The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

LONDON BREAD.

The Medical Times and Gazette says :—TLe Times this
I week has contained an absurd letter complaining of London
bread. It would not be worth notice were it not that it is
evidently a masked battery, an indirect puffs of that
" aerated bread " which, after having
puffed by mercenary writers, 'ed from
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late has been nursed into notice
of sense, that the best London bakers again.
go to the best market,
pay the best price, buy the best flour, and make the best pos-
sible bread in that form which the tastes and wants of the
London public require. As physicians, we know that if
we
require for a sickly or dyspeptic patient any bread of
unusual excellency, we have only to send to Spiking, or
Duer, or Stewart, or Bonthron, not to mention a score of
other well-known names, and either our patients will find
every kind of roll and luxurious petit pain that can be made
from wheat ripener' under the suns of America or the South
and East of Europe. Having made it a special point to exa-
mine bread from many parts of England and Scotland side
by side with London bread, we can assert that the latter is
better than any and made of better flour. If any Londoner
wish for French or German bread he can easily get it. The
bakers in the Soho, orFrench quartier, will supply him daily
with the long crusty loaves so familiar on the other side of
the Channel. If any one chooses to deal with dirty people,
who make their bread in dirty holes underground, that is his
pleasure ; but good bread is to be had by anyone who chooses
it and likes to pay the price. The bread-making machine of
Stevens is to our knowledge successful. It makes better
bread and yields more. We have heard the increased yield
estimated at 3 per cent. by one who was not prejudiced in
its favour. But this turns out bread ; a good, well-fer-
mented, wholesome, sapid bread, not the trustless lumps of
baked dough which we used to have under the name
" aerated." We believe that the Dauglish patent is being
worked at Islington with prospects of greater success than
of yore, and shall be glad if it gives us more or better bread.
But it must stand the " proof of the pudding," or fail.

THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY SPECIAL SERVICES.
—The special services in the nave of Westminster .Abbey
were brought to a close last Sunday evening, the Rev. James
Russell Woodford, M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge,
vicar of liempsford, Gloucestershire, being the preacher.
Amongst the dignitaries who have taken part in the services
are the Bishops of London, Oxford, Gloucester, Colombo,
Frederickton, and St. Andrew's, and Canon
8, Dean Hook,
Dale. In addition to the ordinary special service there
have been two for the benefit 3f foreigners, the sermon on
the first occasion being preached by the Rev. Dr. Francis
Jenne, Master of Pembroke College and Vice Chancellor of
the University of Oxford, and the second by the Rev. Dr.
Jeremie, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of
Cambridge,
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and Sub-clean of Lincoln.
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