The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-10 00:00:00

NEW DISTILLERY LAWS.

The changes made in the Distillery Lawa, by Acts of
last Sescion, &c. are likely to be of the most beneficial ten-
dency. About half a dozen of the English distill,,s, with
perhaps a million at their command, have been in the habit
of dictating to the market and sie consumer ; and they
therefore may not be very well eased with the infringe-.
ment upon their monopoly, not Only by allowing the use of
much smaller stills than were heretofore legalized, but in
permitting the Scotch chanter to send his manufacture to
England for sale and consumption. This was a complete
triumph of the Scotch over the English distiller ; or ra-
ther, it was a signal and resolute act of justice and policy
in ie Chancellor of the Exchequer in breaking down old
precedents, crippling monopoly, and equalizing the laws
and the advantages of the two countries. The character of
the change is that which few of the'public are capable of
appreciating. The whole provisions of the chief Act
will take effect in the course of two or three months.
The most important change, perhaps, is that which will,
after January next, remove the restriction as to the article
to be used by distillers—they will no longer be limited to
corn. They may then use molasses, sugar, ruin, &c. or
whatever they can procure the requisite spirit from. The
first great advantage of these changes undoubtedly is, that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has had the coinage and
the good fortune to be able to kick from before him same
musty, unscientific, and impolitic precedents, by which
most regulations on this subject were heretofoie guided.
This has cleared his way a little for future operations.
The next benefit (without dwelling on that of legalizing
smaller stills) will result from no longer trammelling the
distiller as to the article he shall use. If corn be cheap.
he will purchase that article; if sugar be a drug in the
market, and consequently low in price, he becomes a pur.
chaser of sugar; and similar will be the case with rum, &c.
Such purchasee will improve the markets for all those
articles ; and by such operations those interests that require
relief, from their produce being a drug, will find it in in-
creased demand, which will of course tend to improve their
pricis. The distiller will of course, if the law permit him,
resort to that article in the market which is the cheapest;
so great a customer appearing there, requiring, as he does,
such large supplies, must relieve the market, and thus
where the market most wants relieving, where ankh" are
a drug, or low priced, the purchases of the distiller will ex-
tend the required aid. The duties are still to be levied on
the wash, not on the spirits; a change on this point has
been urgently pressed on. the Chancellor of Exchequer,
by those most conversant with the subjcc d as he ha
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made so good a beginning for the distillers a the country
generally, should the policy of the required alteration in
the mode of collecting the duties be proved to 111 r. Robin-
son, doubtlessly no long time will elapse before it he re-
commended to Parliament.

The present beautiful season has attracted a greater
number of fashionable tourists to the Giant's Causeway
(for the purpose of viewing this natural curiosity), than
has ever been recollected on any precediagoceasions—lriLi
Paper.
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act more rapidly ; with this inconvenience, however, that
the gloss of the paint will be destroyed. Unpleasant smells
from water-closets, ozall articles of furniture connected
!with them, may be modified by the application of lime-
enter, to which, may be added the soap suds that hare
' been used in washing, which neutralize the pungently of
fensive salts : a little quick-lime put into a night-chair
will destroy all disagreeable effluvia. Aromatic pas ilea
of the following composition may be butned with gr..;
success ; take of camphor, flowers of bensoin, powdered
charcoal, powdered camellia bark, powdered Turkey
myrrh, and powdered nitre, each equal quantities ; beat
them with syrup sufficient to forma mass, and divide into
tiles of a conical shape. They may be mixed up with
IP"' turpentine ( fil
edoil)
sprit of turpentine t !vett or any thing that is
infiamtr.able. Syrup does best, uit is must adhesive.