in this ever-changing eamelion capital,
and the prospect of payment has filled Becker with inspira-
tions which far surpass his previous unpaid proceedings,
Paris, with all its pleiVantries, makes time so gallop withal.
that it is absolutely necessary to have a good clock or watch
to note the fleeting hours ; now, M. Capt, of the Rue d'Alger,
can supply this necessary appendage as well, perhaps better'
than his horological colleagues, and certainly none can com-
pete with him in cheapness. M. Capt does not rely upon his
flighty countrymen for obtaining that accuracy in his time-
piece which has secured for him such wide-spread fame, but
trusts entirely to his workmen at Geneva, where he has an
extensive establishment, in which strict attention is paid to
all the details of the most minute mechanism.—Post.

GREAT SEIZURE of CONTRABAND
GOODS.
A very large seizure has been made by Mr. G. Scanlon AP?,
Mr. D. 11 Watson, searchers of the Customs, and Mr. C. At-
kinson Davis, an extremely,vigilant and active officer, acting
under them for the last few days. In consequente of informa-
asschedes,
wanitdhoaultsrpgaeymannttitoyfotfhF,rerZthnmtohseaiocffiac-erskplivaol'
tion received by Davis that a vast number of" Roman cameos
for
renbrr or
ceeded to the house of a person who called himself Beanvert
to the'
David, in the City-road, a stone-merchant, and after a slight
search, found on the premises 1,610 cameos, of the value of
1,400/, several enamel portraits, mosaic brooches, &c.,
amount in value of 290/. They seized the goods for non-'
payment of duty, amounting to the sum of 3231. 10d. Id., very
much to the discomfiture of Mr. David.
They afterwards proceeded, following up the information,
to the knise of a person named Marvi, whom they knew to
be a constant passenger in steamers between Boulogne and
les:Eldon, and who resides near Golden-square, where they
made a seizure of 73 cameos, of the value, duty included, of
2001. 18s. Upon further and more particular search they
found in the possession of Marvi certain documents, the exa-
mination of which induced them to visit the house of a person
of the name of Creutzer, in Middleton-street, Clerkenwell.
They had not gone far in the gratification or their curiosity
in this place, before they laid their hands upon cameos which
were considered, including the duty, to be worth 1,8641.
Upon the premises of the first-named contraband dealer
they laid their hands upon the boxes in which the above-
mentioned articles had been smuggled over, and upon ques •
tioning Mr. Creutzer and the man who styled himself Beauvot
David, and who it appeared has also the name of Coppa, and
was in charge of the premises in which the cameos were
found, the latter stated that they had been delivered to him
by an unknown agent. The same answer was given by Mr.
Creutzer and Mr. Marvi, and all three were evidently in
the same state of preparation, in case of emergency.
One of the officers, in rumaging Mr. Creutzer 's private
transactions, pulled out a day-book, which had been kept
only since February last, and in the middle of the book were
entries of goods which Creutzer haditeceived to the amount
of 214,000 francs, which had been brought into his custody
without payment of duty, as was palpable from the fact that
he could only produce bills and receipts for the payment of
duty on such goods. as bad been seized to the value of the
paltry sum of 10/.
It may be supposed that the officers examined the books
of Mr. ereutzer with no small degree of curiosity. After a
little while they perceived an entry which led them to the
house of a very well-known and dashing jewellery concern
in Cornhill, where they laid their unhallowed hands upon
73 cameos, set in gold, of the value of about 2001.
The officers are proceeding with an unerring scent, and
their success will, it is believed, be enormous.

A YELP AND PROFITABLE TRADE.—The COnSii-
tutionnel states that a poacher who lives between Vaux and
Villeurbanne, on the road usually taken by sportsmen after
quitting the marshes where the gentry of Lyons are in the
habit of going in search of rail, snipe, &c., has -the following
sign placed above his door, "
Game is here provided for un-
successful sportsmen." The Constitutionnet adds, that the
poacher drives a roaring trade, and is perfectlysatiafied with
the patronage he receives,

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COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTII, Esq.
CONTENTS OF THE OCTOBER NUMBER:—
I. The Viscountess's Vision of the Royal Ball. By Mrs. Gore—
11. Lazy Corner. By Leigh Hunt—lll. Sonnets. By Thomas
Roscoe—lV. Travels and Opinions of Mr. Jolly Green—V. Reform
your Waltzing—Vl. The Robertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trot.
lope—Vll. The Privateersman. By Captain Marryat, R.N.—VIII.
Lights and Shades. By W. 11. Maxwell—lX. Beauchamp. By G.
P. R. James—X. Lords Stowell and Eldon—Xl. Morello—XlL
Buried Alive. By John Oxenford—Xlll. Oracles. By A. B. Reach
—XIV. Sonnets. By A. Winter-.-XV. Literature.
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I.llE' CONNOISSEUR, a MONTHLY
RECORD 'of' the FINE ARTS, MUSIC, and the DRAM.
' Contents of No. VII.:—
Royal Academy of Arts—!The Prima Donna—Decline of the
Drantia—British Archwological Institute—The Fine Arts Commis-
sion—Shaksperian Critics—Conservatoire de Paris, &c.—Grand
Prix de Rome—Dramatic and Musical Summary--Correspondence—
Miscellaneous, &c.