The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-04 00:00:00

CANTERBURY BALL.

Victor Julien made his re-appearance last night
after a week's absence, arising from indisposition.
He was received with considerable applause. There
'Were certainly no traces of his recent illness ob-
servable in the style of his performances, which
'were characterised by all the daring and flexibility
of his happiest efforts on the trapeze. We notice a
decided advance in point of gracefulness in Victor
Julien, and in this particular—the stronghold of
Leotard—we don't now see much difference between
the two professors. To Julien we feel compelled
t° accord the palm as a venturesome performer,
who succeeds in presenting much more thrilling
Pictures to the audience, and in evoking corres-
Paneling interest.

SAILU_RE OF A S4NIIA.RY EN7E.R-

IRISE.

The Rugby Board cf Health is seriously embar-
taBsed by the discovery that the plan which it has
Pursued for four years, and upon which it has spent
£4,000, for supplying the town with water, has
irremediably failed. The increasing population of
the town has for a long time made the scanty sup-
Ply of water at present obtainable a growing incon-
venience, and Mr. Hawkesley was called in to advise
the board. That gentleman, after informing him-
self of the facts, gave his decided opinion that the
river Avon was the only feasible source from which
an adequate supply could be obtained. But the
opposition of the neighbouring owners of water
mills and other difficulties on the one hand, and the
narrowness of the powers at their command on the
other, determined the board to look elsewhere for
the desired supply. In an evil hour, Mr. Hawkes-
lay was induced to suggest that relief from their dif-
teulties might be found by boring down to the water-
bearing strata of the new red sandstone, The
boring has reached the water-bearing strata of this
formation,
but it has also reached a deposit of rock
salt, the existence of which was wholly unsuspected,
and the salt dissolving in the water brought up by
the bore-hole communicates to it a degree of braek-
ash salinity which renders it unfit for food, as well
as for all ordinary domestic purposes. From an
analysistakn of samples which have been successively
eatsthatett salinitypehseciinn
y has sinadil in-
creased,itunaPtilP in the la
there vVere found
1,256 grains of saline matter in the gallon o water.
Of
f
Of these 777 grains consisted of
chloride of
or common salt, the remaining
constituents
being
principally sulphate of soda, or Glauber's salt
and
sulphate of magnesia, or Epsom salt, with a 'small
-proportion of carbonate of lime and traces of
bromine, iodine, and lithium. Further boring
into the salt bed would probably increase the
saltness of the water to the degree which
Would make it available as a brine spring for
salt-works ; or, if the boring were continued to
the n9xt subjacent formation—the perrnian—it is
improbablenOt that abundance of good water
'would "be fount.', but this stratum lies many hundred
feet below the bottom of the bore-hole, and could
only be reached by the adoption of a costly appa-
l'at us, and the expenditure of a condiderable amount
of time and money. For the water which they so
probably
need the Rogbians must now look elsewhere,
should
to the A von, to which they must, we
ruld think, have a better right than the mill-
law:ere. As for the Lno.'ley expended, it is probably
IC beyond recovery, un2ess some one will buy theh
ti;e, and continue the boring to that point at which
foe e water would become a brine spring, serviceabled
water or salt"
the
works, or perhaps a spa might be instituted
n as Dr. Odling hat; reported that the
"would doubtless prove an efficient saline
Purgative, and the small quantities of bromine,
glee, and lithium would enhance its therapeutic
qualities.-...Doily
News.