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

No. 16,821.

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Ifin}bET OF
- lie budget of P
'a.fs, CITY OF PARIS,
comprehends all Paris, under
one hes , not, as- here, split and divided among so
mislay different divisions, or districts, of the one great
met tropolis. Here, we have the Borough and Lambeth
on one side of the river: on therothbeorn,e,thaell Tower
Han.dets, Finsbury, Pancras, Aiayie
paro-
chially and financially administered distinctly from the
Goverment which rules the city of London, properly so
canes]. Paris and its outlying banlieux, or suburbs,
judeesi the whole department, is placed under one head.
Tb.e P.`refect of the Seine lords it supreme over mayors,
of a,-.lli'vh there is a competent assortment, common
aotmosa2 'en and aldermen, for there are city of Paris
officials t snswering to those denominations, although
composed ,
.f rather a superior order of men to what
figure here ,'u those capacities; as one example only take
M. Horace S ;lay, the eminent political economist and
free•trading philosopher, who is member of the
council of adms.aistration for the city of Paris. When
shall we see a Tones Loyd, a Senior, a M'Oulloch,
or a Wade, Common Councillors of the city of Loudon
The Prefect of the Se:ine has recentlypresented his Paris
budget for 1847, accompanied. with a comparative review
of the revenue and expenditure for 1846 and 1845. There
may possibly he a head for' Corporation feasting, Lord
Mayor's days, City State-bat::e galas, in the accounts,
but we don't find it, and are led to conclude, th erefore,
that civic functionaries in Paris ai'e reduced to toast at
their own charge, and not out of city funds. Theis Paris
budget of 1845 valued the receipts of reveal ue. at
46,017,214 francs; on the closing of the aenount, Ow 31st
of last March, the actual revenue amounted to 50,3116,161
francs, being an excess upon the budget of 4,2118,946
francs. Our city corporations here square budget s and
receipts more closely, or, if revenues exceed esth mates,
that is only the greater provocative to get rhi 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 feastirg, and
expend the surplus in improvements. The revenue of
1846 is still cn the increase in Paris ; for the quarter
since March it is above that of the corresponding gtuarter
of last year, viz., 382,000 francs. It is curious to see e how
the revenues of Paris are raised, and how the conisumps
lion of luxuries by the rich, and of necessaries lay 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 1,859,868f 148,789 f.
Other fish ........6,620,242f 397,278
Fowl and game ...9,417,771f 847,5990
Butter 9,832,174 f 120,402 C.
The genteel diners are taxed, it will be seen, with great
propriety. Who so well able to pay, or so waling ?
Luxury would lose its lusciousness, and be degraded
all the enjo_Nruents of taste, if not paid for dearly
in argent comptunt: The city of' Paris has the financial
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 Acadt'inie de Musique, the
Comic Opera, the Vaudeville. After turkey and truffles,
people of taste and eisth must have another sensual vent
for time, and an excitement of pleasure in theatrical ex-
hibitions. Of these there are more tiny plenty; but the
provident fiscality of Paris follows theo there. There
is a tax fur the poor imposed and payabio in the prices
of admission. The tax is only too moderate, but it is
not the less an excellent tax, which might b,,t advan-
tageously increased; for what would noble or gentlefolk
care about a franc
.extra, who were full of champagne,
and lined with tote' de veaux en tortue, many capons,
Strasburg green geese, bares, leverets, and boars from
the Ardennes? The pauper duty must be light, and
ought to be heavier, fir 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. Bare 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 bit 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 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 almond
contains the constituents of Prussic acid and a peculiar
volatile oil, resembling the peach blossom in its odour; both
are 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

TAE IfArtvEsT.--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. tid. 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 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 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.
—Berwick Advertiser.

' POST OFFICE ORDER.—PORGERY.— 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 Postmaster-General,
and obtaining the transfer of a post-office order, and payment
thereof, under the following circumstances: It appears
that some time since a post•office order was remitted 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 forwarded.
He did not, however, receive it, and it was ultimately
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. Peaks was
sent to make inquiries, and discovered that the offender
was a William Waldron, jun., also a performer, and whom
lie afterwards traced and apprehended at Berkhamstead,
and conveyed him to Banbury, where he underwent an ox-
amivation, 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
Champ; 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, whol 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 the
Boulevards so rapidly, that the doctor was obliged to call to
hint 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
that if he was wanted he
shouldrn
bh
seent"Vral'Yposnupaprroisti,ningg 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 07 A SON OF THE LATE
DRAM:CW:ITR TAGOI.E.—On Friday evening last, Baboo Nogea-
dentauth Tagore, the son of the late much-lamented Dwarkanauth
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. Ile is accompanied by Mr. Drummond, of
Lowndes-square, London, and his object in coming here is to see the
principal public buildings and (ejects of interest in the town.—Lirer-
/.00/ Albion.
Milman is appointed to succeed Mr. Seeker, now
iiiie of the metropolitan police magistrates, as a revising barrister on
the Oxford circuit.
THE MENAI STRAITS TUNNEL.—It was SOnle 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 an examination
took place which is likely to lead to an interesting inquiry as to the
buildings which stood in the locality.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATIT THROUGH NOT AT-
TENDING TO MEDICAL ADVICE.-011 Monday an inquest was taken
before Mr. William Baker, deputy-coroner, at the White Swan, Wall-
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-
bourhoed. 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 was to take, and he warned her that the
consequences would be serious. The next day else sank under her
complaint, Verdict, " Natural death."
CRUELTIES IN NOTTINGHAM.—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
posy, 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 WALNUTS.—The
e Belgian steamer
halt. 38 2
baskets of walnuts, the produce ef Beigiuump. _ this
esteemed.
Antw2rpen has brought, among other descriwhilircsountry
with the walnut tree. Tubs is the
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