The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

APPREHENSION OF BURGLARS.—John Wright, Ben.
jamin Allen, and William Mares, well-known thieves, were
brought before;Mr. Selfe, charged with being suspected per-
sons going about with intent to commit felony.
Robert Franklin, a police constable, No. 480 K, stated
that he saw the prisoners at half-past one o'clock this
morning loitering about in Broad-street, Rateliff, and
upon observing him they turned up a court called the
Orchard, and disappeared somewhere in an instant. He
remained on the spot where he first saw the prisoners, and
was joined by another policeman. While they were
talking the prisoners came down Collingwood• street
into Broad-street again, and he took them into
custody and asked them what business they had
in the streets at such an hour of the morning
to which they replied that they had been to the Cape of
Good Hope publiehouse in Limehouse to obtain a pot of
beer. He observed that the publichouses were closed on
Sunday night at 11 o'clock, and no beer could be obtained
afterwards. He took the prisoners into custody. They had
been all convicted, and he believed their intention was to
commit a burglary this morning. On reaching the station-
house, Wright dropped a box of silent matches from under
his coat.

Mr. William Dean, licensed victualler, the landlord of
the Pitt's Head public-house, Broad-street, Rateliff, said
his house was twice burglariously broken into and plun-
dered in the month of August. On the last occasion the
thieves got over a skittle-ground and out-house, and broke
through a skylight, and emptied the till of its contents, and
he lost a coat and other property.
A man in the employ of Mr. Dean, said he saw the pri-
soner on the roof of the Pitt's Head three weeks ago. The
prisoner was coming down the tiles on his hands and knees,
at fifteen minutes past four in the morning. The house
had been entered into and plundered the same morning.
Other evidence was gone into, and it was stated that
other evidence affecting the prisoners would be forthcoming,
as they were suspected of committing several:burglaries,
Mr. Selfe remanded 'hem until Thursday.

INDIAN FINANCE.—From the state of the market
on this side, and the character of the accounts from the
East, the opinion seems to be general among the persons
connected with Indian finance, that the Indian railway
companies will have no difficulty in raising the bulk of the
funds they may require during the current year without aid
from the Government, and that it may therefore be hoped
there is little likelihood of any further creation of India
Five per Cents.

Rio, Aug. B.—We have had a slight earthquake
here ; it was felt all over the province of Rio de Janeiro,
but most intensely in the city of Santos, where some damage
was done to the public buildings. A committee has been
appointed by the Government to take into consideration the
best means of collecting and forwarding objects for the
London Exhibition of 1862. Several private individuals
are also making collections in natural history, &c., for the
same end.

The Aigle du Midi of Montpelier says :—" The
year 1861 will be one of the most remarkable as regards the
production of bees. In some hives there have already been
two or three swarms ; alid it is hoped that the yield in
honey and wax will be so large as to compensate in the de-
partments of theGironde and the Landes for the insufficiency
of other productions."