ng it is as follows: A hogshead
half filled with good white wine, or what is termed in French _vin
de grave_; from fifteen to twenty long matches of sulphur are
successively burned to this hogshead, with the bunghole closed.
After this operation, the white wine becomes so impregnated with
sulphur, that it has acquired all its taste and flavour, and is
thus used as a ferment.

_Brewing Company._

It is obvious to very slight observation, that the day is not distant
when the brewing trade in this country will, as in England, become an
object of great national importance, highly deserving the protection
and encouragement of our general government, by freeing its produce
from all duty, and thereby affording further inducements to the
speculating and enterprising capitalists of this country to embark
their funds in a trade that, above all others, is the best calculated
to make them a sure and profitable return. In addition to the pleasing
consideration that they are thereby combating and putting down the
greatest immorality our country is chargeable with, namely, the too
great use of ardent spirits, substituting in their place a wholesome
and invigorating beverage. The person, therefore, whoever he may be,
who contributes his money, or his talents, to this useful and moral
purpose, deserves to rank high among the best friends of his country.

Under these impressions it is that I beg leave to recommend to my
fellow citizens the immediate establishment of a brewing company, with
a capital of from thirty to forty thousand dollars, to be subscribed
for in shares the most likely to be made up. With either of these sums
a handsome beginning could be made, and the profits would in a few
years encourage and justify enlargement to any prudent extent that
could be reasonably wished for or required. In proof of the correctness
of this opinion, I will beg leave to state a fact that has happened in
my own time. When the mercantile house of Beamish & Crawford, of Cork,
erected a porter brewery in that city, about twenty-five years ago,
that establishment was the first of the kind in that town, and then
stood alone, and notwithstanding that many large and rich ones in the
same business have since been added, the original company have so
progressed in fame and fortune, as to be now considered one of the
first-rate breweries in Europe; and by the improved quality of their
porter have, in a great