The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

THE DETAILS OF THE DEER TRADE•

Few of those who appreciate the excellence, of
British beer have any idea of the variety of the
preccsses through which. it has to pass before itfinds
its way to the table. To produce the veritable
Double X, or the inimitable Burton, requires vast
resources elaborate machinery, and a thorough know-
' ledgeof the whole art and mystery. Thebrewcrdelivers
the manufactured article to the wholesale dealer in the
metropolis. Messrs. Foster, of Brook-street, are the
largest distributors of beer in the world. They have
a railway warehouse at Agar-town, and cellars and
stores in the Marylebone-road and Westmoreland-
street. The superficial area devoted to the various
Purposes is about 69,000 square feet, or nearly
an acre and a-half. The ale remains in
cask for several months before it is bottled.
The ale that is intended for a warm climate is kept
longer in wood than that destined for home consump-
tion, being held in cask for a full twelvemonth beyond
the usual period. The ale when bottled is corked by
machinery, wired by boys, and packed in tiers until
a stack is formed of 1,000 dozen. The ale remains
a few montl:s in this condition, and is carefully
watched and tested until the beverage is suit-
able for consumption. The pale ale is sent
everywhere, but the strong sweet ale is
exported to Russia and cold climates. The former
is sent in enormous quantities to India, where it
commands a high price. The regularity and celerity
with which the various operations of washing,
bottling, wiring, packing, and storing are carried on
are astonishing, and a million or two of bottles are
filled and moved about. and eventually distributed to
all parts of the globe without a single hitch in the
machinery.

" GREAT WITS TO MADNESS A-EARLy ARE ALLIED ;"
Especially if they take to drink'
illustration of this is given in A teITIOIu
who seems to have been to-Clang.'
man, named Dunbar,
con-
siderableA genius, having made a plaster model for a
sculptor, named Lynn, celebrated the
comple-
tion of his task by drinking several g.l glasses
of beer. lie seems to have drunk himself
into a frenzy, and soon afterwards he cut his
throat, and was hacking and sawing at it when Mr.
Lynn rushed forward to stop him. Enraged at this
obstacle, the dypso-maniac stabbed his would-be
rescuer, and then a fierce struggle ensued ; one man
seeking to save two lives, including the assassin's,
the other seeking to dcstroy two, including his de-
liverer's. Eventually help arrived, Dunbar was
seized and bound, and his throat sewn up ; but it
required strong men to bold him and prevent him
from tearing open his wounds. It is supposed that
he will die.

THE LICENSED VICTUILLEP.:,'%

The same paper, which records the above horrible
tragedy at length, describes at greater length the
good deeds of the men who are primarily responsible
for it. A list, of more than a column long,
details the subscriptions of the brewers and the pub-
licans towards the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum.
The whole subscriptions amount to £1,434. Weighed
in the balances against such misery and horror as we
have just described, the alms of the brewers and
the publicans will seem lighter than vanity itself.
And this is only one case out of thousands. The
charity of the beer-makers and the beer-sellers
reminds us of nothing so much as an attempt by
them to put out with a penny syringe the flames in
0223eillich they had set on fire.