The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-22 00:00:00

THAMES.

TEA STEALING IN TIIB DOCKS.— Edward Cleveland,
aged 62 years, clerk, a man of decayed respectability, was
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing 8 ounces
of tea, value Is., the property of the London and St.
Katherine Dock Company.
The prisoner was stopped by Inspector Ellis, of the
London Dock police, as he was leaving the dock, and the
tea was found in his pockets. He pleaded in defence that
he was passing heaps of tea and chests of tea, and picked
up a little bit for his own use.
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Mr. Paget said this case must follow the example of
others, and that the continued petty pilferings in the
docks must be put down by severe punishments. He
sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

Thomas Knave, a rigger, aged 38 years, was sentenced
to a similar punishment for attempting to bring 9 ounces
of tea out of the same dock.

CRUELTY TO A HoRsE. --Edward Holmes, a labourer,
aged 24 years, was charged at the instance of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with
torturing a horse by working it in an unfit state.
The animal was in a most wretched condition, with large
sores on each shoulder, broken knees, old, and worn out•
It was the skeleton of a horse, with very little flesh on its
bones. A policeman, named John Connor, No. 230 K,
saw the horse in a coke cart belonging to the prisoner's
master, who had sent him out with it. His master's
name was Davis. The defence was that the horse
had not been worked lately, and the prisoner thought
a little work would do it good. The magistrate
looked at the horso, which he said was quite unfit to
work at all, and was in a miserable condition. The ani-
mal was only fit for the knacker, and if it was not imme-
diately destroyed he should issue a summons against the
prisoner's master. The prisoner undertook to kill the
horse, an d he was discharged.

BANK OF FRANCE.

!PARIS, Jan. 2

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor
responding
figures of the previous account :
DEBTOR.
Jan. 14.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank., 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 0
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 1,376,344,04 1,380,322,050
Banknotes to orderand
receipts payable at
sight 34,760,967 22 34,486,290 54
Treasury account cur-

Jan. 21.
fr. c.
182,500,000

rent creditor 152,566,468 39 152,673,375 96
Current accounts, Paris 252,235,127 17 239,849,488 6d
Do. branch banks 42,332,096 41,276,643
Dividends payable 4,132,402 2,974,867
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last
six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

1,840,179 95

933,790 85 933,790 85

Total
CREDITOR.
Jau. 14. Jar. 21.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 326,688,351 03 310,992,394 40
Do. branch banks 292,898,012 289,907,278
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks 3,955,700
Do. on French Public
Securities 13,354,000
Do. by branch banks 6,851,300
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
Do. branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, Juno 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

161,887 81

771,073 94

42,975,400
3,973,600

13,226,700
6,987,700

36,845,800
28,633,200

942,500 - 943,000
886,209 - 869,800

60,000,000

12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
80,633,437 21 80,633,437 21

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalist'es
(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,01
Elotel and furniture of
the Bbuk and landed
propel ty branches
Expenses of manage-
ment 23,086 32 58,547 12
Sundries

8,956,414 - 8,965,113

Total
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank

of France.