The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

STRATHPEFFEK SPA.

Our advertising columns of to-day contain a
proposal fur the formation of a Joint-Stock
Company with a view to the erection of an
Hotel in the immediate vicinity of Strathpeffer
Spa, for the accommodation of those invalids
and others attending its waters. We trust the
project will meet with every success. It at all
events deserves to do so. The health-restoring
qualities of the Strathpeffer water are not more
celebrated all over the country, than the place
has hitherto been unhappily notorious fur the
mkerable accommodation it affords to those

indisposed individuals temporarily sojourning
at it. For many years past Strathpeffer Spa
has been visited by crowds of people of
every rank in life ; but so deficient is the
place even in what may be called indifferent
accommodation, that almost every one has had
to complain of the inconveniencies to which
he was subjected. The distinctions of rank
must of necessity while there be in a great mea-
sure forgotten. The higher and the lower
classes are obliged in most cases to mingle pro-
miscuously together. The habitations, gene-
rally speaking, to be procured are of that un-
comfortable description, that those brought up
amid the comforts and delicacies of life arc
mi-
seiable in them by day, and not less so in the
night time. It is unnecessary to enunciate the
consequences of all this. Those visiting the
place have often been necessitated to make a
much shorter stay than they would otherwise
have done, and which was perhaps necessary for
the beneficial operation of the waters ; and others
have been deterred from going to the Spa at all
by the unfavourable report given by the accom-
modation to be had by those who have been so-
journers at it.

- The proposal to erect, by public subscription,
a commodious and suitable Hotel at Strathpeffer
Spa, is one which is closely identified with the
cause of humanity as well as of public comfort,
in the North of Scotland. The wretched ac-
commodation to be had at these waters h:therto
and at present, has made .many an- invalid both
in the higher ►
and lower classes of life struggle
with his maladies at home until they either issued
in death or,became so inveterate as to bid defi-
ance to any future efforts to effect a cure ;
whereas a timely attendance on these waters
might have wrought a speedy restoration to health.
Such would not be the case were the proposed
accommodation once provided. When the na-
ture of one's indisPoution was such as to render
it probable that benefit' would be derived from
the use of Strathpeffer water, such person would
without any unnecessary delay repair thither for
the purpose of testing its medicinal qualities.
It strikes us that the spirited projectors of the
Hotel in question, have omitted one thing ne-,
cessary to' the more speedy success of their
scheme. So far as our information goes, no
subscription papers have been forwarded to the
different northern towns for the purpose of re-
ceiving the names of those who might be sup-
posed willing to forward the project by the pur-
chase of shares. This we conceive ought to be.
done. Let ,auch papers be sent to Inverness,
Nairn, Forres, Elgii,, Fochabers, Keith, Huntly,
Banff, fitc, and be entrusted in the hands of
some public-spirited active individual, and we
have no doubt whatever of the success of the.
prolect.
The sum proposed to be raised is 2,0001. in
shares of 26/. each.---Elgin
Courier.

On Tuesday last, a person named WILLIAM
AII'ULEYs frofn Doneaster, wenn() work at Sheffield,
journeyman btoneMltelM, and after having been at work
the whole of Monday, in enjiiiment of perfect health, re-
tired to rest about tea o'clock, will and hearty, and vas
found dead in bed the next morning...Doncaster Gas.