The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-16 00:00:00

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The Claremont Stakes.

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Won by half a length.

POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The professor of chemistry, Mr. J. H. pepper, e°,113.:
menced hero on Monday a roost popular subject
Englishmen, viz.—Ale-brewing, and the alleged adul-
teration of the justly famed and favourite bitter ale o.`
Messrs. Salt and Co., and other Burtuu brewers, t,°
which the learned gentlemen had paid especial visits, IT"
was, therefore, able to speak as au eye.witness of the
perfect integrity .of the operations conducted in
.te;
establishments. The lecturer c.:+inmenced with a riev'e
of the process of fermentation, which might 4'4 .be
termed one of transmutation, and illustrated by In-
structive diagrams end lucid explanation that the stare
in the barley was converted partly by the first process °I
malting into sugar, and a curious principle coutainii4
nitrogen, called diastase. This curious agent converts
the rest of the starch in the cperatioa of gashing int°
grape sugar, which, fermented by yeast (another
nitro-
genous compound), was converted into alcohol. Tile,
starch and the sugar contain the same quantity 01.
carbon with variable quantities of oxygen and hydrogge,ll
in the proportions to form water; so that the shirt
one's back may be turned chen3-!cally into alcohol (vaigo,
gin) with Out that common mode of appealing to 1"
pawnbroker first; because linen is liquine, this can be
converted into grape sugar by boiling with
sulphuric
acid, and the grape sugar may be fermented into alcohol.
He omitted to mention the addition of hops after the
mashing, which afford the well-known grateful and aro-
matic bitter, perfectly unlike and superior to any other
principle of the same nature. After the lecturer had
spoken with the highest encomium of the cleanliness,
order, regularity, and magnitude, of the brewery opera-
tions conducted in 13urton•on-Trent, he alluded in the.
to be very simple, although some persons bad stated
last plice to the detection of strychnine, which was proved.
there were no testy that could be applied to this purpose!
Vt,riuus experiments were displayed with Otto 's and
Lewis Thempson's tests, As well as by a new test, disco-
vered by the lea: vied lecturer, Mr. Pepper, which wasstt:tsp;
able of detecting the 10-70,000th'of a g""2.ilialleL%ndo-tu
had all been applied to the Litter ale obtained
emp.
and Barton, and Mr. Pepper was enabled mostatßurtnoan,
tically to state that bitter ale, RS P r eoPnr.
of malt, hops,
WAS really a genuine article, and made y
and spring water.

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BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.—It appears that to
Saturday last 126 public Bills had been introduced in the
present session, of which 20 bad received the
Royal assent ;
42 were introjueed by the Derby Ministry (now in
gress), 11 by3l by
by
private Members of both HOUSCS, and 22 Bills had been
the Russell Alinigtry (now in progress),
withdrawn or rejected.
THE MANCHESTEH ROYAL INFIRM AND
CILUNIXES.—The v.!ries of dramatic performances OTHER
—nee • •
these charities at the Manchester Theatre Royal ain aid of
on ',Saturday night. The total receipts for • terminated:
doors was about 7507., and, with 100/. i tickets and at the
alias a total of about 850/ —a n donations, will handsomere-
from such a source. sum to be derived

Dania.
OF A RON.
On the 6th inst., at St. Helier's, 'Jersey, Mrs. Richard
Gossett, widow of the late Mr. R. Gosset, of an heir.
On the 10th inst., at Pembroke-road, Kensingtcn, the wife
of H. O. Downer, Esq.
OF A DAtTOlrusi.
On the 9th inst.,* at Cadogan-place, the wife of William
Wilberforce, Esq., jun.
On the .10th inst., at Clapham-rise, Mrs. B. Field.
On the 10th inst., at Truman's Brewery, Mrs. A. Fraser.

MARRIED.
On the 10th inst., at Trinity Church, Tonbridge-wells, the
Rev. Edward Repps Jodrell, M.A., second son of Sir Richard
Paul Jodrell, Bart., of Porthind place, and Sail-park, Nor-
'olk, to Lucinda Emma Maria, daughter of R. T. ciaiden,
of River Lyons, King's County, Ireland.