The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-24 00:00:00

Mr Partridge—You had no right to drive without a
badge. You are fined 40s. Drunken cabmen must be
taught to keep sober. Their drunkenness appears to be on
the increase.

WESTMINSTER.
A DRUNKEN CABMAN, AN " ELEVATED " FARE,
AND A " GROGGY" HORSE.—Charles Ellis, a cabman,
was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care
of his horse and cab late on the previous night.
Henry Postern, 281 R, said that he was on duty in the
Fulham-road when he saw the horse in defendant's cab
coming towards him at a slow rate, and apparently not
under control. On its approaching nearer, the defendant
fell off the box, and witness picked him up, and, finding he
was drunk, conveyed him to the station.
In answer to the magistrate, defendant said he had a
fare in his cab at the time,
It was suggested by the defendant that there was much
to ctuse the offence—the extreme coldness of the weather,
the near approach of Christmas, the fact of the liquor hav-
ing had more than its usual influence, and the presumption
that the horse was a little "groggy."
Mr Selfe thought it premature to celebrate Christmas be-
fore it arrived, and fined defendant 10s, or imprisonment
for seven days.
Mr Weeks, the fare whom the previous defendant had in
his cab, was next charged with being drunk and incapable
of taking care of himself.
Police-constable Postern said that he found the gentle-
man in the cab drunk, and seeing he could do nothing with
him took him to the police station in the cab.
Mr Selfe pointed out to the defendant that he had been
found in a very awkward position.
Defendant said he had been very unfortunate in his selec-
tion of a.cab. Feeling himself a little "elevated" he called
a cab in order to be driven home in safety, but had picked
a cabman, as it seemed, in a worse condition than himself,
whereby both had got into trouble. If the cabman had been
sober nothing of the sort would have happened. The de-
fendant did not consider there was much the matter with
him.

The police declared that when taken out of the cab at the
station he was so intoxicated that he could not give his
name and address.
He was fined 55., which was immediately paid, but the
cabman was locked up.

SUELTON'S ANALYSIS of the various horses en-
gaged in the Derby, the Oaks, the One Thousand,
and Two Thousand Guineas has just been published. It
contains, besides the analysis of the four great races, reports
from all the principal racing stables. Though small in
size, the amount of valuable hints thrown out with regard
to the horses engaged in the various races above-mentioned
will be found of inestimable value to those wishing to make
investments so long before any of the races come off. No
one ought to back a horse without previously providing
himself with a copy of this useful guide,
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.—The Court of
Assizes of Haute-Loire has just been occupied with
the trial of a man, named Baptiste Fautry on a charge of
fratricide. It appeared from the indictment that the father
of the prisoner finding himself too old to manage his pro-
perty, made a division of it between Urbain and Baptiste
(the prisoner), his two sons, and his two sons in law, named
Sejalon and Blanc. In August last, when this partition
took place, Baptiste considered that ho had not been fairly
treated, and resolved to avenge himself on his family. On
the 20th of August, when all the family were assembled at
their evening meal, he entered his room with a double-
barrelled gun in his hand, and levelling it at his brother
Urbain, killed him on the spot ; he then discharged the
second barrel at his brother-in-law, Blanc, whom he
seriously wounded in the right shoulder. He next attacked
his father with a sharp weapon like a lance, which he had
prepared for the purpose,and indicted severe wounds on the
old man. Some persons rushing into the zoom, in con-
sequence of an alarm having been given, overpowered the
prisoner and gave him into custody, Baptiste, when be..
fore the court, did not attempt to deny the crime imputed
to him. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with extenu-
ating circumstances, and the prisoner was condemned to
hard labour for life.

BREA.XFAST BEVERAGE.—Homeapathie practitioners
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to be obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Homeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassan!, in his work, "Food and its
Adulterations," says -"Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." again : "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
In tin-lined Vb., ilb„ and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by
9,11 groCtrs, tonfctioners, xad cllemists.-[Apvt]