The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

THh SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY ,EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1863.

CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.)

OLD COURT.
BURGLARY.

Charles Wright, aged 28, fitter, was indicted for bur-
glariously entering the dwelling-house of David Lyon,
Arundel-square, Islington, with intent, &c.
On the 28th of October the prosecutor and his wife were
awoke from their sleep by hearing a noise of breaking of
glass, and soon after they heard the window on the landing
raised, and afterwards shut down again, and then some one
proceed down stairs. On the prosecutor getting up and
proceeding to the drawing-room he there found the
prisoner hiding behind the sofa. The prisoner
had not, owing to the rapidity with which he was followed,
time to remove anything. A police-constable was sen for,
and he was given into custody. The prisoner's defence was
that he was so drunk that he did not know what he was
doing when he entered the prosecutor's house. He further
said it would be most ridiculous for him to have entered
the house without lucifer matches if he had intended to have
committed a robbery.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
No former conviction being proved.
The Recorder sentenced him to nine months' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST Two RESPECT-
ABLE PERSONS.—Mr. Win. Winchester, tailor, of Mad-
dox-street, Regent-street, and Mr. Charles Edmonds, of
Brown street,Edgware •road, were charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing from the person of Susan Stroud, a licensed
hawker, of 6, Selby-mews, Portman-square, the sum of 4s.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the accused gentlemen.
The prosecutrix said that on the previous night while on
her way home through Oxford-street, Winchester seized
hold of her and Edmonds grasped her dress. and then ran
away, and she missed 4s. from her pocket. Winchester
would not let her pursue the other man. On a policeman
coming up she gave Winchester into custody, and eubse
quently the other.
Mr. Lewis cross-examined the prosecutrix in a most
searching manner, and at considerable length, in the course
of which she admitted that she had been in custody twice
charged with felony, and several times for being drunk, but
said she was not convicted. She might have been iu cus-
tody other times, but did not remember it, and she was
always being looked after by Sergeant White, of the D
division. She had never been charged with robbing chil-
dren of their clothes. She did not know what felony
meant without it was stealing. She had been to see a
respectable servant home, and had two pints of ale with her
at a public house, and stayed till it was closed. She did
not know whether her friends paid the person she was once
charged with robbing the money that she should not
appear—but she did appear, and she was discharged.
She thought the man who grasped her dress and took her
money was like Edmonds.
Benjamin Leadsmen, 83 D, said on going to the spot he
found Mr. Winchester held by the prisoner, and she at
once charged him with stealing 4s. from her, saying that
he held her while the other grasped her dress and took the
4s. out of her pocket. He told Mr. Winchester that he had
better go to the station, and subsequently the other prisoner
to Mr. Lewis, the constable said ho knew the
prosecutor
answerafs given into custody.
In aor years, and to be out late at nights. He had
u
dgtM wr. Winchester to be a master tailor in Maddox-
street, and and a highly respectable person.
Mr. Knox said it appeared to him to be an impudent lie
got up by the woman ; she could not have known how
pinch Ale had lost, as the constable found her holding Mr.
Winchester when he came up. He should discharge both
the accused, who would leave the court without the
slightest stain on their character.
Mr. Edmonds said that he had never seen Mr. Winches-
ter before he was given into custody.

The accused then left the court. -
STBILING MARKED MONEY.—SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY.
Samuel Knapp, a young man in the employ of Mr. John
Fletcher, baker, 12, Nassau-street, was charged before Mr.
Knox with stealing some marked money from the till of his
employer.

From the evidence of Richard Aylett, 192 C, it appeared
that, about 11 o'clock the previous night, he went to Mr.
Fletcher's, and in consequence of what Mr. Fletcher in-
formed him, he marked a quantity of money, consisting of
threepenny and fourpenny pieces and copper, and placed it
in the till. He then concealed himself in a kitchen level
with the shop, and, some time after, he heard the shop door
close, and on stepping from .his hiding-place and asking
the prisoner what he did there, he replied " Who are you?"
Having told the prisoner he was a police constable, he asked
what money he had about him, and on his turning out the
contents of his pocket, 55. 4id. in marked money was found
upon him, which the prisoner admitted was " the
governor's." He then took him into custody, and on
searching his box he found a bag containing 78. worth of
farthings and seven pots of jam.
Mr. Fletcher said that he saw the constable mark the
money produced. It was the practice to leave the coppers
and the threepenny and fourpenny pieces in the till all
night, rad it was in consequence of money being continually
missed that he communicated with the police. He believed
the prisoner had been systematically robbing him.
Remanded.

THE FINANCIAL STATE OF FRANCE.

The 2lfoniteur publishes M. Achille Fonla's offi-
cial statement of the actual position of the finances
of France.

We translate this important document in extenso.

" REPORT TO THE EMPEROR

" Sire,--I lay before you a statement of the finan-
cial condition of the country, and submit to your
Majesty for your appreciation a measure which it
appears to rno necessary. The nature of my propo-
sal will justify the delay which has occurred in pre-
senting it to the Emperor.

"The Council of State has under consideration
the ordinary and extraordinary Budgets of 1865.

" Its labours are so far advanced that I can
already announce to your Majesty the proximate
presentatvin to the Legislative body of the projects
which do not differ essentially from those of the
Budgets voted for 1861.
"A Bill for supplementary credits amounting to
93 millions, of which 63 millions are for the army
and navy estimates, and about 30 for the finances,
has been laid before the Legislative body,
" The estimates for the army and navy depart-
ments are chiefly intended to cover the supplemen-
tary expenses caused in 1863 by the war in Mexico.
" The sum asked for by the Minister of Finances,
destined chiefly to provide for the insufficiency of
the credit opened as premium for the exportation of
sugars, is only the compensation of the duties levied
on importation.
" As regards these outlays there are 50 millions
of resources assured by the recent laws which have
settled the agreements with the railway companies.
These agreements have rendered disposable bonds
to the amount of about 17 millions, and 1,430,000 f.
rentes. They are derived from the reimbursement
made by the companies ; the rentes being destined
for the allowances (subventions), which, from the
agreements I have alluded to, have been converted
into annuities.

" The excess of the credits to be asked fur extra-
ordinary expenses will be 43 millions.
" It is to this sum of 43 millions that the deficit
of the budget of 1863 will be reduced, although
the indirect revenues do not promise to reach the
expectations of the rectifying Budget. The political
anxiety which has weighed throughout the whole
year on public business has been especially felt upon
the registration of landed property ; but the differ-
ence will probably be compensated with some re-
turns and by an improvement in certain branches
of the revenue.
" Nevertheless, if the movement of progress has
been slackened, it has not been stopped. The un-
favourable influence of circumstances would have
been more seriously felt if there had not been such
an abundant harvest and the recent monetary em-
barrassments which I trust will shortly be removed
would have been much more serious if we had been
compelled to purchase the necessaries of life in
foreign countries.
" The result of the Budget of 1862 is known. I
had announced that the deficit would amount to 35
millions. It will be below that figure, and the deficit
of the year will scarcely exceed 32 millions. Adding
to that deficit what may possibly be farseen for
1863, we come to a maximum of 75,000,000 f.
"The extraordinary expenses occasioned by the
Mexican war in the years 1862 and 1863, the ac-
counts of which have been made up to the Ist of
January next, and sent to the Mexican Govern-
ment, amount to 210 millions. To this must be
added the expenses caused during the same year by
the occupation of Cochin-China and the presence of
troops and ships of war in other parts of the ex-
treme East. Those expenses may be estimated at
60 millions. Our war expenses have been, there-
fore, 270 millions.
"The deficit of these two years being only 75
millions, there is a difference of 192 millions, more
than half of which has been provided for by the
surplus of the ordinary revenue.
"This result allows us to look with more gratifi-
cation (securite) upon the general condition of our
finances, as it has been obtained without any re-
laxation in our public works, granted in 1862, with
121 millions, and in 1863 with 125 millions.*
" This is a proof of tee facility with which we can
support all the ordinary charges of our Budgets,
and even largely support great enterprises which
have so powerfully contributed to develops the
prosperity of the country, and which will develope
it still more.
"As regards the Budget of 1864 the resources
realised will exceed 4 the provisions agreed upon
between the Government and the Legislative Body.
This surplus will diminish the estimates which
the maintenance of our troops in Mexico might ren-
der necessary in case the negotiations entered into
with the Mexican Government should not respond
to the expectations of your Majesty.
" Whatever confidence I may entertain in this
respect it is, nevertheless, my duty to call the Em-
peror's attention to the importance of our deficits.
The deficits of 1862 and of 1863 are not great if we
consider the extraordinary calls that were made ;
but, added to our former deficits, they amount to
972 millions. This amount exceeds the figure which
prudence ought to allow, and it is necessary to re-
duce it, by the consolidation of a portion of the
floating debt to normali proportions.
"This operation will not throw new burdens
upon the Treasury, as the interests of the floating
debt will be relieved of the amount, which will be
carried over to the Budget, for the interests of the
consolidated debt.
" I had fancied that it might have been possible
to avoid this necessity, and that a prompt solution
of the affairs of Mexico might, on the one ha nd,
kayo limited our expenses to a sum less than what
we have expended, and, on the other hand, effected
by a loan contracted with Mexico the reimburse-
ment of our advances. But, despite the confidence
which we entertain of seeing a regular form of
government established in Mexico, we cannot place
the safety of our finances upon its settlement of the
debt to us.
"It must also be admitted that the floating debt,
when it is out of proportion with the ordinary re-
sources which supply it, costs more than the con-
solidated debt, and that it is not without disturb-
ing the general transactions of the country that
capital is sought for by the State at a high rate of
interest. Every branch of commerce cuff .irs from
it, and, instead of reducing the rate of interest,
which ought to be the case, the Treasury helps to

raise it.
"Everyone will understand how important it is
to shield the State against inopportune claims
which would compel it to have recourse to onerous
operations which might compromise public credit.
" Such a state of affairs is a cause of anxiety and
hindrance to commerce.
" A regards myself, Sire, I had entertained the
hope that I need not have opened the ledger (grand
lzvre), and it is not without mature refltction that I
submit to your Majesty the proposal of reducing the
floating debt by an appeal to credit.
" This loan differs from ordinary loans in this
favourable sense, that as the produce is to be em-
ployed for the repayment of Treasury Bonds issued,
it will return an equal sum for circulation. It is
transformation, not an increase of debt.
" The amount of the loan remains to be considered.
I propose to your Majesty to fix it;at 300 millions.
Oar deficit would thus be reduced to 672 millions.
" The floating debt will remain beneath that sum,
because the settlement of debts is always slower than
the collection of taxes. The sums due to the Trea-
sury exceed 600 millions.
" This debt will be all the more easily settled
when we have succeeded in the steps which we
have taken to obtain repayment for what we have
advanced to Mexico."

* This includes the credits called over from 1861 to
1,-62, and from 1862 to 1863.

The Saturday Review is certainly very delightful.
It goes up to a great stately reputation and smacks
it in the face I
This very week, for example, it says—
" The Fdinburgh Renew is now about the most ponderous,
timid, and conventional organ of L;ndon Whig society.
The old Scotch devil is quite gone out of it, and we must
own that the substituted London devils do not appear to us
to be an improvement."
BISHOP BLOMFIELD'S Chesterford R-:miniscenci4
included among them the answer of a school-boy, who, on
being asked what was meant in the Catechism by succour-
ing his father and mother, replied promptly, " Giving on
'era milk,"