The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 11, 11 a.m.
The Union Company's steamer Dane, from the.,
Cape of Good Hope, has arrived. She brings
passengers and 34 saeks of mails.
There has been a terrific south-east gale at the
Cape, causing a large loss of life and property.
News from the diggings state that more diamonds
and minerals have been discovered.

FRANCE.
BoußsE, Dec. 10.—Three o'clock—The marl"'
closed as follows :

4 per Cent.
End of mouth.,. It&Fan Fives 54 8°
3 per Cent
End of month_ 72 90 Ottoman Loan ... 33°
Credit Mobilier 212 50 Do. Debt... 94 '-
Transatlantic 242 50 Spanish Threes ... 26
Credit Foncier - 1650 Home Debt......
Paris Gas 1627 50 Deferred .........
RAILWAYS, Cash.
Orleans ... 960
Western
Northern
Strtuburg • • sBlt.
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5974
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

515

POLICE INI ELLIG EN CE.-7hts pay.

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MARLBOROUGH- STREET. the
BEGINNING EARLY.— Benjamin Haswell, pot lad in f;
employ of Mr. Charles Mackay, of the Star and Gar
te"
Poland-street, was charged before Mr. Knox with rohbi"

his employer.
The prosecutor said that he engaged the prisoner 11(
Thursday week as potman, and it was part of his duty tct:
clean the counter of a morning. Yesterday his servgn,-
g
on clearing the prisoner's bedroom, found a bundle belopp
ing to the prisoner, which contained, amongst other thiv;
14 cigars and a bottle containing rum. On asking th';
prisoner whore he had got them from, he said ih4t:st
bought the cigars for 6d. of a man in the street, and ti.o
he had purchased the rum ; and on his asking him ,°'-0
he got an empty bottle with his (prosecutor's) 1331130
it, he said that he had taken it to get some hair oil
in
He then gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and asked to have the ell°
settled at once. hard
Mr. Knox committed him for three months With
labour.

THAMES.

"SUCKING TILE MONKEY" IN THE DocKS.---Wi—,tit
Careless and Joseph Boyle, dock labourers, wore broll),0
before Mr. Paget charged with drinking wine out Of co

illiAl:6

in the St. katherine Dock.
Each prisoner was detected with his mouth over t
13ibie,
hung-hole of a cask of wine, drinking the wine throug:
a tube, and there were others standing by the casks, 619;ng
of whom had been drinking wine, and others 104"--f
their turn to "suck the monkey," as this description of
is called in the docks. The tubes were taken fro

the prisoners. Bath were saturated with wino. ;‘,
Mr. Paget said that these offences were very ser'-,,115;
and the plunder of wine in the docks entailed a ble:
loss on the dock companies, on merchants, and °t'' ego
The only way to deter others from the commission of LP-1.:,
offences was to inflict the full punishment awarded 11 t to
Act of Parliament. It gave him pain to send rac„%o
prison for petty offences in the docks, but there Wn` 10.
help for it if property was to be protected and our c° t,
merce to bo carried on in safety. He had no doubt vb.°° 0
over the prisoners had. the tubes in their possessi
for the purposes of plunder, and they risked their lib°rlf
their characters, and their situations for a littlo ril°l33-
tary gratification. For the sake of the labourers thenyi
selves it was necessary to inflict severe punishments
cases of this description. Pecuniary flues and slier"
i'',-;13;
prisonments had failed, and owing to the deterrninof
he had expressed, and which he was determined t°,c‘qtrbe
out in all cases, petty offence; once so numerous 1 anal
docks; had grea.tly'decreased. The suffering in indiaS
cases might be great, but the result in the /rb°;::erl
beneficial. He sentenced each prisoner to be illiPr-0,12aa
one month and kept to hard labour. Ho thought 11 .cO..
very desirable to have printed notices affixed in consPdtsci
ous places in all the docks, to warn the many tlions3/5
labourers employed there of what the law was- a a st•
Mr. Mumford, superintendent of the London
Katherine Dock police, said the suggestion of the --,„a
trate was carried out a few months ago in the Docks'i; 0
that he would convey his Worship's recommendtt- 0°
the directors and secretary of the dock corePll3.l:, io;
need scarcely add that the loss of wines and spirits'
to the use of tubes, had been very great.

WESTMINSTER.
ate of St.
A LAZY PAUPER.—John Kettle, a pauper '0;
Luke's Workhouse, Chelsea, was charged with Degr-d•teln,
to perform a task of work appointed by the
in 701.0-01'01_
of the Poor of St. Luke's, Chelsea, and further
ing 11b. of oakum, the property of the guardians.
George Cannon, the labour master and porter, 63m11, of
tasked the pauper's down'yestorday morning with
oakum, and in the evening prisoner picked 141 b. day,
b adly, and had destroyed or burned 11b. lie had tea dto
last week for a similar offence, but he and others seenleollti
desire to set the authority of the guardians at defiance'
pick as little as
they
could.
Prisoner said he left the oakum under the seat. ?
Mr. Selfo asked him why he had not picked more
Prisoner said he was ill, and could not work.
Cannon —The surgeon certifies that ho is ablebe" 14.
Prisoner— I've got pains iu the loins, and am roPtn cloos
Mr. Selfc—l gave you warning last week, and it tea
not seem to do you any good. You are sentenced to
days' imprisonment.