The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-13 00:00:00

ADULTERATION OF FOOD OR DRINK.

A circular just issued by Messrs. Joseph Travers and
Sons contains the following letter from Dr. Hassall on
the precautions to be taken by tradesmen to avoid
offences against the recent Act for preventing the adultera-
tion of articles of food or drink :

" The Adulteration of Food and Drink Bill having at
length become law, it behoves manufacturers and traders'
to consider how best to secure themselves under its pro-

visions.

" By the Act it is rendered illegal—
' " 1. To sell any article of food or drink with whidh,
to the knowledge of the seller,• any ingredient or matexi .al
'injurious to the health has been mixed.

"2. To sell as pure or. unadulterated any nrticir of
food or drink which is adulterated or not pure.
"The punishment for the first offence coast-As, m i the
infliction of a fine not exceeding £5, while. far s' übse-
quefit offences it is rendered lawful for the- justia es to
cause the offender's name, place of abode, and oiri rice to
be made public.
"It is clear, therefore, that the sale"of ada) terated
articles of consumption, whether with or with, Jut the
knowledge of the seller, should be carefully avoided.
But how, it will be asked, is this object to be accom-
plished ? , _

It is necessary, in the first place, that manta/ acturers
should take steps to ascertain that al) articles sold or
used by them are pure. This, inasmuch; as moat, of their
commodities are in the natural or raw state, it is not
difficult in general to do, but, where a doubt 'ex lets, the
manufacturer might secure himself by requi.rit
ig from
the vendor s. guarantee of purity,
"The retailer, on his part, might protect hii nself by
the observance of the following simple preet, rutio ns
• "Thus, be should never purchase r Liam Factored
articles below the prime cost of the coast: anent ingre-
dients.

"He shoald require, in all cases, a guar intee of purity
from the manufacturer, and, in order to flx the •espon-
sihility still more upon him, I would ad rise that , the re-
tailer should sell all manufactured. arti 41CS in packages
bearing upon them the names of the ms .rtfacturer. Fur-
ther, I recommend that a warranty of purity be pri. rated
upon the wrapper of every parcel of in anufactured go ods
sold. This warranty would give the public confides ce,
because it is not probable that any or ie would use it as a
cover for adulteration, and there is n 4 doubt but turd a 11
warranted articles would meet wit di a more rep %dy sat
than those not warranted.

"I see no objection to manuliacturers and r( ttoilerif,
supporting their own warranty I q the testimony, in the,.
form of certificates, of scientific persons of &Alit} r and
reputation.

"If the precautions here. suggested were obs,
there would be but little fe'Ar of any proceedings xlng
taken against and• manilla' :turer or retail dealers i ukter
the provisions of the Bill. recently enacted for prevei cling
the adulteration of artieies of food and drink."

SPORTING- INTELLIGENCE
- - EXTRAORDINARY!

A gentleman who went out the " first day of the
season," this year, for the first time, to shoot, in wr iting-
tO a friend, gives the following amusing debit and c trait
account of his proceedings up to the present time. On
the debit side are the felloWing items :

s. d.

Certificate .
Gun, with appointments
Brace of pointers (dog chesp)
Shooting jacket and boots
Shot-belt and powAer-lvarn
Powder, shot, .•
Fined for killing a hare illegally
Paid damages done to a cow and a flock of sheep
by Japiter (one of the dogs) lO 0 • 40
Law expenses, including a guinea to a rascally

3 3 0
10 10
10 0 • 0
2 10 0
1 1 0
1 12 6
2 10-.4 0

attorney, who of course sold me in each case ...
To a surgeon and apothecary, for attendance and
medicine, having nearly blown my arm oft'
(thank God it was not my knead) as I kew

3 1.

hardly anything about a gun previously fr !..%)
Carrloge of game to Liverpool O. 8 a

s's 1G 4

casnrr.

By a hare, shot by accident
A leveret, caught by the dogs
A pheasant, that had its leg broken before, I

9 3 he
0 2 -z.)

knocked it down
Two partridges and a grouse, captured by the

O 4, .5

pointers
A rabbit caught in a snare (not of my setting)._
One grouse that I really shot (a most extraor—
dinary performance)

0 4 t;
.0 0 10

0 1 o

Total 0 1.-J 10
By loss 4l 0 2

Total._ W 1 16 u
The writer laconically finishes thus—" 1 haw a notion
of giving it up as a bad speculation !" We think it is
a decided case, and certainly he has Been taught the
"guu trick " to SOMP purpose T.

M. C. Berrier, a manufacturer of 'Lege, recently'
deceased, has bequeathed to the civil hospitals of the
town the sum of 225,000 fr., and the reversion of his
dwelling-house, on cendition that the administration ( f
hospitals shall pay to his widow an annuity of 10,000 fit
during her lifetime.
NEW MAGISTRATES.—The following is an officialliat
of the new magistrates, as included in the recent com-
mission :-LJohn Barnes Brander, Thomas Chilton,
Christopher James, Corbally, John Wakefield Cropper,
John Farnwortik, Thomas Dyson Hornby, Joseph
Thibback, Maxwell Hyslop, William James Lamport,
• George Melly, Thomas Mills, Charles Mozeley, William
Preston, and James Robinson. The eommisaun bk.
dated Ztth August, 1860. There are now 60 magic-.
trates in the borough.
TILE PRINCE AND THE PAINTER.—In reference to
the lamented death of Dechamp, the painter, seveial'of
the journals relate an anecdote which, although Rot by
any means new, is so appropriate to the moment that we
give •
it —Deeanap was very intimate with the Duke,
of
Orleans, eldest son of Louis Philippe, who, like bin], .
met with his death through a restive horse. Long before •
the painter had acquired an European celebrity the duke •
cultivated his friendship, and used to visit him in his •
humble abode, on the fifth or sixth storey, with all the
familiarity of an old acquaintance. One day, when his
Royal Highness was going up to visit Dechamp, a&he
passed the porter's lodge, that functionary inquired who
he was going
to see. On finding that he was going to •
Dechamp's, the man asked him to have the kindness to
carry up a coat which a tailor had just left for the painter.
The visitor consented, and great was the astonishment
of Dechamp when, on opening the door, he saw the-
•prince enter with the coat on his arm, and he heard him
say, lambing heartily, "These, Dechamp, is a coat
which your porter and, tailor have sent you." The •
painter began to apologise, but the prince stopped him.
" Do not sale
adptsure
?"
"You have a fine coat
there ;
`, Two, if I can,'
yoar reTal highness." " Well, let it be two. So put:
on your coat and come and cline with me." -

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