The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-18 00:00:00

ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.

The necessity of protecting the public against the
adulteration of coffee has been brought under the notice
of the Treasury, through the intercession of his Grace
the Duke of Montrose, and the most Noble Viscount
Torrington.
The retail dealers who supply the middle and higher
classes have found that a public discussion of the subject
was alone wanting to enable these classes to protect
themselves. But the continued adulteration of coffee in
the more densely populated districts shows that nothing
short of the interference of the Government will avail
to protect the poor from the unscrupulous practices of
the unredr trader. It is said that the present Govern-
ment are by no means disposed, like the last, to lend a
tacit sanction
..to a demoralizing system of fraud, and
that they arc aisposed to interfere to protect the colonial
producer, tne revenue, the fair trader, and the poorer
clgssesof consumers, from the admixture of noxious and
deleterious substances in coffee. All that the movers
of this question require is, that the Treasury minute of
1840 should be rescinded, and that the minute of 1832
should be altered, the eff:ct of which would be to allow
grocers to sell chicory as chicory, and coffee as coffee.
Some such solution of the question is considered the
more probable from the fact that the celebrated analyti-
cal chemist, Dr. lire, has, withi
the last few days,
declared that " No problem in science is simpler or more
certain than the detection of chicory or similar sub-
stancea in coffee powder." Dr. Ure also pointed out a
cheap and simple apparatus for giving test results of
sufficient precision. This opinion, together with what
i
has previously been raid on this subject, will t is hoped
induce the present Government to make some speedy
alteration.

COPY OF DR. ITRE'S OPINION ON THE POWER OF
DISCOVERING THE ADMIXTURE OF CHICORY WITH

COFFEE.

"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 colons., of greater or less intensity to cold water.
If three glass tubes set upright be charged respectively
with a few grains weight of
1. Pure coffee,
2. Coffee mixed with a little chicory,
3. Coffee mixed with much chicory,
and if into each of these tubes a like quantity of cold
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 liquids in the stems of the
tubes will show by the variable depths of the tinctures
the presence and proportion of coffee and chicory in each
of them. An apparatus for making this experiment may
he had for one shilling, and would give test results of
But:Reit nt precision.
,81,gned) .g ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c.
orwarded to Charles H. Burton,
14, Furnival's lan."

We find the followilang story
I" IMA
in MAGNETISM.
theSiacle:---, Madame
de V---
' Of th
two days ago t_ M.
Rue Neuve St. Augustin, 62, went
magnetism, anti d Marcillet, the professor of animal
somnambulist, demanded a consultation from his
nication with Alexis. •h Ilavicg been placed in commit-
aye which has broughtsca° said, 'Do you know the mo-
come to ask ma to find
le here?" Yes Madame. You
has andestolen from ~,(7,You a sum Of 3,130 f. which
it was, Alexia Ju. The lady admitted that
Proceeded to state how the sum
was wad° up—namely,of _,.
three
100 f, in English sovereigns, notes of I,ooof. each,
and 30!.. in silver. Ma-
dame do V---- said that
Alexis if he gaw the
Person who had robbed
ms correct, and asked
her. , re,..ftetly,' he answered
whom you discharged on moni_
last.` It is the domestic
shou!ders, is little, and limps slightly;
She has large
' That is true.'
' To find her you mast go towards theY'
ceaux, She lives with one of her Barrier° du Mon-
a street which ascends—wait a ` acquaintances in
Ras—Rne du Rocher. I see also moment—it is the
her, who appears not to be a stranger to ung man with
Go to that place, and you will find the wo the affair.
ut
money, with the exception of about 300 f., which and your
she has
spent.' Madame de AT-- returned home,
and
surprise found her late servant with the conciergto her
some pretext she made her go up to her apartment,°' On
looked her in the bedroom. She then went to th and
missary of police and related to him what Alexis eohti
said. The commissary offered to go to the Rue 'do
s'
It°°her to had out the girl's lodgings, At that '
rciPmezit