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AKIN'S ROYAL PATENT COFFEE.
Oa introducing this extraordinary and highly important In-
vention, it will be necessary, in the first instance, to point out the
evils and imperfections arising from all other principles of roasting
and preparing Coffee at present in use.
Coffee is almost universally roasted in an iron cylinder, which is
turned by hand or steam power over a coke fire. The Coffee is let
in and out of the cylinder by means of a slide, which is the whole
length of the cylinder, and which it is next to impossible to render
perfectly air-tight ; the consequence of this defect is, that the sul-
phurous and noxious fumes of the coke penetrate into the cylinder
and mingle with the Coffee. We will suppose, however, the cylinder
containing the Coffee to be placed over the fire, which is then co-
vered in, cylinder and all, and the process of roasting to be commenc-
ing. The first evidence of this fact is the vegetable vapour which is
given off by the Coffee, and which vapour is more or less impregnated
with gallic and mallic acids, which acids, acting upon the iron, form
gallates and malates with that metal. The heat continues, the va-
pour is condensed, and forms a most noxious fluid, which is mingling
with the Coffee, and by the increasing heat is again vaporised, and
is assisted In its destroying work by ono of the most powerful acids
known, namely, by the pyroligneous acid, which is now beginning to
be given off by the Coffee most freely. This vicious acid continues
forming with the iron the acetate thereof, and imparting the same to
the Coffee, which receives, in addition, a sulphurous flavour from the
coke. It should be observed, that so astonishingly great is the quan-
tity of pyreligneous acid formed, that many ounces may be collected
from the roasting a single hundred weight of the berry. The action
of the pyroligneous acid upon either iron or copper cylinders is well
known; with the former a compound is formed which, if not de-
cidedly- injurious to health, gives to the berry a most acrid and oils,
agreeable flavour; whilst, with the latter, the result is verdigris.
Again, by the usual roasting process, which is nothing more nor
less than a species of destructive distillation, what possible chance
has the aroma of this valuable berry of being properly developed?
Supposing for one moment that it were properly developed, it Is well
known to be exceedingly volatile, and would quickly escape through
the crevices in the slide of the:cylinder ; whilst the vegetable vapour,
tieing exceedingly sluggish, and containing the vicious and noxious
acids, would remain behind, giving to the Coffee that cankerous,
acrid, and metallic taste, that renders the infusions of this otherwise
most valuable and wholesome berry a beverage avoided by the deli-
cate, and highly injurious to the health of many who consume it.
For guarding against all these evils, and for doing away with all
those long-complained-of imperfections, her Most Gracious Majesty
has been pleased to grant to Dakin and Company her Royal Letters
Patent.
The plan en which "Dakin's Royal Patent Coffee" is roasted and
prepared is as font*. :—The iron cylinder is altogether done away
with, and the Coffee is never, under any circumstance, allowed to
come in contact with iron. A SILVER cylinder is substituted, and
the heat is obtained by means of the atmospheric air passed over hot
plates, by which plan, as neither the fire, nor the fumes thereof, are
in any way allowed to be in contact with the cylinder, the evils
arising from the sulphurous vapours of the coke mixing with the
'Coffee are entirely avoided The :SILVER cylinder is so constructed
that, through apertures made for the purpose, the vegetable vapour
which contains the vicious acids from the Coffee, is allowed to es-
cape, whilst the apertures, being closeable at pleasure, are imme-
diately closed as soon as this, the first part of the process of roasting,
is accomplished. The SILVER cylinder then becomes air tight, and
the aroma, which otherwise would escape, is condensed on the berry,
which thereby contains all its valued and inherent excellence. The
Coffee, after being sufficiently roasted in a SILVER cylinder, and
after being cooled down in a SILVER cooler, is ready for purchasers
who buy their Coffee whole : whilst the Coffee that is supplied
ground, is pulverised between powerful stones, and for better
preservation from the atmosphere, is recommended to purchasers
packed in glass bottles, containing two pounds each, which are
corked down air-tight, and sealed with the Royal Arms.
DAMN and CO: will have great pleasure in showing many testi-
monials which they have received from the most eminent physicians,
surgeons, and gentlemen of the faculty, as to the beneficial effects
and advantages of ",Dakin's Royal Patent Coffee." The following
certificate of Mr. Alfred. S. Taylor and Mr. Arthur Aikin, the great
aatliorities on chemistry, medical jurisprudence:And the sanitary
question, will, however, no doubt be deemed conclusive :
" We hereby certify that we have chemically examined four
" varieties of coffee—namely, best Mocha, Jamaica, Very Fine and
" Good Plantation (Ceylon) Coffee, both in the raw state and as
" prepared and roasted by the patent process of Messrs. Dakin. We
" have likewise chemically examined samples of the same varieties
" of Coffee roasted at the same time -in the usual way, and the result
" of this examination is that in delicacy of flavour, odour, and as an
" article of diet, the Coffee prepared by Messrs. Dakin's process is, in
" our judgment, superior to that prepared in the ordinary way.
"We have also examined the apparatus used by Messrs. Dakin
" for roasting Coffee, and we find that all the surfaces with which
" the Coffee comes in contact during this process are of silver. We
" find aiso that great care is taken so to regulate the degree of heat
" and the mode of its application as to render necessary a longer
" time and lower temperature to effect the roasting, whereby all
" risk of charring the berry or of producing empyreumatic oil is
" preveated, the separation of acid vapour is more gradual and com-
" plete, and a larger portion of aroma is retained than occurs in the
" usual methods of coffee roasting.
" The process of Messrs. Dakin appears to us, therefore, in a
" chemical view, better adapted than any yet suggested for procuring
" roasted Coffee in a pure and wholesome form.
" ARTHUR AIKIN,
• ALFRED S. TAYLOR, F.R,S.,
" Lecturers on Chemistry in Guy's Hospital.

" Chemical Laboratory, Guy's Hoepital, August 9, 1848.
PRICE CURRENT OF "DAKIN'S ROTAL PATENT COFFEE.'
In addition to the following, Dakin and Co. have the best Coffees
procurable from,Demerara, Dominica, Malabar, Sumatra, Java,
Padang, St. Domingo, Batavia, Havannah, Brazil, Bath, Cuba,

La Guayra, Porto Rico, &c.
Common Coffee •.•• • • • .per lb. Os. 9d. to Os. Ild.
Ceylon • • Good quality ..
Fine plantation •• •
Berbice ....Fine to finest .. •• • •
Jamaica •• • • Good to fine
Very fine to finest •. „ 1 6 to 1 10
Costa Rica .. A strong and good Coffee „ 1 2 to 1 6
Mocha—. • • Choice old to finest aged „ 1 5 to 1 10
SELECTED SORTS.—WhoIe or G. ound.
Common Coffee ...........
Very good and strong.... ............ •••• .. • • .... „ 1 2
Very strong and full flavoured .• ...• • ....• •• • . „ 1 4
Rich and fine flavoured Coffee .• •• .• •• • • •••• .• r, I
Particularly choice C0ffee...............
The above are also supplied in 21b. bottles, which bottles are
charged id. each, and the same is allowed for when returned.
The following sorts are supplied in sealed. bottles containing two
petuids each, and no charge is made for the bottles :
Two pounds of geed sound C.ffee, in a sealed bottle, 21. 6d.
Two rounds of strong and fine flavoured Coffee, in a
sealed bottle •• • • .•••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 3s• 14*
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a sealed bottle • • • • .. • • .
•• • • ........... Ss. 6i.
Two 'minds of the finest old mountain Coffee, mellow
in ripeness and richness el Savour, in a sealed bottle 4s. Od.
DARIN and COMPANY, Patentees, NUAIIIIIR ONE, St.
PAU L'S - C II URC II TAR D.
Adontlemen of science and the Public generally are respectfully in.
fitted to inspect the machinery and apparatus empleyed in the
.Mlnsting, &c., of Dailies Royal Patent Coffee, and to view the
whole in action, nue. Coffee eenstantly roasting, &c., at the ware-
houses efDakin and Co:, in Shiernaker•row, within a stone's throw
of " Number One," where an assistant is waiting to accompany
visitors to the warehoasesrand to explain the whole of this ROYAL
PATENT PROCESS for roasting and preparing Coffee.

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CANADA in 1848: being an Examination of the
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STERILITY.—Whatever is unproductive is with-
out intrinsic value. Man and his Maker alike condemn that
which " yields no fruit," and we find large tracts of land abandoned
for the same reason that caused the barren fig tree to be cursed.
This curse clings to Sterility in every shape ; it brings upon the earth
famine. • But the malediction breathes loudest and deepest into the
ear • f these of the human race who remain childless in a community
which must altogether fail, without continual additions. Not only
do such encounter the silent scorn or pity of their fellow creatures,
but their own hearts condemn them ; wealth brings no consolation
to the wifeless besom—brings no return for the childless home.
It is a remarkable fact that the unproductiveness of soil and
species arises from similarity of cause. Some lands are
the produce of vitiated Vrata that yields an offspring as
unhealthy as itself. Others nurture in their juices the poison of
minerals, which form the foe,ta.vegetation. Others again lose value
by being to• early worked, before they are fit for cultivation, Some
soils, originally fertile, become barren by excess of tillage; others
are spoiled by unwholesome manures ; and others, again, by the
want of perseverance and nerve In the husbandman. Mark the ana-
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springs. Man is too often ruined by the indiscriminate use of mine-
rals, such as mercury, &c. Man also tries his constitution too early,
and avertasks it too late. Man, by unwholesome contact can also in-
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render a naturally vital constitution unproductive through ignorance
of his organisation and diffidence in his powers. Nor does the analogy
cease here. The detriments to cultivation above detailed have been
recently se entirely overcome by modern improvement in agricul-
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stone itself; and, in like manner, Sterility in the human race is now
removable through the profound, discoveries in physic which enlighten
the present age. In testimony of this, a volume has recently been
produced which fills the heart with hope and is calculated to remove
Sterility altogether. It is from the pen of Messrs. J. L. CURTIS
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much by one-half to make London healthy as is now '
spent in neutralizing its unhealthiness. Thereis nothing
naturally insalubrious in the atmosphere of our city.
We are not inevitably liable to the malaria of Rome or
the plague of Constantinople. On the contrary, where-
ever common attention has been paid to ventilation and
drainage, it has invariably been found that London is as
healthy as any country district. Strange indeed it is
that all this argument and expostulation'shottld be called
for on such a subject as the present, and that people
should require such unceasing efforts to cajole them into
cleanliness and cheat them out of fever.
CHRONICLE.—We have been hitherto prevented,
by the necessity of attending to other topics of more
immediate importance, from noticing an attempt which
has lately been made, by Mr. Enderby, to support the
view taken by Lord Grey and the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany with respect to Vancouver's Island, and its capabi-
lities for colonization. That gentleman, it may be well
to observe, has lately received a grant of the Auckland
Islands, in the South Pacific; and hie main object is the
establishment of a whaling station upon his new posses-
sion. It appears, however, that it is desirable for his
interests to secure also a branch station in the North
Pacific. With this view, Mr. Enderby fixed his eyes on
Vancouver's Island ; and having ascertained that the
transaction between Lord Grey and the directors of the
Company was completed, and that the latter had beets
constituted lords paramount over the territory
in gees-
tion, he proceeds to apply to them fot the permission
and co-operation which he requires . in. waking his
.. branch station." Mr. Enderby sbegins by stating his
conviction that Sir John Pelly (Govqrnorof the Hud-
son's Bay Company, to whom his letter Is: addressed)
" is in error in supposing that Vancouver's Island
would ever be made a place of resort by. Amer-
icas whalers, or that it is :the
most desirable ran
dezvous for ships engaged in that trade ;" and pro-
ceeds to say, " that his reasoi.,.;. for sisfgestkag that it
should—be made a branch stet len foewhap&from the
Aucklands was not because it was most favourably
-
situated for that purpose, but because its colonization
would be thereby insured, and a British, instead of a
foreign country, would reap the advantage of attending
on the visits of the vessels.' And again, he says, Sir.J.
Pelly " will perceive that, except from•a. desire to pro-
I mote a great public object, he has no interest to desire
the establishment of a branch station at Vancouver's

Island, as it would be more to his advantage that the
ships should refit at some settlement in the China or
India sea." Now, putting aside the absurdity of
propogiing that a station should be placed, by a mer-
cantilt company, in an unfavourable place, with
a purely patriotic motive, and in hopes (as
we must presume) that the whalers, actuated by simi-
larly high-flown sentiments, would go systematically
out of their , way s" in pursuit of a great pub-
lic object "—putting aside, we say, the absurdity of
supposing that the public will set any value on such
professions and proofs of disinterestedness—we are
happy to say that we do not, by any means, " perceive,"
as Mr. Enderby expects we should, that Vancouver's
Island is " not a desirable rendezvous for whalers," or
that it would be " more to his advantage that they
should refit elsewhere"—i. e. either in the China seas, at
the Sandwich Islands,, or in California. We are told that
the northern fishery extends from 30 deg. to 60 deg. N.
lat., and from 110 deg. to 180 deg. W. long., and that the
habitual rendezvous of the American whalers is now the
Sandwich Islands, but will henceforth probably be some
port in their new province of California. Now, we ob-
serve that the harbours of Vancouver's Island range
from 47 deg. to 49 deg. N. lat., and from 125 deg. to 130
deg. W. long., a position which a glance at the map will
show to be more nearly central, with respect to the
fishery, than any other spot of land whatever; while
the fact that the whalers, according to Mr. Enderby,
do not now find it for their advantage to go to the
China Seas, but to the Sandwich Islands, over-
throws his own position that it would be " to his
advantage" that they should go to those seas
rather than to Vancouver's Island, a spot more easily
available (as we have shown) than their present rendez-
vous. Whatever, therefore, may be Mr. Enderby's
motive for dwelling at such length on the natural disad-
vantages of the locality which he proposes for his station,
we are happy to " perceive from his statement," in the
absence of any further information on the subject, that
he is likely to enjoy the pleasure of gratifying his
patriotism without sacrificing his fortune, and we trust,
accordingly, that, in addition to its other recommenda-
tions, Vancouver's Island may, ere long, become the
natural rendezvous for the whalers of the North Pacific.
The latter part of Mr. Enderby's letter is directed to
prove (notwithstanding " that it is by no means his
desire to discourage settlers from proceeding to Van-
couver's Island") the extreme improbability that it will
be colonized, the almost certainty of failure if its coloni-
zation be attempted, and, consequently, the desirableness
of entertaining his scheme, as the only one by which the
professed objects of the Government and the Company
can be secured. We are fully convinced that the
publication of the letter, by Sir J. Pelly—a pro-
ceeding which, if it were really the object of the com-
pany to colonize, would be unaccountable enough—is
altogether due to that part of it in which the island
is studiously disparaged; and we wish that attention
should be directed to a circumstance so remarkably cha-
racteristic of the whole proceeding. Viewed, however,
without reference to the animus displayed, we must say
that the arguments by which the attempted disparage-
ment is supported are most curiously ill selected for the
purposes of Mr. Enderby and the Company. That gen-
tleman affirms that " to say that Vancouver's Island
possesses a fertile soil, a good climate, fine timber, and
excellent coal, obtainable with little labour, is to say,
probably, all that can be said about it." Considering
that the island is as yet unoccupied, undeveloped, and
even unexplored, we think this is pretty well; nor can
we recollect any one region, similarly circumstanced, of
which " more could be said." Mr. Enderby goes on
to contend that " the harbours have no ships to
frequent them, that the climate and soil yield pro-
duce for which their is no demand, tad that the same
may be said of timber and coal, witioh, without ex-
ternal intercourse, would not enable colonists to pay
for tools, clothing, and other necessaries." NOW, we
should like Mr. Enderby to tell us how, if these were
valid objections to colonization, any unoccupied country
could ever be settled. Every one of his observations
would apply with still greater force to the eastern coast
of North America, to Australia and to New 4ealand;
where, until the resources of those regions were disco-
vered and developed, and an export trade in their pro-
ducts created, there was, and could be, no " external in-
tercourse, demand, or ships." The fact is, that, consi-
dering the trade already existing and rapidly increasing
between North-Western America and North-Eastern
Asia, and the probability of an entirely new and most
important line of communication being opened forthwith
between the Atlantic and the Pacific, Vancouver's Island
has advantages which not one of the countries we have
alluded to had when first colonized. Far from being in
an inferior position as regards export trade, it is
absolutely the only one which begins with an export
trade ready-made—we allude to that of coal, which
it alonels known to possess in the whole region of the
Pacific, and which, as we have before stated, is now
procured in England for the steam service lately esta-
blished by tke Americans between Panama and Oregon.
Besides this, there is sufficient reason for believing that
copper is to be found in the island (large quantities being
found in the possession of the natives), and it is needless
to point out the peculiar advantage derivable from he co.
existence of that mineral in the same locality with the
coal required for smelting it. In short, we have no
doubt that the same steps which created an export trade
in wool from Sydney, in cotton from Charleston, and in
copper from Adelaide, will, if taken in earnest, lead to
similar results in a country of, at least, equal promise.
That no such steps will be taken, we have too much rea-
son to believe; for in this case the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany have the means of realising their own and Lord
Grey's prophecies—and the more we see of their pro-
ceedings, the more reason we have to conclude that they
are determined that their predictions shall be true.
ADVERTISER.—The suggestions which this journal
has so often thrown out respecting the best way of im-
proving the management of railway affairs, are at length
beginning, not only to be recognised as right is them-
selves, but to be carried into effect. Mr. Hudson, the
railway king, is very appropriately setting an example
in the adoption of those means by which alone the rail-
way companies can be put on a footing of permanent
prosperity. For more than six months, we have, at
short intervals, sought to impress on railway directors
that they were squandering the property of the share-
holders, while they were rendering no service to the
public, by the frequency with which they run their
trains. We are glad to enrol the name of Mr. Hudson
on the list of converts to our views. In all the morning
papers of Tuesday there was an announcement from
the Eastern Counties Company, to the effect that
some of the trains running on their line are to be dis-
continued, while alterations in the hours of starting in
the case of others, are to take place. The remaining
companies must follow the example. Many of them,
indeed, are already preparing to do so. In this way, an
enormous sum will be saved. From calculations which
have been made, there is ground to believe that from
this source alone of saving in the working of lines, an
addition of from Ito 1 per cent. will be made to future
dividends. The result will be that the Eastern Coun-
ties, instead of only paying 5 'per cent. on the original
161. shares, will yield a profit of more than 6 per cent.
It is to be remembered that trains filled with passen-
gers are but a mere trifle more expensive than those
which are all but empty. Nor will the public
convenience be in any way diminished by the re-
duction in the number of trains which daily run
along the Eastern Counties line. So great a num-
ber of trains as ten was not needed, The moat
ample accommodation will be given to the public by
running seven trains. To do the public justice, they
hare never been so unreasonable as to ask for the run-
ning of trains with such frequency. They have, on the
contrary, expressed their regret that the dividends of
those proprietors who have provided them with railway
accommodation, should be unnecessarily diminished.
This then is one step towards the restoration of confi-
dence in railway property. There are various other
steps which Mr. Hudion has determined on adopting on
the Eastern Counties, and all the other lines under his
control. Such alterations are to be made in the hours
' and frequency with which third-class trains are to run,
as will prevent those who ought to travel by first or
second-class carriages, from travelling by the third-class
conveyances. When the Legislature passed a law onin-