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On Friday evening, at'half-past nine, as whitest* was pe rambulating the street on duty, a gentleman called out " I 'have lost my pocket-book-:-stop these thieves." The pri soner and three .others at that time ran away. Witness pursued, and; with the assistance of another man, secured the prisoner. 'A watchman came up, Who undertook to keep the rear clear, and' in this way the prisoner was escorted through the'ventre of Fleet-market quietly, until they reached the Holborn end, when the prisoner made a desperate resistance. About twenty more came to Ms as• sistance, and a tremendous struggle ensued ; the officers and watchman•were dreadfully kicked. and knocked about, and every minute brought more assistance to the prisoner, until there were about one hundrt persons endeavouring to rescue him.. In the scuffle . the prisoner's hat was knocked off, - which contained several handkerchiefs, but of these neither the officer nor the watchman could, secure any, as it was with the utmost difficulty they bore away the pri soner at the hazard of their lives. In the mean time the gentleman had walked away who had lost his pocket-book. The prisoner attempted to deny the charge in tote. The officer represented him as being well-known to be one of the gang that infest Holborn and Fleet-street, who even in day-light commit robberies, and so numerous and siaring are they, that it is a service of considerable hazard to attempt the apprehension of any of them. Alderman TUOMPSON said the officers should have every facility, to extirpate the gang, and the prisoners were re manded to afford time for the gentleman. to 'come for Ward, MARLBOROUGH-STREET..,-Mr. John Nnton, of the Eyre Arms Tavern, St. Joh n ' s Wood, wa s charged with furious driving,. In consideration of the defendant making an ample apo logy Mr: DYER convicted • him in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings, and costs. LAST WEEK. Royal Academy, Somerset House. NpTICE is hereby given, that the. EXHI BITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY will finally ou SATURDAY NEXT, the 12th instant, at S EVEN. O'CLOCK PRECISELY. 4r.isaion . (every day from Eight o'Cleek till Seven) " 4 ! Shilling. Catalogue One Shilling. HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec. requeAted to send for their works on 4 ' 4 iday the sth 'or Wednesday the 16th inst. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1828. No. 11,177. PRICE TEE ROYAL. FILTER FOR CISTERNS. Butcher, a fish-Salesman, states the water to be very bad, and that he has known three parts of a cargo of eels to die by the gas-water passing the vessel. Mr. Newland, the master of a Dutch vessel, says, that out of 26,0001 bi of eels, the cargo of two boats, only 9,0001b5. were marketed alive; they became sick on being put into the Thatneis water, and soon died ; they changed Colour, and became spo . tied like snakes. Another captain says he ha s k nown 3,000 weight t. 6 die in half an hour, and that if the water' gets worse, they must give up the business.. William and Thomas Hetherill, fishermen, state, that they have left off the business because it had left them off. They use d to eatch flounders, eels,froach, snubs, salmon, &c. before they were ruined. .The water gets worse every year; tlie.cause is the gas: they could get plenty of dead flounders, but no live ones; had seen the pounders, put up their - heads Above the water, and if ,there was a bundle of weeds they would escape from the water upon it. Had seen'tivo thousand pound weight of fish die in an hour; and when the wells were opened 'there was quite a stench, and nil on the top of the water. The last evidence we shall . quote from ictlitit of Mr. (Witham, who has been yeoman at Bilfingnate-mark e r for twenty•five years. He says, be has known 50,000, smelts brought daily to Billingsgate, and 3,000 salmon in the season caught in the Thames. He adds, that they are now all destroyed, and this fishery gone ; and this be attributes to the impure s tate of the water, from the refuse of the gas works; from' all the common sewers running into it, and the steam=boitts constantly stirring up the filth. He has seen 4,000 eels alive at night in the Dutch and • the - next •moroing tbree-fourths have been dead.— Many fishermen have been ruined by the change. and agreeable, both to the ey e and to the t as t e , an d consi ders it a great improvement upo n a ll ot h ers. Mr. Thomas, the surgeon, has had a Royal Filter placed in his cistern, and ever since the employment of it, has had the satisfaction to find his house regularly and abundantly supplied with clear and wholesome Water. He considers that the introduction of it generally into families will be found highly, conducive to the improvement of the health of the metropolis, by effectually arresting the deleterious infpueitiea which exist in the water in its preeent state, and which he thinks, of late years, has tended to augmeiat the catalogue of those anomalous disorders arising out of a morbid derangement of stomach and the other organs sub servient to the process of digestion. Mr. Keate, the surgeon, considers it to be admirably adapted to the important purpose of purifying and clarifying Water'on a large scale, and that it would be a valuable ap pendirge• to emery cistern. "It possesses," he says, "the great advantage of filtering all that is served into the cis tern,.,-so that no unfiltered water can be used for domestic. Introasew; and s he water thus filt e red i s beautifully clear." 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 tie inhabitants of this thickly peopled metropolis. We shall only athl, that the Apparatus may be' nspected et the Office of the, Patentee, Mr. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelphi Theatre, where the public are invited to have ocular de-. nionstration of the efficacy of this remedy. 'IIANK - OF ENGLAND, .1117 IN 7, 1828. THE COURT Of DIRECTORS of the GOVERNOR' l and . COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND give Notice, That PROPOSALS, in 'Writing, sealed up, with the names of the partiesproposing an the outside, will he received by the Secretary on or before WEDN ESDAY the 9th Instant, at One o' Clock, from such persons as may be willing to SUPPLY the BANK with 440 CHALDRONS of HEATON MAIN COALS, and CHALDRONS of HARTLEY'S COALS, to be de liv.rreil in the Month of August next, at the rate of 12 kadk.4 to each Chaldron, with the usual ingrain, free of eipenee - ; and also 250 DOZEN POUNDS 01 CANDLES, to be 'delivered in the month of October next. Samides of the Candles may be seen' at the Storekeeper's Ottie,e every day • (holidays excepted), between Ten and Three o'Clock. Persons Willing to Contract for the same, or their Agents, mast attend at the Bank en Friday the I Ith In %tan; at One o'Cloek,precisely, otherwise no regard will de paid to their Tenders: Security will be required 'for the due performance of the said Contracts. 'JOHN KNIGHT, Assistant Secretary. • N. B. Nn Tinders will be received'afier One a'Clock on ay the 9th Instant. IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCIATION. Winchester House, July oth, IS2B. ASPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Association, will he held at the London Tavern, in Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on WEDTIViDAY next, the 9th instant, at One for Two o'clock; for the purpose of eleetingn DIREC TOR of the said Association, in the place of Edward Oxenford, Esq. L. J. SIMOENS, Ace." • In octavo, price 6s. boards, • AVIEW of the MONEY SYSTEM of ENGLAND, frOm. the CONQUEST ; with proposals for establishing a secure and equable Credit Cur-, rency. By JAMES TAYLOR. London: Pkinted for John Taylor, bookseller and pub lisher to the University of London, 30, Upyer Gower. street; and sold by J. Duncan, Paternoster-row; *Hessey, Fleet-street ; and Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly. , - • This day Were published, Price Is. 6d. . • VOTES RELATIVE t 6 the CAMPAIGN oflBoB-1809 in the North of Spain. In reference to some passages in Lieut.-Colotirl Napier's History of the. War in the Penin , nia, and . Sir Walter Scett"s Life of Napoleon. • By Lieut.-Colonel THOAIAS S. SORILL, Secretdry and 'Aid.de-Camp to Sir David'Baird during the Campaign. - • Printed fur John Murray, Albemarle-street. TIIIL AEMIDY, AS ItzeomusNlMlD BY THY COMMISSIONERS. FAMJILIES abOut to FURNISIII, will find on inspecting the Ware-rooms of HENRY L. WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. rirtilE 'COURT . of DIRECTORS of the l'itEsT INDIA DOCK COMPANY hereby give that a lIALF-YEARLY COURT or GENERAL l t - EETINCI . will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parlia -444- it the Weat• fhidia' Dock House, 8, Miter-square, ' o4 l , Tuxan.a.v,• the Btla day of July next, for the purpo'se of C1109 . 8019 . and „APPOINTING FIVE DIRECTORS of the said Company, in the room of those going out of office by rotation ; at which Meeting' a Dividend will be deelared, on the taxpital Stock of the Company, for the- half year ending the 30th inst. •By Order of the Court, H. LONGLANDS,' Secretary. •. West India Dock House, June 17, 1828. N.R. The Clatitivill be taken at Two o'clock precisely.. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY'S PACKETS leave the CLI9- toniMouse or the Tower • Foie CALMS,- every 'Wednesday, Saturday, and Sun day morning. For OSTEND, every Tuesday and Saturday morning. Por BOULOGNE, every Thursday morning. For ROTTERDAriI (the King of the Netherlands), every gatUrday morning. NEWCASTLE, every Saturday morning. 'HAMBURG H, eery • Saturday Morning. MARGATE, every morning (except Sunday), at Ten a'olock. • . ' RAMSGATE, every Wednesday and Saturday morn •lni at Eight o'clock. . . And BRIGHTON, for DIEPPE, .every Tut:sday, Thursday, and Saturday. Ppwerful Steam Packets always ready for Excumions, or for Towing Ships. • Every inforinatiui at Smith and Son's, Galley Quay, near the Custona-honse; J. Norman, 1, Water-lane, Tower -s,..t.reet UnditrWood'ti,"s6, Haymarket ; nt.l9, •Wrarld ; 'Mr; Black; 62, Ship -street, Brighton ; Mr. e "orp Margate ; M. Martin, Ramsgate ; Mr. Shield, ' N ewcastle; and at the Office, 24, Crotched-Friars, ' London. CHARLES BESSELL, Secret LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. AHE Governors beg to announce, that it is intended to take an EXCURSION to the NORE and EtIVF4t MEDWAY, in aid of the Funds of the Insti tutieu, on WADNESDAY, the 6th AUGUST next, in the eJegant and commodious Steam Yacht the Venus, Captain William Read. The Vessel will leave the Tower Stairs at Eight o'Qoek in the Morning, precisely, wish a iuost favourable tide, and return to London by sun-set the same evening. ' A double Band of Music will be provided,, and Refresh locate tray be had on board of the kiteward. No Collection will be permitted for the Ship's Company or Music. Ticket. Be. each (one will admit Two Children under Twelve Yeats of age), may be had of the Trustees, viz.— Messrs. W. A. Larby, Crowu and Anchor, Pavement, Moat fields. S. Becton, Dolphin, Milk-street, Cheapaide. "W.`'Druce, Feathers, Waterloo-bridge-road. J. Vousley, King's Head, Long-lane, Southwark. J. Hawkins, Haunch of Venison,Bell-yard, Temple-bar. And also of the Governors and General Committee. As the comfort and respectability of the Company was at the Excursion d last year secured by limiting the number of Tickets to Four Hundred, and not permitting any person Abe admitted on board without one, the same arrange x;nent Will be undeviatingly continued on the preaent occa sion. The Governor" feel it their duty to mention this, to Ptlivent disappointment to any of their friends. • - By Order of the Governors, JOHN GILL. Secretary. 125, Long-lane, Southwark, June 28, 1828. RTIFICIAL. TEtTH—Mr.WILLIAM -CIL • BEAC ALL and Mr.. ROSE, Surgeon Dentists, having, with unremitted diligence, long made the Science (if ARTIFICIAL TEETH, where Mechanical Contrivance 4'regiiisite . ., their peculiar study,coutinue to supply the loss 9t Teeth 'with Natural or Artificial, in a superior manner, aithadt t h e least pain, from a single Tooth to a complete Set, 4 t little Wore-than one baif the usual charges. Teeth Cleaned, if - ever SO' diikOlotiredi and rendered white and beautiful, Withont , pain or injury to the enamel. Extracting, Ptug, , alid every Operation on the Teeth and Gums. Attend 4 t home from Ton till Four, No. 13, Newman-street, .4410k -street. prCLARK'S • GENERAL OUTFIT • TING WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WE S T INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER tHANGE, STRAND. Officers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gen tteizen proceeding to South America, or any other part c if the Globe, will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Appointments, Swords, Chacos, Sashes, 4 eltti,• Pistols, &e., together with a large and well-munu ttetnred - stock of Sea Cots, Couches, and bedding ; Cabin IVash-hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps; Sea Chests, Mule 14 4 d Bullock Trunks, and every other description of ,Travelling Equipage. AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted With the necessary . requisites fiur India and other tropical tinware ;Aikewise a great variety of Silver and Plated Artielet,, Knives and Forks, suitable for families going .ttbroad ; Military and Hindostannee nooks, Maps, &c. A FASUIONABLE STOCK of Catriage, Curricle, Tandem, Phteton, Stanhope and Chaise .HARNESS, with kvery description of Saddlery, &C. &c. for home use, East 4 ,,, a West Indies, and South America, which merit inspec tion 'froM their excellent quality, first style of workman_ t ip, and moderate prices. All the Articles in this Establishtnant are warranted, kid the e xcellent plan of 'fifty years standing is still strictly tt4ered to,, of asking one Ready Money Price, but from which no abatement is made. ` ~ AIIBOYNA TOOTH POWDER AND LOTION. g ht o, ' TIIE-DRUG, from which the' .A.MBO.YNA, ;, I POWDER and LOTION are prep are d, i s the pro _,loed .. done o f A s i a. The Nat i ves, as well as Foreigners, esteem rr4 ' . the Ding for its peculiar efficacy in cleansing and beauti ler. 4 f Ying th e T eet h , an d remov i ng di sor d ers o f the Mouth and (I A 1 , ,ums. It whitens the teeth, and by its astringent action ia ci t ro e' ~ (.1, the Gums, Lstens those which are loose; it gives also a , . . , aiktive 'reduesa to the gums; it removes all heats, ulcers, ' -boils, ~ 1 I Those who . txperience painful nervous aches in the face, gums, &c. will, the . Le effectually . relieved by a liberal use of the Lotion. Both ..'" :r u e ' atin"ns atrePpreu4ererlvy"Vte6gettaeehtlilfe°llldecay. 3 t ? . , cAUTION.-4"Composition in imitation of the above 1 ~. powder 15 . .ii:ild 'v.iy '0: few Dui-lists, and the deception is in , iinediatelY' detected by th e stamp attached to the box, I', 11 " which is only a plsin one, whereas the genuine powder' Al • as, by fitier of his ',Majesty' s Com m i es i oners o f Stamps, as }l°k' h a security to the proprietor, the name ‘• Evan Edwards, f fy ti 7, St. P au l' s ," engrave d thereon. 9 The Powder is sold in boxes, 2s. W. and 4s. Gd. each; a , V the Loti on , 4 s . 6 e l. per B ottle. il' Sold by Sanger, 150, Oxford -street, opposite 80nd ...n..00 itreet ; Sti•aslling, Royal Exchange, Cornbill ; and Ali. j o ff ervards,tri, Sr. Paurs,Churelt-yard, ou the foot way. 1 • d wer e sal' !niable theft ) " o keef err tisr ore 0, that !I tain 11 0 : We° _,...1 ___ k ) PHE. -HE ALTH and the. COMFORT o f every Family ire so immediately bound up with the ,SUPPLY of PURE aud WHOLES.OME WATER tv their habitations, that; to us;: the words of Dr. Ure, the eminent . chemist and physician of - Glasgow,' g "it can not bitt ‘ be an interesting object to ascertain the qualities of that which is daily commuted by the inhabitants of l arge c iti es ; seeing that a very minute portion of unwhole some matter, daily taken, may constitute the principal cause of the differences in salubrity which are observable in Inf. fereut places." Important as this fat is, it . is not .the less true, that the public attention tires never fully roused,. until the appear s.ner, about fifteen months ago, of a publication, called " The Dolphin ;" the object of 'which was to prove, that an article, designated by the illustrious Dr. Mead as "the vehicle of all our nourishment," was actually supplied to them in a polluted and unwholesome condition. The writer was-threatened with -prosecution, and his statements de, clerk to be false : a public meeting of the inhabitants of the.western part of the town nevertheless took place : peti tions were presented to Parliament : and the result was, the appointment of.a Royal.6minission to inquire into the state of the Supply of Water to the Metropolis. The long and anxiously looked-for Report of the Com missioners has at length made its appearance. We have carefully gone over the hundred and fifty' folio lieges of which it consists, and we venture to assert, that -a docu- Utast of greater . importance has. scarcely ever been laid before , the public. -Upon the concurring teatimeny of ..many-of our ;soot etaineacchemjste and ,physicians, facts of.the most fearful suiture. are therein established, beyond the possibility of contradiction ; namely, that the water drawn by the Companies from the river Thames, is sent into our cisterns in a condition impure and offensive in the extreme—that 'it is loaded with decayed animal and vegetable matters, the proceeds of a hundred andferty-five common sewers—that it is strongly impregnated with the 'tteleteeions refuse of gas, colour, lead, and soap-works, drug mills,- and manufactories of every description--and that, in consequence of this mass of pollution eonstantly mixing with it, it has became not only disgusting to the senses, but ;unit, to be employeA in tha.preparation of food, or for any • domestic purpose. The three Commissioners, Dr. Roget, Professor Brande, and Mr. Telford, the eminent engineer, commenced their labours by requesting Mr. Wright, the individual who di rected the public attention to the existing evil, to furnish 'therii with a statement of the alleged grievances, and to point out the best mode of obtaining information, as to the truth of the allegations contained in the petition of the inhahitauts of the western part of the Metropolis to Parliament. In consequence of this request, Mr. Wright addressed to them a Memoir, which is annexed to_ their Report. This Memoir, together with the Evidence taken before the Commissioners, contains a series of testimonials to the gross impurity of the Thames water, of which we shall here give a brief outline. All of them will be read with interest ; some with sensations bordering upon horror. Few would have credited the frightful facts, if they came in a less 'questionable shape. EVIDENCE OF TILE lllTOally AND INSALEBRITY OF THE TKAIIES WATER SUPPLIED ItY THE COMPANIES. Sir Henry Halford pronounces the water sent into his house to be a tilthy fluid, with which he is disgusted. Mr. Thomas, the surgeon, tells us it is saturated with de cayed vegetable mutters, and other substances prejudicial to health. Dr. Hooper is convinced that such matters in the stountoli greatly contribute to' the production of that state of faulty digestion and impurity of blood, of which the inhabitants of the Aletrolsolis are constantly complain ing. Mr. Keate, the surgeons avows it to be his opinion, that it is su filthy and impure, us tole unit for the break fast table and for culinary orposes, and that it adds so much to the other unwholesome constituents of bread, as to render every meal injurious to the health of thousandl. Dr. Turner asserts, that the water' tent into his: cisterns during the hot weather frequently became. quite putrid; and Dr. J. R. Hume, of Curzon-street, has no doubt 'that the continued use of it without altering is capable of pro dusiag deleterious effects. Dr. Yenta says, that the Thames water is extremely load, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the great quan tity of filthy matters continually pouring into it from nu merous sewers. He instances a disease which prevailed to a very serious extent, which he had hitnself traced to the _ impurities of the water for domestic use. Dr: Kerrison makes us acquainted with a fact, the pe rusal of which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in specting the hunnes near the landing at Chelsea Hospital, he says he saw " the foul and black stream from the Ile. nelagh sewer, posing between the Company's steam-engine and the Dolphin, loaded with no small portion of undivided 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 physician to Chelsea Hospital, states the water to be very impure. • " The tide," he says, "stirs up the mass rf impurity produced by all that is corrupti ble in the animal and vegetable world, together with the noxious filth of gas and other manufactories, that con stantly flow into the Thames from Battersea down to Gravesend." Alluding-to the water supplied to his late residence in Hanover-squat e, he adds, "it was not only frequently, but generally, extremely impure, pad, and offensive ; that it deposited much mud, and often enough to render its colour blackish." Dr. James Johnson, the author of t'le " Treatise on In digestion," pronounces the water to be disgusting to the sight, and the effluvia to affect the senses. Until he changed his residence he was affected with pain after tak ing his breakfast, which he attributes to the water. He states the fact of several young females who had been affected with bowel complaints from the same cause. If they went out of town a few days, and drank other water, the complaint subsided, but often returned on their again drinking this water. There was a scum ou the surface of the water of an oily nature, awl the deposit is immense. When his cisterns were cleaned out, the smell rendered the house very uncomfortable. "W e sneer," says the Doctor, " at the delicacy of the I-tindoo, who slakes his thirst at the same tank where his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina ; but what shall we say to the delicate citizens of Westminster, who fill their tanks and stinnachs with water from the Thames, at that very spot into which a hundred thousand cloaca, containing every species of filth and nil unutterable things, are daily disgorging. their hideous and abominabl e conteuts. It i s absolutely suite- fishing, that in these days of refinement, and in a Metro polis whose inhabitants pride themselves on delicacy and cleanliness, a practice should - obtain, at which posterity will shudder, if they ran credit it. A time must come when the people will open their eyes to this scene of Cot caption, veiled and concealed as it is by iron tubes and stone pavements. It is probable that part of the iusalu brity of the Metropolis, as compared with the country, way be owing to this cause." The last professional gentle:elan 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 offen sive, and says that it stinks shortly after it has crane in. Large quantities of matter are mechanically suspended in it. The Company send in mud with the water, and then coin plain that the cisterns are not kept clean. lie states, that a h.e f . a b ni el i i l ,e y ,ve w s h i t o t:s r wa h e e f a r attended drinkinged t autumn t,s ‘vat water. were all A ill, s a 'and swim], he says, " I cannot find terms sufficiently expres tshivsehoefailthles,anwfindafeencltisceist, n o u f jY t the inhabitants it )7 u o ( f lu t l c l e e (1 1 7‘ Me tropolis." And in the last edition of his work he goes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy be not appli e d t o the evil, " the ravages of 'some epidemic man be fairly anticipated." We could adduce the corroborative testimony of Mane o th e r professional men of emin h e l 7 e ,4f , - o c u o r nei s u p d a :: e w vi ith o o u u l t ( t i esruleue e o f s i x i n di viduals, givingallotv u s s . s t h u l d r t o s s u o m : m a:e r y cannot, (f he whose business it has been to, watch the progress of the mischief, and to trace if up to its source. Mr. Mills, the engineer, tells us, that the Thames is neither more nor less than the common sew) of London, of and all on e t I s t e e '' s . o e r u s t h ; for whi ch y - so far a s i t rece ives the contents on the north side are ninety -nine, sin. The water taken bp opposite sonic of the sewers at the time of diSeharge ;6 nearly the substantive coutents of those channels of human ordure. Mr. Joseph Evans has often seen thelewers discharging black slimy liquid; with gas, oil, dead animals, entrails from the slaughter-houses, and other filth too disgusting to name. Mr. Goodhugh, the fishmonger, says, that the Company's wa'er as muddy and `offensive ; if fresh fish are put into it,-they, will not live wore than six hours, and turn a yellow colour. Mr. Such is the picture—the faithful and frightful picture —of the condition of the water of the Thames, 'as supplied by the Companies to their customers. That tbe ' 'inhabit ants of the richest, largest, most populous ,city in the world—the seat of a more opulent 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 do mestic and culinary Purpo'ses; a necessary of life, so loaded with all sorts of impurities as to be pronounced, by profes sional men of the first eminence, to be offensive to the sight, disgusting to the imagination, and destructive to health, is a fact that woald nut have been credited, and thst ought not to have Leen credited, but upon evidence strong as proof of Holy,Writ!" That the Commissioners, 'with these facts before them, should terminate their labours without taking into consi. deration the best mode of removing so crying an evil, was next to hripossible. Prevented, however, by the limits assigned to their inquiry, froth looking abroad for a purer source, they naturally turned their attention to the im provement of the supply at, home; . and the result of their labours is the recommendation of a general system of fil tration—a system, not limited to the fifty-three thousand families daily drinking the filthy fluid of which we have been speaking, but extending itself to the hundred and seventy-six thousand tenants ,of the New River and other Companies, consuming the twenty-nine mylicins of gallons daily supplied to the Metropolis. "Although," say they, "the New River water is not open to the same objectionable impregnations as that of the Thames, it receives the •drainage of a large extent of country, is occa sionally very inuddy, and is Susceptible of ?ouch improve ment by filtration." Such is the remedy pointed out and recommended by the Comnipissioners. That those gentlemen did not consider it L So be a perfect one, will appear by the following observe ton :—" It must," say they, "be recollected, that insecti and suspended impurities only are separated by filtration, and that the purity of' the water, as' dependent upon .matters held in a state of solution, cannot be improved by any practicable modification of the process. If,' there fore, it can be shown, that .water taken from the parts of the river whence the Compnies draw 'their supplies, either is, or is likely to be, contantinated' by substances dissolved, or- chemically combined, it will follow, that the most per feet system of filtering can effect only a partial purification." Unfortunately, at the moment tvhen the Commissioners were drawing up this paragraph of their Report, the Patent for " The Royal Filter for Cisterns" had 'tot passed through the tedious Ordeal of office; for if the merits of this invaluable discovery had been submitted to their consideration, that Report, we are inclined to believe, would not have contained the assertion, that "the most perfect system of filtration can effect only a partial purifi cation." The subjoined extract from a Prospectus, issued by the Proprietors, will be perused with the liveliest in terest by all who consider cleanliness to be essential to health, and the purity of the element of which we are treating, to be nearly of equal importance with the air we breathe " The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior to all Oars hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only possesses the power of . clarifying the water in a pre-emi nent degree, but also that of complete purification, ren der* the most turbid, stagnant, and foetid water, of a crystalline brilliancy, depriving it of every noxious ingre dier.t, and, in fact, producing ' Nature's nectar' in the highest possible perfection;' that is to say, clear and des. titute of taste and smell." " But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " is the proof of all this to be found? We must have something more solid and satisfactory than hare assertions." • The fol lowing statement must, we think, set the doubtsof the most sceptical at rest for ever. Mr. Hume, the respectable chemist of Long-acre, who has long been employed,, by Government in analysing waters, had two bottles of water sent to him for analyse tion ; the one full 'of all animal and vegetable matters in a state of decomposition, and strongly impregnated with gas; the other, a bottle which had contained the same foul in gredients, but had. been purified by the Royal Filter. In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-six 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 dis solved in it : " for," he observes, " there is no water, howeeer .pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells, su perficial springs, or any other source, that is free from saline and other soluble salts, not at all injurious to health." In the filtered hot tle lie found only sixteen grains of subst inces, which, on exatnivation, 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 carbonic acid gas. Mr. Hume concludes with bearing the following high testimony to the merits of this discovery, —" After a very careful analysis, .1 cannot hesitate to pronounce the method .which has been adopted to filter this specimen of water to be most effectual, and highly descroittg of public enema agertent." The same gentle -Mae, at a 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 purposely strongly impreg nated with gas and other impurities, became crystallised, and destitute of taste and smell. Thus it is clearly proved, that of the forty-six grains and a half of solid matter originally placed in the Royal Filter, only sixteen grains of substances passed through it ; and which sixteen grains are proved to be peculiar to water in its primitive •state, and not at .all deleterious tojtealth. Howevi r much, therefore, the abservation of the Com missioners may apply to - all former systems of filtration, it is greatly to be regretted that, before the close 'of their la boors,. they had not the benefit of the preceding experi ments, and. of the following striking testimonials to the excellence of " the Royal Filter." Professor Brandi., one of the three Commissioner,: ap pointed by the King, has had a portable Royal Filter, fOr the purpose of trying experitnents en water in a similar coniition to that described by Mi. Hume; a:141 he has stepped forward with his ready testimony to the singular merits of this discovery. "I have," he says, " tiicd its effect on very turbid water, and it appears to pcssess the two great desiderata of such contrivanc e: ,, namely, to filter eery peafeetly, and very rapidly." 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BarnardeaStle 0 16 0 9 0 11 0 -5 0 7 0 0 0 12 0 Darlington i ll 0 15 3 f 1 0 10 6 5 4 7 6 9 6 10 6 Durham.- ;12 9 16 0 89 00 56 - 70 10 0 12 6 Wolsinghana 0 16 0 ..8 6 0 0 -6 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 WAKEFIELD. July 4. There is a large supply of Wheat up the River, but very little from die farmers here this morning; good 'fresh samples have obtained last Friday's prices, and the aspectof the trade is in , ,re firm than for some weeks back; but all , middling and stale qualities are nearly without demand.— Oats are rather lower,. and very few wanted. Good Beans are (lull, and Is. to 2a. per quarter cheaper, and there is no demand for the middling sorts. Malt is' very heavy sale, and Is per lead lower. There is rather more inquiry for Rapeseed. • _ - _ _ _ - _ . What, Norfolk and Suffolk, Red 4S s. to 521. VV hit e.... 525. to 5S'. --- New, Red 4.95. to 535. White • 525. to 555. Foreign, Red Barley, Norfolk and Suttblk -- Lincolnshire 10s. to 31s. -- Yorkshire Wold 30s. to 31s. fine 555. fine Cis. tine s`m. fine 58s. fine s•ls. tine 355. fine f.M. tine 325. Beans, Tick Sits. to 40s. tine 41s. Small 'l7s. to lOs. line 41s. Oats, Poland and rotato 2ls. to 265. tine 275. Friezland and Small l7s. to 225, fine ias. Healing lOO. to 1204. per Stone. Shelling 2Bs. to 295. —s. to —s. per Load. Malt ___ _l6s. _4os.. tine 425. per 1...0ad. Rapeseed 2O/. Os. ts2i. 211. 10.4. per Last SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN 11A RICET.7./uly Sales were dull to-day in the Barley and Oat market and a considerable proportion of both kinds of grain remained unsold. Top of Barley 15. down, but the average is up Is. 6d. Top of Oats the same as last day. Average up sd. The Wheat market was also dull, and sales were only slowly made. Tke average, however, has advanced Is. 3d. above last day. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 62s Od 36s Ott 28., Oct I 32; 6d • 34s Od , Second s2s Od 35s Od 26; Cd 32s Od —; Od Third There were 246 qrs. of Wheat in market, 111) whereof were sold. 51 Unsold.-16 Grey na, A yen B.l2ths DA LKEITH CORN MARKET.—JuIy 3. The supply of all kinds of Grain at this day's ,mar ket was small, and sold heavily in general. Wheat, best 595., current 56i., inferior 50s. Barley, hest 355., cur rent 315., inferior 30s. ; Oats, best 285., current 21.5., inferior 225. Pease and Beans from 30s. to 365. per qr. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First...... 50s Od 35s Od 28s 0,1 35s Od 365 Od Second...• sts Od 3•2 s (Id 24s Od • 33s Ott Its 0,1 Third . 'sos Od• 30s Od - 2'..1s Od 394 Od :Ms Oct CORNWALL. MARKETS. TRURo.—Wheat (average) 21s. CA—Barley, 104.—Oats, 9s. (id. IlEtsToN—Wheat, 21s. Od.— Bari ey, I CS. Od. ST. AL'sTra.L—Wileat, 19s. to 21s.—Barley, 9s. to 10.4.—Oats, Bs. to 10s. Od. BoomlN—Wheat (average) 21a. (ki.—Barley, 9s. 6d.—Oats, 7s. uNCESTON—Wheat (average) 21s. (AL—Barley, Os. 6,l.—Oats, 7s. Od.—Beet; 6d.—Mutton, Ltst:.Aitn—Wheat, 21s. t , ) 235. Ca—Barley, :Os. 6d.—Oats, Ss. to Os. Od. Sr. CWlslE—Wheat, 20i. to 22s.—Barley, 93. to 10,—Beef, and Mutton, Std to 6d.—Veal and Lamb, GU to 61. PENZANCE—Wheat, 20s. to 22$.—Barley, t o Is.—Oats, 84 to Bs. 0, - 1. —Beef and Mutt.on, -ttl. to tid.—Purk, OJ. to W. -- Butter, Sd. per lb. MINING IN I'ELI.I G ENCE. Toils. C't• Quantity of copper Ore sold at Retinal] last Tllllr sly 5 29 ~, 0 0 .t A , Average Produce i. 4 1' Quantity of fine Copper 237 li; Amount of. Sale. 15,971/. Is. tid.—Aveta,ge Standard, 108/. Is. Oa. . N. PALL- Ductless residence n i di s ie c : o furif u nnGcr t ei l LtießiciEaSi Friday, f ..41 o s p,i): F (pGi t; o eleirefLi niß:inotrArDe residence r pTal . e: C ji MER, M.P., and Mr. W. S3EITIf, M.P., had intervigqvs and on TFridayiiesupiatlnt Spanish Duke of iNatri7A.Li‘mi :Giu.Arrinio,TseNtriiaLrtt,D.thhApaead'tribliaxsivelreyrae con ference with the Earl of ABEROEEN on Friday, at the Office of the Secretary of State tor Foreign Affairs. Lord HILL reviewed the third Regiment of Foot Guards on Friday morning, in Hyde Park. 'The Duke of CUMBERLAND honoured Earl GOWER with his c ompany to dinner, on Thursday, at his prevent to meet his Royal Highness. Th n 1 . DI U IB R.LA the Duke Of CAMIBRID Blackheat h t e to :1 1 A T't t ly E l s ol r ef i t-Dh o e n uNc F oi r ib i e d isl a ist y y a no t nf h d is Palace, St. Jetues's. his a visitedd select' • Jane Straylliu, a young woman of prepossessing appear ance; with an infant at her breast, was charged with corn .mitting the following robbery •at Mr. Hobslay's British and .Foreiga. Gallery of Pictures, Pall-mall. • About six Weeks.ago a gentleman name Benyon, and his sister, took apartments at Mr. Holiday's, and engaged. the prisoner as cook ; .in the early part of last week Mr. and Miss Benyon were compelled to leave town for their seat in Yorkshire, on account of a domestic calamity. On arriving at home Miss Benyon proceeded to examine ha trunks, when she , missed several of her most valuable trinkets, and' a quan tity of her brother's wearing apparel, &c. - Mr. Benyou instantly wrote to a Mr. Meade, of 44, Watling-street, and that gentleman made those inquiries which occasions s• apprehension of the prisoner, by Ballard, ti e offices., who on entering her apartments; observed R. young woman with a bundle in her hand, given to her by the pri soner, which Was found to contain a gold broach, a i'elvet waistcoat, and other articles. The prisoner's bonnet was decorated with some fashionable ribands, stolen from Miss Benyon. She was remanded. WOR S HIP-STR EET. L A 1)Y CHARC FD WITH SWINDLING.—On Saturday Mrs. .Inhasoh, a peron of imposing address and manner', and Mrs. Mills, her ma tronly friend, were charged with obtaining goods under false pretences, from Airs. Ikullnun, of Finsbury-place, milliner and dress-maker. Mrs. Mills, being known to Mrs. Badhan►, introduced her friend Mrs. Johnson as a lady of great expectation,. She was stated to be the niece of General Gascoyne, the Member for Liverpool ; had four horses at her command in Grosvenor-square; had various other sources of wealth, and talked of giving a cheque upon Drill1:11101aS, Ger bank ers. Mrs. Badham very unsuspectingly believed these repre sentations, although aware that Mrs. Johnson was an mi .. willing visitor at Tenterden Park, wl.icla is v u l gar l y termed the King's Bench Prison, and that otters of the patty were within the walls ; and sue placed I GI. worth of property at the disposal of the lady, whom she now pm:- sued for criminally obtaining them. Mrs. Mills, in explanation, said that Mrs. Johnson bad married very foolishly, but she slat professed her belief that her young friend had some pecuniary expectations. Mr. B►touctrrore—But the cheque upon Drummond's, and the other representations. Do you still ear you a t , Gen. Gascoyne's niece? Mrs. Johnson said she certainly was. The Magistrates, after a minute inquiry, were of opinion that there was not sufficient to support the charge, of fal se pretence, and dismissed the case, after having cautioned the ladies. , . • SIGNORA BAAAIBILI.A.—BRAMBILLA was certain of popularity, for her beauty ensured it, had her voice•been Jess excellent than it was. She has the finest eye,' said -a gay Cardinal, 'the sweetest voice, and the best disposition : if she is discovered to possess any Whir merits, the safety of the Catholic church will require her (memo- Opera Rouse. We have just ,heard of a melancholy amdent which occurred at Maidenhead yesterday. A lad, about thirteen years of age, took up a gun which he did not know was loaded, and presenting it,jocularly, at a girl of his mu age, said he would shoot her. The gun instantly went oft, • and, melancholy to relate, the contents entered her head, which was completely shattered.—Berks Chronicle. IVIoItRIS AND ANDERSON, THE CONVICTS. —On Friday and Saturday afternoon a long investigation took place at Queen-square police-office, befortt the magis trates, into the cases of Mortals and AsnEasoN, who were included in the Recorder's report, and - ordered for execution last Friday (but who have been respite(' for a r ly so • private; 13 ; :had, the trial t e t r a s week), for robbing THOMAS JOHNSON of a sovereign and a he wore handkerchief, and cruelly beating him, at house of ill fame in Wilkinson-co,urt, Old Pye-street, Westminster, to which place he had accompanied a female, who' cohabited Friday afternoon four witnesses were examined, when it was clearly proved that the prosecutor, Thomas Jon NsoN. ti , y a g h v ho lsa u: sP h t: with Mortars. The oa t n f g g is t drinking, in the course of the day the alleged robbery took sober, and had drank nothing. It was t ; v i l i a h a t t o .e h , is e se w % a •e a v r s a a l por t g a l f a e l s n e se a ti l s: also proved that JOHNSON was a married mart at the time, and the certificate of his marriage was produced, which took place in the parish church of Sr. Martin-in the-Field, about nine years ago, and that his wife was living at No. 4, Gardener's-row, Knightsbridge, although at the trial the prosecutor swore he was not married. A watch man also deposed to seeing the prosecutor receive his pay on the night of the said robbery, which was a sovereign and some silver, and that. he changed the sovereign before they parted. 1 On Friday morning, the prosecutor, JouNsoa, was ordered to attend before the magistrates that afternoon, which he faithfully promised to do; but after Waiting a considerable time, he never made his appearance, and two officers were sent to apprehend him, which they did about five o'clock the same afternoon, at the Brown Bear public house, at Knightsbridge, and he was kept in custody for the night. The next morning he was taken in custody - before the Grand Jury to prefer a bill of indictment against the female, Moßms, who gave evidence in flivour of the convicts at their trial at the Old Bailey, and who was de. tained by order of the learned Judge, to be tried this sessiou • for wilful and corrupt perjury. After being before the, Grand July for an hour and a half, the bill was thrown out, and JomasoN. was removed in custody of the officers. Th us does this mysterious affair remaiu at present. We stated a few days ago , that five persons hi.l been committed to the cou nt y g aol of Salop charged with the murder of a roan named HARRISON, wh om t h ey had put out of the way to p revent his gi v ing evidenc e against one of their fr ie n ds on a char g e of sheep-stealing. The Chester chro n icle, in giving thi s , adds—" From the confession, as coinnunucated to us, it a p pears t h at JOHN Cox, an old man , aged 60 years (th e f at h er- o f one of the gang, and agai nst whom HA RRISON was also to fppear as a w i tness ), and the mother of ELLsoN, engaged Jortri 1 'Cox, aged 36, Rott4lor Cox, ag e d 19, sons o f t h e above named Joust Cox, and Josneta P,UOlf, aged 19,. for the 511111 of 5/. to murder IiARRISO'N, whirls they effected in the following manner :—They proceeded to RA RISO N house, anti calli ng hi m up, induced lam, after much per suasion, to accompany them to Spoonley (a township few miles from Drayton), for the purpose of stealing some bacon. They first proceeded to a field aquarter of a mile from Drayton, where they commenced digging a large hole, itt which they said theyiutended to secrete the bacon. In this work HA it FUSON assisted, little imagining that he was help ing to dig a pit into which he was shortly to be hurled. After accomplishing this task, under pretence that it was tin soon to go to Spoonley, they laid themselves down under a hay-stack; but no sooner did ;IA Rambla place himself in the same position, than one of his companions sprang upon their intended victim, and attempted to throttle him, shovels; upon which HARetsoN exclaimed, "Good God, while. the others struck hint on the head with th e i r are you going to murder me? If you'll allow me to go, I'll go out of the country and say no more about it"— meaning the sheep-stealing. The inhuman murderers dis, regarded they had dug. Th e y now cow tleted the horrible crime with th e i r s h ove l s , a ft er w hi c h they tilled up ) the this bole appeal,n' •and threw him, half d ea d, h ea dl ong into the grave and retired. liAnalsoN's disap pearance at the time excited much public anxiety, but nothing escaped Irma any of the party to lead to their detection, till, as stat 4 above the horrors of a reproving Antsvieure compelled vne of the, criminals to till the tale."