The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

TRUSTEES.

Lord Chas. Beauclerc, Lowndes- Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq.,
street, Lowndes-square. M.l'., Portland-place.
William Alexander -INCKinnon, Luke Jas. Hansard, Esq., South-
Esq., M.P., Hyde-park-place. ampton-st., Bloomsbury-sq,
MANAGING DIRECTORS
Jo'

Bowl, Esq , N.D., L and E., George-st., Portman-sq.
.ward Smith, Esq., R.N., John-street, Adelphi.
Gerrard Barry, Esq., M.D., M Chariest-st., St. James's-sq.
Jo hua Stopford, Esq., East India Chambers, City.
Charles Blunt, Esq., Montagu-place, Russell-square.
William Henry Mayne, Esq., M.D., 31.1t.C.5.L., Howland-street,
Fitzroy-squalls.
Ellis Price Sutton, Esq., Great Ormond-street.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
Loadon Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street, Bank : Commercial Bank,

Lothbury.
SECRETARY—Joshua Stopford.
ASSIST ANT-SECILETABY —RiChard St. George Graham.
21, East India Chambers, Leadenhall• street.
PROSPECTUS.
When we look to the vast population, and consider the eminence,
the trade, the enterprise, the great manufacturing and commercial
interests of this metropolis, it becomes a matter of no little surprise
that the most active means have not, long since, been taken to ob-
tain a better supply of water, and to get rid of the mud-and-water
monopoly which has so grievously existed for many years past.
The subject is one upon which so much has been said, and such
universal complaints made, that it is altogether unnecessary to
dilate upon the crying evil, or to offer a single remark beyond that
which is rendered so self-evident to every disinterested and dispas •
sionate mind.
Of the eight companies supplying London with water, the New
River is the most extensive. It was constructed •by Sir Hugh
Middleton, at an expense of about 150,0001. When, in 1834, the
public were much excited in consequence of the bad water supplied,
a Parliamentary inquiry on the subject took place, and Commis-
sienerS were appointed. From the evidence then given it speared
that the capital invested by the New River Company was 1,116,964/.,
by the other Companies 2,127,5951., making a total of 3,224,5591.
Although the New River Company paid an enormous bonus (300 per
cent. on the paid-up capital) yearly to the shareholders, there was
a balance of 157,2061. 10s. 6d. remaining, which ;s more than the ori-
ginal cost of construction. The average number of houses supplied
ku 1834, according to the minutes of evidence, was 196,492, at the
annual value of 276,2001., about 11. 10s. yearly per house. Pure
water can be supplied for one-third that sum, and leave a profit, to
the capitalist who invests in this' speculation, more enormous than
that of the New River Company.
Hence the opportunity has presented itself for the formation of a
Company for the supply of pure water at au inconsiderable outlay,
and upon those sure and unerring principles of Artesian Springs
which have been so generally adopted on the Continent—unfailing
and succes•fully established to the satisfaction of the most sceptical
individuals.
With reference to supplying London with pure spring water, let it
be unders.ood, that the surface of chalk on which London is built re-
ceives and retains rain on an average of twenty-one inches per an-
num. This chalk-bed or basin has an extent of 12,000 squire miles.
Each square mile contains, allowing one-third for evaporation, no less
than 3,208,228 hogsheads of water per annum, or on a hundred square
miles, one-twelfth of the surface, 320,822,800 hogsheads. The snpply
of water last year by the different companies was 314,553,012 hogs-
heads. Thus the London bed is capable of supplying more than
twelve times the quantity needed, sufficient for all the towns in Great
Britain and Ireland.
So certain and conclusive have been the experiments tried, that
the most successful result has attended every instance in procuring
water upon the principle stated.
The metal pipes, as now used by the London Water Companies
will n be adopted by the United Kingdom Artesian Water Com-
pany.et Glass, and some such tubes as cannot be corroded, will only
be in use. The recent repeal of the duty on glass and porcelain
make such pipes cheaper than metal.
Shareholders shall be protected from all responsibility beyond the
actual amount of shares taken.
All applications for Shares must be addressed to the Secretary of
the United Kingdom Artesian Water Company, at the Office, East
India Chambers, Leadenhall-street. City, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
Sir,—l hereby request you to allot me shares of 101.
each in the United Kingdom Artesian Water Company ; and I gua-
rantee to pay, when called en, a deposit of 7s. 6d. per Share for such
Shares, or any lesser number that you may allot to me,
and to sign the deed of partnership when necessary.
Name ....... • •• • •
Residence • •• • • • • • • •
Names of two Refereences,

FREEMASONRY.
THE TWELFTH ANNUAL
FREEMASONS, will FESTIVAL
in aid of the ASYLUM FOR AGED
take place at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 16th of JUNE, 1847, under the direction of the following
toard of Stewards :
Brother The Right Hon. LORD SOUTHAMPTON, No 652, President.
~ S. H. LEE, No. 107, Vice-President.
„ H. B. LEESON, M.D., No. 324, Treasurer.
J. WHITMORE, No. 329, Hon. Secretary.
Brothers Major Gen. Cooke, LL.D. ; James Harmer, Y.G.D. ; 1 Wil-
liam Pringle, (Edinburgh) ; J. J. Blake, P.G.W., (Surrey),
Francis Crew, No. 1 ; W. E. Walmisey. No. 1 ; William Rayner,
No. 3 ; J. A. Joseph, No. 4; T. B. Barnard, No. 49: Douglas
Jerrold, No. 49 ; P. F. Martin, No. 108 ; Z. Watkins, No. 108 ; T.
M. Bacon, No. 108 ; Richard Farmer, No. 113; W. Foster White,
No. 229 ; S. Scoltock, No. 328.
TICKETS, 15s. each, to be had of the Stewards, of Bro. John
Whitmore, Secretary, 125, Oxford-street, and of Messrs. Bacon and
Co., at the Freemasons' Tavern.

Dinnet• on Table at five for six precisely.
THE CONCERT. The Stewards have much pleasure in an-
nouncing that several Professional Ladies and Gentlemen have, in
the most obliging manner, volunteered their kind assistance and
powerful support, so as to sender the usual Concert in the Hall and
Glee Room as effective as on the preceding Anniversaries of this
Institution.

LOUVAIN A LA SAMBRE RAILWAY.
DIRECT TO NAMUR AND TO CIIARLEROY
Notice is hereby given, that the SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL
MEE LING of the SIIAREIIOLDERS of this Undertaking- will be
held at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopigate-street, London, on
TCZSDAT, 11th of May Next, at ONE o'clock precisely, on the Gene
ral Business of the Company.
Resolutions will also, on this occasion, be taken relative to the
Shares upon which the Call of 21. per Share, due on the 2d of Octo-
ber last, has not been paid, the time for which payment was, by a
resolution passed by the Board, and duly advertised, extended to
the 31st of March last past; and a proposition will be submitted en
the subject of the formation of the important line from Brussels to
Namur.

JOHN BARNES, President.
GEO. DANCE, Secretary.
28, Threadneedle-street, March 16, 1847,
N.B.—By the Statutes of the Company it is necessary that all
Shareholders intending to be present at the above Meeting should
deposit their Share Certificates with the Secretary at least Ten Days
before the 11th of Alay proximo, in order to Witte them to take
part in the proceedings.

OUVAIN a la SAMBRE RAILWAY.
DIRECT to NAMUR and to CHARL'EROY.
The Shareholders are most respectively informed that on MONDAY
next, May 10, the day previously to that fixed upon for the
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, there will be ready for delivery
at the Office of the Company-
1. Proposed sketch for aveement for making and working, jointly
with the Great Luxemburg Company, the hue from Brussels to
Namur, with branch line to Wavre.
2. proposed plan for the creation of the portion of capital to be
provided by the Louvain a la Sambre Company for the construction
of the line from Brussels to Namur, which line it is intended to make
jointly with the Great Luxemburg Company..
3. Proposed plan for the revival of Shares in the Louvain a la
Sambre Company which have becomJ fOHrfeN ito
BedAR.
NES, Chairman.
GEO. DANCE, Secretary.
No. 28, Threadneedle-street, May 6, 1847.

GOLD, SILVER, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, and
all the most precious and costly gems, are imitated to such
perfection, that but very few uninitiated persons can positively tell a
paste brooch or a ring from a diamond, the real pearl from the
imitation, or German Silver from the genuine ; but put them into
the hands of the connoisseur, how soon the delusion vanishes when
he affirms they are but vile and base imitations. So it is with the
most valuable inventions as well as stones and metals. None but
the inimitable in value are imitated in appearance, and as soon as
the consumer (the best connoisseur) attempts to use them, how soon
he finds out their utter uselessness. Thus it is with the most valuable
of all inventions ; the celebrated METALLIC RAZOR TABLET
of GEORGE SAUNDERS has been the target for imitation for
the last thirty years.
To Gentlemen who shave themselves the following query is pro-
posed.—Why do all the first cutlers in Europe use and recommend
Saunders' Four-sided Tablet Razor Strop ? The answer is simply
because it is the only one that gives to a razor a keen and smooth
edge.

DEPOT, 278, STRAND.
To wholesale purchasers a liberal discount will be made.

FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD ESTATES at BRADFORD and
BOWLING, in the County of YORK.
TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant
to a Decree of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a
cause of " ROUSE versus ROUSE,'! with the approbation of Sir
GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, on THURSDAY,
the 27th of May, 1847, at five o'clock in the afternoon, at the Tallest
Inn, Bradford, in the County of York, in Seven Lots, Freehold and
Leasehold Estates, consisting of several pieces of land, with mills,
warehouses, reservoirs, steam-engines, machinery fixtures, yards,
outbuildings, and other premises, situate in the town of Bradford, and
in Bowling. near Bradford, in the County of York, lately occupied
by Messrs. William Rouse and Sons, as worsted spinners and worsted
manufacturers.
Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained (gratis) at the
said Master's office, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; of Messrs. Hawkins, Bloxam, Stocker, and Bloxam, New
Boswell-court, Carey-street, Loudon, solicitors ; of Messrs. Walter
and Pemberton, Symond's Inn, Chancery-lane. solicitors; of Mr.
William Wells, Bradford, solicitor; of Mr. Richard Tolson, of
Bradford, solicitor; of Mr. Joseph Smith, of Bradford, land agent
and surveyor ; of Mr. George Thompson Lister, of Bradford,
auctioneer; at the place ofstde, and at the principal Inns at Bradford,
Leeds, Wakefield, Halifax, and Huddersfield.

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIXTH SPECIAL SALE.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, MIT, 1847.
FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable Com.
missioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale
Rooms, Mincing-lane, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, on
THURSDAY, May 13, 1847, for home consumption, sundry SHAWLS,
EMBROIDERY and NEEDLEWORK, consisting of CURTAINS,
COLLARS, CAP-PIECES, CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS, &c. &c.
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-House, on the
day preceding, from Ten in the Morning until Three in the After-
noon, and on the Morning of Sale, from Ten in the Morning until the
hour of Sale.
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Catalogues may be had, Two Days before the Sale, at the Queen's
Warehouse, price Sixpence.