The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

P. ETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has ever since
41- its introduction to the public been recognised, both by scientific
men and the trade, as the best article ever manufactured in this
country. Its Claims 'o such pre-eminence are based upon its unri-
valled purity, and its cl ser 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
in their vintages, the French wine 'grower gets a highey 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 it but the product of British grain and beetroot spirits, the
prestige hitherto exclusively enjoyed by French Brandy as having
been distilie I from a particular French wine no longer exists, and is
no longer worthily assignable to it now that it is bunglingly made
from other materials. The supply of wine for distillation into Brandy
having failed, the French distiller is constraine/ 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 r- spectably competitive, and he has
not had it. Under these circumstances the Messrs. Betts challenge
that their PAT 1.,17 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 spr ad, for recent importations a-e of
a quality so inferior as to di grace the name thgy bear, and arc
twice the price of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, which is supplied
by the trace, in ca,suled bottles, to private familie in any quail.
tity, (lowa to the single bottle. Excise regtrations prevent its
sa'e ruin the Distillery, 7. sm•thfleld-bars, St. John-street, in
any less quantity then two gallons,

Fp 0 YAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828.

The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re-
commendation is required.
i>urina the past mouth the following number received the benentS
of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal

Week ending 7th Fes:ruary
Ditto 14th Febraa•y .... •
Ditto 21st February . 2,650
Ditto 28th February

Total in February ....•• 9,986
of which 3,379 •vere new cases, the remainder (still under treat-
ment) having been admitted previously.
The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to ths
patients.
Heavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in aftording such eaten
site relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of
Vie public.
The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annus:
General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at
4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman). to conduct the business,
when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at
111 times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on volun•
tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the rreasu, er,
fan Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Couttt
and Co.; Drummond and Co.: }ferries and Co.; Ransom and Co.;
Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith. Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ;
tones Loyd and Co.; Itarclay and CO.; Denison and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co.;Nisbet and Co., Bet,
uers-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the ?respite].
Clothing for the destitute patients will he thankfully received.
By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman.