The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

THAMES.

RAPACITY OF A BROKER.--A gentleman applied to Mr.
Partridge for advice under the following circumstances:—
He had seen accounts in the newspapers of the conviction
by his Worship of a broker and appraiser named Eli
Payne, who was fined £2l, and committed to prison in
default of payment, for retaining the proceeds of a distress
for rent, making overcharges, and exacting money from
the poor people, named Hodges, on whom he distrained.
He had a complaint to make against Payne. He was the
agent of a lady who was the owner of house property in
Bow. He employed Payne to distrain on one of her
tenants for rent, and he obtained £6 os. by the distraint,
which he had appropriated to his own use. Payne was a
man of straw, and possessed no property or any esta-
blishment whatever.

Mr. Partridge said that Payne was in prison under a
commitment from that court. In this case the only remedy
for the applicant was to sue Payne in the county court for
money had and received. He could not interfere in the
matter by summons or warrant until it was stated that
Payne had made illegal charges for the distraint contrary
to the Act of Parliament, regulating brokers' charges.
The applicant said Payne had returned every farthing
ho received, and given no account at all.

Mr. Partridge---Ho is now in prison. You must go to
the County Court if you ;hink it worth while to sue him.
Peoplo ought to be cautious as to what brokers they em-
ploy. We have had many complaints against that class of
persons.

SMUGGLING.—HEAVY PENALTY.—Isaac Mogstree, a
Dutchman, carpenter of the steamship Leo, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, cha:ged, on a Custom-house informa-
tion, with smuggling ;31bs. of foreign manufactured
tobacco, by which he had incurred a penalty of £lOO.
A Custom-house officer, named Charles Thomas Nee,
found the tobacco concealed in a drawer in the house or
cabin on dock. The prisoner at once said the tobacco was
his property.

The prisoner made no defence, and
Mr. Partridge sentenced him to pay a fine of £lOO, and,
in default of payment, to be imprisoned in the House of
Correction for six months.

MARKETS—This Day.
MARK-LANE.
Tho attendance in the Corn Exchange to-day was
limited. The supply of English wheat on sale was very
moderate, and the tone of the trade was decidedly firm,
Monday's currency, in all instances, being well sup-
ported.

There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on the stands.
Only a moderato business was transacted in most descrip-
tions, nevertheless prices ruled firm.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at fully
previous quotations.
English barley was in short supply, but the show of
foreign qualities was tolerably large. The trade was firm,
and prices were rather on the advance.
The malt trade was firm, at full currencies.
Oats were in good supply. Most qualities moved off
steadily, and prices were rather higher than on Monday.
Beans and peas changed hands at the extreme rates of
Monday. With English qualities the market was well
supplied.

For flour there was a moderate inquiry, on former terms.

SKIP ARRIVALS THIS
Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch. 1020 1410 1559 160 850

Irish
Foreign 4610 850 —.55,470 1080 ski.

NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.
Fair supplies of moat are on sale at these markets. The
trade is steady, at ther.nnexed quotations :

Per 81b by the ea roase:
ad s d
Inferior beef 3 0 3 4
Middling do. 3 6 4 0
Prime large do 42 4 4
Prime small do 4 6 4 8
L,irg,e pork 4 4 5 4
Lamb, Cs 0

s d s d
Inferior mutton 3 6 4 2
Middling mutton 4 4 5 2
Prime do 5 4 5 8
Veal 4 4 5 4
Small pork. 5 0 6 0
Id to Os ud.

BOROUGH HOP.

Tho trade for good and fine hops continues firm, at
fully late rates. The supply of inferior produce is large,
and sales in such qualities p:ogress slowly, at barely pre-
vious quotations.
Now Mid and East Fonts 160 s to 195 s per cwt.
Now Weald of Konts
New Sussex
Yearlings 9os to 135 s „

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—lfomccopathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being
the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy 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 (,btain little notice. J. Epps, of Loudon,
honiceopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to .turn
his attention to this subje.t, and at length suueeded, 'with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by
the pert. et trituration it teceives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate Ftomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma
Dr. Hassan in Ills 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 CUD,
filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
a-lb., i-lb , and lib. labelled packets, and sold at Is. Gd. per
lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists,