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

ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.

Tho following 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 bite 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, bat it has been
thought advisable to take further steps to make a simple
process generally known:—
" COPY OF DR. ORE'S OPINION ON THE POWER OF DIS-
COVERING THE ADMIXTURE OF CHICORY WITH COF-
FEE, FORWARDED TO CHARLES H. BURTON, 27,
MINCING-LANE.
"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
water. It three glass tubes, set upright, be charged re-
6pecively with a few grains' weight of—l, pure coffee;
2, of pure coffee mixed with a little chicory; 3, of coffee
mixed with much chicory, and if into each of these
tithes a like quantity of coid water be poured, and if'
after 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
ones shilling, and would
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and chicory in each of them. An apparatus for making
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experimentfor
(Signed) " ANDREW URE, M D., F.ll s,,
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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 fur 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 rks."

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, Thetford, Norfolk ; 1-1- Blathwayte,
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New Burlington-street; J. 'Courteney, Artillery-place;
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Curling, Ramsgate; J. S. Daniel, Ramsgate; E. Double
day, Blackfriars-road ; A. W. Dumville, Manchester ; E:
Dunkerley, Oldham; R. Gasquet, Euston-place; C. N. Gib-
son, Norwich ; H. Greenwood, Horselydown-lane ; J. Rains
worth, late of Lincoln; S. Hare, Langham-place • W. Liar:
ris, Clapham-road; W. Heane, Bury St. Edmund's; F. E.
Hicks, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square C. Hogg, Fins_.
bury-place, South; W. B. Hutchinson, Guildford-street;
H. 1). Jones, Soho-square; W. Jones, Weston-super-Mare;
G.' Belson, Sevenoaks; E. Lacy, Poole; J. Lavies, Great
George-street; W. Lloyd, Army and Navy Club ; C. J. Mal-
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, ,
J. Phillips, Bethnal-green; L. Powell, John-street, Berke:
ley-square ; 1). Price, Margate; T. Radford, Manchester;
Rawbone, Chelsea; G. S. Snowden, Ramsgate; W. Sole, St.
Neot's ; C. T. Staunton, Royal Artillery, Woolwich • T.
Stevenson, Upper Grosvenor-street; R. Stokoe, Peektlani..
rye ;F. Syinonds, Oxford ;W. Thomas, Pembroke-dock ;
C. Sunaley, Millbrook- place ; T. Ward, Southgate; IT
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son, Halfmoon-street ; G. W ebster, Sussex-gardens ; and W.
C. West, Great Malvern.
ALTERATION OF MAILS FROM CIIESTER.—We nre
informed that the Liverpool mail, which has hitherto been
dispatched at noon, and at four o'clock p.ae , will in future be
dispatched at ten o'clock A.M. and 2.40 P.M. The reason as_
signed for this alteration is 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 ;
but we conceive that, however advantageous such alteration
may be for Liverpool letters, some consideration should have
been had for those parties who have correspondents in the
north, wid which the late noon post gave; unless the Post-
master-General will allow two more letter-carriers to effect
an early delivery, and thus enable those parties to receive
their letters in time to answer by the mail at ten o'clock.--
Chester Courant.

MIDDLES F.XELECTION —A tabular statement has
dis!rict of each hour on the days of
jest been issued from the Middlesex Reform Registration-
office, showing the State of the poll in this county at every
elec-
tion, corrected by the sheriff's returns, together with the
number of electors on the register, and the total number who
polling at the late
polledi
in each district, and also the close of the poll at the
election n 1847. From this statement it appears that the
number of electors on the register in 1852 is 14 610. Of
these 8,761 voted the late election the numbers being—
for Lord R. Grosvenor, 5,241 • for dr Osborne, 4,390; and
for the Marquis of ord.' 4 258. hi 1847 the number
of persons who voted was 7,51,4 the numbers being—for
Osborne, 4,175 ;'Wood, 3,458. It thus ap-
pear rthi
were given in leo than in 1847.
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