ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 624, 26 July 1851, Page 4

ENGLISH EX TRACTS.

Accouchement qr THE 0 ,ele s ra f'™ dated FnJ«y morning, the morning of the 3rd in. t .n l , h ‘S'’«i Portugal gave b.rth to a prt We „."*S*lW,| February 15, The Bridge ov?r, tr E « following ls an extrqct f “ St. Petersburg, Nov. 22, (Q,S S iron bridge over the Neva was aDS day by his Majesty in met the merchants on the English ' approached him to return thanks **• struction of such a beautiful brid ’ Imperial Majesty turned and pointfd. His engineers, (English and American ‘ These are the gentlemen von Now, gentlemen,’said he, ‘’letug w a iv They were hanging back, not undeca?’ they were to accompany him "p? which, he said * come along', g en ;i ?e and seeing that the crowd of workmen?’ sands in number) were kept back, be'* his hand for them to come over aIL v they rushed on en masse, like a drove of? I following and almost driving his good™'} Majesty, with his two sons, the few who accompanied him, and the merchant!? fore them. There was no music, no so|W * tout simple. And the splendid bridge in open to the public. It is brilliantly ]ji with gas, and forms quite a beautiful pi? enade. Another superb bridge istobek mediately erected from the Litany to tl Wiburg side of the Neva. Next NovemU the Moscow railway will be finished. A new tariff will come into force next January, JBJi admitting every article whatsoever, audnnJ hitherto prohibited, at a duty which will i'. mit their entrance,”

Death in the Teapot.—By the help 0 | Mr. Slivers, we were enabled in a recent number to expose to an injured public somi of the ingredients of metropolitan milk-, “London Genuine Particular.” A correspondent makes a further revelation how our teapots are defiled when it is innocently supposed that a pure beverage is in course of concoction. “A short time since,' 1 he says, “ a friend of mine, a chemist in Manchester, was applied to for a quantity of French chalk, a species of talc in fine powder; the party who purchased it used regularly several pounds a week. Not being an articli of usual sale in such quantity, my friend be. came curious to know to what use it could be applied : on asking the wholesale dealer wha supplied him, he stated his belief that it wu used in ‘ facing’ tea (the last process of converting black tea into green), and that, within the last month or two, he had sold in Manchester upwards of a thousand pounds of it. My friend, the chemist, then instituted a series of experiments, and the result proved that a great deal, if not all, the common green tea used in this country is coloured artificially. The very first experiment demonstrated fraud, The plan adopted was as follows:—A few spoonfuls of green tea, at five shillings s pound, were placed in a small sieve, and held under a gentle stream of cold water flowing from a tap for the space of four or five minutes. The tea quickly changed its colour from green to a dull yellow, and upon drying with a very gentle heat, gradually assumed the appearance of ordinary black tea. On making a minute microscopic examination of the colouring matter washed from the leaf, and which was caught in a vessel below, it appeared to be composed of three substances, __■>! . , . _li- Tl,. painuico ui yenow, oiue, ana wunc. blue was proved to be Prussian blue — the yellow thought to be turmeric —and the white, French chalk. II the two former be mixed together in very fine powder, they wip give a green of any required shade.* made to adhere to the tea-leaf by some adhesive matter, and then it is *‘ faced’ by the Freutn chalk, t to give it the pearly appearance so much liked. This simple experiment a"! one can perform. A gentleman assured that a friend of bis, a short time since, happened—though quite unintentionally * ll ’ part—'to walk into a private room connecic with the establishment of a wholesale dealer, and there he saw the people actus J at work converting black tea into green; ' e proprietor soon discovered his presence io l c room, and before him in no measured tenus, severely reprimanded the workmen fpr having permitted a stranger to enter.— “ Household Words. ”