The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

FORE:B7 OF BOND Y.

About the time, and even since the time, when
Bagshot and Hounslow and Wimbledon were unsafe
travelling at nights, We Forest of Bondy, at a short
three leagues from Paris, was proverbial as the
haunt of robbers. The French highwayman of 50
or 100 years ago does not seem to hay'? enjoyed that
romantic prestige attachod to certain renowned
English knights of the road. One does not read of
him careering, in gallant attire and mounted on a
first-rate " bit of blood," along the crown of the
causeway, and, single-handed, by the terror of his
name as much as by his means of offence, levying
blackmail on a whole coachlo ad of travellers. No
picturesque traditions attach t o him of ladies losing
their hearts at the same time att their purses, er sav-
ing their jewels on the easy cc:volition of stepping a.
minuet with him on the high road. His modus
operandi was different; he lookol to substantial
gains rather than to a chivalrous reputation,
and bequeathed few materials to the pens of a
French Bulwer or Ainsworth. While his English
contemporary was the hero of a die trict and the.
admiration of the fair, was sung in pop ular ballads,
and almost pitied when a rope put a
pe,riod
adventures, he lay in wait at the a qrnertosf a
than
wood, and thought far more of pin
der
rhe fre-
i
of generosity or fame. Of the woods
d than
quented not one has been more celebrate, found
he
that of Bondy. In its dense reefs!!! wail Jena
shelter and impunity, and its
avoided by all who had aught tole
foret de Bondy
-voiscel.l3ll'YTe this .day•
to say that you find yourself en
thatP
- you have fati en
is equivalent to declaring
outlaws who •
after the
around the the place long _.
uryst
is a sf a
stth the
wpereopsianigc
among thieves. A sort of cutthroat terror huts
ut to flight or exterminated by
fested it had been p
ge-nld9
justice and the
arthraceesnßui
civilisation of the.
away the last vestiges of the
romance of robbery.
The heaths and commons over which a Duval, a
Turpin, and a Paul Clifford pranced •in the days of
our ancestors are now secure and cockneyiied, and
one would as soon expect to be stopped and .robbed
in nyde-park on a summer afternoon as in 'sight of
Hounslow villas and of blue-coated •
police. And so
we learn, without s • urprise, that Bondy has had. its
day, and is coming to
the woodman's
axe. It is a Crown land, and is
about to be divided
(as was lately done with the
park of Neuilly) into a vast number of small lots,
to be sold to the highest bidder. It is computed
that it will make 15,000 to 18,000 lots of the size
Proposed, and the first of these will be sold in a few
days. Some portions of Neuilly park have sold
very well, at the rate, I have been informed, of
20,000 f. the acre. The greater distance of Bondy_
Forest from Paris renders it improbable that it will
realise such high prices ; but it seems expected that
it will find a ready sale at fair rates. The large
timber, of which there is a good deal, will be re-
moved, but the brushwood, I understand, will be
left for the purchasers.

The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of £1,787; and the South Eastern an in-
crease of £1,120.
There was an active demand yesterday for the 5
per cent. preference stock of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company, which rose about 3 per cent.,
closing at 901 to 91/.
THE CORNISH FISHERIES.—At New Quay, C°rn;
wall, the pilchards have made their appearance on th'isc'The
in great abundance. The fishermen have all beensOgioey
alert, and a successful season is anticipated. At r
but the
drif
the seines have not taken many fish as yet, 000 per boat.
boats have been bringing in from 1,000 to 3.ovo'f.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS t favourably
accidents in the first half of this year a
th°ofline open in the
with some preceding years. Tho leong,
_t .
hag of 18,60 was
United Kingdom at the end of tk,„no7vs :—Seven passen-
/ railway
uses beyond their pwn
10,158 miles, and the returns.a—reTascahteiiret=
gers killed and 128 injured ,rn, and five injured owing to
, gilled .
control, and two passengeran:
their own misconduct or rant
getting into or out of trains
of caution. In Scotland not
_I, want of caution; in Ireland
a passenger was hurt through
killed by falling from
onc
ea rartia}:aets.
wieogBjeehrrrewas killed at Weston-super-mare
threein
motion,brok ean theird t
In England a Pas g
to into a train in motion,
,avtht e " ran off the rails," five at Totten-
y.), tyro of a wheel of the en •Itebrokeand the
ham when `or- the rails." Of passengersgl -
Totten-
field,
.. in 40 were
train "gc.'t °- With regard to
in excursion trains.
lamentable-to railway servants and
labourers, it is.. see that no less than 71 were
ennitPhtie-rain°
killed, the great. majority, it is stated, owing to their own
want of caution ; but theirs is a perilous
employment.
Eleven persons were killed at level .
crossings. Trespassing
upon railways seems to be a prevalent rashness; it led to
the aeath of 26 persons in the first 26 weeks of this year.
Altogether the grand total is stated t
to be 119 persons
killed, and 166 injured. So severe were the accidents that
,to every four persons injured there were three killed.