The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-19 00:00:00

'BUDGET OF THE CITY OF PAM 'S.
The Ismlffet of Paris, comprehends all Paris, uttat er
one heft' , Dots as here, split and divided among- a zo
many chtferett dithions, or districts, of the one grea t
metropolis. Iferes we have the Borough and Laml ieth.
on one side of the Yi-Yrt ;on the other, the To. aetie s wispy
Hamlets, Finsbury, raiterae, Marylebone, all pa..o-
- and financially galusinlatered distinctly from tt se
Government which rules the city of London, properly sot
called. Paris and its ouaying banlieux, or suburbs,.
indeed the whole department, is placed under one head.
The Prefect of the Seine lords it supreme over mayors,
of which there is a competent as:sortment, common
councilmen and aldermen, for there ere city of Paris
officials answering to those denomina'ions, although
composed of rather a superior order of men to what
figure here in those capacities; as one example only take
M. Horace Say, the eminent political economist and
free-trading philosopher, who is member of tha
council of administration for the city of Paris. When
shall we see a Jones Loyd, a Senior, a M'Cul!och,
or a Wader Common Councillors of the city of London ?
The Prefect of the Seine has recently presented hiss,Paris
budget for 184(7, accompanied with a comparative review
of the revenue trod expenditure for 1846 and 1845. There
may possibly be a head for Corporation feasting, Lord
Mayor's days, City State-barge galas, in the accounts,
but we don't find it, and are Ind to conclude, therefore,
that civic functionaries in Paris are reduced to feast at
their own charge, and not out of city !studs. The Paris
budget of 1845 valued the receipts of revenue at
46,017,214 francs; on the closing of the aocount, the 31st
of last March, the actual revenue amountea to 30,116.161
francs, being an excess upon the budget (.4' 4,298,94 G
francs. Our city corporations here square bodgets and
receipts more closely, or, if revenues exceed eesituates,
that is only the greater provocative to get lit' of a
troublesome excess, and balance accounts by so .many
more gala days, with an extra allowance for committee
dinnering and river excursions. They manage these
things better in France ; they forego the feasting, and
expend the surplus in improvements. The revenue of
1846 is still on the increase in Paris ; for the quarter
since March it is above that of the corresponding quarter
of last year, viz., a 82,000 francs. It is curious to see how
the revenues of Paris are raised, and how the consump-
tion of liosuries by the rich, and of necessaries by the
poor, concur to produce them. Here are the luxuries in
which Parliament gastronomers indulged in the financial
year 1845, with the City-tax products :
Consumption. City Duties.
Oysters . 1,859,8681' 148,789 E.
Other fish ........6,620,242f 397,278 f.
Fowl and game ...9,417,771f 847,599 f.
Butter 9,832,174 E. 120,402f.
The genteel diners are taxed, it will be seem, with great
propriety. Who so well able to pay, or so willow' ?
Lu sury would lose its lusciousness, and be degraded
past all the enjoyments of taste, if no! •led for dearly
in argent coreptant. The city of Paris a'as the financial
tact of understanding hi), to aceornmodet,,. fiscal neces-
sities to the caprices of fashion. But aft, •r dining,
African-like, gentlefolks have evenings to soh. 'le away.
They must lounge at the Academie de Musi.quo, the
Comic Opera, the Vaudeville. After turkey and aria's,
people of taste and eirtii must have another sensua..l vent
for time, and an excitement of pleasure in theateical ex-
hibitions. Of these there are more than plenty; but the
provident fiscality of Paris follows them there. There
is a tax f,,r the poor imposed and payable in the 'vices
of admission. The tax is only too moderate, but it is
not the less an excellent tax, which might be adva /is
tageously increased; for what would noble or gentlefolk'
care about a franc extra, who were full of champagne,
and lined with tete de veaux cn tortue, many capons,
Strasburg green geese, hares, leverets, and boars from
the Ardennes? The pauper duty must be light, and
ought to be heavier, for it produced only
In 1831 287,000 francs
1840 826,000
1846 1,046,555
Paris taxis not only the living, but the dead. Here the
latter are taxed still higher, though not on corporation
account. For concessions and burial grounds Paris re-
ceives 425,000 fr. For exhumations, moreover, 3,69 P
francs were obtained. From the privilege of shootings
out ordure and depositing dying or dead animals in tip.
wastes of Bondy, 440,000 francs are received. The
markets for flowers only produce 30,000 francs. Ordure
is more profitable than roses. Among other sources of
revenue there is one quite original, and which might be
made more available here. It concerns umbrellas, all uf
which left without owners at the Bourse are city pro-
perty, and yielded 1,000 francs. Dogs without owne rs
taken into custody produced 1,835 francs. Licenses to
hunt in the department of the Seine gave 22,000 francs ;
for stations of carriages for hire, 437,600 francs ; for
duties on oils, wines, and brandy, 330,030 francs ; fur
octroi duties, 30,722,000 francs. The expenditure not
being given in any detail, it is unnecessary- to go into.
The budget for 1847 estimates the receipts and the ex-
penses at 46,566,693 francs each. It is pleasant to see
with what exactitude, to the last farthing, budgets are
adjusted always in one country or another to, the very
exact balance of account.

ANCIENT USE OF PRUSSIC ACID.—The bitter slinoncl
contains the constituents of Prussic acid and a 1 ieculiar
volatile oil, resembling the peach blossom in its odour ; both
are developed when the almond is bruised and brouglii into
contact with water. When the bitter almond, therefore, is
masticated and receives moisture in the mouth and soniaeb,
the prussic acid then formed operates. as 'a powerful seditive
on the nervous system, and renders the body less susceptible
of the influence of excitants; consequently of wine. It
forms, as it were, the balance in the opposite scale,,and pre-
serves the equilibrium between the sinking which would re-
sult from its use, were no wine taken, and :he intoxication
which would follow an excess of wine, were the bitter
almonds not eaten. Plutarch informs us that the sons of the
physician of the Emperor Tiberius knew this fact; and,
although most intrepid topers, yet they kept themselves
sober by eating bitter almonds.—Dr. Thompson's Magic and
Miracles.

Tsrm llAnvmsr.—A general harvest in this neigh
bourhood commenced with the present week, and for ilui
three first days proceeded uninterruptedly, hiring at the
gate has been good, and wages on the twci first days were
3s. for women and 3s. 6d. for men ; on the third day they
were 2.i. 60. fir the former and 3s. for the latter. Yesterday,
however, was a blank day in the harvest, as rain fell heavily
until the afternoon. This morning the weather was favour-
able and shearers again in demand, when an increase to
former wages was made. The fears which have been occa-
sioned by the non-arrival of the usual number of Irish
people are not likely to be long felt, as parties of these work-
people are now arriving daily, and a,-e readily meeting with
engagements. There was a demand for &hearers in our market
en Saturday, but the high wages demanded by the work.
people present prevented a general hiring. The few we hears
of being hired were at IGs. and 175., with v:ctuals, for men.
—Berwick Advertiser.

POST OFFICE ORDER.—FORGERY._-On Saturday,
Peake, the contable at the General Post-office, returned to
town, after having succeeded in apprehending a person
charged with forging a letter to the Postxuaster-General,
and obtaining the transfer of a post-office order, and payment
thereof, under the following circumstances -It appears
that sonic time since a post-office order was rek,itted to a
person named Davis, who had been performing at the
Daventry Theatre. lie had, however, left that town, and
gone on to Banbury, to which place the letter was forwal *de,d•
He did not, however, receive it, and it was ultimarej
discovered that a correspondence had taken place between
some person using his name and the Secretary of the General
Post-office, requesting that the place of payment might be
altered, and this was ultimately acceded to. Peake was
sent to make inquiries, and discovered that the offender
was a Williain Waldron, jun., also a performer, and whom
he afterwards traced and apprehended at Berkhamstead,
and conveyed him to Banbury, where he underwent an ex-
amination, when Davis swore that he never gave any au-
thority to write the letters or receive the money, and on this
evidence the prisoner was remanded for the attendance of
the party who received the money.
A QUEER CASE FOIL THE DOCTOR.—As Dr.
of Paris, was returning home on Tuesday se'nnight, from the
Champs Elysees, with his young and pretty wife upon his
arm, he was met by a young man, in a great perspiration,
and apparently much agitated, who cried out so earnestly
" Doctor, follow rue : a man's life is in danger," that the
doctor let go his wife's arm, saying that he would return as
soon as possible. The young man proceeded towards the
Boulevards so rapidly, that the doctor was obliged to call to
him to moderate his pace. The young man, however, still
kept on, and Dr. D— soon lost sight of him. Not knowing
what to do, the doctor waited a while; but as no one came
to intimate where the patient was to be found, he resolved to
return home, naturally supposing that if he was wanted he
should be sent for. Upon arriving at home, he was surprised
to find that his wife had not come back. A night passed
over, and still no wife; and, after various inquiries amongst
the lady's friends without effect, the doctor applied to the
authorities. The investigation which was set on foot gives
reason to believe that the lady left Paris the same evening,
in company with a foreigner, in the train for Brussels or Os-
tend. Nothing, however, is yet known of the mysterious af-
fair with any degree of certainty.
ARRIVAL IN LIVERPOOL OF A SON OF THE LA TZ
DWARKANAUTII TAGoSE.—On Friday evening last, Maio° Nogaltt-
dentatith Tagore, the son of the late much-lamented Dvrarkanauth
Tagore, arrived in Liverpool, and has since been staying at the
Adelphi hotel. Bahoo, who dresses, like his fattier, in the costume
of his native country, is a flue lad, apparently not more than seven-
teen years of age. He is accompanied by ldr. Drummond, of
Lowndes-square, London, and his object in coming here is to see the
principal public buildings and objects of interest in the tOwn.—Lirer-
pool Albion.
r Mr. Milman is appointed to succeed Mr. Seeker, now
one of the metropatan police magistrates, as a revising barrister on
the Oxford Circuit.

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THE MENAI STRAITS TUNNEL.—It was Some time
ago rumoured that Mr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent engineer. 11E4
detennined to carry the Chester and Holyhead Railway across the
Menai Straits by means of an iron tubular bridge or tunnel, but it
was afterwards Stated that the idea had been abandoned. The re-
port presented at the meeting of shareholders held last week dis-
proved the latter rumour, and we find that workmen are preparing
the ground on the Britannia-rock and the shores of the Menai for
the foundations of the piers to support the projected tunnel, ann that.
the first stone will very shortly be'leid.—Manehester Courier.
CITY- RELICS —The workmen engaged in pulling
down seven houses in Milk-street, Cheap hie, and what was formerly
called Lad-lane, but since the City ImproveLnents named Gresham-,
street, have come across some very interesting relics of London.
The workmen, In digging below the foundations of the houses pulled
down, have come across the remains of Nine ancient walls and
vaults, and amongst the most remarkable is an Orchway of stone and
a flight of stone steps; the archway is carelli2: finished oft" the
main wall is composed of fragments of stone, and to : other portion
of red brick, so strongly combined, that it is difficult, eve with an
Iron wedge and sledge hammer, to dissever it, although it In:e e. 4
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dentiv been for nearly two centuries embedded in the soil. The s,.'""
was visited on Monday by several gentlemen, and an examination
took place which is likely to lead to an interesting inquiry as to the
buildings which stood in the locality.
CORONER'S INQIIEST.—DEATH THROUGH NOT ATO
TENDING TO MEDICAL ADVICE.—On Monday an inquest was taken
before Mr. William Baker, deputy-coroner, at the White Swan, War
ping, on view of the body of Mrs. Isabella Brows. aged forty-rive,
lately the wife of a grocer, in a large way of business, in the neigh-
bourhood. It appeared from the evidence that on the Wednesday
previous the deceased was attacked with symptoms of the cholera
to the alleviation of which she expressed her objections against
having medical assistance. Mr. Arthur, a surgeon, however, was
called in, who prescribed for her, and she was relieved by the medi-
cine. Mr. Arthur saw her the next day, and found that she had not
continued the medicine, while she also had not attended to his advice
in respect of the diet she wag to take, and he warned her that the
consequences would be serious. The next day she sank under her
complaint, Verdict, " Natural death."

CRUELTIES IN NorriNCiii3l.—During the night of
Friday last some miscreants went into the Lammas fields, adjoining
the town of Nottingham, and cut the hamstrings of a mare and a
pony, and beat a sheep and two lambs to death by striking them
over the head with a blunt instrument, The animals were the pro•
perty of Mr. John Green and Mr. John Mee, butchers.

IMPORTATION OF WALNUTL—The Belgian stefilller
Antwerpen has brought, among other descriptions of fruit, 39,2
baskets of walnuts, the produce of Belgium, which country abounds
with the walnut tree. This is the first importation or tb*tifieenicti
Pt, t" f 0 gr* i 4 mtcati 41100 049 FrWR PPW33.