The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-01 00:00:00

EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH.

ALL "DICKY" wrrit HIM I A great sensational news-
paper paragraph was made, a week ago, out of the fact that
Mr. Richard Bethell was tapped on his shoulder by a
sheriff's officer while enjoying the sport on Ascot Heath.
His release should be headed in the largest type, "Richard's
himself again."

FOR MR. LEIGH MURRAY'S BENEFIT.—(A day after the
fair.)—Murray's " Guide to the Continent"—Mrs. Leigh
Murray.

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ET LE TAUREAU. —T h e Toulonnais publishe,
a full, true, and particular account of a new steam-ram
called Le Taurean. Making a bull of a ram is surely mak-
ing a bull, indeed.
QUERY.—Please, Sir, do the Black Ball Ships take away
from England the Candidates rejected by different Clubs ?
Sic SEMEER T TRANNI.—PoIand is put down by the
sword. The Emperor says, mockingly, "No dreams !"
How can there be dreams, when Macbeth bath murdered
sleep ?

CONSUMPTION OF FUEL IN FRANCE.—In a paper
addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Becquerel
gives some curious particulars concerning the quantities
of fuel consumed in France at various periods, both for
domestic and manufacturing purposes, taking into ac-
count the increase of population, and the relative
quantities of each kind of fuel, reducing them all to a
common standard, pure carbon, and thus giving the
co-efficients by which a certain quantity of fuel
must be multiplied in order to obtain the number of metri-
cal quintals of carbon producing the same amount of heat
as the combustibles in question. We are told that it was
under the Consular period, from 1801 to 1804, the consump-
tion of wood was the most considerable ; it fell materially
under the Imperial era, rose again under the Restoration,
and declined again from 1826 to 1834. The fall continued
until 1848, to such an extent as to cause much anxiety to
landed proprietors ; but from that period a rise began, and
has been continuing ever since. The consumption of
charcoal increases:in proportion to the population, because
the poor find it cheaper than sea-coal. Nevertheless,
the consumption of the latter has rapidly increased.
The events of 1830 and 1848 slackened this increase
for a while. In 1821, when pit-coal was not yet
in common use for domestic purposes, the amount
of wood consumed was equivalent to 2-16 quintals of pure
carbon. This quantity has been constantly diminishing,
so that in 1861 it was only represented by an equivalent of
0.687 of a quintal of pure carbon, the difference being evi-
dently made up by pit coal. Now, if by any chance the
production of the latter were to decline, it would become
necessary to fetch wood from a great distance in order to
satisfy the wants of the capital, and its price would con -
sequently experience a rise ; but were the clearing of
forests to continuo on the same scale as it now does, the
price of wood would become exorbitant in a very short
time. The great consumption of charcoal induces landed pro-
prietors to cut their wood every 15 or 16 years, and even
oftener, instead of every 18 or 20 years, in order to get more
wood fit for charcoal, and more bark for tanning, the price of
which has doubled. By this means the reserve is de-
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cent. of forest land ; Spain only 3 per cent. ; France has
still 16.7 per cent. left ; and if things continue on the pre-
sent footing a very few years will suffice to reduce it to
the penury of the above-mentioned countries.

A MAN GORED TO DEATH.—OR Tuesday a man
named James Methley, at Barnsley, died from injuries re-
ceived on the previous Sunday by being gored by a bull.
A bull belonging to Mr. Hattersley having got into a fiold
in the occupation of his employers, he went up to put it
out. For that purpose he got hold of the ring attached to
the nose of the bull, when the animal resisted and forced
him down on the ground, and then gored him in a very
savage manner.

The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland entertained
a large and distinguished party at dinner on N 4 ednesday
evening at their residence in St. James's-square.
ADMIRALTY.—Rear-Admiral George G. Wellesley has
been appointed admiral superintendent of Portsmouth
Dockyard, vice Rear-Admiral Elliot, resigned ; Mr. R. S.
Syer has been appointed to be a dockyard clerk at Hong
Kong.