The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-02 00:00:00

--~ 1 sciEtt, 1 but h e b e li eved that i t wou ld b r i ng a l l t h e ta -4 10 °I s the members into the Committee, (hear, and stimulate the old members to encreased I ° ll % lie could not hut view such an libera -las peculiarly beneficial to the institution, a great many of the members held the opini on as hi mse lf. Th ey f e l t t h at the r e 41 be. a new lot of members every year, "'I to promote arid bring new interests ,zthe welfare of th e I n stitution, lie exhorted , f ito view calmly the proposition which he laid to them, in support of which he might allude to ' - 'ollort University, the new star of our day.— ,s ttme,mod e h a d b een a dopted there of electing hers of the Committee, and he believed that it trl authority as that might justify the adoption ti: ll , 4 r l alteration, even if no other fact were it Instil the th, re. rmed tht the Cora' had not himself. and Vice' ;eta. f fe President, pologizini rd thl pen , the S 9 f manor st of * Jed to support it. Ile then named other soci- I 4 A W hich had adopted- the same plan, and had to Repo' 1' it answer well. But it would be tedious :Sumelat e t h e var i ous instances in whi c h com mere 5 4 ‘ 44 succeeded. He had very frequently . , e r whir°, risked by the members of other institutions a ppear eu .I'l . had so long escaped their observation ? He tended°j e;;often wondered that it had not been proposed 5 , will t .• As it was, however, he would never con tack, ari lion any exclusion, and he supported the propo !dings , l ' , tr On every p r inciple of good custom. (Loud p o ker), te' l e S ..rniligled with a few hisses, which sometimes referente ,1 into the spe e ch, but were generally drowned ling tld T" h e cheers.) an ,. ( 4 0 e motion was instantly seconded. Le to rte • ; It r . l e of the C omm itt ee said, that the proposed re lit-, bd.) , ty 'on lo o k e d lik e treat i ng t h e i r b est f r i en d s i n a 1 that 0 , ‘ll eavalier manner , a f ter serv i ng a cer t a in time'. ' o rthy S r ) 141 0 ther M em b er t h en a dd resse d th e M eet i ng . the 11 1) '" the very peculiar situation in which he was :ed at 4 aftl, he f e l t it hi s d uty to o ff er a f ew o b servat i ons e funds°,f :i '_e resolution which had been handed to the d hisse o '4 l r; They had done him the honour of electing the ir I Cr three successive years in their Committee mr, wh ile uacternent. It would be thought that he had ns in th e ' e interest. in this proposition. From the first wri nab" r deist in which it came to his knowledge, it op ,of tat -1. fraught with mour. , It; , 0 trim to be . great injury to the mod, a . ctitron. He meant great injury, inasmuch as it affor d to •,• t 4 great tendency to create disunion. He said, Abet'oh' •, 0 ,, 4 one of the original members of the Institu ive to + 49 tt' he. appealed to the Meeting whether those f or the ,Wts'who had come down with their purse, and f_ roar' ) ! O rs, in the infancy of the Institution, would up ti , ; sum, .4, ‘. II S anything else butliingratitude to be kicked i mpr ove . , .t (No, no, hisses, and cries of " they will not be A oh? L lt e cl out." " They can be re-elected the 'NI t ok Yenr.") He had ho wever s hown, he contend erpecte 1 utit such an experiment ought not to be tried disple e " i t l ii t he Institution was properly fixed. He and Per k oped, with the proposition, to have heard some skin g ° ~ t eason for changing one of the fundamental me wber 6 ii ‘j Of the Society, as was usual on making propo disburse; q t t/8 of this sort. The gentleman, however, had e shoal' a dduced a single•instance of neglect or impro the tale tY, Ott the part of the former Committees. ;nests i 9 4 . 1 d •he say that the Committee which had the : ttl ° l l for the last year had acted improperly ? eutleol ;, t l , ll ,i'll look to the commodious premises they have night h e 'tk i :! (l . Let him look at the shelves covered with t h v Se , ) , t . • He had not shown that the Committee had, in are rr e? i oli sse neglected their duty; but another Committee ire, Reif' .: t do so. He proposed that one-third of the hior if ,Ittit.rttittee should go out every year ; suppose he lect ure' 'o ' I •) ''.) should show him that one-third has already ( H e ar' t in t every year. In the last three years he ud righ r ' 4 ,‘ 4 show it. In one year half of the Committee ,f t hallV k st ' °Ut, in another two-fifths of them, and in the leers .) r,,,Year half.of them has again gone out. (Hear, ca pao -4,) What was it that could be expected by j og, - 00 . 44 11 tig the present plan? The members of the • broligh ivrnittee had no emolument, 110 salary, no Ornime. (Hear, hear.) They were not like r jr ,,,,ta b st India Company Directors, who have tee, ttiel. !i'ui ll . a-year for the duties. If they had any tirttig imber P Lust y ear t in ,itt sort, there might be an inducement for other sa id dist ;n - mbers to try and come in for a slice of the good ate than '„ i 3 --(Loud laughter) -- but the only induce ed, boo' 4. % .4 for the Hon.- Member to have brought forward rordert; :Proposition must have been to have handed his , oreta ry ' .: down to posterity. (Cries of " no, ho," and item 1 / , ' !; t hisses.) The fame of the sacred geese. (Loud he co uld -, ,k(iter and uproar). Mr. Jackson stood waiting o the sr ;: h ome time, but the meeting would not hear him i ker the' : ti lt er, and he ,sat down. i te ms al . k t , , ue CHAIRMAN requested them to hear him with t the i n ' in ee, but some of the meeting cried out "we tto meet G Ci tit of patience." Mr. Jackson again tried, but auld roe,'" :%° Purpose. fulfilled tsveral Members spoke with great energy and a s orie 'e'l for and against the motion, till the cries of , Il iestion," drowned their voices. •,1 he Ltlv. r• sa w - ' v ltt - ,HAIRMAN then put the question negatively, se nt t ° ~t h e greater part of the meeting held up their h a d foe' lie's, hut upon the Chairman being reminded of 00r ;i 4t t aistake, .he put it affirmatively ; but the major had be e ' VI the meeting still held up their hands. The any ol o^ loni an however put the question " on the to ° he : racy," and declared the majority were against t : e C o o 4 kotion. The gentleman who moved, and others, ~ Co' 'Z'htled a ballot, but it was suggested to the , ae em l , e . ' - 4 th tman that by each party taking a different side wretarY 5 the a tre he would sooner arrive at the general however, about half of each party f ' 4i no 01 ° . °". W hen, ,h wooP ,i ), r V, .hanged sides, it was suggested that the purpose H e 10`' t l i 'd be better answered by desiring one party to 10' "°ven and the ether to stand up. Sne " 1 1 but 11 i () , 1 e CHAIRMAN then put the question in that h' a d b ee ° ~,, s 'e, and - declared that there was a decided ma stitati°l3; ,! 1( . ): against the motion, which was contradicted I was, h ', - 'he supporters of the motion, and a poll again P ' ° yell' .:anded. The Chairman said that there was no of die ‘ :',,tif the Society bv which he could hold a ballot. ( 1,15 be' ',t;t motion was then made for the adjournment of k i ng tiV ~n r ileeting, and seconded, but the Chairman di „ember: ~i ' t e d the iiecretary to read a requisition from the out Oe„ ', f t Committee. He was reading it, when the a d doll- tierce Was protested against by the person moving comfort' !, adjournment, and the Chairman then put the bt l i ter .. thoug it it i ilua to the meeting, which was clearly negatived to do "°' the requisition was read and carried. :abbe.' !1, 'he CuAtamAN then adjourned the meeting, and separated at past eleven o'clock. (plait< tlunce: i4 of i ll .4, t o point be nothl ° (Cbe e ,C 4 ; )atioii• Friday last an elegant soiree was given at f tis tiqyzil Barracks, by Capt. and Mrs. Hanby, to many Principal inhabitants of the town' and vicinity of "het Yarmouth, to C.ornmemorate Capt. Manby's entry (that day) the, 64th year of his age, and to celebrate b anipletion of whit had:employed his attentionfor the I .years; his plait for the preservation of shipwrecked inert. The floor of the room assigned for dancing the great taste and ability of Mr. Joy; and the t . " exhibited representations of some extraordinary cases 6 o PteseriatiOn ; one of the card .rooms excited much at frem cabinets, exhibiting the various models of his 111;%tione to relieve from 'misery and suffering, and fur Piefiervation of life, and prevention of shipwreck; for 4 4 , Prevention of destructive fires, and implements to li, 4 Pe from houses on fire; for the preservation of the 0, of persons who break through the ice ; for the res ,t,,,;•4g those drawn under the ice, or who had sunk under deep water ; and for lessening the torture attendant At-the Poi present method of taking whales. the room :or refreshments was the great Boutattra, as "it Cm the tale" for which the company assembled in so inte tinNiog and pleasing a manner. On the centre of the table N' i _t occupied one end of the room, was a magnificent iced on which was placed a handsome stand, for sup tt,ttittg a most perfect and beautiful model of the Yar -I,th life-boat, and to front a brass mortar, with ropes li in a basket, ready for immediate applicatioil, with a t: t for effecting a C o mmunication, and another basket i: 4, ining a frame,. on which a rope can be laid with kic k:4'Y in the darkest night, attached to a grappling s h o t, I, hauling off a boat, when the crew on board the elis itie,%al v esse l ar e incapable, from cold or fatigue , of exert ik themselves ; and above it a large garland, composed of 4 g) forming a civic wrea th , s plendidly decorated with k m h t 44 , presented to Capt. -adanby by the 4ings or France, a toriark a nd Sweden; the Royal National Society , the i tii 6 land Society of Scotland, the Royal Humane So c i et y , eSociety of Arts, and Suffolk Humane Society : a nd on eentre of the wreath a scroll, containing the inscrip-, t s , °- -" For the preservation of shipwrecked mariners, ti t a P;an which originated at Yarmouth , and by which : e'Y 500 lives have been saved." The whole house was aptly fitted and . ft company departed at a late I;. V' 0). pleour4o !ligehltby ey had received, delighted with the artangements, and I qt the is en te ft i r . :d the o°i ni ber 6 f NO' MINISTERIAL RUMOURS. The public have been lately amused with accounts of negociations for the introduction of Lords Salis bury, Sidmouth, and Lowther, into the Cabinet. We are assured that change: are in contemplation, but that the Duke of Wellington is negociatnn, in quite a different quarter. - Overtures -have been made to Mr. iiuskisson for his return to off►ce, .and we have reason to believe that there are no personal objections operating as a bar to the success of the negotiation, and his resumption of his old station, but that'he is unwilling to accept of office, without having - his friend Lord Dudley again Secretary for Foreign Affairs. —Morning Chronicle. It is rumoured that overture; have been made by the head of the present Administration to the Com mon Sergeant, as to the Learned Gentleman taking office under the Noble Duke. With what success these advances have been attended has not tran spired ; but it is understood that the Duke and the Learned Gentleman have had a meeting. Another report is that Mr. Denman is soliciting to be made a K ing's Counsel. He applied for this appointment some tune since to the Lord Chancellor, but could not succeed.—Morning Herald. There was a strange rumour current in some of the circles in the west end of the town yesterday, which we merely mention to contradict, that Earl Dudley was expected to rejoin the Cabinet, and that proposals had actually been made to him with that view. There were also rumours of proposals to other persons, but they are of so ridiculous a nature that we shall not subject ourselves to the just cen sure of our readers even by naming the parries that they respected.—Menting Journal. THE KING'S COURT. His Majesty, accompanied by the Lord Steward of the Household and the Lord and Groom in Waiting, left the Royal Lodge, Windsor-park, yesterday afternoon, in a car • riage and four, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards, and proceeded up the Long Walk, through the principll archway leading to Windsor Castle, and alighted at the pri vate entrance to the state apartments at five minutes past two o'clock. Sir William Freemantle, the Treasurer of the Household, and Sir Frederick Watson, the Master of the Household, received the King on his arrival. His Majesty proceeded to the State apart. ments, and soon after his arrival held a Court, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the President of the Board of Control, the President of the Board of Trade, the Master of the Mint, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Treasurer and Master of the House hold, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Judge-Advocate-General, Mr. Justice James Parke, the Recorder of London, &c. The Recorder of London was introduced into the pre sence of the King in Council, and reported the eases of Martin Mallett and James Farthing, which were omitted in the last report of the September Sessions. Both con victs were reprieved during his Majesty's pleasure. The Recorder then made a report of the convicts capitally con , victed at Justice-hall, in the Old Bailey, during the last October sessions, when John James and Joseph Mahoney, for burglaries, James Abbott, for cutting and maiming his wife, and Joseph Hunton, fur forgery, were ordered for execution on Monday next. Mr. James Parke was presented to his Majesty by the Lord Chief Justice of England, and kissed hands, on being appointed one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, on which occasion his Majesty wv..s pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon him. Sir John Becket, the Judge Advocate-Get:eral, had an audience of the King, and took his Majesty's commands respecting the proceedings of some courts-martial. The King gave audience to the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, and Mr. Secretary Peel. The Court broke up soon after six o'clock, when his Majesty left the Castle, and returned to the Royal Lodge. A dejeune was prepared foe the Ministers and others at tending the Court, in one of the state apartments. Several of the Cabinet Ministers proceeded-with the Duke of Wellington to his seat at Strathfieldsaye, Rants, to dine with his Grace. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot in Whitehall-place, from his seat in Northamptonshire ; Lord Meßourne, from Earl Cow. pets twat, Herts ; Captain Robinson, in Cumberland-street, from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Harfiird, in Curzon-street, May-fair, from Scarborough ; Major and Mrs. Mackenzie, in Green-street, Park-lane, from Dieppe ; Major Robinson, in Bond-street, from ' Dieppe - Major Robinson, in Bond.street, from Curfu ; Mr. and Mrs. Macdonahl, in Regent-street, from Paris ; Captain IL Philip, in Gloutiester.place, from the Netherlands ; Mr. and Mrs. Gilley, in Grosvenor-plare, from Harrowgate ; Captain and Mrs. Reeves, in Harley.street, from the Continent ; Earl of Bel more, at Ellis's Hotel, St James's-street, from Brighton ; and Mrs. Stevens, at ditto, from Rath ; Major Dalrymple, at ditto, from a tour ; Colonel Scott, at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from Windsor ; J. Euston, Esq. at ditto, from a tour. CHANGES. Prince Eleven, from Ashburnham House, Dover-street, for Windsor Lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Italkes Currie and Miss WMe_ house, from Harley-street, for Brighton; Captain Robins, H. N. from Dover-street, for Plymouth ; John Disney, Esq. from the British Hotel, Jenoyn-street, for his seat in Essex ; Captain Hudson, from ditto, for Dublin ; Count Colbert, from Cook's lintel, Albeinarle-street, for the Earl of Hareourt's seat in Oxforthhire j Lieutenant-Colonel O'Reilly, from Fenton's Hotel, for Brighton ; the Hon. Charles Murray, from ditto, for Oxford William Seybright, from ditto, for Bath ; the Earl of Harborough, from Stevens' Hotel, Clifford-street, on a • tour. We understand that a son of Mr. Justice Park has been presented by the Bishop of Durham to the Rectory of Elwick, in this county.—Durham Advertiser. PRUSSIAN LOAN of 1822, NEGOCIATED av MR. N. M. RoTitscitirm, IN LONDON.--The half yearly dividend on the above loan, falling due on Thursday, the Ist January next, will be paid on that and every suc ceeding day (Saturdays and Sunda y s excepted), by Mr. N. M. Rothschild, between th e hours of ten and two. The dividend warrants, with a list thereof in numerical order, must be left two days previous, for examination. The printed forms to be previously called for. NEAPOLITAN LOAN.—The half-yearly divi dend due on the above loan, falling due on Thursday, the lot of January next, will be paid on that and every suc ceeding day (Saturdays and Sundays excepted), by Mr. N. M. Rothschild, on such bonds as have been negociated by him. The dividend warrants, with a list thereof, in numerical order, must be left for examination two days previous. The printed forms to be previously called for. Boscastle fair on Monday last, was abundantly supplied with bullock; anti sheip, which met with a ready sale. The prices obtained for sheep were a little higher than those given at the recent fairs in that neighbourhood, while the prices of cattle remained nearly the same. Cornwall Gazette. The' following fact is deserving of record, as an interesting addition to what has hitherto been disco vered on the subject of vegetable physiology, and as enabling the lovers of flowers to prolong for a day the enjoyment of their short-lived beauty. Most flowers begin to fade after being kept twenty-four hours in water; a few may be re vived by substituting fresh water; but all (the most Ingo eious, such as the poppy, and perhaps, one or two others, excepted) may be completely restored by the use of hot water. For this purpose place the flowers in scalding water, deep enough to cover about one-third of the length of the stem, and by the time the water has become cold, the flowers will 'become erect and flesh ; then cut off the codled ends and put them into cold water. SAINT ANDREW'S DAY.—A select but social band of Caledonians dined yesterday, at Mr. Emans, Edinburgh Castle, Strand, to celebrate the anniversary of their titular Saint. A smokin g Haggis and singed heads, for which this house is celebrated, as usual graced , the table, together with a profusion of English fare. The even ing was passed in the utmost harmony and good fellowship, and-many national and other songs were given in excellent styles by several of the company, who were on this occasion gathered together for the sake of " Auld lang syne." NroTTINOHANI LACE MAKERS._A meet ing of the machine-holders and lace-makers of that branch, in number about 700, took place on Monday last, at the Dolphin public-house, Chapel Bar, Nottingham, and af terwards a djourned to the open valley of the park, near the town, the purpose of adopting measures towards checking the glut of lace in the market, which has para lyzed trade. The most important step taken, was that re lative to restricting the period of working to eight hours Per day, or four hours for each individual, who may re lieve each other in turn. And in order to know how such a plan would be rendered essentially available, a Commit tee was chosen and appointed, who are empowered to call a meeting at the earliest opportunity, and report the pro- gress that has awaited] O w ir inqUiries. Another meet ing is expected to be held next week.—Nottingham Gazette. GEORGE ' ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER FOR CISTERNS, AND . PORTABLE FILTERS. The health and the comfort of every family are so im mediately concerned with the supply_of pure and whole some water to their habitations, that, to use the words of Dr. Ure, the eminent demist and physician of Claagow, " it cannot but be an interesting- object to ascertain the qualities of that which is daily consumed by the inhabit ants of large cities ; seeing that a very minute .portion of unwholesome matter, daily taken, may constitute the prin cipal cause of the differences in salubrity which is observ able in different places." The !mason of the year is approaching when 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, had water, with out 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 thin by having one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have now no sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUITE CIO:a PLETE, and in giving it OUR UNQUALIFIED PRAISE. The names of the highest professional talent in the Metro polis have given the strongest testimony, that they may be considered, in the metropolitan city of London as an ab solute " God-send," but we will illustrate their opinions by atubborn hies 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 of:. readers will bear in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence given last season in the British House of Parliament. Sir Henry Halford pronounces the water sent into his house to be a filthy fluid, with which he is disgusted. Mr. Thomas, the surgeon, tells us it is saturated with decayed vegetable matters, and other substances prejudicial to health. Dr. Hooper is convinced that such matters in the stomach greatly contribute to the production of that state of FAULTY DIGESTION and IMPURITY' Of BLOOD, of which the inhabitants of the Metropolis are constantly complain ing. Mr. Keate, the surgeon, avows it to be his opinion, that it is 80 FILTHY and IMPURE, an. to be unfit for the breakfast table and for culinary purposes, and that it adds so much to the other unwholesome constituents of bread, a s to render every meal injurious to the health of thousands. Dr. Turner asserts, that the water sent into his cistern s 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 FILTERING is capable Of producing deleterious effects. Dr. Yeates says, that the Thames water is extremely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the great quan tity of FILTHY MATTERS CONTINUALLY POURING INTO IT PROM NUMEROUS SEWERS. He instances a disease which C prevailed to a very serious extent, which he had himself 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 Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital, Ise saw " the foul and black stream from the Ranelagh sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and the Dolphin, LOADED 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 physician to Chelsea Hospital, state. the water to be very impure. " The tide," he sar, " STIRS UP THE MASS OF IMPURITY FRODUCED BY ALL THAT IS coItRUPTIBLE IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGE'T'ABLE NVORLD, TOGETHER WITH THE NOXIOUS FILTH OF GAS AND OTHER MANUFACTORIES, THAT CONSTANTLY FLOW INTO THE THAMES FROM PATTEILsEA DOWN TO GRAVESEND." Muffing to the water supplied to his late residence in Hanover-square, he adds, that " it was not only fre quently, but generally, extremely impure, fctid, and offensive ; that it deposited much mud, and often enough to tender its colour blackish." Dr. James Johnson, the author of the " 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 taking 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. It 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 on the surface of the water of an oily nature, and the deposit is immense. When his cisterns were cleaned out, the smell rendered the house very uncomfortable. • " We sneer," says the doctor, " at the delicacy of the Hindoo, 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 WEST DIINSTER, WHO FILL. THEIR TANKS AND STOMACHS WITH WATER FROM THE THAMES, AT THAT VERY serer INTO WHICH A lIONDItED THOUSAND CONTAINING EVERY SPECIES OF FILTH, AND ALL UNUTTERABLE THINGS, ARE DAILY DISGORGING THEIR HIDEOUS AND A ROMINABLE CONTENTS. It is absolutely astonishing, that in these days of refinement, and in a Metropolis whose inhabitants pride themselves on delicacy and clean liness, a practice should obtain, at which posterity will shudder, if they can credit it. A time must come when the neople will open their eyes to this scene of corruption, veiled and concealed as it is by iron tubes and stone pave ments. It is probable that part of the insalubrity of the Metropolis, as compared with the country, may be owing to this cause." The last professional gentleman to whose evidence we shall refer, is Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work on Dist. He pronounces the water to be impure and o tro i sdve, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come in. LARGE. QUANTITIES OF .MATTER. ARE MECHANICALLY SUSPENDED IN IT. The Company send in mud with the water, and then complain that the cisterns are not kept clean. Ile states, that a family whom he attended last autumn were all ill, and he believes it arose from drink ing this water. "As A PHYSICIAN," he says, " I CAN NOT FIND TERMS SUFFICIENTLY EXTRESSIVE OF THE AW- VOL EXPECTS IT MAY 13E. LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE HEALTH, AND EVEN LIVES, OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE mETtiorous." 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 IIAY BE FAIRLY ANTICIPATED." We could adduce the corroboratiye testimony of many other professional men of eminence, if our space would allow us to do so : we cannot, however, conclude without giving a short summary of the evidence of six individuals, whose business it has been to watch the progress of the mischief, and to trace it up to its source. Mr. Mills, the engineer, tells us, that the Thames is neither more nor less than THE COMMON SEWER OF Lox- DON, SO FAR AS IT RECEIVES THE CONTENTS Of ALL THE SEWERS; which on the north side are ninety .nine, and on the south forty-six. The water taken up opposite some of the sewers at the time of discharge is NEARLY THE SUB STANTIVE CONTENTS OF THOSE CHANNELS' OF HUMAN ORDURE. Mr. Joseph Evans has often seen the - sewers discharging black slimy liquid, with gas, oil, dead animals, entrails from the SLAUGHTER..OUSES, AND OTHER FILTH Too DISGUSTING To N Mr. Goodhugh, the fish monger, says, that the Company's water is muddy and offensive : if fresh fish are put into it, they will not live more than six -hours, and turn a yellow colour. Mr. Buteher, 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 26,0001b5. of eels, the cargo of two boats, only 9,0001b5, were mar keted alive : THEY BECAME SICK ON BEING -PUT INTO THAMES WATER, AND SOON 'DIED ; THEY CHANGED COLOUR, AND BECAME SPOTTED LIKE SNAKES. Another captain says, he has known 3,000 weight to DIE IN HALF AN noun., and that if the water gets worse, they must give up the business. Wm. and Thomas Hetherill, fishermen, state, that they had left off the business BECAUSE IT HAD LEFT Timm OFF. They used to catch flounders, eels, roach, smelts, salmon, &c. before they were ruined. The water gets worse every year ; the cause is the gas : they could get plenty of dead flounders, but no live ones; had seen the flounders put up their heads above the water, and if there was a bundle of weeds they would escape from th e wa t er u p on it. Had pound weight of fish di e in an hour;. lo s vp a o e nl l t i sf the wat er . were open e d th ere was qu it e a s t en ch, The last evidence we shall quot e f rom , i s th a t of Mr. d Goldham, who hail been yeo man at Billi ngsgate mar k et f o r Fn ne oilt whenw n o ti u t twenty-five years. He says he has known fifty thousand smelts brought 4.14 to Billingsgate, and three thousand salmon caught in the season iu the Thames. He adds, THAT THEY ALE NOW ALL DESTROYED, AND THIS FISHERY GONE ; awl this lac attributes to the IMPURE STATE OF THE WATER, FROM THE REFUSE OF THE GAs-WoltEs, FiloM ALL THE COMMON SEWERS RUNNING INTO IT, AND TILE STEAM-BOATS C ONSTANTLY STIRRING UP THE FILTH. HE IlAs SEEN FOUR THOUSAND EELs ALIVE AT NIGHW IN THE DUTCH BOATS, AND THE NEXT MoRMNG FOURTHS IlAv a BEEN DEAD. Many Q um/nen h ave b ee n wined by the change. SUCH IS THE PICTURE-THE FAITHFUL AND FRIGHT• FUI PICTURE..--OF THE CONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE THAMES, AS suprttEn BY THE COMPANIES TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest) 14011 most populous city in the world—the scat of a raore opu lent body of nohility and gentry than is to be found in any other M e tropolis--should, for so long a time, have been contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING: INTO THEIR CISTERNS, AND TO DAVE USED, I'oll ALL DOMESTIC AND CULINARY PURPOSE,,, A NECESSARY OF LIFE, so LoADEL) WITH ALL SORTS or IMPURITIES AS TO BE PRONOUNCED, BY PROFESSIONAL MEN OF TIIE Fitts: EMINENCE, TO BE OFFENSIVE TO THE stony, disgusting to the imagination, and destructive to the health, is a I4ct 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 RVCOMMEN DATION OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILTRATION_A SYS TEM, NOT LIMITED TO TINE FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND FAMILIES DAILY DRINKING THE FILTHY ELLIE 01' WHICH WE HAVE BEEN SPEAKINC, BUT EXTENDING ITSELF TV THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF THE NEW RIVER AND OTHER comrANlxs, CONSUMING THE TWENTS , NINE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY SUP PLIED TO THE METROPOLIS, Unfortunately, at the moment when the COmmiaaioners were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tediou3 or deal of office, OK IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER. READ ING THE rcaLowisc TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT 3IUST HAVE FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON CLUSION TO THEIR I A BUITRS.-Thr subjoined extract from arrovectus, issued by the Proprietor, wird. BE PERUSED WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER CLEANLINESS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH, AND THE PURITY OF THE ELEMENT OF WHICH ►VE ARE TREATING, TO BE NEARLY or EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH THE AIR WE BREATHE:- " The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found supelior to all filter* bitheko invented, inasmuch as it not only YOSSESSES THE POWER OF CLARIFYING TI! WATER IN A PRE - EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT 01' COMPLETE PURIFICATION, RENDERING THE MOST TURBID, tiTACNANT, AND EtETID WATER, OE A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY; DEPRIVING IT 01' EVERY NOXIOCA INGREDIENT, AND, IN FACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN IHE 'HIGHEST POSSIBLE. PERFECTION; THAT II TO SAV, CLEAR ANN DESTITUTE OE TASTE A'ND SMELL" The rapidity of the process may be understood by a single observation, " THAT SO FAST AS THE WATER. IS SUPPI./ED AT THE TOP OF THE CISTERN, SO FAST IT WILL nISCHA RG 1.: ITSELF ritom THE BOTTOM." " But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, "is the proof of all this to be found ? We must have some thing more solid and satisfactory than bale assertions."— The following statement must, we think, set the doubts of the most sceptical at rest for ever. Mr. Hume, the respectable and talented chemist of Long Acre, who has long bee❑ employed by Government in analysing waters, had two bottles of water sent to him for analysation ; THE ONE FELL or ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL AND ♦EGETABLE MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION, AND STRONGLY IMPREGNATED WITH 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-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 dissolved in it : " for," he observes, " there is -no water, however pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells, superficial springs, or any other source, that is free from saline and other soluble salt', not at all injurious to health." In the filtered bottle he found only sixteen grains of substances, which, on examination, proved to he the same materials peculiar to, and soluble iu, the water in is pri mitive state, and perfectly free from the impurities and contingent foulness of the water, occasioned principally by decayed vegetable matter', a slight impregnation by animal substances, some carbureted hydrogen or coal gas, and car bonic acid gas. Mr. Hume concludes 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 he most effectual, and hOdy deserv ing of public encouragement." The same gentleman, at a subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says, " the opinion I had formei of this new process for tittering is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus analysed, nun-room{ TUREOSELY STRONGLY ydraEc- NATED WITH GAS AND OTHER IMPURITIES, BECAME CRYSTALLISED, AND DESTITUTE 01"rASTE 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 ; AND WHICH SIX- TEEN GRAINS ARE PROVED TO BE PECULIAR TO WATER IN ITS PRIMITIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALL DELETERIOUS TO HEALTH. However touch, 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 Braude, one of the three Commissioners ap pointed by the King, has had a portable Royal Filter, for the purpose of trying experiments on water in a si milar condition to that described by Mr. Hume; and he has stepped forward with his ready testimony to the sin gular merits of this discovery. " I have," he says, " tried its effect on very turbid water, and it appears to possess the two great desiderata of such contrivances, namely, 'so FILTER VERY PP.RFECTEY, AND VERY RAPIDLY." Mr. Brodie, the sukgeon, corroborates every thing that has been said in its favour. Ile stater, that having pro cured some of the foulest water his house afforded, and mixed with it a quantity of water impregnated with gas from coals, he poured it into the Royal Filter ; and it passed through it very rapidly, AN) WAS DRAWN OFF IN A STATE OV SUCH PURITY, AND SO ENTIRELY FREE FROM THE ODOUR AND riratt OF THE CAS, as to be quite fit for being placed in a decanter on the table, to be drunk during dinner. Scudamore says, he has made sufficient experiments with the Filtering Apparatus to satisfy his judgment of its efficacy in rendering the most turbid water quite clear and agreeable, both to the eye and to the taste, and con siders it a great improvement upon all others. Mr. Thomas, the singeon, 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 nholesome water. He considers that the introduction of it generally into families will be found highly conducive to the improve ment of the health of the Metropolis, by effectually arrest ing the deleterious impurities which exist in the water in its present state, and which he thinks, di late years, has tended to augment the catalogue of those anomalous disorders arising out of a morbid derangement of stomach and the ether organs subservient to the process of digestion. Mr. Keate, the surgeon, considers it to be admirably adapted to the important purpose of purifying and clarify ing water on a large scale, and that it would be a valuable appendage to every cistern. " It possesses," he says, " the great advantage of filtering all that is served into the cistern, so that no unfiltered water can be used for do mestic purposes ; and the water thus filtered is beautifully clear." _ _ Dr. Clarke, in a very kind letter to Mr. Robins, speaks of its efficacy in terms quite as satisfactory as any of the learned profession. 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 froth 100 to 1,000 gallons every 24 hours, have been adapted to present theinconvenience alluded to. The expence is from 110 s. to 41. or 5/. 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 Adelpht The.ttre; where the pub!ie are invited to have ocular de monstration of the efficacy of this remedy. MILITARY DECISION. The following highly characteristic anecdote has been communicated to us of the late General Sir John Stuart, who commanded the British forcettat the battle of Maids. After marching in triumph through the peninsula of Calabria, the Scottish soldier singing proudly - "What pipe on green Maida blew shrill ?" the army returned to Sicily. Here the natives, instigated as was supposed by the French emissaries, for some time assassinated sm:h of our soldiers as inadvertently fell in their \vay after night-fall, The most active exertions were niade to discover the cowardly assassins, but without effect. At length, to intimidate the islanders, General I S n t u u r a d r: re i d n t in this doa:tl4lle.ArGoc.ve;dnilorruoefi tmheannlleir7hieawetliu:: for every English soldier who in fy i ty,re should ha found hang up a *4 4 1-1, the that he should chance to encounter after Wi ng apprised 'of the deed. , The Governor remon strated, against the injustice of such a decree, which would visit alike the innocent and the guilty. " For exam',e,v said his terrified Excellency, " I myself max be the first person you may chance to meet ,t . .ter discoVermg an act of assassination."—" Then by —lll hang ion," was the General's blunt rrply The threat bid the iiesked effect.-7 ilntvness Courier. • THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Erening Po Pi of Friiiiy.) ti.;loLoirne,e, i j a c n k t , l 2 0 0 n T m i e t ri os o d, f ,) t , fie r..l.o y:: \ l ti A , rtillery Brigade in that Garrison. a lone, to verritt A ived h ;:r e ry t ' h o e f the Military will shortly be stationed in Enni, , . Major Hamilton, and a party of the 19th Depot Regiment, are doing duty at Thrush. The 34th Regiment are ordered from Cork to Dublin. Amongst the 'Military Promotions, which we this day publish, we are glad to perceive the following appointments : Cornet Francis M`Namara,of Ennis, to a Lieutenantcy in the Bth Royal Kiss:vs; and Lient.Jenkins, son-in-law of the late Sexton Bayly, Esq., of Limerick, to a company in the 12th Regiment. Lieut. Beverhoudt, who itiperintended the Re cruiting Department, Limerick, has left to join his Regiment, the .58th, at Naas, having been succeeded by Lieut. Stewart. RECORDER'S REPORT. 'Yesterday the Recorder made his Report to his Majesty, at 'Windsor, of the following prisoners, capitally convicted at .the October Sessions, viz. : James Abbott, 28, and George Edwards, 40, for cutting and maiming; William Ford, 25 ; John James, 19; Wm. Lewis Johnson, 22; and Robert Archer, 28, for stealing in a dwelling-house. John Smith, 20; Henry Mansfield, 25 ; Geo. Reynolds, 16; Thomas Harris, 16; and Richard Crozier, 16, for highway robbery. Wm. Willis, 26 ; Joseph Hunton, 58; and Edw. Cooper alias Ilollingdale, 44, for forgery. Thomas Lupton, 37; George Thompson, 17; Wm. Watts, 21 ; Joseph Mahoney, 26; and Richard Jenkins, 22, for house-breaking. Richard Ryan, 22 ; Charles Ledge, 21; Thomas Moore, 17; and John Crisp, 16, for burglary : and John Johnson alias Saxtin alias Wright, 38, for re turning from transportation : and also of Martin Mullett, 19, sad James Farthing, 19, for sodomy, convicted at the September Sessions. His Majesty was graciously pleased to command that all the above-named convicts should be respited during his Royal pleasure, excepting John James, Joseph Mahoney, James Abbott, :ma Joseph Hum ton, who are ordered for execution on Monday next. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. Business was brisker yesterday than for some weeks past producing changes of some interest. Prince Eugene has got a-head of Will-o'-the-Wisp, but neither GE them are tirm in their places, nor have they many backers; the change was brought about by betting between them, and by taking the odds. The King's colt loses ground apace— so does Ada, Brother to Sontag, and 'Canvas. Morris Dancer, Posthumn, and Augusta, are in force, and, having many friends, will shortly take precedence of Electress and Exquisite—at least, so we should think, from the present state of the market. The Oaks betting has again changed, Green Mantle having recovered her lost ground ; astilde was talked of, and is likely to advance. We give the closing prices : DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Prince Eugene 11 to 1 ;gut Lord Jerkey's 17 to 1 apt Majesty's Electress colt 17 to 1 apt Mr. Forth's The Exquisite 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Posthunta col: (taken) 20 to 1 apt Lord Exeter's Augusta colt 20 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Brother to Moses 22 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Canvas colt 25 to 1 apt Lord G. Cavendish 's Brother to Sontag 25 to 1 agst Lord Yerulam's Ouibre 25 to 1 agst 1 ord Egretnont's Brother to Lapdog 25 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Loss filly 25 to 1 apt Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnulle f. 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Ada colt 30 to 1 agst 31z. Grk:ville's Nessus :30 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Laurel-leaf c. 50 to I agst Mr. Forth's Associate (taken) 50 to 1 agst Mr. Uratwicke's c. hY , Little John (taken) 10 to 1 agst Cava and The Exquisite (taken) OAKS. '7 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Varna (offered) 7 to 1 agst Lord Exeter'• Green Mantle (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Luse filly 12 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Clotilde 17 to 1 agst Mr. Payne 's Quadrille filly 17 to I agq Duke of Rutland's Sorcery filly 61'. LEG I:: E.. to I agst Mr. Stephen , ton's Voltaire 11 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Rowtou (taken) 16 to 1 agst Mr. Gibbeson's Lady Sarah 16 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Pilgrim (be. to Laurel TROTTING MATCH FOR 1,5001. One of the most interesting trotting mitches ever known in the sporting world was made at the One Tun, Jernsyn street, St. James's, yesterday se'nnight, between partie-; of great respectability, the one a merchant, and the other well-known on the turf.—The following - is extracted from the articles:— _ . "One Tun, Jermyn-street, St. James'ii, Nov. 24, " First—Mr. A. licAs Mr. 11. 1,5001. to 5001. that he (Mr. B.) does nut find a horse to trot four miles in twelve minutes in harnes. _ _ _ ..... " Second—Mr. A. bets Mr. 13. 1,000/. to 500/. he does not find a horse to trot four miles in twelve minutes and a half in harness. And— " Third—Mr. A. bets Mr. 11..5001. to 5001. be does not find a horse to trot four miles in thirteen minutes in harness. . _ . " Mr. B. to give Mr. A. one weck'ii notice of the day and place, and the matches to come off within 100 miles of London." . Should Mr. R.'s horse succeed in winning them bets, the feat will be tinparallelvel in the history of horse-flesh. If he win the first, he, of course, will wiu all ; but he will still have the chance of the other two events. To gain the first event the horse must trot (in harness) a t the rate of twenty miles an hour. Another match was made last week against time. One gentleman betted another 2001. to 1001. that he did not find a horse to trot 100 miles in ten hours and a half. Four months is allowed to perform the feat. A Racing match was made for 100 guineas, to be run at the next Anson Hunt Races, three mites, between Mr. Alytton's Euphrates 9st. (rising 13 yrs), and Mr. Giffard's Sampson, 4 yrs, Sat. Slb. Betting 5t04 on Euphrates. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APKONTMINTS FOR THIS WRRY. Sir C. Constable's Stag-hounds, on Wednesday, at the Barley Mow-hill; and Friday, at Walton lieath--at eleven. The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Wal ton; and Saturday, at Talton—at half-past ten. The Marquis of Cleveland's Fox-bounds, on Wednesda34 at Langton, and Friday, at Carthorpe, at halfspast oti; and Saturday, at Mashltut Bridge, at e l even ,. The Larnbton Fox-hounds, Ott Thursday, at Great fitaiu ton ; and Saturday—at ten, Lord Scarborough's Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Gate Wood-house ; Friday, at Grove ; and Saturday, at Wad wood—at half-past ten. H. H. on Thursday, at Medstead-green ; and Sr?ato day, at Nutley Church--at ten. Mr. Asshetou Smith's Hounds, on berry-hill ; and S atur d ay , at H urs tbonrue Tarrsat..-at eleven. Friday,, at Pnu - _ The Vine Hounds, or, Thursday, at Worthing; and Sa turday, at Silkiwerr Dial--..at "' ----------- „ . GRAV E L WALEs.—r-The fi'll°"l"g cheap improvement is recommended in the clonstruction of walks, in gardens, lawns, &c., uniting the advantages of great hardness, durability, ad freedom from worms ax . 44 .l.wc s s . When a new walk is made, or an QM cr*-4me4l, take the necessary quantity of road so - tap,i; -. 4 Fe\ - iously dried in the air, and r e duced as #,nc,as.px.sible , mix with the heap enough of coal; : tat czco a gas work, 90 that the whole shall. sli kkatiy. saturated, and then add a quantity:t....,,f With this lay rather a t hick stratum as a fotlti then rover it with a thin coating of eta-ie). 1n a s h ort time the walk will be as hard al. not affected by wet or disfigured by worms, A fielA ! t w.lo - 4 - 4itig to Mr. James ii 4g isl ion , o r thi,,,,,kt x , has, clanged its colour three tivals ip the last two years. When bought, in 1527, iS,, NIN4i entirely black ; io the moulting season it llece completely white ; and In October last it agai,r t chaoged to a black and white speckle. Lately it Lac laid several small eggs, about the size of a keon's . , which, on being broken, were discovered to be. without CarlMe SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. A public dinner, attended with circumstances of peculiar interest, was given on Thursday in Dublin to Lord Morpeth, a young Nobleman already distinguished by acquirements character istic of the better class of English youth, and by a political spirit and liberality .which render him not unworthy of the name of Howard. To this entertainment his Lordship was invited by the Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty: — Th,e Duke of Leinster, a'; became his blood and station, and known attachment to the cause of st, Protest an t o Catholic, ost con spicuous Irish lib erty , pres id e d. A l ong tr a i n o f I r i s h Noblemen, Alembers of Parliament and tlemen of hi g h ran k an d extens i ve influence . in the country, we re assem bl e d to d o honour to their gipt e r and o o the con nected with this great an d st ill a d vanc i nF crisis in the affairs of Ireland, an d th ronq h sand most Ireland of the empire itself, were called upon in the course of the evening to deliv e r th e i r sentiments in return for toasts, either personal or political ; and it is equally animating and sooth ing to find, that throughout the whole series of such discourses, though proceeding from nearly twenty speakers, Protestant, Catholic, lay, and ecclesiastic,—there was not a single expression hazarded, or feeling detected, that could be -re gretted by the most susceptible observer of ap pearances, or disapproved by the most judicious and jealous anticipator of effects. The Pro testant friends and advisers of the Catholics, from Lord Morpeth to Lord Cloncurry, ap peared to he sensible of no more solemn duty than that of impressing on the minds of English men, as well as Irish, the necessity for super seding all subordinate and speculative differences by an absolute fusion of every English and Irish liberal, of every English and Irish Catholic effort, into one mighty power for the working out the paramount end of emancipation. The repre sentatives of the Catholic body who were present, in the persons of Lord Killeen and of Messrs. O'Connell and Shiel, ma nifested their acceptance of this gene rous policy, by language equally frank and for cible. We heartily concur with these gentle men in believing, that amongst other evidences of the progress of the Catholic cause in Eng land, " the rising generation of intellect and rank" is on its side ; and we are proportionably the more anxious that nothing should occur in Ireland to turn that most efficient of auxiliaries from the course in which it is rapidly and stea dily moving, that the Catholics should trust their English friends and lean upon them - , con vinced that the prejudice which fears emancipa tion will be most softened, and the malignity which hates it most disheartened, by the 'growth and improvement of a league reposing on such international confidence.—Times, It is generally stated that Sir Herbert Tay lor, since his appointment to the 'office of Ad- jutant-General, has matured a plan of extensive and highly salutary reformation in the dress and interior economy of the army. The great ob ject with this estimable officer is said to be the reduction of useless expellee in military equip- Ments and regimental practices, and the conse quent,relief of young men—chiefly subalterns— from the severe oppressioa frequently inflicted on them by.the unieeliog caprice or vanity of those who are placed in,the - coMmand of batta lions throughout the line. It is, as a mere spectacle, quite disgraceful to see British officers of infantry daubed over with all the gold or sil ver lace that they can carry. It looks as if the point of honour with those to whom the public defence is entrusted were the same as that of a lady's footman at Court, viz., who shall wear the most tawdry livery. But with reference to the officers themselves, and the resources provided for them e at the public cost, can any thing be more barbarous than forcing a poor youth, who may not, by possibility, have a shilling beyond his pay,—that pay, for an ensign, being ss. 3d. per diem, or some where about 961. per annum,—to spend nearly three months' subsistence on the one article of a coat ? We assert that there are infantry coats, i n the army which, with a single epaulet, cost A . ove 20 guineas ; from 15 to 18 guineas it a Com mon charge, of which one-third at least is for. lace only,—a sort of trimming which twelve years ago was, by the King's orders, prohibited. It is no better with the pantaloons, the lace on which (in the teeth of existing orders Iyhiekfor bid guy lace) is sometimes three inches broad, An when young men - are asked by their friends " what is the meaning of all this nonsense ? and ~w hy do General Officers permit it ?" they receive for answer—" Oh, it is the commanding officeiA desire ; and as for the generals, they wink at it, except on guard or at a review. Every body I n e i s l Ostra to teN eons= vi ii knows that it is out of the question for a su h a f_ tern, e i s t p it e . c . i c al o ly lo a ne 7 ; un a g rid on s e t , ii t i o m r o e lo plain of him , for such ar bi trary and tyrannical violation of his own duty, and of the prOfeSsiOnal rights and professional means of his - juniors, We all know what a life such an unhappy ,ninr murer would lead, and what a ready advantage would be taken of kis first venial inadver•,,e ney to destroy hi m . I t i s -the same A;;lth th e charge f or mes sing and for 'die band, which last ought to fall exclusively on the Colonel; whereas the derk.retion on account of it in infantry feginwits, which some o! our correspondents ge willing to name, is even from subalterns, twelve days pay in the year. The mess-mil;s also shamefully prodigal in most mo p, Even the wine allowance, lib era lly axtended regi to the messes of battalions on home service, has been turned over (we mean the va lue of it in money) to other purposes, and all th e wine drank is paid for from the officer' , pocket. Frcan these and oth er i nstances of e-<. pensive management, it follows that young mili tary men cannot exist on an income w,iich not wore than twenty years a go suffier,Cl for their current necessities. When the, paper-money was every where, and pre.:s a fourth higher than they are at present Subalterns were able to live with econom , .11 and " get on" like gentle.- men with the • • ‘egunent, on an allowance from their famil: -es of 601. per annum in addition- to their Sy, Now, we may venture to a—rm, that nine.tet is of them are scarcely able to keep themselve s decently on 1001. a year besides their pay ; and. that many of them are, in certain regi ments, forced to draw upon their friends for 150, p er annum ; and this not from the high price of necessaries—for, as we said before, money goes farther than twenty years.ago—uor from any wanton extravagance on their parts, but because they are driven into foolish expends by those who ought to be their protectors, and to restrain the.n, if requisite, from all waste - of their weans ; that is to say, by the commanding o fficers of regiments, who, to use a mild term, i n considerately sanction the rule of compellins , those who have just enough of income for th.! decencies of life, to bedizen themselves like pea cocks, and to feed like Aldermen,. 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