The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

SUN,

SPECIMENS OF THE DELUGE.
A PROPHECY, BY LORD MUDSTONE,--IN LEAVES FROM

TEIE LOG.

Weather hazy in the hay. Wind: Downing-street by
Somerset Home. Took soundings in the hold.* No
water; or should have sent llerries to the pumps. Ordered
Malmesbury aloft to look out: reported that he could see
nothing before him: didn't expect he would. Ship sides
like a duck—sounded again, and not a drop cf water;
hut then. as Pakington says, we pitched it so very strong.
lazy weather, with scudding fogs. At 12 P.M.
bumped against something: took soundings, with a piece
of butter at the end of lead: brought up a bit of stone,
which, the B—p of L—n—n, bursting into tears, iden-
tified as a piece of Fulham Palace. Fog very thick in-
deed. At noon. Dizzy takes an observation. Swears he
sees, &e. &c. &c. in distance: nobody believes him—
laughs, and says he doesn't believe it himself.
Wind, the Bank by Exchange-Change East. Nom:
Dizzy protests that, &c., &c., &c. This time, others
protest so, too—somebody floating in the distance. We
put up the helm, and shake out all red tape-1 mean all
reels Approach the man in the water. Make him out
with our glasses—and so he proves to be—Palmerston
in his Windsor uniform, with his hair curled. What
can he float on? We put the helm up again and near
him. The B—p insists we shall take him aboard;
Malmesbury opposes, swearing he'd take the ship from
as. We hail him through spoakiowtrutcpet. "Pam.,
wnl you coma aboard?" "See you drowned first."
But, Pam., what do you float on?" Whereupon, Pam.
held up for a minute the cot k—the single one cork—of
the bottle which, before the deluge, he judiciously held.
lx.fe put up the helm, and run afore the wind, Pam.
singing the " Bay of Biscay," and floating towards
Windsor.

Wind variable, in all places at once. Dreadful to see
everywhere the bodies of Freetradera —even Dizzy
nearly wept! Colonel Sibthorp counted two hundred,
catering their names in his own pocket-book of ass's
skin. Again put the helm up to get rid of the spec-
tacle. Wind light. Called upon Walpole to make a
joke; and mast headed him for di3obeying orders.
Wind anyhow. Freetraders' bodies still float by our
gallant craft. Walpole swears he sees a man alive.
Boatswain Beresford declares he's only one of the rabble.
Man nears us, and proves to be the venerable and vera-
cious editor of the Standard. He calls for a life-buoy,
when Dizzy—(that Chancellor in the human shape)—
throws him over, but he declares in mistake—a file of
the sinking man's own paper: both instantly disappear.
Wind gone to bed. Ship answers everything but her
rudder; Dizzy says he's ready to answer for even that.
What a fellow he is! Swears he sees nest week in the
distance. Took an observation; found we were just
over Manchester. At 1 P.M. John Bright, floating in
his own hat, passed us. Sibthorp wanted to bring a
howitzer to bear upon him, but B—p interposed. Again
called upon Walpole for a joke: still obstinate, and
threatened him with irons.

Wind, worst and by worst. Found we were directly
over Free Trade Hall. Saw the top of one chimney at
least, with Cobden distinctly upon it, waving a flag of
distress, a Manchester bird's-eye. Saw the Agitator
through telescope; but remembered Nelson's blind eye
and the signal, and—though the B—p suggested some-
thing—would not see him.
Wind, squally. Passed Gladstone on a cotton bag.
Light airs. Saw Manners, whom we forgot to take
up when the deluge began, astride a dolphin.
Blowing a gale. Passed Joe Hume in a patent life-
belt. Going straight to the Exchequer. Dizzy wanted
to have a shot at him: B—p benevolently interfered.
Wind got down. Took soundings. Found we were
just over the Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parlia-
ment. Thought we were sinking; to lighten the ship,
threw Malmesbury overboard.
Foundered on the House of Commons.

(Here the log becomes broken and fragmentary.)

" Only a shower," and no deluge alter ell!
* Mr. Punch need not observe, even to the most ladylike
readers of even nautical novels, that the ship-knowledge of
the keeper of the log seems a good deal at sea.—Punch.

THE ELECTRIC TIME BALL IN TEE

STRAND.

Yesterday, consequent upon an announcement to the
effect that the electric apparatus, desiged for distribut-
ing mean Greenwich time throughout London and the
provinces, would be in active operation at one o'clock,
when the ball would fall simultaneously, by electrical
sympathy, with the Observatory Ball at Greenwich, a
considerable concourse of people assembled in the Strand
and at the Electric) Telegraph Company's station to
witness the novel experiment, but were doomed to be
disappointed. The announcement that the experiment
would come off on the occasion was, we are requested to
observe, not only premature, but erroneous and unautho-
rised, the fact being that the arrangements were not com-
plete for the purpose, the necessary wires, forming a por-
tion of the circuit, in connexion with the South-Eastern
Railway Company's wire to Greenwich, not being con-
nected. This, however, will be done immediately,
we understand, by Mr. Edwin Clark, the company's en-
gineer, and a given day will be fixed for the first re-
gular falling of the ball. It may be interesting to state
that although the experiment of causing the ball to fall
at the same hour with the ball at Greenwich (the great
object of the apparatus) has not yet been accomplished,
the ball of 186 lbs. weight has been liberated by a bat-
tery of two plates at Greenwich, that power being found
sufficient for the purpose. Yesterday the electrical dial
in the centre of the five thoroughfares opposite Hunger-
ford Market was fixed upon its ornamented bronze pillar,
and at night, on being illuminated, presented a very
elegant appearance; the four dial plates bring formed of
enamelled glass, with the hours and minutes marked in
stained glass upon the base, and the pillar surmounted
by a gilt ball. The appearance of the great ball or re-
gulator, of a bright vermillion, sashed with a gilt circle,
presented, from its prominent position, a novel and im-
posing appearance, and was the subject of much admira-
tion during the day.

ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.
The followicg opinion from Dr. Ure has been ob-
tained by parties interested in the coffee trade, with a
view to its circulation among the retail dealers previously
to its coming into force. It will be recollected that it
was maintained by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer
that there was no reliable method of detecting the adul-
teration of coffee with chicory. The error of this state-
ment was demonstrated by the Lancet, but it has been
thought advisable to take further steps to make a simple
process generally known:—
" COPY OF DR. URE'S OPINION ON THE POWER OF DIS-
COVERING THE ADMIXTURE OF CHICORY WITH COF-
FEE, FORWARDED TO CHARLES H. BURTON, 27,
MINCING-LAN&
"No problem in science is simpler or more certain
than the detection of chicory, or of similar substances,
in coffee powder. Ground roasted coffee imparts to cold
water merely a pale sherry colour, whereas when it is
adulterated with ground roasted chicory it communicates
a brown colour, of greater or less intensity, to cold
3, of coffee
water. If three glass tubes, set upright, be charged re-
spectively with a few grains' weight of-1, pure coffee;
n2:ioxfedpurweitchoffereeemehixeedhieweirtyh, aeleitdtleifehieictoe eachry of these;
tubes a like quantity of cold water bo poured, and if
alter agitation the tubes be set upright at rest, the solid
particles will soon fall to the bottom, and the transparent
liquid in the stems of the tubes will show, by the variable
depths of the tinctures,the presence and proportion of coffee
teat
results
and chicory in each of them. An apparatus for making
thisiv e
experiment
emfaeyeffibeeiheaudt
pforreeoienieens.
(Signed) " ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R S., gm &e.,,hilling, and would
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THE CHINESE RAT-EATERS.--The Chinese, who
are emigrating to California on a large scale, are, it is found,
amongst the most ingenious, laborious, economical, and
docile labourers among the mines. They demand less
wages, and California is so abundantly supplied with rats,
that they can live like Celestial Emperors and pay very
little for their board. The rats of California exceed the rats
of our older states, just as nature on that side of the conti-
nent excels in bountifulness of mineral wealth. The Ca-
lifornian rats are incredibly large, highly flavoured, and
very abundant. The most refined Chinese in California
have no hesitation in publicly expressing their opinion of
" them rats."
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The following
members of the College were admitted to the Fellowship,
under the provisions of the recent charter, at the last meet-
ing of the council :—Messrs. J. R. Atkins, Stoke Newing.
ton ; H. W. Bailey, Thittford, Norfolk ; H. Blathwayte,
Louth, Lincolnshire; G. E. Blenkins Whitehead'a-grove,
,
eY
Chelsea ; T. L. Blundell, New Broad-street e.
; P. Boss
Woolwich ; R. Brown, Preston, Lancashire; P. H. Chavasse,
9
Birmingham; R. R. Cheyne, Berners-street ; T. F. Chilver,
New Burlington-street; J. Courteney, Artillery-place; H.
Curling, Ramsgate; J. S. Daniel, Ramsgate; E. Double-
day, Blackfriars-road ; A. W. Dumville, Manchester ; H,
Dunkerley, Oldham ; R. Gasquet, Euston-place ; C. N. Gib-
son, Norwich ; H. Greenwood, Horselydown-lane ; J. Hains.
worth, late of Lincoln; S. Hare, Langham-place ; W. Har..
ris, Clapham-road; W. Heane, Bury St. Edmund's; F.
Hicks, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square; C. Hogg, Fins..
bury-place, South ;W. B. Hutchinson, Guildford-street ;
H. D. Jones, Soho-square • W. Jones, Wes otn-super-Blare;
G. Kelson, Sevenoaks ; Lacy, Poole ;J. Levies, Great
George-street; W. Lloyd, Army and Navy Club; C. J. Mel-
ton, Upper Seymour-street ;M. Marley, Cork-street ;T. L.
Matthews, Orsett-terrace, Hyde-park ;T. Mellor, Man-
chester; J. Nichols, Saville-row ;G. Ord, Brixton-hill
J. Phillips, Bethnal-green; L. Powell, John-street, Berke..
ley-square; D. Price, Margate; T. Radford, Manchester ; G.
Rawbone. Chelsea; G. S. Snowden, Ramsgate; W. Sole, St.
Neet's ; C. T. Staunton, Royal Artillery, Woolwich ; T.
Stevenson, Upper Grosvenor-street; R. Stokoe, Peckham_
rye; F. Symonds, Oxford; W. Thomas, Pembroke-dock;
C. Sunaley, Millbrook-place; T. Ward, Southgate; H. Wat-
son, Halfmoon-street ; G. Webster, Sussex-gardens; and W,
C. West, Great Malvern.
ALTERATION OF MAILS FROM CHESTER.—We are
informed that the Liverpool mail, which has hitherto been
dispatched at noon, and at four o'clock P.l.t , will in future be
dispatched at ten o'clock A.M. and 2.40 P.I. The reason as_
signed for this alteration ig that the letters dispatched at ten
A.m. will be in time at Liverpool for the mid-day delivery,
and those dispatched at 2 40 P.M. for the afternoon delivery ;
tut we conceive that, however advantageous such alteration
may be for Liverpool letters, some consideration should have
sbsearstembeeinngt—bfaosr
been had for those parties who have correspondents in the
north, and which the late noon post gave; unless the Post-
master-General will allow two more letter-carriers to effect
au early delivery, and thus enable those parties to receive
their letters in time to answer by the mail at ten o'clock.—
Chester Courant.
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jest been issued from the Middlesex Reform Registration-
of ice, showing the state of the poll in this county at every
. district of each hour on the days of polling at the late elec-
eatoudrntsh,ottoogteatlhneormwhietrh
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polled in each district, andalso the close of the poll at the
election in 1847. From
number of electors on the
tthhis statement it appears that the
n 1852 is 14.610. Of
these 8,761 voted at the laet register i
e election, the numbers being—
for Lord R. Grosvenor, 5,241 • for Mr. Osborne, 4,390; and
for the Marquis of Blandford,' 4,258. 1847 the number
t In
Grosvenor,4,944, Osborne, 4,175; Wood, 3,458. It that' ap-
pears that 1,247 more votes were given in 1852 than in 1847.
, of persons