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l___, 7i ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, J. 22, 1629. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY hereby give Notice, that they have made arrangements at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, for affording, under certain Regulations (a Copy of which may be obtained by application to this Office), the means of Instruction on Scientific Subjects connected with the Naval Service, to Twenty-four Corn mi.sioncil Officers of the Navy. Such Officers se may be desirous of availing themselves of these arrangements will please to direct their applica tion to that effect to me, for their Lordships' consideration. J. W. CROKER. VICTUALLING OFFICE, JAN. 15, 1829. THE Commissioners for Vi c t ua lli ng hi s Majesty's Navy, &c. do hereby give Notioe, that on Tituasnar, the 12th of February next, they will be ready to reoeive Tenders in writing, (sealed up), and treat for the supply of the following quantitiy of NEW STAVES, to be delivered into the Victualling Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, viz.:— Crown Dantzic Pipe Ditto Brandy 5O Milk. Ditto Hogshead SO Mille. Ditto Barrel Ditto Heading Quebec Pipe 5O Mille. Memel Pipe 2O Mille. Ditto Hogshead lO Mille. One-half of each description by the 15th day of October next, and the remainder by the 15th day of January, 1830. The greater proportion of the above -mentioned Staves to I e delivered irsto the Stores at Deptford, but the quan tities for Portsinouth and Plymouth will be determined upon on the day of Contract. The Conditions of the Contract maybe seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed ; and-the person who makes the Tender, or some person on, his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. FINE ARTS. MOON, BOYS, and GRAVES, Print-sellers to the King, No. 6, Pall-mall, London, RESPECTFULLY solicit the attention of the Patrons and Admirers of the Fine Arts to the following list of SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS, Published at their Establishment since January last, WILKIE'S ALFRED, Dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Wellington. 1. ALFRED in the NEAT HERD'S COTTAGE. egraved in the first style by James Mitchell, after a Pictur e by David Wilkie, Esq. R.A. Size, 24 inches by 18 high ; Prints, 31e. 6d. ; French Proofs, 635.; India Proofs, 41. 4e. • before letters, 6/. 6 s . "a* The Original Picture, containing a Portrait of Mr. Wilkie, from which the above Engraving has been ex ecuted, is in the possession of the publishers (together with Mr. Turner's Picture of the " Temple of Jupiter," and Leslie's " May Day"), who will be happy to show them to any of the nobility or gentry desirous of their inspection. 2. The KING'S PICTURE of the WOLF and the LAMB. An Engraving from this celebrated Picture, painted by William Mulready, Esq. R.A. exquisitely finished in the very finest Line Manner, by John Henry Robinson, Esq., for the benefit of the Artist's Fund. This Plate was in hand nearly Five Years, and its pro gress has been wholly under the superintendence of the Committee whose names are attached to the Plate ; and who pledge themselves that not more than One Thousand Impreseione are taken altogether, and the Copper is effectually destroyed, the sole object of this limit being Zo guarantee that there shall be none but perfect Impressions. The Profits arising from the Sale of the Impressions, by the Committee, aro devoted to the Relief of Artiste, their Widows and Children. The Sire of the Print is 18 inches by 23 high. Price Three Guineas. Of the Proofs n o t! remainin g unsu b scr ib ed for, an immediate applietionts request e d t o h e made by those desirous of possessing this splendid Engraving. The number of Prints being so hMited, also readers an early application for them necos *4l7, in consequence of the destruction of the Copper. S. The TEMPLE of JUPITER, in the ISLAND of 'GINA, frets the celebrated Picture by J. M. W. Tur nor, Esq. R.A. in the possession of the Publishers. The bPlate is engraved in the very best style of the Art, by John e, Esq. ; Si ne 26 i nc h es b y 19 high ; and is Dedicated Y Permission to the Lord High Chancellor of Great Bri- Mita. Prints, 11. 11 s. 6d. ; French Proofs, Si, 3a. ; Wilt Proofs, 4/. 4a. ; Proofs before the letters, 6/. 6s. 4. PORTRAITS of Lady BAGOT, Viscountess R URGHERSH, and Lady FITZROY SOMERSET, (a Group), beautifully engraved by J. Thompson, Esq. from thaoriginal Drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. Sin e , 19 inches by 24 high ; Prints, 15e. ; India Proofs, Si.. 6d.; before Letters, 525. 6d. 5. DUNCAN GRAY, Beautifully engraved in the line manner, by F. Engleheart, after a Picture by David Wilkie, Esq. R.A. Size 14 inches by 19 high. Paints, 21s. ; French Proofs, 525. 6d. 6. The DELUGE. -Front the celebrated Picture by .1. M. W. Turner,•&q. R.A,, by whom the Plate is de dicated so the memory of the late Earl of Carysfort. En graved by J. P. Quincy. Size 25 inches by 18 high, Prints, 255. ; Proofs, 42 5 . ; b e f ore l etters, 525. 6d. 7 . PAUL PRY. PORTRAITS o f M a d ame YES TR Miss P. GLOVER, Mr. WILLIAMS, awl Mr. LISTON, from a scene in Paul Pry, beautifully executed in Meszotinto, by T. Lupton, EN. after the celebrated Picture by G. Clint, Esq. A.R.A. exhibit e d i n t h e Royal Aca demy 'last ye ar ; and forming a Companion to Mr. Keinble, and Mr. Faweett, as Charles and Captain Copp :" - Size, 14 inches by .19 high, Prints, 21s. ; Proofs, 425. ; before Lettere, 635. a s e* The Portrait of Mr. Liston, in the above Print, is " • o nly one which that highly disti ngu i s h e d performer ever sat for in character. Als°, may be had PORTRAITS of the following cele brated performers :-Mies Hughes; Miss Foote; Miss ea Paten j Mies Love ; Mr. Wallack; the late Mr. Knight ; a'allai ; Mr. John Kemble, (whole length) as Ham let and Rolla; Mr. Elliston; and Messrs. Ferran, Farley, and-Jenes, in the Clandestine Marriage. 8. JOHN ANDERSON MY JO. Painted and En graved by John Burnet ; and forming the Third Plate of _his Series of Illustrations to the Poeins and Songs of Robt. Burns, Size, 12 Inches by 17 high. Prints, 12s ; India rrAeolfe, 2 15.; b e f ore L etters, 31e. 64. TER":way be had, TA M O'SRANTER, and the COT SATURDAY Nl G ea llT h , p fo . rmi ng Plates I. and 11. of the same Series. Price, 21s. ; before Letters, 31s. 6de. Print, 12e. ; India Proofs, 9: INTERIOR ol a NUNNERY, with the CERE MONY of a FEMALE TAKING the VEIL. Engraved after the celebrated Picture by Granet, in the possession of the King of France, and forming a Companion to the In tor of a Capuchin Convent, with Monks at their Devo tions, from a Picture by the same Master, in the possession of the King of E ng l and. Size, 14 Inches by 19 high. y rints, 16s. ; Proofs, 31s. 6d. ; before Letters, 425. ). 10. The YOUNG RECRUIT, beautifully engraved in 5,!!'!!. by A. Duacen, after . a Picture by Mr. J. Thom, of ,r44lnburgh. Size, 18 Inches by 15 high. Prints, 12s. Frenc h Proofs, 215.; India Proofs, 255.; Before Let swil, 49e. 11. The BEGGAR'S PET ITION. Engraved in the has meatier, by A. W. Warren, from a Picture by W. F, rtkerington, in the po ssess i on of G. Morant, Esq. Size, ) ( I Inches by 7} wid e . P r i nts, 10s. 6d.; French Proofs' `u,• India Proofs, 21e. 12 . PORTRAIT of TIIOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq. "graved in line by Mr . John Biirnet, after a Picture by The 'imaa Lawrence, P.R.A. Size, 5k Inches by 7 high. re'ish l oofa , ss. ; India Proofs, 6r. 11.11,2* DANCING BEAR, beautifully engrave d by 2 , i roYer, aft er a Pi cture b y W . F. Witherington. Size, Z . ulehes by 20 hi g h. P r i nts , 21 5 . ; P roo f s, India, Si.. ; before Letters, 42a. is,, 4 ; Tile SHOOTING PONY, engrave d i n li ne b y W. Orma, after A. Cooper, R.A. Size, 9 Inches by 11 Pri n*a, 10s. 6d. ; Fren c h P roo f s , 16 s . ; I n di a reO fs, 21s. en l6 . The MARKET PONY (companion to the above), w g r aved in li ne b y J. R. Smith, after a picture by 4rd Wood- Prints, 7s. 6d.; India, 159- by t T HE SPOILED CHILD. E ngrave d b y G. H. pi's alter a Picture by M. W. Sarp. Size, 24 ches h igh. Prints 158 • Proofs, h 255. ; Before in 1 Let t**, 81 e . 6d. fi nitd 7 , l HE MARKE T GARDENERS, a most highly Etching by Ch ar l es G . L ew i s, after a Picture by Ss. Witherington. Siee, S inches by 7 high. Prints, Pr . e ach Proofs, 10e. 6d. ; India Proofs, 155.-The c o r n r ill umt of this beautiful little Print is limited to 350 and the Copper-plate effectually destroyed. fare s MONKEYANA; or MEN IN MINIATURE, 1 3 :.! a Series of 25 Plates, designed and etched by N A . Landseer; and neatly done up in cloth boards. Oa 21. 14e. ; Proofs, Imperial4to. 125.; No. 11,352. or, Before Letters, Crown Folio, 61. 6s.—This work is now completed, and consists of the following subjects : Plate 1. Satirical Title.-2. " I Lope I don't intro le."- 3. News from Navarin.-1. Phlebotomy.-5. Monkey Jockeyship ; or, Rough Riding. -6. Incredulity. -7. Wapping. ; or, the Pies de Deux—S. The Crisis ; or the Point of Honour.-9. The Sunshine of the Soul; chew ing how Gentlemen can make Beasts of themselves.-10. The Fortune Teller.-11. Castigation. -12. Litigation. —l3. Pugilists.-11. Distressed Poet ; or Three Weeks in Arrears-15. A Queer one to look at and a Rum one to go.-16. In at the Death ; or, a Fox-hunter's Salute. —l7. Advanced Guard in Retreat. —IS. C'est I'Amour. —l9. The Spoiled Child ; or not satisfied with 2s. 6d.- 20. Ha!' Ha! ♦ery good.-21. Fashion as it is.-22. Legal Consultation; or, a Flaw in the indictroent.-23. Billingsgate.-24. An Unfavourable Impression.-25. The 19. The SELECT GALLERY of ETCHINGS, after Chef-d'ceuvres of the Oid Masters, finished so as hest to represent the manner of the Original Paintings.—Part I. containing—The Pig Market, ()made; a Woman pair ing Turnips, Mans ; Deer and Water Fowl, Ridinger; The Musio Lesson, Turburgh ; The Toilet, Eglon Vanderneer.—Price, Prints, Al. 1 ls. 64. ; Proofs, 21. 25.; Proofs, large paper, 21. 12s. 6d. ; Proofs, India Paper, 31. 3s. It is proposed to complete the present Work in Twelve Parts ; to be delivered to the Subscribers with as little delay as justice to the very choice Specimens to be engraved will admit. *** The number of the impressions is strictly limited to fifty copies of each deseriptiOn, after which the Copper plates will he destreyed. 20. A SERIES of TWENTY VIEWS in YORK SHIRE, from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R. A. executed in the very beat Style of the art, by the most cele brated Engravers. Price 51. ss. the set, on plain paper; or 101. 10s. on India paper. The size of each Plate is 13 inches by 11 high, and each subject is sold separate; a List of which may he had Gratis on Application to the Publishers. 21. PICTURESQUE VIEWS on the RIVER CLYDE, beautifully engraved in the Line Manner by Joseph Swan, from Drawings by J. Fleming, with Histo rical and Descriptive Illustrations by J. M. Leighton. In quarto, Parts I. to V. (each containing Three Plates,) Price as. 6d. each part, plain ; India Proofs, 7s. 6d. ; or, before the writing, on royal folio paper, price 12a. 22. MIRANDA. Engraved by Edward Scriven, after a Picture by William Hilton, R. A. ..The gentle mien, the placid feature, Bespeak that guileless, lovely creature, Immortal Shaltspeare drew !" size of the Piint, 12 inches by 18 high. Prints, 12s. India Proofs, 21 s. ; before Letters, 31s. 6d. 23. WILL 0' THE WISP. Engraved by W. Oilier, after a Painting by D. T. Egerton ; size, 17 by 14 high; Prints, 10s. 6d. ; Proofs, 18s. 24. The DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD. Engraved by T. Lupton, after a Picture by Thales Fielding. Size, 20 inches by 17 high, Prints, 15s. ; Proofs, 258. 25. REBELS DEFEATED (Companion to " Rebels shooting a Prisoner"). Engraved in Line by J. Romney, after a Picture by T. Webster. Size, 10 inches by 14 high. Prints, 10s. 6d. ; Proofs, 16s. ; India Proofs, 21s tir - Agic, 4 0.! f iL. l te ' Vl:::7 • C V' " n. • eq.o • - • - s k Pit . I " 3 tink Of" 4 4 6 r It 14,-s ' 11 1 Jlll IN," 0 DR. JAMES'S FEVER POWDER AND ANA LEPTIC PILLS. Hip G. G. JAMES thinks it necessary to in • form the Public that Messrs. Newbery, the late Agents of his Grandfather, his Father, and himself, are now vending articles of their own composition, under the name of Dr. James; and that he has appointed in their stead, as Wholesale Agents, Messrs. BUTLER, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of St. Paul's, London ; 54, Sackville street, Dublin; and 73, Princes-street, Edinburgh; and may be had retail of the Principal Druggists. THE FEVER POWDER is allowed to be the most va luable discovery ever made in the Science of Medicine, and is administered with equal success in Fever, Measles, St. Anthony's Fire, Pleurisy, Sore Throat, Rheumatism, &c. When given freely upon the first attack of Fever, it gives decided relief in a fen , hours, and generally effects a Cure. 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German Almanacks for 1829.—Eighty-two Miscellaneous Literary Notices from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russia and Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and concerning Orien tal Literature.—A List of Four Hundred and Sixty-nine of the principal New Works published on the Continent, from September to December, 1828. No. VII. will appear in March. Published by Treuttel andWitrtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, Foreign Booksellers to the King, 30, Soho-square. HUGHES'S QUININE PILLS. WHEN it is considered how many thou sands have fallen untimely victims to that most destructive of all diseases, Plithsis Pulmonalis (Consump tion of the Lungs), the value of a Medicine that can arrest in any degree that most fatal malady will appear, as indeed it is, invaluable. Such is the claim on the Public support with which this remarkable preparation of the SUL-. 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THE MOST NOBLE THE MARCHIONESS WEL- LESLEY. j A BELLE ASSEMBLEE, for February, A will contain a splendid Portrait, from a very beau tiful Miniature by Robertson, of the Most Noble the MARCHIONESS WELLESLEY, which will he the 50th of a Series of Illustrious Portraits of the Female Nobility, now in course of publication in La Belle Assemblee—the only work of the class extant. The Literary department will consist of an Illustrative Memoir of the Marchioness Wellesley. Contemporary Poets—Lord.Porchester—Bog nor Rocks, by Miss Porter—Knowing and Having, by Miss Hutton, author of the Miser Married, &c. &c. Wil liam Sullivan and Mary Kendall, a Village Tragedy, by Derwent Conway, &c. &c. &c. Original Poetry— Theatres, &c. &c. The four coloured Engravings of the Ladies' Fashions are for style and beauty of execution un rivalled by any other publication. Price Ss. 6d. The Number for January contained a Portrait of her Grace the DUCHESS of NORTHUMBERLAND. Complete sets of the work, containing all the embellish ments, may now be had. The forthcoming Numbers will be graced by the follow ing Portraits :—The Honourable Mrs. BARRINGTON— LADY BELFAST —LADY NORAIANBY—LADY CHARLOTTE BURY—VISCOUNTESS KIRK WALL—Hon. Mrs. CHARLES LINDSAY—LADY ANN RAMSAY—Hon. Mrs. CHARLES ARBUTH NOT—LADY ELLENBOROUGH, &c. &c. Proofs of the Portraits to be had of Mr. Colaaghi, 23; t.;ockspu r-street. - Published by Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, Ave Maria-lane: and may be ordered of every Bookseller in the Kingdom. /& LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1829. THE ARMY AND NAVY. rrHE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, and Naval and Military Magazine, No. 2, for FE BRUARY, price 2s. 6d., will comprise, among a variety of other interesting papers, Narratives of the Battle of Na varino and the Storming of Badajoz, by Officers engaged. —Memoir of the late Colonel Denham.—Recollections in Quarters.—Origin of Lord Byron's Shipwreck in Don Juan.—The War in the East.—A Galley Story.—Extra ordinary Career of Lieutenant Shipp.—Continuations of the History of the Siege of Vienna by the Turks, trans lated by Miss Porter.—Captain Spearinan's Gunnery.— Admiral Raper's System of Signals.—Twelve Yea& Mili tary Adventure.—Lighting the Coast.—Original Corre spondence on various interesting subjects, &e. Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street; Bell and ikadfute, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin. This day was published, with a beautiful Portrait of the Princess Victoria, Part 1., to he complete in Twelve Parts, uniform with the Percy Anecdotes, of THE LADY'S LIBRARY. A present, the handsomest and most useful that the Father can offer to his Daughter, the Brother to his Sister, or the Husband to his Wife. *.* Part 11. will be published, March 1, andcontinned Monthly. London: printed for 'Knight and Lacey, 55, Pater noster Row. This day was published, in one thick Volume of 1171 pages, closely printed, with Maps, Plates, &c. price 2I P. hoards, THE SHIP-MASTER'S ASSISTANT and OWNER'S MANUAL; containing general information necessary for Merchants, Owners, and Masters of Ships, Officers, and all other persons concerned or em ployed in the Merchant Service, r elative to the Mercantile and Maritime Laws and Customs. By DAVID STEEL, Esq. The 18th Edition, brought down to the year 1829. The Commercial and Mathematical Department by Dr. KELLY, Author of the " Universal Cambist," and Ma thematical Examiner to the Trinity-House, and the Legal Department by a Professional Gentleman. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. This day was published, in Bvo. p r i ce 18 s . bds. AN INTRODUCTION to GEOLOGY; comprising the Elements of the Science in its pre sent advanced State, and all the recent Discoveries. With an Outline of the Geology of England and Wales. Third Edition, entirely recomposed and greatly enlarged, with new Plates, a coloured Map, and Cute. _ _ GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS. THE Season of the Y ear i s approac hi ng w h en 1 the public will have additional reason to congratulate themselves upon this important and national invention. So many attempts have been made to mislead the good folks of the Metropolis, by pretending to cure the crying evil of bad water, without the least pretension, that we were amongst the many who remained sceptical as to the pretensions of the Royal Filter, until we were led to seek ocular demonstra tion by having one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have now nu sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUITE COM PLETE, and in giving it out:. UNQUALIFIED PRAISE. The names of the highest professional talent in the Metro polis have given the strongest testimony, that they snay be considered, in the metropolitan city of London as an ab solute " God-send," but we will illustrate their opinions by stubborn facts and proofs as strong as Holy Writ; and first let us examine the state of the water, as now drank by the thousand and ten thousand persons who have not yet availed themselves of this Filter, and our readers will bear in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence given last season in the BRITISH HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT. The following eminent and learned - men in their voca tions have given evidence, of which the following is ne cessarily a short extract, viz.:— Sir Henry Halford, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keate, - Mr. Thomas,-Dr. Turner, Drs. Hume, Yates; Kerrisoti, Somer ville, Johnson, and Paris, &c. &c.—they pronounce the wa ter sent into their houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated with decayed vegetable matters, and other substances pre judicial to health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly contribute to the production of that state of FAULTY DI GESTION and IMPURITY of BLOOD; that it is SO FILTHY and 'multi:, as to be unfit for the breakfast table and ' for culinary purposei, and that it adds so much to the other unwholesome constituents of bread, as to render every meal injurious to the health of thousands ; that the water sent into the cisterns during the hot weather frequently became_ QUITE parratn ; and they have no doubt that the continued use of it WITHOUT FILTERING is capable of pro ducing deleterious effects ; that the Thames water is ex tremely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the great quantity of FILTHY MATTERS CONTIN UALLY POUR. ING INTO IT FROM NUMEROUS SEWERS; and Dr. Ker rison makes us acquainted with a fact, the perusal of which will excite the same disgust in the mind of tke reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital, he saw " the foul and black stream from the Ranclagh sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and the Dolphin, Loaner) WITH NO SMALL PORTION OF UNDI VIDED FLOATING FILTH FROM PRIVIES;" from which he concludes, that " A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF HUMAN EXCREMENT, IN A SUBDIVIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED STATE, ACTUALLY PASSES INTO OUR CISTERNS." Dr. Somerville, the physiciin to Chelsea Hospital, states the water to be very impure. " The tide," he says, " STIRS UP THE MASS OF IMPURITY PRODUCED BY ALL THE LONDON MAGAZINE. THOSE who are desirous of becoming Sub scribers to a Periodical Work, which unites the Use ful with the Amusing, and whose political opinions, with out being distorted by party violence, are in accordance with the advancing intelligence of the age, have an oppor tunity of commencing a Volume with the last number of the London Magazine published on the let of January ; being No. X. of the Third Series. The number for February will contain the following articles : I. The approaching Session of Parliament-2. Ele mentary Education—No. 111. Children's Books-3. The best Bat in the School-4. The Tower—a Letter from Dr. Meyrick to the Editor-5. On the Supply of Anato mical Subjects-6. You'll come to our Ball-7. Paris in 1828-8. Looking-glass for the Cowntry—No. I. Windsor —9. Stanzas-10. The Moral Tendencies of Knowledge -11. Diary for the Month-12. Hobbledehoys-13. Notes on Art--The Colosseum, &c.-14. The Editors' Room -15. The Journal of Facts. 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MUT IS CORRUPTIBLE IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE WORLD, TOGETHER WITH THE NOXIOUS FILTH OF GAS AND OTHER MANUFACTORIES, THAT CONSTANTLY SLOW INTO THE THAMES FROM BATTERSEA DOWN TO GRAVESEND.° Dr. James Johnsen, the author of the " Treatise on In digestion," says—" We sneer at the delicacy of the Hindoe, who slakes his thirst at the same tank where his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina; but what shall WO say to the DELICATE CITIZENS or WESTMINSTER, WHO FILE DiSEIR TANKS AND STOMACHS WITH WA TER FROM THE THAMES, AT THAT ♦ERY SPOT INTO WHICH A HUNDRED THOUSAND CLOACA CONTAINING EVERY SPECIES OF FILTH, AND ALL UNUTTERABLE THINGS, ARE DAILY DISGORGING THEM HIDEOUS AND ABODS/NABLE CONTENTS. The last professional gentleman to whose evidence we shall refer, is Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work on Diet. He pronounces the water to be impure and offensive, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come in. LAMM QUANTITIES or MATTER ARE MECHANICALLY SE3IFENDED IN IT. Sd As A PHYSICIAN," he says, "I CAN NOT FIND TERMS SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSIVE OF THE AW FUL EFFECTS IT MAT BE LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE HEALTH, AND EVEN LIVES, OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE assTaorous " And in the last edition of his work he goes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy be not ap plied to the evil, " THE RAVAGES OF SOME EPIDEMIC MAY BE FAIRLY ANTICIPATED." SUCK IS 741 E PICTURE-41M FAITHFUL AND FRIGHT • FUL PICTURE...-OF TEE CONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE THAMES, AS SUPPLIED BY THE COMPANIES TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest, largest, most populous city in the world—the seat of a more opu lent body of nobility and gentry than is to be found in any other Metropolis—should, for so long a time, have been contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR CISTERNS, AND TO HAVE USED, FOR ALL DOMESTIC AND CULINARY PURPOSES, A NECESSARY OF LIFE, SO LOADED WITH ♦LL SORTS OF IMPURITIES AS TO BE PRONOUNCED, BY PROFESSIONAL MEN OP THE FIRST EMINENCE, TO BE OFFENSIVE TO THE SIGHT, disgusting to the imagination, and destructive to the health, is a fact that would not have been credited, and that ought not to have been credited, but upon evidence unanswerable. THE RESULT OF THEIR LABOURS IS THE RECOMMEN DAT/ON OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILTRATION-4 SYS- TEM, NOT LIM/TED TO THE FIFTY-TIIREE THOUSAND FAMILIES DAILY DRINKING THE FILTHY ELVID OF WHICH WE HAVE BEEN SPEAKING, BUT EXTENDING ITSELF TI) THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF THE NEW RIVER AND OTHER. COMPANIES, CONSUMING THE TWENTY-NINE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY SUP PLIED TO THE METROPOLIS. Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or deal of office, OR IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER READ IMO THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT MUST HAVE FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON. CLUSION TO THEIR LABOURS. — The subjoined extract from *Prospectus, issued, by the Proprietor, wmt. BE PERUSED WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER CLEANLINESS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO RYA LTII, A ID THE PURITY OF TEE ELEMENT OF WHICH WE ARE TREATING, TO BY NEARLY OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH THE AIR WE BREATHE " The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior to all filters hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only PI:MESSES THE POWER OF CLARIFTINO THE WATER IN A PRE-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT OF COMPLETE PERIFICATION, RENDERING THY MOST TURBID, STAGNANT, AND FCETID WATR.R, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY, DEPRIVING IT OF EVERT NOXIOUS INGREDIENT, AND, IN FACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE rintrEctiox ; THAT IS TO SAY, CLEAR AND DESTITUTE OE TASTE AND SMELL." The rapidity of the process may be understood by a single observation, " THAT SO FAST AS THE WATER IS SUPPLIED AT THE TOP OF THE CISTERN, CO FAST IT WILL DISENA RCN ITSELF FROM THE BOTTOM." " But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " the proof of all this to be found ? We must have some thing more solid and satisfactory than* bare assertions."— The following statement must, we think, set the doubts if the most sceptical at rest for ever. Mr. Hump, the respectable and talented chemist of Long Acre, who has long been employed by Government in analysing waters, had two bottles sent to him for analysation; 241 E ONE FULL OF ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION, AND STRONGLY IMPRIONVIRD NYMPH GAS; the other, a bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but had been purified by the Royal Filter. In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-sii grains and a half of solid matter, of which thirty grains consisted of impurities, and the remaining sixteen grains were the original ingredients peculiar to the water, and dissolved in it : " fur," he observes, " there is ne water, however pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells, superficial springs, or any other source, that is free from saline and ether soluble salts, not at all injurious to health." In the filtered bottle he found only sixteen grains of substances, which, on examination, proved to be the same materials peculiar to, and soluble in, the water in its pri mitive state, and perfectly free from the impurities and contingent foulness of the water, occasioned principally by decayed vegetable matters, a slight impregnation by animal substances, some carbureted hydrogen or coal gas, and car bonic acid gas. Mr. Hume cencludes with bearing the following high testimony to the merits of this discovery ‘‘ After a very careful analysis, I cannot hesitate to pro nounce the method which has been adopted to filter this specimen of Water to be most effectual, and highly deserv ing of public tacouragoratat." The lame gentleman, at a 7HE ARMY. (From the Limerick chronicle, Jan. 24.) Letters received at our office of the 26th Novemher left the officers and privates of the let Royals at Trinidad, in very good health, and without a death since the 15th of August preceding. Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.8., arrived on Thursday at Tralee, for the purpose of inspecting the Reserve Companies of the 22d and 88th Regiments, at pre sent composing that garrison. The Marshal Bennett transport, with reinforcements tn. the 27th and 93d Regiments, from Portsmouth, and the William Harris transport, with detachments of the 19th Regiment, from Cork, arrived out at Barbadoes the latter end of November. It was lately stated in the Dublin Paper that an order was issued to restrain the conversation of officers on politi cal subjects at mess, and to prevent the fo.ldiers, as ranch as possible, from intermixing with civilians.—No such order has been issued. SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, JANUARY 27.—Wind E.S.E.—High water 26 minutes past three.—Arrived the Fame, Louie, from Charleston ; Ceres, Craighead, from Nantes ; La Rosalie, Collett, from Bordeaux ; Robert and Marga ret, Thompson, from Ballina ; Tiger, Marshall, from Glasgow. The Cabinet, for Charleston, sailed from Holyhead yesterday. The Sally, from Weymouth to London, ran on shore on the Goodwin Sands, yesterday, and sunk. The Alexander, Robb, from Whitehaven to Limerick, was driven on shore 23d inst. near the entrance of Strang ford river, but was expected to be get off. PRICE 7D. subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says, " the opinion I had formed of this new process for filtering is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus analysed, ALTHOUGH EU RPOSDLY STRONGLY IMPREG NATED D'ITH GAS AND OTHER IMPURITIES, BECAMVC CRYSTALLISED, AND DFATITUTE OF TASTE AXD SMELL. Thus it is clearly proved, THAT OF THE FORTY-SIX GRAINS AND A HALF OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY PLACED IN TUB ROYAL FILTER, ONLY SIXTEEN GRAINS OF SUBSTANCES PASSED THROUGH IT; AND WHICH SIX- TEEN GRAINS ARE PROVED TO RE PECULIAR TO WATER IN ITS PRIMITIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALS DELETERIOUS TO HEALTH. However much, therefore, the observation of the Commissioners may apply to all former systems of filtration, it is greatly to be regretted that, before the close of their labours, they had not the benefit of the preceding experiments, and of the following striking testimonials to the excellence of " The Royal Filter." Professor Brande, Dr, Clarke, Mr. Brodie, Mr. Keate, Dr. Scudamore, and 30 other highly eminent and unpre judiced medical men, have each had the Royal Filter placed in their cisterns, and they all concur in stating that it renders the most turbid, fetid water of chrystaline brilliancy, and free from taste and smell. " It should be observed that the difficulty of getting pure water is very common in most of the large towns, and indeed throughout the provinces. The difficulty or necessity of placing a Filter at this distance is now removed. Portable ones of all dimensions, capable of filtering from 50 to 500 gallons every 24 hours, have been adapted to prevent the inconvenience alluded to. The expence is from 30s. to 4/. or Si. We trust we have said enough to draw general attention to the merits of a discovery so highly conducive to the cleanliness, comfort, and health of the inhabitants of this thickly peopled Metropolis. We shall only add that the apparatus may be inspected at the Office of the Patentee, Mr. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelphi Theatre ; where the public are invited to have ocular de monstration of the efficacy of this remedy. 1 HE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No . LXXVII., WAS PUBLISHED YESTERDAY. On Saturday will be published, in Bvo. rI N the EFFECT ascr ib e d t o t h e RE SUMPTION of CASH PAYMENTS on the Value of the CURRENCY. In a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Grenville. From THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., F.R.S. John Murray, Albemarle-street. ST. ÜBES. The following notice, dated St. Übes, Jan. 3, was posted yesterday at Lloyd's : " Sir,—Having seen a statement in some of the London Papers, describing the disagreeable occur rences which took place in this town in the month of November last, from which it would appear that should things continue as then, it would be impru dent for merchants to send their vessels to this port for cargoes, as there was no security either for per sons or property, I consider it hut proper to acquaint you, that M. Barboza, the Vice-Consul for the Hanse-towns, having been released from prison on the 14th December, by an order from Government, and that a respectable officer having been appointed over Lieutenant• Colonel Banha, to command the Royalist Volunteers, the foreign Consuls have been respected, so that the business has been carried on without the least interruption, and with perfect se curity; therefore there is no longer any thing to be apprehended by captains of vessels or other foreigners in this place, as long us they keep within due bounds and do not' meddle with political matters, which, in fact, they seldont or ever do. " I beg the favour of your making this intelli gence as public as possible. I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " EMANUEL F. REGO, " British Consul and Agent to Lloyd's. " John Bennett, Esq. Secretary to Lloyd's." Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, at Guayaquil, dated Oct. 18 : " The blockade of this port was commenced on the 27th ult. by three Peruvian ships of war, viz.—Prueba frigate, Admiral Guise, Libertad corvette, and _Arequipina schooner. The former remains cruizing off Puna, the second is gone to Payta, and the latter to Panama. The Pinchincha, Colombian ship of war of 18 guns, left this the 18th ult. for Panama to bring troops and ammunition. The Guayaquilincw, Colombian schooner of 14 guns, is lying on this side of the chain, drawn across the river about half a league below the City. " Nov. 6.—The Catharena, of Bremen, chartered by the Peruvian Government to bring troops from Arica to this place, landed them in Monte Christi about a degree and a half to the northward, and has since arrived here. The Dolphin, American schooner of war, arrived here the 25th n:t. ; passed in the night, at the entrauce of the river, the Prueba and Libertad, and had four shots fired into her the next morning, but has not sustained damage." RUSSIA. (From the London Weekly Review.) A FEW WORDS ON OUR RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA; IN- CLUJ)JNG SOME REMAKES ON A PUBLICATION BY COLONEL EVANS, ENTITLED " DESIGNS OF RUSSIA." BY A NON ALARMIST. LONDON, 1828. BALDWIN AND CRADOCK. The writer of the pamphlet before us dwells, with a seemingly congenial fondness, on the na ture and extent of our trading intercourse with the Russian ports ; and evinces a strenuous de sire to magnify the opinion of its relative and general advantages. He is familiar with the Custom-house returns, and the various items of imports thence into this country, during a suc cession of years ; and, in short, leaves us at no loss to conjecture the class of individuals to which he belongs. Now it appe ar s t o us , th at if there be any one description of person more unfitted than another to enter on the discussion of this vast topic, it is an Anglo-Russian mer chant. Even though the character of his mind and the nature of his pursuits were calculated to qualify him for the task, his. integrity of judg ment and his interests must be too much at variance. Accordingly, it is the contingent interruption, however, temporary, of the British trade with the Baltic, which exclusively disturbs the quiet of the soi-disant Non-alarmist. The insecurity of the other nineteen-twentieths of our export commerce, he can regard with an unruffled se renity. For these, time and quiescence, under every imaginable contingency, are pointed out as the best possible safeguard. Peace with Russia, and a carte blanche for her cabinet to execute what conquests it may, are the •political mottos of our author.—Were the legions of the north on the Rhine, the Seine, or the opposite shores of the channel, and all the intermediate countries subdued, still would the argument of our Non-alarmist lead to peace, for aiese excel- lent and sufficient reasons--that extension of empire is weakness—and that . the germ of disso lution is inherent in great states. " The essential principles of dissolution," he says, (p. 26,) " in such a heterogeneous whole, are the irreconcilable diversity of interests in the parts, and the inevitable alternation of weakness and tyranny in a distant and ill-informed admi nistration."—" The elements of my reasoning," he adds, " on the consistency of the Russian empire, are drawn from the constant ivorking of human nature, in the direction of modern civi- lization. In omitting to anticipate these, Colo nel Evans has shown that he hid not appre hended the whole force of the position which he had set himself to attack."—" These causes may be slow, but they are of certain operation ; and they are at work among all the conquered nations which surround Russia proper." This has the appearance of being very pro found, and is not ill-calculated to impose on the uninformed ; but we apprehend our clever Non alarmist is not the dupe of his own ingent;ities• ttiThhn slowho thought s ga e nhn otdd operation.i sane ovas various r e v ro e e uanpßnstodsuicni But unbiassed beie history at r times lye e mt d,h provesee simt statesman o i s fa sd t t r eh u ale : en generally oupi teaover ever nabr ytnee se toe, n against the aggressive policy of a great military state. Many ages have generally, in fact, elapsed before 'the liberation of the vanquished nations. This every school-boy knows ; but it suits the , purpose of our author to wave tne question of time. The Duke of Wellington's cabinet, Mr. Can ning's cabinet, Lord Godcrich's cabiPet, and the present French cabinet, are or were all wrong, —because there is reason to suspect their policy has proceeded (says the Non-alarmist) from a " groundless jealousy of Russian aggrandize ment.” And while he censures them con temptuously, and without exception, he at the same time expresses his own conviction, and brings forward arguments in support of it, that the Autocrat's professions of moderation and good faith are utterly hollow and insincere ; that his Imperial Majesty's real and undoubted ob ject is the conquest of all European, and part of Asiatic Turkey ; and that he will, in all pro bability, succeed in those great designs, unless the British Government shall unwisely resolve to prevent him,—fully admitting all the while—nay, taking pains to prove, that it is completely within the option of this country, utterly to defeat this ambitious policy ! An option, however, which it is contended it should by no means avail itself of: That a person attempting to press such preposterous and unpatriotic propositions on the attention of an English public should be anonymous, is not surprising. The publication, entitled the " Designs of Russia," which the Non-alarmist sets himself to attack, proceeds, it appears, on the supposition, that an approximate " balance of power" is es sential to the maintenance of national indepen dence, to the pro.notion generally of civilization, and to the well being of all nations. Our au thor, on the other hand, in the very first line of his pamphlet, designates this idea of a " balance of power," as a mere "old idol in politics;" and continually reverts throughout his pages, to the trade with St. Petersburg!), as the great and im portant point to be considered. All other matters are secondary in his estimate. But we have, not space or inclination to follow him through the series of fallacies and paradoxes brought together in his brochure,—several of which are urged with no inconsiderable plausibi lity. Our object has been to mark with the re probation it merits, an attempt to put the selfish interests of a small number of the commercial community before those of the nation at large— to sacrifice the public to private ends. Early in the morning of yesterday se'nnight a wretched looking object was found on the dunghill of the Black Boy Inn, in this town, where he had apparently lain during the night. It proved to be a man who had gone into the house on the previous day. covered with filth and vermin, and, after calling for half a pint of beer, asked for leave to toast a herring at the fire. He was con veyed to the workhouse in nearly a senseless state, but soon recovered sufficiently to be seat away. He had td. in his pocket when found in this miserable situation in a keen, frosty night.—Bury Post. ALNWICK MOOR.—Measures are now in progress, having for their object the improvement of Aln wick Moor, containing upwards of 2,600 acres of uninclosed land, now lying in a desolate and unproductive state. The meetings of such of the companies or freemen as have been held, have unanimously resolved to promote, by every means in their power, so desirable a measure. Lord Barrington going in a hurry to the forgot some estimates which he was to lay before , 0),- and hastily sent back his servant for the papers.— theisar i ve,n4,nistook the parcel, and brought a collection of private letters,r,which were tied up in the same bureau. These being given to the clerk to read, lie began—" My dear Lord, the fatigues of laSt night were so great, that I am afraid you'll be incapable of business to-day." Upon which a certain wit said, " Her Ladyship's prediction was amply fulfilled." CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE.—When Dr. Ehrenberg (the Prussian traveller) was in Egypt he said to a peasant, "I suppose you are quiet and happy now, the country looks like a garden, and every village has its minaret." " God is great !" replied the peasant; "our master gives with one hand, and takes with two."