The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

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(B IDGET OF THE CITy.OF
The budget of Paris, comprehends all Paris, =c her
one hen , not, as here, split and divided among set,
many different divisions, or districts, of the one great
metropolis. Here, we have the Borough and Lambeth
on one side of the river: on the other, the Tower
Hamlets, Finsbury, Pancras, Marylebone, all paro-
chially and financially administered distinctly from the
' Government which rules the city of London, properly so
called. Paris and its outlying 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 assortment;; common
councilmen and aldermen, for there are city of Paris
officials answering to those denominations, although
composed of rather a superior order of men is 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 the
council of administration for the city of Paris. Whale
shall we see a Jones Loyd, a Senior, a M'Cullochas
or a Wade, Common Councillors of the city of London ?
The Prefect of the Seine has recently presented his Paris
budget for 1847, accompanied with a comparative review
of the revenue and expenditure for 1846 andlB4s. 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 led to conclude, therefore,
that civic functionaries in Paris are reduced to feast et
their own charge, and not out of city-funds. The Pario
budget of 1845 valued the receipts of revenue at
46,017,214 francs; on the closing of the account, the 31st
of last March, the actual revenue amounted to 50,316,161
francs, being an excess upon the budget of 4,298,946
francs. Our city corporations here square budgets and
receipts more closely, or, if revenues exceed estimates,
that is only the greater provocative to get rid 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., 382,000 francs. It is curious to see how
the revenues of Paris are raised, and how the consump-
tion of luxuries by the rich, and of necesearies 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 I)uti:ls-
- 1,859,868 f 1,859,868 f 148,7891.
Other fish ........G,620,2421 397,2781.
Fowl and game-9,417,771f.. f.
Butter • 9,832,1741 120,402 f.
The genteel diners are taxed, it will be seen, with great
propriety. Who so well able to pay, or so wining ?
Luxury would lose its lusciousness, and be degraded
past all the enjoyments of taste, if not paid for dearly
in argent comptant. The city of Paris has the flaunt:fat
tact of understanding how to accommodate fiscal neces-
sities to the caprices of fashion. But after dining,
African-like, gentlefolks have evenings to while away.
They must lounge at the Academic de Musique, the
Comic Opera, the Vaudeville. After turkey and truffles,
people of taste and omit must have another sensual vent
for time, and an excitement of pleasure in theatrical ex-
hibitions. Of these there are more than plenty; but the
provident fiscality of Paris follows them there. There
is a tax for the poor imposed and payable in the prices
of admission. The tax is only too moderate, but it is
not the less an excellent tax, which might be advan-
tageously increased; for what would noble or gentlefolk
care about a franc
_extra, who were full of champagne,
and lined with tae de veaux en twtue, 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 taxi s 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, 3,690
francs were obtained. From the privilege of shooting
out ordure and depositing dying or dead animals in the
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 of
which left without owners at the Bourse are city pro-
perty, and yielded 1,000 francs. Dogs without owners
taken into custody produced 1,855 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 ; for
octroi duties, 30,722,000 francs. The expenditure not
being given in :any detail, it is unnecessary to go into.
The budget 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 almond
contains the constituents of Prussic acid and a peculiar
volatile oil, resembling the peach blossom in its odour; both
aro developed when the almond is bruised and brought into
contact with water. When the bitter almond, therefore, is
masticated and receives moisture in the mouth and stomach,

the prussic acid then formed operates as a powerful sedative
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 the 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
Miracks.

TUE Ifenvrsr.—A general harvest in this neigh-
bourhood commenced with the present week, and for the
three first days proceeded uninterruptedly. Hiring at the
gate has been good, and wages on the two first days were
3s. for women and 3s. 6d. for men ' • on the third day they
were 2s. 6(1. for 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 au 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 are readily meeting with
engagements. There was a demand for shearers in our market
on Saturday, but the high wages demanded by the work-
people present prevented a general hiring. The few we heard
of being hired were at 16s. and 175., with victuals, for men.
—Bertvick Advertiser.

POST OFFICE ORDER.— FORGERY.— On Saturday,
?mike, the contable at the General Post-office, returned to
town, after having succeeded in apprehending a person
charged with forging a letter to the Postmaster-General,
and obtaining the transfer of a post-office order, and payment
thereof, under the following circumstances: —lt appears
that some time since a post-office order was remitted to a
person named Davis, who had been performing at the
Daveutry Theatre. He had, however, left that town, and
gone on to Banbury, to which place the letter was forwarded.
He did not, however, receive it, and it was ultimarely
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 William 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 FOR THE DOCTOR.—As Dr.
of Paris, was returning home on Tuesday se'nnight, from.the.
Champs Elysdes, 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 me: 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 .tbe
Boulevards so rapidly, that the doctor was obliged to'csiltto
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 Caine
to intimate where the patient was to be found, he resolved to
return home, naturally' supposing that if he was wanted be
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 OP A SON OF THE LATE
DWAtICKSAUTII TAGOBE.—On Friday evening last, Baboo Nogen-
dontauth Tagore, the son of the late much-lamented Dwarkananth
Tagore, arrived in Liverpool, and has since been staying at the
Adelphi Hotel. Baboo, who dresses, like his father, in the costume
of his native country, is a flue lad, apparently not more than seven-
teen years of age. He is accompanied by Mr. Drummond, of
Lowndes-square, London, and his object hi coming here is to see the
principal public buildings and objects of interest in the town.—Lirer-
pool Albion.
Milman is appointed to succeed Mr. Seeker, now
one of the metropolitan police magistrates, as a revising barrister on
the Oxford Circuit.
THE MENAI STRAITS TUNNEL.—It WAS some time
ago rumoured that Mr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent engineer, had
determined 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; and that
the first stone will very shortly be laid.—Manchester Courier.
CITY RELICS.—The workmen engaged in pulling
down seven houses in Milk-street, Cheapside, and what was formerly
called Lad-lane, but since the City improvements 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 some ancient walls and
vaults, and amongst the most remarkable is an archway of stone and
a flight of stone steps; the archway is carefully finished off, the
main wall is composed of fragments of stone, and the other portion
Of red brick, so strongly combined, that it is difficult, even with an
iron wedge and sledge hammer, to dissever it, although it has evi-
dently been for nearly two centuries embedded In the soil. The spot
was visited yesterday by several gentlemen, and au examination
took place which is likely to lead to an interesting inquiry as to the
buildings which stood in the locality.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATH THRoUoll NOT AT-
TENDING To MEDICAL ADVICE.—On Monday an inquest was taken
before Mr. William Baker, deputy-coroner, at the White Swan, Wap-
ping, on view of the body of Mrs. Isabella Brown, aged forty-five,
lately the wife of a grocer, in a large way of business, in the neigh-
bourhood. It appeared ftom 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 was 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 NOTTINGHAM.—During the night of:
Friday last some miscreants went into the Lammas fields, adJOhling:
the town of Nottingham, and cut the hamstrings of a mare and e.
pony, and beat a sheep and two lambs to death by striking them
over the head with a blunt instrument, The animals wore the
party of Mr. John Green and Mr. John Mee, butelr
n steamer
IMPORTATION OF WALNUTs.—The Be
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Antwerpen has brought, among other deeTIS,-,1 country abounds
baskets of walnuts, the produce of Belgian],
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