The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has ever since
its introduction to the public been recognised, both by scientific
men and the trade, as the best article ever manufactured in this
c )entry. Its claims such pre-eminence are based upon its unri-
valled purity, and its closer assimilation than any other to the
flavour of the finest Champagne Brandy.
There has been no Brandy made from wine In France, either in the
present year or in the preceding one. Owing to the successive failures
of their vintages, the French wine grower gets a higher price for his
wine. consumed as such, than ho can realise by its being distilled
into Brandy; and forasmuch as the foreign Brandy of recent impor-
tations is but the product of British grain and beetroot spirits, the
prestige hitherto exclusively enjoyed by French Brandy as having
been distille from a particular French wine no longer exists', and is
no longer worthily assignable t 3 it now that it is bunglingly made
from other materials. The supply of wine for distillation into Brandy
having failed, the French distiller is constrained to recur to a manu-
facture in which he needs the quarter of a century's experience
which has been exercised upon that of BETTS'S PATENT
BRANDY, to render his article respectably competitive, and he has
not had it. 'Under these circumstances the Messrs. Betts challenge
that their PATENT BRANDY is superior to any now made abroad.

It is to the interest of the public and the Messrs. Betts that
these facts should be widely spread, for recent importations are of
a quality so Inferior as to di• grace the name they bear, and are
twice the price of BETTS'S PATENT. BRANDY, which is supplied
by the trade, in capsuled bottles, to private famine,. in any quan-
tity, down to the single bottle. Excise regulations prevent its
sale from the Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, St. John-street, in
any less quantity than two gallons.

By Authority of the French Consul-General.--,Notice is hereby given,

that the tillowing SALE of PRESERVED BEEF will be the last

on account of the French Government.
QALE of FRENCH COMMISSARIAT
L.-7 SURPLUS STORES, consisting of PRESERVED BOILED
BEEF, of English, Scotch, and Irish manufacture, in tin canisters of
about 6 lb. each, and packed in wooden boxes containing 12 tins.—
Mr. ALEXR. COCK E has been honoured with instructions to Sell by
Auction, at the Landon Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on an
early date in April next, of which due notice will be given, several
parcels of the above description of Provisions, composed of the manu-
facture of the following celebrated firms, viz ,
Messrs. Henry Powell and Sons, London;
Messrs. John M'Call and Co., London ;
Messrs. John Moir and Son, Aberdeen ;
Messrs. D. Hogarth and Co., Aberdeen; and
Messrs. John Onion and Co , Leith.
All the boxes for sale are being opened and carefully examined for
damaged 'canisters, the whole of which will be seheted and replaced
by sound ones ; the fact of the beef having been originally manu-
factured in this country under strict inspection, expressly for the use
of the troops in the Crimea, where it gave the highest satisfaction,
added to its being perfectly free from defective tins, will give every
assurance to buyers of its excellent quality and fitness either for
home consumption or exportation. Packages included in the pur-
chase. The several parcels of beef for sale are now on view at Beal's-
wharf, Mill-lane, Tooley-street, where purchasers may satisfy them-
selves that every care Is being taken in removing from the boxes all
canisters unfit for use., Any further information required can be
obtained at the office of Mr. Cocke, 2, Old Trinity House, Water-lane,
Tower-street, where catalogues may be had six days previous to the
sale, at the following places, viz.;—
Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane;
Corn Exchange,
Garraway's, Coffeehouses;
Baltic, and
Jerusalem
also at the news reoms of the principal inland towns and outports.
The sale will commence punctually at the time stated.