The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

PATRONS

The Most Noble the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, Tlelgrave-.square
The Right Hon. Lord ASHLEY, Upper Brook-street, Groarenur-sq.

TRUSTEES.
Lord Chas. Beauelerc, Lowndes- Benjamia Bond Cabbell, Esq.,
street, Lowndes-square. M.P., Portland-place.
Wthiam Alexander 11PKinnon, Luke Jas. Hansard, Esq., South-
Etq., Hyde-park-place. ampton-st., Bloomsbury-sq.
MANAGING DIRECTORS.

John Bond, Esq., 'M.D., M.R.C.S. L al;(li.,George-st., Portman-sq.
Edward Smith, Esq., R.N., John-street, Adelphi.
Gerrard Barry, Esq., M.D., M Charlest-st., St. James's-sq.
Jo-hua Stopford, Esq., East India Chambers, City.
Charles lilunt, Esq., Montagu-place, Russell-square.
William Henry Mayne, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S.L., Hovrland-street,
Fitzroy-square.
Ellis Price Sutton, Esq., Great Ormond-street.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
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London Joint• Stock Bank, Princes-Street, Bank : Commercial Bank,

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Lothbury.
SECRETARY—Joshns Stopford.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—Richard St. George Graham.
21, East India Chambers, Leadenhall•street.
PROiPECTITS.

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-
stoners were appointed. From the evidence then given it apeared
that the capital invested by the New River Company was 1,116,9641.,
by the other Companies 2,127,5951., making a total of 3,224,8591.
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 157,2061. 10s. Gd. remaining, which is more than the ori-
ginal cost of construction. The average number of houses supplied
in 1434, accordine to the minutes of evidence, was 196,492, at the
annual value of 276,2001., about 1/. les. 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 an inconsiderable outlay,
and upon those sure and unerring principles of Artesian Springs
which have been so generally adopted on the Continent—unfailing
and aucces-fully established to the satisfaction of the most sceptical
Individuals.
With reference to supplying London with pure spring water, let it
be understood, 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 sqaare 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 supply
of water last year by the different companies was 314,553,012 hoies-
heads. Thus the London bed is capable of supplying mere 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 Lcndon Water Companies
will not be adopted by the United Kingdom Artesian Water Com-
pany. 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 mast 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 FUR SHARES.
hereby request you to allot me Shares of 10/.
each in the United Kingdom Artesian Water Company ; and I gua-
rantee to pay, when called on, a deposit of 7s. Gd. per Share ;or such
Shares, or any lesser number that you may allot to me,
and to sign the deed of partnership when necessary.
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Names of two Refereences,

SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE AT
INGATESTONE.
An inquest was held yesterday at Ingatestone before
C. C. Lewis, Esq., coroner, on the body of Maria Gotts,
who destroyed herself under the following circumstances
as detailed in evidence:—
John Gotts, of Ingatestone, deposed—Deceased was
my daughter, a single woman, and twenty-seven years of
age. Last evening at six she sat down to tea with me
at my house ; she had poured the tea out and taken
about half a cup herself, when she said, Mr. Rolfe and
Mr. Tweed would come in to me and tell me she was
drunk. I told her not to mind that, I would not believe
a word about it ; then she took the knife off the table
and cut herself immediately. I did not see her take the
knife off the table; I saw blood running from her throat,
and I went for assistance. I first found John billing-
stone, who returned with me to the house. We found
her lying in the passage against the pantry upon her
face, and still bleeding from the throat. I then went
away, and she died about eight the same evening. John
Lillingstoue went off directly for medical assistance ;
Mr. Lewis returned with him. Deceased had not been
right in her head for this week past or more ; she was
addicted to drinking at times, which no doubt affected
her mind. Deceased's mother was not right in her
mind, and was once in confinement on that account.
John Lillingstone, of Ingatestone, malster, stakel:—
I live next door to where deceasA lived, and had known
her about seven years and frequently saw her. I was
called to her last evening between six and seven, by her
father, who came to me with a knife in his hand and
said his daughter had cut her throat. He asked me to
go to her, and I went directly; I found her lying on the
bricks by the back door leading into the yard. She lay
bleeding from the throat. I did not touch her, but went
off immediately for the doctor. I left a man of the
name of Upson and her father with her. I returned to
her in about eight minutes with Mr. Lewis; when I got
back she lay as I had left her ; Mr. Lewis and myself
then lifted her up, and I saw her throat was cut ; both
her hands were all over blood. She always appeared to
me to be right in her mind. I had not seen her since
last Wednesday or Thursday, when I spoke to her, and
she seemed very well in health and spirits. The knife
her father had in his hand when he came was not the
one she had used; but when I first went to her I saw one
lying in the middle of the passage covered with blood ;
the knife produced is the one I believe I saw, but it was
then covered with fresh blood.
Richard Lewis, of Ingatestone, surgeon, stated—l was
*ailed to deceased between six and seven last evening ;
I found her lying in the passage on her face near the
back door. I lifted her up, and found her throat was
cut. There was one wound through the larynx, but there
appeared to have been two gashes. I bound the wound
up, and she died in about an hour and a half after I got
to her, from the effects of the wound. She was sensible,
but could not speak. I told her there was no chance of
her recovery. I asked her if she had done it herself, if
she had to put up her fingers, and if she had not to keep
them still; she put up one or two fingers. I then said, I
think you must have done it more than once ; if so, to
putwit hepraeopanidnn i
one or i
ta: ovtodto-day,
, certain. fingers;vaensrdshe. e then put up two fingers and
afterwards three. I found a bible open in her bed-room,
whetherl as
sheked herhad ipfa t shehadpia
been te
in, if so to hold up her finger. There were several other
pins in different parts of the Bible, and by signs from
and
rI found she had put them in. I had attended her
had known her a considerable time ' - the last time I
attended her was 1301300 time ago, but she was then in a
very excited state. I should not say she was of unsound
mind, but she was very odd in her manner. When I
first got to her I saw both her hands covered with blood.
The Bible was open at Isaiah, a pin against the Ist and
2nd verses of the last chapter ; other pins in Jeremiah,
3d chapter, 23d and 24th verses ; 31st chapter, 3rd and
lth verses, and 34th and 35th verses.
Charlotte, wife of James Tweed, of Ingatestone, la-
bourer, deposed :—I had known deceased about eight
years, and frequently saw her. I saw her yesterday
morning about eleven. Her father asked me to go and
speak to her ; he said she was not well. I went directly
to her. I went up stairs, and she followed me from the
kitchen in her night-dress. She told me to go down and
look at the picture of our Saviour hanging over the fire,
and that her hour was come and she must go. I said,
" How can you be so wicked as to talk like that ?" She
said it was no wickedness at all, it was the truth ; she
said, " Come to the picture, and hear what he says to
me." I was at this time standing by the picture with
her ; she said, " Don't you hear him call me now ?—my
time is come, and it is of no use your saying anything
about it ; they awoke me up in the night, and told me
I must go, and go I must, and if you go up stairs you
will see them there." I went up, she stood on the
stairs and was afraid to go into the room ; she said she
was afraid ; st to said, " There is something on the bed—
don't you see it?" I said there was nothing, and she told
me to lay my . hand on the top of the bed, which Idid; she
then seemed satisfied, and went into the room. I then asked
her to go to pt •ayers with me, and so she did; she prayed
fervently for .a quarter of an hour. I remained with her
about twenty minutes and then left her ; before I did so
she said she was in trouble. This was about half•past
eleven yesterday morning, and I did not see her again.
I had seen l.ter several times as if she was quite out of
her mind. Many times I had said she was nut right in
ner mind, :Ind I had several times heard her say she
would cut her throat ; she prayed to God to forgive her,
and that she might not have to go , she said she would
do all she could to be saved.
The cot-oner having commented upon the evidence, the
jury (one dissenting) returned a verdict to the effect that
deceased destroyed herself whilst labouring under tem-
porary e.erangemeht.- -1: ssex Herald.

The late Robert Williams, Esq., banker, of Birehin•
lane, anJI, of the Dorchester Old Bank, has left personalty
amour) ring to 80,0001.. and by hi, will has bequeathed 1,000/.,
free o f duty, to the Dorset County Hospital ; an annuity of
1001. to Mrs. Gerard, a friend of the family; 10,000/. to his
daughter; and the residue of his personalty, together with
his rsal estates, he leaves to his son, Robert Williams, Esq.,
wb,\) i 4 liiB sole executor.