The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

RIVINGTON WATER.

We have at length received a limited supply of water from
the Corporation Water Works, at Rivington ; and although
we were far from being sanguine in our expectations of the
purity of the water derived from such a source, we could not
possibly have anticipated a supply so grievously bad and
unwholesome. Many of our fellow townsmen, willing to
assume a favourable aspect on the subject in question, indulged
in the hope that, when the pipes are well washed of sediment
and rust by the action of the water, its condition will be
improved; this will, however, most assuredly, prove a delu-
sion ; and we ear, ere this great event can be accomplished,
one half of the inhabitants will be comparatively poisoned, for
we are credibly informed that when we receive the full
supply it will require filtering twice or thrice in order to
purify it for domestic purposes. First impressions are
bad, progressive impressions will, doubtless, be worse.
Mr. Alderman Bennett, at a recent meeting of the Town
Council, emphatically declared that prisonsers should be
made to eat the coarsest bread, or even to drink the
Rivington water. This we consider very high authority
in reference to the condition of the water. In cases involving
public health it is manifestly the duty of all to point out reme-
dial measures in order to avert prospective calamities. No
one can doubt that a great amount of preventible disease may
be effected by the agency of a good household filter. Filtration
is, at all times, necessary, and never more so than in reference
to the water in question. It is, however, an obvious fact that,
in proportion as the value of an article is made to the commu-
nity, ao do people abate their zeal in the possession thereof ; this
may be attributable to the feeble and ineffectual filters in general
use, the result of rude ideas and wrong deductions, or imperfect
imitations. We have ample cause to elevate the initiative
genius of F. Saunders and Co, of Parker street, Church street,
their filters being the very acme of perfection, being desirable
and appropriate for the purpose, and will be found a sterling
treasure to those valuing health, medical men have given their
fall assent to this important remedy. Saunders and Co. pur-
pose to prove to a demonstration the power and action of their
improved filters, by the simple process of passing any quantity
of the Rivington water through ono of their machines; and,
notwithstanding the conflicting opinions of the Town Council,
they guarantee producing a water as clear as crystal, far from
all unpleasant taste, smell, colour, and mechanical impuri-
ties; agreeable to the palate, calculated to subserve the
purposes of human life, and assuage the sensation of
thirst without frustrating the digestive organs. The
Rivington water will then be found amongst the best descriptions
of water supplied to the public, whereas in its sophisticated
condition it is totally unfit for use, which is clearly shown by
chemical and microscopical reports. F. Saunders and Co.
invite an inspection, a discrepancy will then be discovered
between the results of their theory and those in general use.
These filters are made on scientific principles, and are not to
be equalled. Having no agents in Liverpool, they can only
be obtained at their warehouse, Parker street, Church street,
marked thus, " Saunders and Co., Patent Water Filter."

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN TREE GROWING —M. MillOt
Brule, watching the phenomena of that won'lerful partner-
ship established by the Allwise between insect and vegetable
life, has discovered that the bifurcation of trees is cffdcted
by caterpillars and other leaf eaters eating the buds through
the centre. He found further that fruit might be dealt
with in the same way as the wood, and that, by intersection
of buds, two or four might be made out of one, and the
fruit branches multiplied. In the place of those assiduous
pruners and intersccrors, the insects, he uses his penknife
or a bit of stiff paper, and arranges the trees in a way at
once the most picturesque and fantastic. Under his fingers
the obedient branches assume the most varied and elegant
forms ; he increases the tructificat'on, and develops the
formation of buds according to his wish.— Weekly Dispatch
THE ENGLISH NATION.—The English nation cannot be
weighed, and measured, and ticketed, and classified by a
narrow understanding and a cold heart. We, too, have a
positive philosophy, and its fundamental maxim is, that it
is wise for men and nations to mind their own business, to
do their own duty, and to leave the results to God. By
adhering to this "superstition" we have attained some
results which may not be unworthy of the attention even of
a positive philosopher. Children are born to-day who will
live to hear the English language spoken over half the
world by hundreds of millions of men descended from
English blood, and their remote posterity will not see the
day when the territories so peopled w 11 be overcrowded.
In India we govern a population larger than that of Europe,
as it never was governed before, and we are now beginning
to civilise and to Christianise what we have conquered.
When we look at home we see only one European country
in which freedom of speech and writing exist at all, or in
which government is not carried on by mere brute force.
The oldest man living there has never heard a cannon fired
in anger within its bounds. It has discussed, prepared,
and actually carried into operation, within the last thirty
Years, reforms which have succeeded in no other Eur pean
country, though they have been attempted in almost all,
and have been extinguished in almost all, amidst bloodshed
and treachery and heartburnings unutterable.—Saturday
Review.

EETRAORDINAILY PRICE FOR NEGROES.—A letter from
Lexington, Georgia, of December 2, to the Augusta
Chronicle, says :—" About 100,000 dollars worth of pro-
perty was sold here to-day—land and negroes. Some of
the sales were ahead of anything we have ev-r heard. A
negro girl, fifteen years' old, sold for 1,280 dollars ;
another girl, fourteen years' old, sold for 1,280 ; another
girl, fourteen years' old, for 1,305 dollars ; another girl,
eighteen years' old, in the family way, for 1,500 dollars ;
a boy eighteen years' old, for 1,290 ; a fellow, twenty two
years' old, for 1,500 dollars. These negroes belonged to
the estate of John Wynn, deceased, and were sold on a
credit of twelve months. There were fifty seven of Wynn's
negroes sold to-day, who brought 44,026 dollars. Of these
a great number (more than ordinary) were women and
children, and a few diseased and old sold low. It is also
proper to state that but few of these negroes were bought
by the legatees, and not one of those of whom we have
mentioned specific prices. They were common negroes—
field hands. But the most extraordinary sales were of
three negroes belonging to the estate of Mrs. Mary
Watson :—Leah, a negro girl, sixteen years' old, sold for
1,525 dollars; Harriet, about twenty years' old, and child
in her arms, sold for I,B4o—term twelve months. These
prices appear incredible, but all who are disposed to
doubt ell] be satisfied by referring to the Record of the
Court of Ordinary of Oglethorp County."