The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-12 00:00:00

FRENCH FINANCES.

The fullowing is an abstract of the Budget of the Minister
of Finance for 1839 :

ItECEIPTS.

Direct Taxes, viz. : Fr.
Land-t .x
Personal and chattel tax
Doors and windows
Patents
Other taxes
Stamps, register dues, domains, &c 219,580,000
Woods and fisheries
Customs 168,000,000
Indirect Taxes, viz. :
Liquors, beer, &c.....
Tobacco, sales
Gunpowder, sales
Other duties
Post-office
Returns from the University ....... .........
Profits on coinage, Sce
Returns from mines
Duties on verification of weights and mea-

8',120,000
81,100,000
4,480,000
44,052,000
42,070,000
4,436,000
70,100
283,000

sures
Duties on passports, &c.
African revenues
Indian funds
Caisse de depots et consignations
Returns and profits, various

1,000,000
30,000
1,800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
7,513,400

Total..

1,074,894,109

Or £42,995,764.

EXPENSES.
National Debt, Interest.
Endowments, &c.
General Service 20,970,629
Expense of Collecting the Public Revenue 121,832,341
Reimbursements, Premiums, &c 57,717,655

Total 546,896,568

Or 21,955,862/.
This gives an excess of receipts over expenditure to the
amount of 514,021,362 f., or 21,039 9021., which is allotted
to the budgets of the other Ministers. This budget exceeds
that for 1838 by 5,608,390 f., or 224,335/. An extraordinary
budget for public works, added to the above, contains receipts
and expenses, each amounting to 34,420,000 f., or 1,376,800/.

A SCENE IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.—EIbow
room has been quite scarce in Nashville during the past week.
Such scrouging, gouging, twisting, turning in and turning
out, has seldom before been witnessed. Instance the follow •
ing :—Traveller dismounts at a tavern. " Hilloa, landlord,
can I get lodgings here to-night ?" Landlord—" No, Sir ;
every room in the house is engaged." Traveller—Can't you
even give me a blanket, and a bunch of shavings for a pillow,
in your bar room ?" Landlord—" No, Sir ; there's not a
square foot of space unoccupied anywhere in the house."
Traveller—" Then I'll thank you, Sir, shove a pole, well
secured, out of your second story window, and I'll roost on
that."

EXTENSIVE DEPREDATION.--APPRETIENSION
OF A GANG or THlEVES.—During the last three days Mr.
Grove, the Worship-street Magistrate, has been engaged in the
examination of nine prisoners, named John Oliver, George
Clarbron. James Stevens, John Morgan, William Taylor,
Francis Taylor, Mary Zorilda Taylor, Georgiana Stevens,
and Elizabeth 31ory an, some of whom were charged in the
first instance, with having broken in and plundered the dwell-
ing of Robert Swan, a police sergeant, 18 G, but in the pos-
session of the different prisoners ; an immense variety of pro-
perty was found, the whole of which appears to have been ob-
tained by housebreaking, shoplifting, and other depredations.
Seven charges of robbery have already been preferred by
owners of efferent portions of the property. The case cf the
police-sergeant was as follows :—When he went home in the
morning, a fortnight since, to repose, after having been on duty
all night, he found that his dwelling had been entered, and
completely stripped of everything except a table, a chair, and
bedstead. No trace of any of the property was discovered
until Tuesday night last, when, in consequence of some in-
formation, Seageant Seale, 16 G, went with another officer to
Nc. 4, Coleman-street, Bunhill-row, where ho apprehended
several of the prisoners, three of whom were found lying on
Sergeant Swan's bed, upon a new bedstead which had been
stolen from a broker's shop in Old-street. lie after-
wards apprehended the other prisoners at different places
and found in their possession more than a van load
of property, much of which has already been identified
as stolen. In the mass of property taken possession
of by the police, there were pieces of silk, of flannel,
pencil cases, and various other things entirely new, stolen
app rently from the shops of silversmiths, drapers, &c., but
much the greater portion is believed to have been obtained
by housebreaking. Amongst it were twenty-seven China
plates, with arms in the centre, the erect a " Lion rampant,"
and motto " Juste et impaside," and there were smaller plates
of the same service, with merely the crest and initials
" R. S. 'l'. ;" and there were other China plates of different
patterns. A table cloth was found marked "R. Mills," and
various other apparel, &c., with marks, but from many of
the things the marks had been removed. There were also a
handsome pipe, with China bowl, a Queen Acne farthing in
excellent preservation, and a stamp with large type, compos-
ing the words " Stop thief." The prisoners have all been
remanded until next Wednesday, except Mary Zorilda Taylor,
who was discharged.

We are sorry to say that Mr. Gisborne, late M.P.
for Derbyshire, is confined to his bed at Ilorwich, and that his
indisposition is considered by his medical attendants to be
serious.—Manchester Guardian.

Count Pozzo di Borgo entertained at dinner, on
Wednesday evening, at Ashburnham House, his Excellency
Prince Michel Soutzo, the new Grecian Envoy, the Chevalier
Bodisco, Prince Gagarin, Chevalier Kisseleti: Prince Paul
Lieyen, and Colonel Count Charles Pozzo di Borgo were
not of the party; they having received an invitation to dine
with her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
There is at this time a young woman, aged eighteen,
residing at Needingworth, near St. Ive's, who has been in a
trance or sleep for twelve days; she keeps quite warm, except
her feet, and they are cold and stiff. Last week her father
brought her down stairs into a warmer room, thinking it might
be the means of rousing her, but it had not the desired effect,
On Monday last she opened her eyes, and made a motion with
her hand for something to drink, which being given her she
became convulsed for a short time, and then sunk into her
former state of torpor, in which she has continued ever since.
Cambridge Chronicle.

On Friday afternoon, as a clerk belonging to an
eminent harking-house in Lombard-street was going to
Charing-cross, in his way he dropped his pocket-book, with
drafts and bills to the amount of 3,000/. and upwards. It WAS
picked ep by a newsvendor's boy, who, on finding the address
of the banking firm within the cover, lost no time in convey-
ing it to the house, the principal of a bicli, on being informed
of the honesty of the boy, obtained the address of his father,
and generously presented him with ten sovereigns, and pro-
mised to forward the interest of the lad in every tray that laid
in his power.
THE WEATIIEII.—For the last. two or three days
the weather has been remarkable for its sudden changes, alte.r-
nations of. frost and thaw occurring sometimes in one day. On
Monday and Tuesday a considerable quantity of snow fell ;
yesterday we bad frost for the most part of the day ; in the
early part of the evening the weath,-r-hecante more mild : and
suddenly the frost came on again, incasing the streets in a
sheet of ice, which made walking both dilicult and dangerous.
hi a few hours another cilaage took place, and a heavy shower
of rain came on, which continued for some time. We believe
that notwithstanding the many indications of a thaw we have
had here, in the country the frost has continued with unabated
intensity.--Edinburgh Courant.
A horrible murder, attended with every species of
unheard-of barbarous cruelty, was perpetrated the other day at
Marmulheirn, near Rio Major, on a respectable inhabitant of
Almoster, named Joao Manuel de Soura, by various individuals,
who, not content with stabbing him in various parts of his
body, actually collected a mob in order to drag him out of a
surgeon's house to which the poor man had crawled to be
cured, and when they had done so they cut off his ears, nose,
&c., while still living, tearing up his mangled remains into
countless pieces, which they threw about the street. The
rest of the inhabitants sat quiet spectators of the whole deed.
And are these the people who call themselves free men ?
Lisbon Letter.