The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-15 00:00:00

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[The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of
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THE GENERAL ELE'CTIO

THE -POLLS.
lIADDINGTON DISTRICT.
lladdington, I P.M.
Dzvie 133
Swinton ... 41

NOMINATIONS.
LIMERICK COUNTY—MORSeII, Gould, Fitzgerald.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, SOUTH—Vyse, linighthy, and
• Houghton. Poll 16th.

CRYSTAL PALACE SEA WATER

BATHING.
Water is so essential both to the animal and vegetable
creation, either for aliment or other purposes, that its
importance, probably, surpasses every other substance
amongst the' great exuberance bestowed by the Author
of nature.

The health, comfort, and enjoyment of mankind
constantly require a plentiful supply, and, therefore, if
utility be a just criterion of value, the inventions and
operations to furnish it readily and abundantly in a
salubrious state, would seen to be entitled to peculiar
attention.

Pre-eminent as our nation may be for' magnificent
and useful enterprises as well as for contrivance, con-
ducing to domestic and social convenience, nevertheless
the paucity of our structures for the salutary and plea-
• surable exercise of bathing and other useful purposes
is remarkable. The devices of other nations and ages
for these purposes exhibit much varied ingenuity; those
of ancient Rome, and telarabraiw,Spains excite wonder
and adniiiation; but, in modern times, the public and
private baths abounding in France, Italy, Hungary,
Russia, and Egypt, should rouse us to emulation, and
that to promote health and comfort by all the available
means at our command. It was Agrippa who first
taught the Romans the luxury of bathe; and succeed-
, ing Emperors increased the provision made in Rome for
public bathing. It is said, that in the time of Augustus,
a poor man might bathe for a farthing, and little boys
for nothieg. The baths were adorned with works of
art; teed it was here that poets, orators, and musicians
resorted to rehearse their works, or pronounce opinions
upon those of others; these were the clubs of Rome.
Racently, the necessity for the establishment of baths in
England has been felt. To purify the body is one step
towards purifying the mind. Moreover, we ought to
strive to find healthy amusement for the people generally.
The haaitual use of the bath was found so beneficial
by the Greeks end Romans, and is now in such constant
use in France and other neighbouring countries, enjoying
a climate similar to our own, that it is surprising that
so tow English, of whatever grade of society, have re-
course to bathing, except some, perhaps, for a few weeks
of the year at the sea-side. The practice of bathing
is not only to be advocated on the plea of cleanliness,
and facilitating the removal of secretion from the body,
but has a direct sedative influence on toe nervous
system ; it seems to abSorb that morbid irritability
arising from an undue development of the mind at the
expense of the body, end leaves a feeling of comfort
and repose, not wholly attributable to the consciousness
of being clean. The bath should be used at least every
week by those who are at the change of life, and more
frequently by those who suffer much from profuse per-
spiration. Swimming, also, in other countries is made
a branch of every man's education ; and why this
country, with its naval and commercial importance, the
inhabitants also of which excel all other countrymen in
other athletic sports, should be so far behind them in the
art of natation we are equally at a loss to conceive.
Hence a design is now before the directors of the
Crystal Palace Company, for laying down incorrodible
pipes from the sea at Brighton, for the purpose of con-
veying pure sea water along the gradients and slopes of
that railway, to a large marine reservoir at Sydenham,
where capacious plunging and swimming baths will be
established in connexion with the Crystal Palace on its
new site, affording to visitors, ladies, gentlemen, trades-
men, and invalids of all classes, residing in London and
its environs, the means of obtaining at a cheap rate the
salubrious recreation of sea bathing, without entailing
upon them the loss of time or the expense of retiring to
the sea coast. Numerous, indeed, we may imagine,
would be the attendance upon such an establishment,
united as it will be with our popular Crystal Palace.
Persons who have now no alternative but fresh water
bathing, which is universally acknowledged to be vastly
inferior to that of sea water, would eagerly seize upon the
opportunity of a short and pleasant ride by railway
from London, to obtain, at a cheap rate, an invigorating
laanry* hitherto only placed within the reach of the
more opulent portion of the communtir; and by a simple
extension of the plan, the water once at Sydenham,
could be distributed throughout tha principal residencek
palaces, hospitals, hotels, and public baths of our great
metropolis; and employed, not alone for the sanatory pur-
poses of bathing, but also for supplying
the ornamental
waters of the Crystal Palace, which, by the important
acquisition of sea water, :will surpass the hitherto un-
equalled jets d eau of Versailles, or the noble cascades
of St. Cloud. It has been ascertained, from careful
calculation by the projector, that the metropolis could be
supplied at the rate of 3d. per 100 gallons, or one
good bath for a peany. Sea water thus usefully and
ornamentally employed, will contribute much to the health
and amusements of the public; and will be an under-
taking well worthy the age we live in; and the justly
celebrated 'mechanical and scientific pre-eminence of the
British nation. As regards the prospect of a large influx
_
of visitors, it is stated that 6,000,000 persons went to
the Great Exhibition in five months. We may, there-
fore, confidently assume, that an average of 1,000,0001:T:
sons will go to the New Crystal Palace in twelve months,
to see an exhibition that will be for instruction, refined
recreation, and amusement, matchless in the sver_n,
hence there can be no doubt, that out of this vast
concourse of persons who will annually visit
rtimr"
Crystal Palace at Sydenham, a very large WO
will avail themselves of the sea bathing establishmen..
And we can with equal reason assume, that a larges6_
ditional number of the working classes, invalids, 66e
will go solely to the baths, consequently the number,ll‘,
bathers may be confidently taken at 800,000 annually,
comprising 200,000 of the first class at 63. each, ao-r
600,000 bathers of the second class at 3d. Th' whichoo/.
together gives the annual income 0- ite of
It is, therefore, evident, from the following
the cost of construction and annual working e
rs
that on a capital of 75,000/. it will leave the shareho
of
in the Crystal Palace Sea Water Company a dividend
upwards of 10 per cent.
carried
This project, therefore, which is proposed to be,
an_,
out in concexion with the Crystal Palace CoraPphli.
commends itself alike to the capitalist and the _
lanthropist. The great and the opulent continlq_luneg
knowledge the efficacy of sea bathing, whose nee"
allevi-
properties cannot be too much extolled for often health to
ating, if not eradicating disease, and restoring torts of
the body. And if, with all the surrounding
c• Inas
lite, maladies baffle the earliest and most judiciooon
dition
exer-
tions of medical skill, how wretched must
thithout the
„merits
of the poor, under the pressure of disease,
rheir exspteiand.turc,
prospect of obtaining the only remedy for their
suffer-
ings. From these considerations, it is evident that the
a pcuicy as
"upeasure, it will
liberal CryCry st a l
attention,Palace Soena
principlesß athiag Eosft abl is Ten
well as humanity; because, as a sanitorpon_ablic, while
' Palace, and
tend materially to promote the health of 01 P"
of bathing,
acquisition,
at the same time it will prove an importanteaction and in-
and, moreover, a perpetually recurring stew
in-
ducement
ttehnetpunbiloinceto ffroerquthenet tphoerCproYses
ueney of visitors,
thereby increasing the number and frog
ee of the Crystal
by which means the permanent interes.-
„a will be mate.
Palace and that of the railway
caelmaergnet forex
consP%'',3 establishment
rially benefited; and not only so, but
of capacious sea-water baths, in flexion with the
con .
tdb preela e y the
Crystal Palace, is already highly "oval.
public and meets with unanimous aper

COST OF CONSTRUCTION•
A pair of 50 horse engines
Engine-house, &c., &c.
Pumps, gear, &c., &c.
10 or 12-inch mains for 50 miles

..• £3,000
••• 500
... 500
• • 55,000
..„ ' ...• 10,000
... 6,000

Reservoir and laying down, &c....
Contingencies ...

Total cost of construction •••
ANNUAL WORKING EXPENSES.
2fr tons of coals per day, at 12s. per t°l3'
delivered at Brighton ...
1 Engineman •••
1 Fireman ...
2 Coalmen ... •••
Materials for repairs, oil, tallow.
stores, &c.waste,

~. £75,000

... £1 10 0
"• ••• 0 6 0
•••
••• 0 4 0
0 6 0'

... ... 1 0 0

£3 6 0

Total for twelve months... £1,204 0
Working expenses at Brighton, per annum,
as above ... ... ... ••• •..1,204 0
Rent Superintendence of ditto, and mains, &C. 500 0
Materials in repairs of pipes, 840. ••• • 500 0
Workmen in repairs and maintenance ... 1,000 0
R gohon
fraillaiyiwasyecocmommopdaanty for pipes,ion to the
Brighton
&c, 50 miles at SOL per mile --

... 1,000 0 0

Total annual working exPenses...£4,2o4 0 0

Total annnal working expenses••• 44,204 0
Allowing also 10 per cent. per annum, for
shareholders' dividend on a capital of
75,000/. ...

... 7,500 0 0

Together .. ••• ••• 11,704 0 0

bathers
Total annual expenses,
Annual income from 800000
edei
nv
ti d:piledr
nt o including the di- 12,500 0
n usinh Tholders of 10 per

- 11,704 0 0

margin in favour of dividend £796 0 0
independent company or in connexion with that of the
It h proposed to raise the above capital, eitheras an
Crystal Palace, as may
be deemed most expedient, and

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