The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-10 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—A good business has been done in low and medium
descriptions, at a slight advance on former rates.
SUGAR.—A very small quantity has been offered at
public sale, and the operations in the private market have
also been limited, prices, in some instances, being a shade
lower.

COFFEE.— The demand for both plantation and native
Ceylon bas been moderately active, and prices have re-
mained steady. Other descriptions remain at previous
rates.

RlCE.—There is a good demand, and holders continue to
exact fully former prices.

TALLOW.—There has been a better tone, and quotations
'r both present and forward delivery are a shade higher.

Fatal Accident at Messrs. Rennie's.

Yesterday (Thursday) Mr. W. Payne, coroner
for London and Southwark, held an inquest at the
Moonrakers, Great Suffolk-street, Borough, respect-
ing the death of George Barratt, aged 24, lately in
the employ of Messrs. Rennie, of Greenwich, boiler
maker.

On Wednesday, the 25th ult., about two o'clock
in the afternoon, the deceased was engaged with a
fellow workmen, named William Pratt, in tighten-
ing a tube stay, £0 as to secure the plates together.
They were using a spanner of six sides for screwing
up the rivets, when suddenly the spanner slipped,
both were knocked down, the spanner striking de-
ceased in the side. He appeared very ill, and pro-
ceeded home to his father's house in Wellington-
street, Blackfriars-road, where he described the
accident. Eventually he was admitted to Guy's
Hospital, where he expired on Saturday last.
Mr. James Stocker, medical officer at Guy's Hos-
pital, said that when deceased was admitted he was
affected with cough, accompanied with great pain,
showing that he had inflammation of the lungs. He
made no mention to witness, though he might to
the nurse, about having received a blow. There
was no bruise to be seen, or any mark of violence,
and although the blow from the spanner, as de-
scribed, might have produced the inflammation and
thus have caused the death, there was no proof of
it from his examination of the body.
Although the Coroner in his summing up inti-
mated that death was the result of accident, yet the
jury returned a verdict of natural death.

NATIONAL LIFEBOATINSTITUTION.—Mr. Brewster,
the proprietor of one of the large concert-halls at Wolver-
hampton, gave a concert a few days ago in aid of the funds
of the National Lifeboat Institution. The proceeds hap-
pily realised £25. Mr. Brewster made last year a. similar
present to this truly national and• benevolent institution.
THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.--The
weekly meeting of this institution will be resumed in the
house in Great George-street, on Tuesday evening, the
14th inst., at 8 p.m., when a paper by Sir Charles Tilston
Bright, M.P., M.1.C.E., "On the Telegraph to India, and
its extension to Australia and China," will be read and
discussed.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —Homceopathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being
the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
homceopathy was first introduced into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 18.39 to turn
his attention to this subje.t, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
prodace an article pure in its composition, and so refined by
the perf.et trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For geucrsl use Epps' cocoa is distinatibhed as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious arm',
Dr. Hassan in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,"
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important 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." Direc-
tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup,
filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
i-lb , and lib. labelled packets, and sold at Is. Ocl. per
lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.