The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

THAMES.

DARING HORSE AND CART ROBBERY.—DanieI Thomp-
.son, a tall young man, for a long time the associate of
thieves and desperate characters, who loiter about the docks
and wharves, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged
with stealing a horse and van, and two wooden cases con-
taining 6 oil paintings, valued in an at £l3O.

On Tuesday last Mr. Jacobs, of No. 24, Tibberton-square,
Islington, and a member of the firm of Tindal and Jacobs,
licensed carmen in the City, gave directions to a man named
Jacob Patey, in the employ of that firm, to fetch two
wooden cases, which contained oil paintings, from the pre-
mises of Messrs. Aldridge and Company, in King William.•
street, and convey them to the St. Katharine dock for
shipment on board the Sir James Gray, bound to the Cape
of Good Hope. The carman reached the front of the dock
gate at ten minutes past 3 o'clock in the afternoon, add left
his horse and van while he went into the dock to make in-
quiries about the ship. On his return the horse and van
were gone. He gave immediate information of his loss to
the police. On the same night the horse and van were
found unattended ix Poplar and removed to the green yard.
The cases containing the six oil paintings, and valued at
£OO, were gone. The prisoner was apprehended this morn-
ing by a police• constable named Wm. Andrews, who said
the prisoner was fi,rmerly a carman, and described himself
as having no home or occupation.
James Jones, gatekeeper to Messrs. Barber and others,
wharfingers and warehouse-keepers, Crutched-friars, said
he was standing at the gate of his employer's premises at
half-past three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and saw a
black horse and van passing his employer's premises. The
van contained two deal cases. He was sure it was a van
belonging
to Messrs. Tingle and Jacobs, of Billiter-street.
Their
name was on the front of the van. The prisoner was
leading the horse. He knew him well. Another man was
with the prisoner.

Mr. Alfred Jacobs had some knowledge of tho prisoner,
and knew that he was formerly a carman.
Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week.

GREEK FINANCE.

(From the limes.)

The foll9wing is the communication made by " a
gentleman holding a high and influential official
position in At,hens" to M. Stefanos Xenos, and by
M. Stefanos Xenos to us, on the prospects of the
Greek bondholders of 1824.26;
" Athens, Nov. 20.

"The question of the loans of 18242-
difficulties—and
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English—that no political man, no Government,
will dare to support a question whose tendency is
to throw so heavy a burthen on the public Treasury.
It is true that this burden appears to promise the
development of large moral and material resources.
Our people 'will not believe in the realisation of
these promises, and they are becoming more deter-
mined, as the late financial crisis is disappearing,
and we believe now that our affairs can be arranged
without asking for a new foreign loan. For these
reasons I consider the questions of the loans of
1824-25 is entirely at an end, not only for the pre-
sent, but for many years to come. The press is as
j cnaLiimous against the question as the people."