The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

Ex uno disce mimes.

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If in the only cases that you really know anything
about facts, namely, that referred to by your corre-
spondent in California, and that in the absence of all
debts, or claims upon the company by tradesmen or
others in this country, you find the provisional di-
rectors have acted bona fide—why, we ask, should you
charge, or insinuate that they have acted male fide in
other cases, with respect to which you have no better
evidence than the statement of a writer in your
journal ?—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CAVENDISH STUART RUA(BOLD, Bart.,
Chairman.
Anglo-Californian Gold Mining and Dredging
Company's offices, Oct. 25, 1850.

SUGAR REFINING.
SUN.
SIR,—
lately been discussed in your columns, is of so much
TTOh equestion THE
EDITOR
of sugar gr OF
refining,Tir which
has
importance in every point of view to the public, that
I venture to hope you will insert the following re-
marks :—An assertion has been hazarded respecting
the effect of sulphate, or sulphite of lead, on the
human constitution, which I think is not borne out
by analogy; viz., that because the sulphate of lead is
insoluble in ordinary circumstances, t. e. in water,
therefore it is so, andconsequently innocuous, whenin-
troduced into the stomach. It is, however, quite cer-
tain that the power of the stomach in assimilating
substances are very unlimited, and to any physiologist
who knows the structure of the digestive organs and
their operation, specifically adapted to entangle and
appropriate matter subjected to their action, it would
appear a hazardous experiment to continue for a length
of time the daily use of a substance well known to
accumulate in the system, and to be slow, insidious,
and poisonous in its effects. These effects are well
known to plumbers to be incident to the manipula-
tion of metallic lead (insoluble under ordinary circum-
stances) to which their vocation subjects them. During
the alterations at Windsor Castle, one of the work-
men employed there assured me that not less than
five of his fellow-workmen, ptumbers, died of the
effects of lead. It is also known that type-setters
have suffered severely from the effects of lead. The
argument of insolubility is not worth a straw. Calo-
mel, magnesia, chalk, sulphur, these are all insoluble,
yet no one doubts their effects. The remark by Mr.
Brande, in the report on the lead process, vie., "the
objects attained by the lead process are not equally
attainable by other perfectly unobjectionable methods,
is only to be accounted for by supposing that the
Messrs. Oxlaud's process for refining sugar by the
acetate of alumina has not come under Mr. Brande's
notice. It accomplishes everything, and more than
the lead process professes to do. It dispenses entirely
with blood and animal charcoal, both well known to
be great destroyers of sugar, as well as cumbrous
and uncertain in their action. The cost does not ex-
ceed 4s. per ton of sugar; and, entirely innocuous,
attains every object. It combines the proteins com-
pounds and the colouring matter, and they are pre-
cipitated with it, and filtered off in combination. As
a consequence of the sugar being freed from these
chemicallyinjurious compounds, the crystallizing
power of the sugar is greatly increased, and from
seven to ten per cent. more of crystallized sugar is ob-
tained. Fuel, time, labour, and space for machinery
are greatly economised, and the process is so simple
that it cannot be missed. by any ordinary workman.
I have seen sugar refined by this process, which is
first rate in colour, crystal, and solidity, but, even if
inferior in colour, who would not prefer it ?
The principle has been acknowleged by chemists of
the greatest eminence. I have seen the practical
working of it, and believe it to be an absolutely per-
fect process, from its simplicity, its economy in
respect, and its full attainment of every object desired
in this great national manufacture. everyi
The subject deserves investigation, and invites it,
as being of the last importance to the public, the re-
finer, and to the West India proprietor.
I am, Sir, &c.,
MEDICO-CHE
DEC CS.

October, 30, 1850.

EXTRAVAGANCE CULINAIRE a la ALDERMAN

THE ONE HUNDRED GUINEA LOU'
This phenomenon of gastronomy, which has yet
never been known in the annals of cookery, was
placed before his Royal Hi
Lord Mayor of York, and the Lord May or of Lon-
don, at the grand civic banquet given in the Guildhall
of the city of York last week, containing the following
articles, viz. : ghness Prince Albert, the
5 Turtles' heads, part of green fat, and
fins £34 0 0
24 Capcna (the noix, or nut from the
middle of the back, only used) ••• 8 8 0
18 Turkeys, the same ... ••• •" 812 0
18 Poulardes, the same ••• .. 517 0
2 18 0
16 Fowls, the some ... •••
10040 Snipes,Woodcocks,the s the same 0
14
.. •••• 5 0 0
•8 0 0
3 Doz. pigeons, the same 0
•
45 Partridges, the same ••• 3 7 6
10 Doz. larks, whole ... ••• ••• 15 0
30 Pheasants, ditto ... ••• ••• 5 5 0
6 Plovers, ditto •••
3D( a quails ... ..• ••• 3 0 0
Ortolans ••• 5 0 0
The garniture. consisting of cocks-
combs, truffles, mushrooms, craw-
fish, olives, American asparagus,
croustades, sweetbreads, quenelles
do volaille, and sauce •••

... 14 10 0

this ex-
traordinaryhat any
l‘i £lO5 5 6
M. Soyer accounts
dishinth
efofroitihoewginrgeamt eaxnpneenrs:LoTf
gentleman ordering this dish, and having to provide
the necessary articles, will easily account for the title
given to it. This dish, which took some hours to
dish up, was kept hot by Roper's patent warming
apparatus.

;leer thep depart-
ment _T ha revenue authorities
epralrt(iifest
mePn:aSTSeENreGpEorittiBl:g SuT°l"
have directed, that :wpl:)enii
atlpipeirergrisoffiot
mission of tobacco, cigars, and snuff; brought to this country
by passengers in their luggage, and consequently neither
contained in the ship's manifest nor official report of the
vessel's cargo, they are to state distinctly whether the pro-
prietors or their agents acknowledged, previously to the ex-
amination of their packages, that tobacco, cigars, or snuff
were contained therein ; and the officers are also to state
whether they be satisfied that there was no intention to
evade payment of the duty due on the articles.
THE CONFERENCE AT WARSAW.—The statements
that have have appeared in some of our cotemporaries re-
specting the Warsaw conferences are altogether incorrect.
Count Brandenburgh was authorised to consent to the
admission of the whole Austrian empire into the German
Confederation, and to the representation of the latter by a
Central Diet of Plenipotentiaries. But neither Count
Brandenburgh nor General Radowitz have ever consented lb
give up Parliamentary representation within the Erfurt
Union,