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

THAMES.

A DESPERATE OFFENDER.—MichaeI Lynch, a well-
known thief, was brought up on remand before Mr. Part-
ridge, charged with violently assaulting Joseph Cummings,
a labourer, and breaking his leg.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, said a friend of his was in
court, whc could identify the prisoner as having attacked
him and stolen his watch,

A police constable said the prisoner was also wanted fur
entering a shop and committing a robbery therein.
Mr. Partridge said there was only one charge entered on
the police-sheet before him, and he would hear that first.
It appeared from the evidence of Cummings that on the
21st of August last, he was in Dock-street, Whitechapel,
with a woman named Mary Ann Bryant, "He was not
sober and he was not drunk, but only half and half." This
definition was received with some derisive laughter. He
then proeeeded to state that three or four men came up and
threatened him, and one of them hit him on the back of the
head and he fell. While he was on the ground with his leg
across the kerbstone a man jumped on it and broke it. He
never saw the man before, and was not certain whether the
prisoner was the man or not. He lost his cap and handker.
chief.

Mary Ann Bryant, who said she obta:ned a living by
hawking fruit in the streets, and had lived 20 years in one
place, deposed that the prisoner Lynch was the man who
knocked down the prosecutor, and then seized him by the
hair of tho head.

Mr. Partridge—Now, describe in what way the prosecu-
tor was assaulted, and be very particular about it.
Witness—Lynch ran across the road, caught him by the
hair of the head, and knocked him down. He got up again,
and the prisoner gave him the leg and threw him. I am
certain Lynch is the man.
Evidence was given that the prisoner was several weeks
in custody while Cummings was in custody, and was even•.
tually released on his own recognisance to appear and answer
the charge. He did not do so, and afterwards committed
several daring robberies. He was apprehended on the night
of Monday the 23d ult. by Francis Kelly, 130 H, on a
charge of stealing a watch. The prisoner had been since
remanded twice, and all the charges of robbery and aqiaults
not being complete, the prisoner was again remanded until
Tuesday next.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of home-grown wheat fresh up to this morn-
ing's market were small. Both for red and white qualities
the trade ruled firm, and Moneay's advance in the cur-
rency was well supported.
With foreign wheat the market was by no means exten-
sively supplied. In all descriptions a fair average business
was transacted at the extreme rates of Monday last.

Floating cargoes of grain ruled firm, and prices had an
upward tendency.

The supply of barley was tolerably large. Good and
fine malting parcels sold steadily at full currencies. In-
ferior produce, however, was a slow sale on former terms.
Malt changed hands slowly at previous quotations.
The supply of oats on sale was moderate. On the whole,
the trade ruled firm at full prices.
Beans and peas were in steady request, and the quota-
tions had an improved tendency.
In flour a fair average business was transacted at full
currencies.

ARRIVALS THIS VICEIC.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Float.
English.— 910 I 1,420 i 1390 430 2,190
iiii:oishreign" **
..
:: .... 7,4; 2,581° 117,710 600 eke,
4,260 brls.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade
rules firm, at our quotations :7

Per Slb. by the carcase.

ad ad • @dad
Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 2 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 4
Middling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime d 0....... 4 6 4 8
Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 Vea1........... 3 8 4 6
Darg .
smalle pork .. 3 4 3 1
d 0... 4 2 440
Lamb ........ 0 t 1 0 0 Small Pork
Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 4 0 4 4

BOROUGH HOP.
We have to report a
.steady demand for English hops,
and prices rule firm. Fine foreign parcels move off freely,'
at extreme rates, and the value ot inferior foreign produce
is well supported. The imports_are moderately large, but
Os to 6 Oa ~
the supplies Are at present chiefly derived from the Con-
Os to 3 10a „
tinent.
5s to 8 Os ~
New Mid and East Bents'' £4 10s to £8 lOs per owt.
New Weald of Bents' • 5 Os to 6 5,
New Golding ........6 6s to 6 lOs
3533
lOs to 3Ms „
New Sussex ........ 4 lOs to 6 68 ~
880Year1ing5ea1divg5air.ai..............................;
............
American ......... P 5 '513 to 6 Q 3 Is

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COLONIAL.
TBA.—The public sales have continued to progress
very slowly, and prices have shown a decline of Id to 2d
per lb.
SUGAl..—There has been very little business transacted,
and a large quantity of West India announced for public
sale has been withdrawn, holders showing little disposition
to reouce prices. In the refined market common lumps
quoted 52s per cwt.
COFFEE.—Only a moderate amount of business has been
in raisins, currants, and figs have
reported in Colonial Plantation; Ceylon, however, has been
rather cheaper.
RICE.—Owing to the high rates demanded by holders 1
the operations have been restricted to a few parcels for home
Bold by
on band, well maintained.
ebenFenslutungli.itii—tendT.,hteadheinalginignto consideration the season of the
year, cud pticos generally have shown less firmness.
G ltF, EN Fay IT.—f he tale of oranges continues good, and
Keeling and Hunt
PSlOimcees,pcaornceslidseSritn. gMitchheagell,a.uTteirtyceira, Fayal, Valencia, Lis-
iethhosmeaoybtbaeingeduoltaesdt
SeMlilciislcu;Peoirted. Almeria grapes, of
Lis-
bon, Seville, China, and
at public sale, went a prices equ,alwtho
hwiegehke,r,exeeptin excepting
Spanishfnour
nuts
St.
fine quality, realise a high figure. A small cargo of Bilboa
arrived. French walnuts in moderate demand ; a good
crop is reported.
TALLow.—Market continues dull, very little business
being transacted, either for present or for ward delivery.
P.Y.C. on the sect is quoted 41s, and Ppr!ng delivery 423
le cwt,

THE FINANCIAL STATE OF FRANCE.

The Moniteur publishes M. Achille Fonld's offi-
cial statement of the actual position of the finances
of France.

We translate this important document in extenso.
" REPORT TO THE EMPEROR.
" 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 me 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
presentaton to the Legislative body of the projects
which do not differ essentially from those of the
Budgets voted for 1861.
" A Bill for euppletnentary 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 ditties 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 for 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 bee❑ stopped. The un-
favourab:e iofluence 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 the 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 develope the
prosperity of the country, and which will develope
it still more.
"As regards the Budget of 1864 the resources
realised will exceed! 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 oar 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 normell proportions.
"This operation will not throw new burdens
upon the Treasury, as the interests of the fluting
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 hand,
have 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 11Iexico, 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 suff4rs 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
hindrauce to commerce.
" A regards myself, Sire, I had entertained the
hope that I need not have opened the ledger (grand
litre), and it is not without mature reflf ction 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 a
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.
Our deficit would thus be reduced to 672 millions.
" The floating debt will remAill beneath
slower than
the collection of taxes. The sums due to the Trea-
sury exceed 600 millions.
She more easily settled
" This debt will be all
when we have succeeded in the steps which we
have taken to obtain repaY went for what we have
advanced to Mexico."

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* This includes the credits carried over from IS6I to
1*62, and from 1862 to 186.3.

The Saturday Review is certainly very delightful.
it
goes
up to a great stately reputation and smacks
it iu the face! This very week, for example, it says—
,. The Edinburgh Review is now about the most ponderous,
timid, and conventional organ of London 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."
BIstIOP BLOMFIELVS Chesterford Reminiscences
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
'em milk 4"