The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-28 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Prosecutor—Yes, when lodgers are not up.
Mr. Selfe—Yours is a great state of trustfulness. Do
you apprize your customers in any way when you leave
the cans ?

Prosecutor—Yes ; I call out milk.

Mr. Selfe—And take the chance of its being taken, or
taken in ? It seems to me if boys are thirsty it is a great
temptation.

John Steel, 80 A, proved seeing the boys at nine this
morning in the Green-park trying to conceal the empty

can.

Harker—l did not take it. He (Evans) did.
Evans—He told me to do it.
Mr. Selfe—Are the friends of either of them here ?
Harkar's mother-110's my boy, and he never did a
wrong thing before in his life.
Mr. Selfe—Then all I can say is, he is a natural curiosity
I should suppose ho is the first boy that ever reached his
age with such a character.
Evans's father-31y boy is as bad a boy as can be; I
can do nothing with him.
Mr. Selfe—Correct him for this, and if brought here
again I must punish him.
The boys were then discharged.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Joseph Riccas, a French shoemaker, was charged be-
fore Mr. Knox with attempting to commit suicide at the
Cafe Regence, No. 1, Tichbourne-street.
Leopold Boor, a waiter at the Cafe Regence, said that
about half past ten on the previous night he went to one of
the closets, and not being able to open the door, and not
getting any answer to his knocks at the door, ho looked
over the top, and saw the prisoner suspended by a piece of
cord round his neck, and fastened to a water pipe. The
prisoner was cut down and the police sent for.
Police constable Elliott, 43 C, said that he was called to
the Cafe Regence, and found the prisoner lying on the seat
of the closet in a state of insensibility. He spoke to the
prisoner, but could not get him to answer. He took the
prisoner to the station, and he afterwards told him that he
had been in prison three months for stealing a coat, and
rather than be dishonest he thought he would destroy
himself.

Mr. Knox said he would remand the prisoner for a week,
and a communication should be made on his behalf with
the Prisoners' Aid Society.

BANE OF FRANCE.

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.
Sept. 27.
fr. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 C.—
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
Juno 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-
perty ......
Notes in Circulation . 936,574,,475
Bankr.otes to orderand

Sept. 20.
fr. c,
182,500,000

22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14

4,000,000
943,254,825

receipts payable at
sight 26,506,220 63 28,386,731 04
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 241,756,182 55 259,166,756 76
Do. branch banks 33,981,596 35,975,502
Dividends payable 1,380,367 75 1,447,816 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

7,177,730 20 6,868,253 67

six months
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

2,372,304 91 2,372,304 91

8,922,802 46 8,528,781 03

Total 1,662,692,728 72 1,671,330,434. 53
CREDITOR.

Sept. t.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. Sr.
20. Sep 27.
c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 266,747,687 78 261,154,586 85
Do. branch banks 333,254,156 332,902,164
Advances on deposit of
bullion
Do. branch banks
Do. on French Public
Securities
Do. by branch banks
Do. on railway shares
and debentures
1). branch banks
Do. on Credit Foncier
Bonds
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10,
1857) 60,000,000
Government Stock re-

89,273 01 168,815 02

15,625,800 -
11,264,900 -

14,958,200
10,792,200

13,661,400 -
7,636,200 -

13,484,000
7,348,100

34,681,300 -
23,675,600 -

34,580,100
23,610,100

684,600 -
641,300

698,100
556,400

60,000,000

serve
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees
(Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches
Expenses of manage-
ment
Sundries

12,980,750 14 12980750 14
86,158,987 91 . 86,158,987 91

8,327,017 -

8,327,017

1,351,072 27 1,385,866 07
16,731,085 78 16,209,723 52

Total 1,671,330,434 53 1,662,692,728 72
Certified by theDeputy-Governor of the Bank of France.

(Signed)

ANDOIRILT,I7,.

RAILWAY TARIFFS IN EUROPE.—The following
are the average fares per 100 miles on the different rail-
ways of the continent as prepared for the Royal Commis-
sion on Railways, viz.: Russia, first class, 14s 5d ; second
class lOs 10d, third class 3s. ; Prussia, first class 12s 6d ;
second class 10s, third class 3s 2d; express trains, first
class 14; second class 12s ; the Rhine, first class lls 10d ;
second class Bs, third class 3s 10d ; Norway, first class
13s, second class 9s, third class 48 6d; Sweden, first class
11; second class 7s 6d third class 45 9d; express trains,
first class 13s; second class 10s; Bavaria, first class 10s,
second class 7s, third class 4s 10d ; Belgium, first class
lOs 3d, second class 7s 6d, third class 5s ; Wurtemburg,
first class lOs Bd, second class 6s Bd, third class 50 id ;
Denmark, first class 12s, second class 9; third class Gs ;
Spain, first class 14s 7d, second class lOs sd, third class
6s 3d; Austria, first class 13; second class 10s 3d, third
class Gs Gd ; Saxony, first class lls, second class 8s 3d,
third class Os 8d ; Switzerland, first class 12s, second class
95, third class Gs 8d; Italy, first class 14s, second class
lOs Gd, third class 7s; express trains, first class 16s, second
class 12s ; Portugal, first class 13s 3d, second class 10s,
third class is ; Holland, first class 14s, second class 10s 6d,
third class 7s ; France, first class 14s 61, second class 11s,
third class 7s Gd ; Great Britain and Ireland, first class
188 6d, second class 13s 4d, third class 8s ; express trains,
first class 21s, second class 16s Bd. From which it appears
that the Russian and Prussian Railways accommodate tho
working classes at the cheapest rate, while the tariff of
Great Britain and Ireland is the highest of them all for
first, second, and third, and express trains. It must, how_
ever, be borne in mind that, in those foreign countries
whore the railways do not belong to the state, the share-
holders receive considerable government assistance in con-
sideration of their being obliged to adopt a low tariff.
A TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE AND ITS VARIOUS
READING."—A gentleman the other day had occasion to
telegraph to Cambridge for a book. The book was a copy of
prize poems containing, as the telegram was worded
"Johnson's Poem on Plato." By the time thb message
reached Cambridge (it would have to pass through London
on its way) it had become altered into "John Pomens on
Plato Money." The bookseller at Cambridge wrote by re-
turn to say that he regretted his inability to find any such
work.

TEMPTATION.—Thomas Harker and James Evans, two
boys, were charged with stealing a half-pint o 4
tho can containing it. and
David Thomas, a dairyman, said that,l*.ie loft the can and
milk at the door of a customer in ;tafford-placo,
and
at half-pas
bsequently nom'
7 this morning.
it was taken away from there,
su
a "I,l:wet-flan brought the prisoners and
the empty can 41-0 him.
P Mr' S:7le —Do you commonly leave your milk on the
-
...ops of the door ?