The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

LONDOS 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 which 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 stones,
ivory-carved prayer books, with miniatures of characters,
whose praise hae been hymned in sacred song, and although
all of these things come from abroad, they are each and all
deigned by Barry himself, so that people who abhor buying
foreign goods may have the satisfaction of reflecting that
they are encouraging native talent. Of Browne's magnifi-
cent collection of marbles, paintiugs, and articles of vertu, of
every size and description, it behoves us again to speak, and
again to recommend our readers to visit his splendid reposi-
tory of works of art; and we take this opportunity of renew-
ing our exhortations to them to drive up and pass a morning
inUniversity-street, lest the advice whish we gave them on
this subject some weeks since should have passed unheeded
during the bustle 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'oeuvre 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 be., 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 vestiaria, and tales 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 lay encasing their persons in these
graceful garments. They have already received the meed of
royal approbation, but their merits and utility will do more
tbr securing the general adoption, even, than the illustrious
p ...
-. •lortage which they enjoy. Meantime, Doudney's cenfrere,
er 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 pants Bois
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 camelion capital,
and the prospect of payment has filled Becker with inspira-
tions which far sat pass his previous unpaid proceedings,
Paris, with all its plea. entries, 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 corn-
pate with him in cheapness. M. Capt dots not rely upon his
flighty countrymen for obtaining that accuracy in his time-
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GREAT SEIZURE of CONTRABAND
GOODS.

A very, large seizure has been made by Mr. G. Scanlon and
Mr. D. H 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 consequence of informa-
tion received by Davis that a vast number of Roman cameo,
for brooches, and a large quantity of French mosaic work had
been passed without payment of the duty, the officers pro-
ceeded to the house of a person who called himself Beauvot
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., to the
amount in value of 290/. They seized the goods for non-
payment of duty, amounting to the sum of 323/. 10d. Id , very
much to the discomfiture of Mr. David.
They afterwards proceeded, following up the information,
to the house of a person named Marvi, whom they knew to
be a constant passenger in steamers between Boulogne and
London, and who resides near Golden-square, where they
made a seizure of 73 cameos, of the value, duty included, of
200/. 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 bad 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 jniddle of the book were
entris of goods which Creutzer hailloceived 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 had been seized to the value of the
paltry sum of 10/.
It may be supposed that the officers examined the books
of Mr. Creutzer with no small degree of curiosity. After a
little while they perceived an entry which led them to the
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A NEW AID PROFITABLE TRADE.—The Consti-
tutionnel states that a poacher vilio lives between Vaux and
Villearbanne, on the road u,tially taken by sportsmen after
quitting the marshes where the gentry of Lyons are in the
habit of goingin search of rail, snipe, &c., has the following
sign placed above his door, " Game is here provided for un-
successful sportsmen." The Constitutioftnes adds, that the
poacher drives a roaring trade, and is perfectly satisfied -with
the patronage he receives.