The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-08 00:00:00

TILE SETS, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1865.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Hazlitt.)
IN RE J. F. ANDREWS-A CHASE TO AMERICA AFTER A

BANKRUPT.

This bankrupt was described as a coal factor, of Fen-
church-street, and his debts are stated'to be over £70,000,
with assets at present not ascertained. It is alleged that
the bankrupt has absconded to America, and Mr. Beard, as
attorneyto the petitioning creditor, has despatched Haydon,
the well-known detective, in pursuit. Mr. Cutt (Ricketts,
Smith, and Co.) was chosen trade assignee.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Ifolroyd.)
IN RE SANSON.

This bankrupt was described as a clerk in the Queen's
Bench, and to-clay he came up for the order of discharge
upon debts of £3,000, with a deficiency of £2,000. Tho
case stood over for the bankrupt to make a proposal to his
creditors.

IN (RE CAPTAIN CURGENWEN-A CAPTAIN IN A MILITARY

TRAIN.

This bankrupt was described as a captain in her Ma-
jesty's Military Train now stationed at Woolwich, and he
came up to pass his last examination upon accounts, show-
ing debts to £5,200, with a deficiency of £3,403. This
bankrupt states the cause of his failure to be the high rat©
of interest charged upon bills and the accumulation of
interest thereon. In the list of property held by creditors
are the bankrupt's commission and two retriever dcgs (less
their keep).
Mr. Sydney appeared for the assignees, and Mr Brough
suppOrted.
The bankrupt stated that he had paid 60 per cent. interest
for his bills. His pay was £lBO per annum, and he lived
at the rate of £6OO to £7OO per annum.
His Honour adjourned the case for a cash account.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE H. COLEMAN-M. BLONDIN'S TREASURER.

This bankrupt, described as a Wine merchant, of the
West-end and elsewhere, again came before the Court to-
day. The case has been already thoroughly ventilated,
and as no new points are involved, it was understood that
a final order would be made.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

SERVANTGALISM EXTRAORDINARY.-AXFON V. BEADEL.

This was an action to recover wages actually earned,
and one month's wages in lieu of the customary notice,
plaintiff being a domestic cook, and defendant the well
known auctioneer, of 25, Gresham-street, and Romford.
Plaintiff detailed the list of her grievances, and deposed
that upon a certain night defendant had a dinner at his
country house at Romford, and after the dinner was all
over Mrs. Beadel gave plaintiff a little drop of gin, which
slightly excited her. Mr. Beadel came down into the
kitchen, took,plaintiff by the wrists, and removed her with
much force from the house. He hurt her very much, in-
deed, and she had done nothing to provoke him.
His Honour asked Mr. Beadel if he would like to explain
the matter ?

Mr. Beadel—Certainly, sir. I may state the conduct of
the plaintiff exceeded anything I had ever previously wit-
nessed. It is quite true that we had a dinner party on the
night in question, and all passed off very well until half-
past 11, when the cook refused to go to bed. (Laughter.)
My wife reasoned with her, but in vain, and although
her fellow-servants had retired to rest, she most
determinedly declined to follow their example. I went
down and reasoned with her, but she said she meant to en-
joy herself. (Renewed laughter.) I gave her till 12 o'clock,
and then her conduct became so outrageous that I took her
by the wrists and made her go with me to the nearest
police station, where, she being intoxicated, I left her in
charge, handing her half a sovereign to get her a bed in
some respectable place.
His Honour—Then she was ,intoxicated ?
Plaintiff—She was indeed. She asked me if I had ever
heard anybody scream—(great laughter)—and she said that
she once screamed " Murder" in Romford Park till she was
hoard a mile off. (Renewed laughter.) I had no wish to
have a specimen of her powers at my house, but she
threatened to give me one.
Plaintiff—The missis gave me a drop of gin.
His Honour—That would not have affected you in the
way described.
Defendant—She lit three lamps and six candles, and
insisted on having them all burning at the same time.
(Great laughter.) Under all the circumstances I did what
I considered right and proper. I gave her 10s., and have
paid 7s. into court, that being more than the witges actu-
ally earned.
His Honour—You have done more than you need have
done.

Plaintiff—And he gave the policeman a glass of gin.
Defendant—He had some trouble with you. You came
to my office about two days after the affair, and wanted to
show me then how you could scream out "murder," saying
you were always good for half a mile. (Laughter.) I was
obliged to tell one of my clerks to show her down stairs.
Plaintiff—He said he would be master over everybody.
Defendant—ln the excitement of the moment perhaps I
said I must be master in my own house.

His Honour—And very naturally. I think plaintiff has
acted with great forbearance, and he is fully entitled to
the verdict in this case. Verdict for plaintiff, who declined
+.o accept any costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING A JEWELLED VINAIGRETTE.—WiIIiam West, a
young man described as a painter, living in East-street,
Manchester-square, was charged before Mr. Yardley with
stealing an antique gold and jewelled vinaigrette, the pro-
perty of Colonel Francis Mountjoy Martyn, of 33, Ber-
keley-square.
Caroline Baldwin, servant to Mr. William Swindell, of
the Tottenham-court-road, said that yesterday afternoon
the prisoner showed .her the vinaigrette, stating that he
had picked it up in Portman-square. Ho said he did not
know whether it was gold, and asked her to take it to a
shop and see, and she did so, when the person detained her
and took her to the police-station, where she stated how it
came into her possession.

Caroline Galsworthy, lady's maid in the family of Col.
Mountjoy Martyn, deposed that on Tuesday she replaced
the vinaigrette on a table in the drawing-room after it had
been cleaned by a person from Messrs. Storr and Morti-
mer's. Yesterday the:prisoner was engaged at the house
in replacing the window blinds.
Wm. Penton, assistant to Mr. Lawley, pawnbroker, of
South-street, Manchester-square, said that on the vinai-
grette being presented to him by the first witness he ques-
tioned her, and then took her to the police station. The
value of the vinaigrette was £lO, but it cost a great deal
more.

Police-constable George King, 76 D, a plain-clothes
officer, said the prisoner told him that he found the vinai-
grette opposite the door of a house in Danes-street, and on
asking him where he had been at work, he said at 19, Ber-
keley-square. He (King) then made inquiries, and after-
wards apprehended the prisoner, when he again denied
stealing the article.
Having been cautioned by Mr. Yardley, the prisoner said
that all he had to say was that he found the vinaigrette on
the street.
Mr. Yardley committed him for trial.

brokers based the full charges under the Act of Parliament
on the tenants.

Mr. Partridge—ls the rent under £2O ?

Mr. Branwoll—Yes, sir.
_ _

Mr. Partridge read several clauses of the Act of Parlia-
ment, and said the words were very large. He granted
the summons.

THE END or MY HoLThAvs.—William Bebby, a labourer,
was charged with attempting to commit suicide.
William Brown, a waterman, of No. 1, Rosby's-rope-
walk, Limehouse, saw the prisoner walk into the Thames
at Limehouse-hole, and proceed until the water reached the
top of his chest. lie thought the prisoner was having a
bathe with his clothes on, to cool himself this warm
weather, but he suddenly threw himself on his back, and
was floating down with the tide, and would have been car-
ried under the swim of a barge and drowned, if he had not
got into a boat and pulled him out of the river. The
prisoner said, " This is the end of my holidays," and was
drunk, or he would not have acted so foolish as he did.
The prisoner said he had been holiday making, and was
intoxicated when he went into the water.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

Forests in France.

In a highly interesting paper addressed to the
French Academy of Sciences, M. Becquerel examines
the subject of forests both as to their commercial
importance and as to their influence on climate.
For this purpose he casts a rapid glance at the
effects produced by the destruction of forests from
the remotest ages to our time. Forests existed on
the globe long before the appearance of man, a fact
proved by the immense coal deposits which are to
be found in every part of it, even in the polar
regions. These deposits consist of Equisetacea,
Sigillaria, &c., &c., particularly also of ferns of
the size of trees, instances of which are now only
to be met with under the tropics. In most parts
of the old continent the primitive life of man was
passed in forests, and increase of population was
the cause of the first attacks upon them ; but the
greatest devastations only date from the periods
when great conquerors cut down or burnt the
forests in which the peoples they wanted to
subdue had taken refuge. From the Ganges to the
Euphrates, from that to the Mediterranean, an ex-
tent of ground 1,000 leagues in length, and several
hundred broad, was ravaged by wars during the
lapse of thirty centuries. Nineveh and Babylon,
so celebrated for their civilisation, Palmyra and
Balbeck, renowned for their opulence, now offer
nothing but ruins to the exploring gaze of the tra-
veller, in the midst of deserts and swamps once
covered by luxuriant forests. From the time of
Sesostris to that of Mahomet 11. Asia Minor was
a constant scene of unrelenting wars leading to
similar results. The land of Canaan, so highly
praised in the Bible, is now little more than a
desert, and the whole coast of Africa along the
Mediterranean tells a similar story. Turning from
historical considerations to the present- state of
forests in France, the learned author tells us that
from official statistics it appears that France has a
surface of 52,768,610 hectares (2i acres each). Of
this, 8,804,550 hectares are covered with forests ;
pasture-land comprises 21,729,102 hectares, and the
ground not devoted to tillage, and therefore covered
by towns and villages, 2,920,217 hectares. In 1860
the domainal forests were reduced to an extent of
1,077,046 hectares, including 40,716 hectares of new
plantations. At present this number has risen to
1,100,000 hectares, exclusive of 67,185 hectares
granted as a donation to the Crown. From 1820 to
1864 the surface of forest-land cleared was 665,363
hectares, and for the last 16 years permissions have
been granted to clear about 15,000 hectares per an-
num. To these must be added about 9,000 hectares
cleared without permission, and with some other items
the surface annually cleared comprises about 31,000
h ectares. The surface replanted does not amount to
more than 10,000 hectares, few of which have been
stocked with the more valuable kinds, such as oak,
teak, &c., these species being of much slower growth
than firs and similar sorts.

THE FRENCH CORPS LEGISLATIF.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
DEBATE ON THE BUDGET.

PARIS, June 6.
The general debate on the Budget was continued
to-day.

M. TRIERS expressed his regret that, on entering
into this grave discussion, he was unable to reply at
once both to the reporter of the commission and to
one of the representatives of the Government ; but
was willing to give place to the Minister if one of
their number desired to speak before him.

M. VUITRY, President of the Council of State,
replied that at that moment the Government had
nothing to add to what had been so well said during
the last sitting by the reporter, in defence of the
propositions of the commission, which were those of
the Government.

M. TIIIERS said that after this declaration it was
to the Government as well as to the commis-
sion that he was about to reply. The reporter
had endeavoured to show that, in point of fact, the
division of the budget into ordinary, extraordinary,
and rectificative,under the appellation of supplemen-
tary credits, had existed formerly as well as at the
present time. That was true, but what vas formerly
admissible to a certain extent was no longer so in a
different degree. Yes, there had been formerly an
extraordinary budget, but not in its present form.
In 1840, under grave circumstances, the vigilance
of the country was directed towards the means of
national defence ; moreover, this was the time when
the railway mania carried away the European public.
Hence numerous works were undertaken in order
to fortify Paris, Lyons, and Cherbourg ; to insure
supplies by sea, and to satisfy the desires of the
country, which demanded large lines of railway ;
but at that time, in place of creating a separate
budget, it was found sufficient to open in each par-
ticular budget a special head termed extraordinary
service. There was nothing at all similar in the present
extraordinary budget destined to relieve the ordinary
budget of excessive burdens. As to the rectificative
budget, it was also true that it existed formerly,
under the name of supplementary credits, but these
were far from possessing the importance they had
acquired since. It was likewise true that this was
not the first time redeemable loans had been con-
tracted for the profit of extraordinary works, but
here again it was a question of extent. The fault he
found with the great works of the present day was
their exaggeration and their precipitancy. To per-
severe in such a course, he repeated, was advancing,
not precisely towards bankruptcy, but upon a course
which would render it impossible to fulfil the en-
gagements of the country. After reverting to the
past, which he did, not as a party man, but as a
representative of the country, jealous of her honour
and prosperity, M. Thiers reproduced in de-
tail the questions he had brought forward
at a previous sitting. Was it true or not
that they had budgets amounting to two milliards
and two or three hundred millions ? Did they pos-
sess the necessary resources to meet that expendi-
ture ? No, all the regular resources at their com-
mand consisted of 1,950 millions arising from
taxation, to which had to be added every year from
250 to 260, sometimes 300, millions, proceeding
from the liquidation of more or less disguised loans,
or from what had been already termed chance re-
sources. M. Thiers then went on to examine these
different resources, and concluded by saying that
repudiation or " Mexican Money" was a method of
settlement unworthy of the budget of France. All
this would definitely resolve itself into the floating
debt. Now, the floating debt would already amount
next year to 900 millions. So that, after all, it '
would be in the great book that all this would
have to be entered. But it was said he
pointed out the evil without indicating any re-
medy. The speaker then called to mind that he
had specified four sources of possible reduction—
viz., redemption, the army, the public works, and
the Mexican expedition. If they liked he would
dive up the question of redemption, but must per-
sist in his doubts as to the possibility of effecting
great savings in the army. It was for the Govern-
ment to explain itself clearly upon that point. But
with respect to the public works and Mexico, he
still believed that prudent and important resolutions
might be taken. The power of the country reposed
upon two bases, its finances and its army, to defend
which he (M. Thiers) had devoted his life. With
rapidity and energy, it would be always possible to
meet the military requirements of France, but good
finances could not be improvised. It was, there-
fore, towards the financial situation that the solici-
tude of the country should be directed.
M. Vuitry, Minister, President of the Council of
State, replied that when he heard M. Thiers speak
of his love for the two great elements of the power
of the country, the finances and the army, he
thought it impossible to avoid reverting to the
glorious use which had been made of these two
powerful resources by the Imperial Government for
the last 12 years. A Government which was able
to appreciate to that extent what they were worth,
and what they could produce, could always hus-
band those resources.

The debate had now reached a point when it was
necessary to circumscribe the questions and draw
them within a narrower compass.
M. Vuitry first examined the critical remarks
which had been made upon the present division of
the budget into several special budgets. Was this
division, then, a complication, as had been said ?
Why, a few simple additions of the receipts and
expenditure would suffice to give the true financial
situation of the country. That discussion was in
the nature of things. Was the object thereof to
conceal the exaggerated expenditure ? What inte-
rest could the Government having in so doing ? The
speaker then went on to advocate the necessity of
this division of the budget into budgets ordinary,
special, extraordinary, and rectificative, but denied
that there was any fifth budget, that of liquidation.
It had no existence. Relative to the redemption of
the debt, after calling to mind that the reserve of
the redemption instead of being allowed to accu-
mulate, had long before the existence of the present
Government been appropriated, at least in part,
either to the great public works, or to the ordinary
budget. The speaker declared that the Imperial
Government did not dissimulate this irregularity and
temporal nature of the redeemable loans which had
been contracted, and that it was the desire and aim
of the Government to arrive at a situation
whereby a surplus of receipts would admit of re-
storing the redemption to the regular routine. The
speaker next went on to explain in detail the real
state of the two budgets, which might be termed
the budgets now in course, namely, those of 1864
and 1865. That for 1864 would only show a
deficit of from 22 to 25 millions, and that for 1865,
according to the results of the first quarter, would
probably present a surplus of receipts of about two
millions. In comparing the ordinary budgets for
the last four years-1862-65--it would be found
that the amount of ordinary receipts had exceeded
that of the ordinary expenditure by 93 millions,
whereas the increase of ordinary expenditure had
only been four millions. Was that, therefore, a
position to call for uneasiness as to the future? The
Government had been asked if it considered it pos-
sible to make reductions in the army. To this the
Government would frankly reply that, in its opinion,
the interest of the country did not permit of the
effective forces being reduced to less than 400,000
men. On comparing the extraordinary budgets of
the last four years, it appeared that the extraordi-
nary expenditure had been continually diminishing.
With regard to the resources furnished by Mexico
to the budget extraordinary, he (M. Vuitry) de-
clared that it was the desire of the Government to
be able to recall their troops in that country, but
that they would not recall them until the work of
order and pacification they had undertaken had been
accomplished, not wishing to give to an enterprise
which had been maturely reflected upon a character
of inconsiderateness which M. Thiers would be
afterwards the first to censure in cutting terms.
(Left speaking.)

THE DERBY TRAFFIC.—The total number of
passengers carried to and fro on the Brighton Com-
pany's new Epsom line on the Derby Day was 52,498 ; the
number by the London and South Western was somewhat
less. Arrangements wore made for running trains direct
from the London and North Western and Great Western to
the new Epsom Station, and accommodation was provided
for a much larger number of passengers than availed them-
selves of this through route.