The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

IN LONDON.

Bank of England £2595 United Service Club. ...... .Xl5OO
East India House 2500 Athenwurn 1400
Mansion House. 1501 • rockford's 1200
British Museum 950 London Tavern 1000
Marquis of Stafford 3900 Duke of Wellington, 1000
—Aehentrum.

THE • LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORSHIP OF
GIBRALTAR.—Anether vacancy has occurred in the Royal
Household by the appointment of Lieutenant-General Sir
WILLIAM lIOIisTON, G.C.8., one of his AIAJESTY'S
Grooms of the Bedchamber, to the Lieutenant-Governor-
ship of the fortress of Gibraltar, the venerable General Sir
GEORGE Dort, the present Lieutenant-Governor, returning
home. Sir WIL' lAM is a distinguished officer, and filled

the same situation in the household of the late SOVE-
REIGN as he occupies in his present MAJESTY'S establish-
ment. Ile salary and emoluments of the Lieutenant-
Governorship of this garrison, are estimated at about
4.500/. per annum. The salary of the office which the
Gallant General relinquishes is only lOU per annum.
According to the rules of the service, he retains the pay
and allowances of the Colonel-in-Chief of the 20th Regi-
ment of Foot. As this corps is serving in India, it is
considered a very lucrative command, and cannot fall short
of -1,200/. per annum-. The Governor of Gibraltar (Lord
CHATHAM) is in the receipt of 5,0001. per annum, as the
salary and emoluments of that military. prize.
We understand that active arrangements are
being made in Kent, to return another staunch Reformer
for that county, with the present Member, Mr. HODGES,
in the event of a dissolution of Parliament upon Lord J.
RussELL's Bill. The feeling in favour of Reform through-
out the county is almost unanimous, and amongst the
warmest friends of the measure are many who have hitherto
been the supportera of Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, and
who are impressed with the necessity of the Bill's
passion,
deeply vedeclared their determination to support
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as will advocate it.
PROSPECTS OF A GENERAL ELECTION.—
In contemplation of this event, the electors of the county,
and the various represented towns of Kent, are already
engaged in busy speculation, if not in actual preparation,
for returning Reform candidates. Sir EDWARD KNATCH-
BULL will certainly go out. His friends will do well to
advise hint to withdraw, for every part of the county will
be in active combination to replace him by a gentleman
pledged to a Reform. In another column we have
pointed to various individuals who are talked of as likely
to be put in nomination. To these we may add the
name of the late High Sheriff, E. RICE, Esq., who is in
favour of the Bill. Indeed there can be no doubt of the
success of any candidate of adequate respectability who is
of decidedly liberal principles. For Canterbury the two
present Members are secure beyond ail doubt. At Dover
the Liberal and Government interests will return two
Reform c indidates. The present Members for Hythe are
safe, identified with Reform as they now are. In Sand-
;rich, Maidstone, and Queenborough, the Liberals ate on
the alert. Kent will do her part, if the struggle come,
toward: securing the great object of an united people's
wishes.--Kent Herold.

VORACITY. OF THE PIKE.— As a gentleman
was trolling in the neighbourhood of this borough, on
monday best, his bait was seized by a pike weighing from
three to four pounds. Aft. .r having given the fresh water
shark sufficient play, what was his surprise when, on
winding up the reel, he perceived au enormous pike
weighing at least from between 25 to Nibs. at the end of
his line. The utmost caution was used to secure the fish,
but at the very moment lie was an the point of being
landed, lie pride a sudden plunge, and disgorged the pike
whic
h had originally seized the bait, which it appears had
no sooner been
hooked than it was itself seized by a larger
fish of its men species.—Stanford Bee.
SUPPLY OF PURE FILTERED WATER TO
THE Alrraorous.—The members of the Corporation have
now before them several plans for supplying the metro-
polis with pure water, and the complaints of acknow•
hedged impurity having greatly increased, it is, we under-
stand, their intention to make the greatest exertions to
meet the necessity. Amongst the suggestions which are
looked upon with much curiosity is one which would, at
no very distant period, have appeared quite chimerical. It
has been proposed to form separate fibres under the bed of
the rives Thames itself, competent to furnish a quantitn of
pure water equal to the consumption of each company,
and within the reach, at a moderate outlay, of any new
companies which may be formed hereafter. The welts,
on each side of the river within a certain distance, are
affected by the rise and fall of tide, which fact proves that
they derive a supply by filtration from the river. They
give a water wholly untainted with animal or vegetable
matter, and only impregnated with mineral or saline mat-
ter where it had passed through earth containing such
matter. It has been proposed, in consequence of the as-
serted efficacy of filtration thus produced in the Thames
water, to obtain a similar supply by means of a filtre con-
structed on the same natural principle wider the bed of the
river itself,
which might be wade of materials not con.
taining mineral matter that can pass in solution with the
water. It is calculated that the deposit of mud on the
sides of the Thames not reaching below the low water
mark, and•the bed of the river throughout being generally
a clean porous gravel, the mud will puddle in, and close
the pores of the gravelly bed on which it lies, above the
low water mark, so that the filtration into the neighbour-
ing wells must take place below low water mark. A fil-
tering
low the bed of the river, through which a main pipe ot
chamber is therefore proposed to be constructed be-
tunnel will conduct'the filtered water into a well on tbe
river side, which, may
be taken from thence by the present
steam power on shore, aad.delivered out by tbe mains and
"Inches now laid down by the existing Water companies.