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then rose, and said, that perhaps they would excuse him
for saying a few words with respect to the statements
relative to the Press. The whole of the Press had been
blamed, whereas only a part had refused to give inser-
tion to the documents of the workmen, necessary to ex-
plain the striko that had taken place. He was one of the
proprietors of the British Queen, and he and his
partner had come there, and had brought a gentleman
to report their proceedings, and insert everything that
they could wish for, in order that the .public might
judge for themselves whether the workmen were right
or wrong. lie would say that he had been engaged
in their trades' unions for a number of years. No ap-
plication had been made to bins to give an insertion to
any document; had it been so he should have done as he
had done several years ago, when he conducted the
trades' newspaper. He had conducted the Morning Ad-
vertiser for 13 years, to which he did not then belong,
and he had always evinced the greatest sympathy for the
workmen, for he had been a workman himself. His
parer had never been applied to to give insertion to the
documents. He had come there at considerable expense
to his health, and had brought a gentleman to report their
proceedings; and if the Secretary would only furnish
him with any document, their case should be fully given
to the public on Monday morning.—(Hear, hear.)
A WORKMAN asked Mr. Anderson if he would con-
tradict the statement which had appeared in the Weekly
Dispatch relative to the ss. fine for chasing.
Mr. ANDERSON said he would do so if the Chairman
would contradict it before him.

Mr. RAT said that was not the immediate question
before them, they must consider the object of the meet-
ing first. He had worked with Allen when he was a
workman at Messrs. Cubitt's for nine years, and during
that time he was a leading member of the trades' union,
and threw up his situation on a similar occasion to the
present ; but he had now got the robes of office on, and
he had changed into a tyrant. He begged to propose
the following resolution ;
" That this meeting fully justifies the proceedings of
the masons who lately struck at the New Houses of Par-
liament, against the overbearing and tyrannical conduct
of George Allen, and pledges itself to use every extr-
tion to procure them every necessary support."
After a rather desultory conversation, the resolution,
having been seconded, was carried unanimously.
A discussion having arisen as to the cause and pro-
bable benefit to be derived from the workmen at Nel-
son's Monument, and at Woolwich, in the service of
Messrs. Grissel and Peto, having also struck,
Mr. It. ANDERSON entered into a lengthy statement of
the case, and said that as Messrs. Grissel and Peto had
done everything against the workmen they could, they
thought that all striking at once was more likely to bring
the matter to a close.

Mr. Bust' then moved " that it was the opinion of that
meeting that the Masons' Society was justified in calling
out the members from Woolwich and Nelson Monument,
in consequence of the unjustifiable conduct of their
employers."

This having been seconded, the resolution was carried.
A discussion then arose as to the delegates holding a
public meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, and
Mr. DUNNING moved the following resolution :
That no public meeting be held until the report of this
night's proceedings be given to the respective societies
and returned to this meeting."
After a very long desultory discussion, the resolution
was put and carried, without a dissentient.
After a short conversation, it was agreed upon that
another meeting should be held in the same place, on
Wednesday next, in order to receive the answers from
the various unions.

Mr. TIIO)IPSON was about to enter into their com-
plaints respecting a portion of the Press, when it was
moved that as the evening had so far advanced the con-
sideration of the question had better be deferred till their
next meeting, which motion having been put by the
Chairman, and carried, the meeting adjourned at half-
past twelve o'clock.

SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT, LORD
CHANCELLOR.
We find the following paragraph in The Sun paper
•:eived by the last post. Our Learned Representative
is about to reap the reward of his patriotism earlier than
was generally expected. We hope our Tory friends
will be on the alert. There are plenty of good berths
about the Court of Chancery, and those who have booked
promises of early patronage, should apply to Sir William
instanter. We hope that they will not lose a single post.
Every man who feels fit for a place, or whose circum-
stances a place would fit, should be on the alert, and
not be advised to delay application by Sir William's
agents—a personal application is better than a letter :
and let it be recollected that Sir William Follett owes
this Approaching Chancellorship, to that noble band the
Conservative electors of Exeter. " Walk up," "be in
time," should be the motto of every one of them.
" APPROACHING LAW CHANGES.—II is currently re-
ported in the professional circles, that Lord Lyndhurst
will relinquish the seals at the commencement of January
Term, and that Sir W. W. Follett, the Solicitor-General,
will be his successor. In connexion with this arrange-
ment, it is also said that Lord Abinger will at the same
time vacate the Chiefship of the Exchequer, and that
Sir Frederick Pollock will be his successor therein."—
Western Times.

WOOLWICH—FRIDAY.
ROYAL. ARTILLERY.
The Numa transport ship is ordered round from Ports-
mouth to Woolwich to embark Capt. Kendall's company,
4th battalion, to Barbadoes. It is expected Captain
Morgan's company, Ist battalion, when relieved will re-
turn in the same vessel.

One non-commissioned officer and eight gunners and
drivers embarked from the Royal Arsenal on Saturday
morning last in one of the General Steam Navigation
Company's vessels for a passage to Dublin, to complete
the companies at that station.

Detachments to complete the companies in the wind-
ward and Leeward Islands will embark in the Numa, with
Captain Kendall's company.
Experiments were carried on at the Mortar Battery
on Friday with an eight-inch mortar, and a shell having
a fuze invented by Captain Norton, RN. None of the
shells exploded, and it is therefore conjectured the fuzes
were a failure.

The Master-General has been pleased to appoint Col.
Lacy, of the Royal Artillery, to be Inspector of the Royal
Carriage Department, in the room of Sir John May, who
resigns..

Captain Hope's company, with a detachment of Captain
Stairway's company, Ist battalion, relieve the detach-
ment at Purfleet to-morrow (Saturday) morning. Capt.
Hope and Lieutenant Shakespeare proceed with the (le-
tachment.

VENING SUN.

PROCESS FOR PURIFYING
resultsattention
of
WATER.
Professor Clarke, of the University of Aberdeen,
having
bentthe
his
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elaboration
thisrati o
n asubject,nd Btuisd'yntltow
submitting
the London:public, and on Thursday at two o'clock deli-
vered a lecture on this important subject at the theatre
of the Polytechnic Institution in Regent-street.
He proceeded to perform a series of experiments to
elucidate the principle thus laid down upon various
specimens of filtered and unfiltered water, which were
ranged in large glass receivers about the lecture room.
These specimens consisted of Thames river water in its
foulest state, as caused by the late flood. The others
were specimens of the Grand Junction, New River,
West Middlesex, and Chelsea water companies, in the
ready-littered state in which they are supplied to the
houses of the metropolis. On the table before the
Lecturer were also specimens of water, undergoing
purification by a boiling process, in bottles placed over
small fire-lamps.
Our readers have already been put in possession of
the new principles advocated by the Professor, -in an
account of a lecture delivered by him at the London
University, and reported in The Sun on October the
Bth. The first experiments, also, on the present occa-
sion, viz., that of infusing quick-lime into the impure
water, and disengaging the chalk, so as to cause it to
sink in a residuum ; as also the testing of different spe-
cimens of pure and impure water by soap, these liming
in effect the same as exhibited on the preceding occa-
sion, need not be reiterated here. The experimental
novelties, if they may be so termed, on the present oc-
casion, only worked out, by a various method, the Lec-
turer's leading principle.
Two bottles,
,the contents of which had been boiled
the preceding day, were acted on by the Professor ;
that specimen which had been submitted to the Lec-
turer's process had no deposit, while the other, of un-
purified water, had a thick deposit of powder at the
bottom, was accompanied by a furred surface and, in-
crustrations, furnishing a clear proof that the chlo-
rate of lime was altogether a far more powerful and
efficient purifier than even a violent boiling process.
This experiment, said the Lecturer, furbishes abun-
dant topics for application to the routine of eur every-
day life ; in the multitude of domestic purposes for
which water is used, it is constantly, as exhibited by
this experiment, in this furred and hurtful state. But
the evil is most greatly apparent in the case of •ur
large manufactories. Professor Clarke here invited
attention to a bit of copper tube, measuring a few
inches in diameter, and which had recently been a
a portion of a long pipe which conveyed, in a
horizontal position, water of the same Consistency as
that supplied by the River Companies, into a boiler
located in another part of the manufactory. For a
space of fme, not longer than six months, it bad con-
tinued to serve this purpose, and at the end of that
time presented its present appearance, it being incrus-
ted internally with a thick coating of about two inches
in depth of solid chalk, very much resembling
indurated concrete stone. The same effect, observed
the Lecturer, which is here evidenced in the case of the
pipe, is exactly that which is daily happening to those
who beat their houses and rooms by hot water. This
is managed by means of pipes, which gradually obtain a
lining of chalk, that prevents the heat from passing out,
and defeats the intention of the plan. Again, in
steamers for boiling, this incrustation of carbonate of
lime is constantly occurring. In the case of tubes it is
still worse ; oftentimes the action of the heat is alto-
gether restricted by these incrustations ; the tube then
peels, it next forms itself into an oxide, its strength gra-
dually decreases, and at last it breaks. This is the most
frequent cause of explosion in steam-boilers.
The most noticeable effects of the Professor's
new process, as recapitulated by himself, were
these—its power of softening water ; its removal of the
deleterious chalk ; the taking away of the fur which
unavoidably accumulates in the boiling process ; its de-
struction of ail vegetable matter, and insectal life ; in
addition to its clarifying and rendering almost perfectly
pure this first of the elements of life. We must mot
omit to remark that the specimen of the Professor's
purified water which was ranged on a stand with the
filtered specimens of the different Companies, was ab-
solutely diaphanous, and purely crystalline and colour-
less, compared to those at its side, which were various
of shade, and of a deep discoloured hue.
Before concluding, Professor Clarke begged to Gall
the attention of the many scientific gentlemen who
were present, as well as the rest of his respectable
audience to some remarks which had appeared in the
Examiner respecting his new process. The article
which contained them bore the signature of
" M.D.," but he knew upon sufficient grounds
that these strictures emanated from the pen of Dr.
Paris. The Doctor in this article bad assailed his pro-
cess ; but while he allowed that the broad principle ad-
vocated by Professor Clarke was chemically correct,
yet he complained that the very agent employed to
correct the evil, namely, quicklime, was,' by the
operation, unavoidably left in solution with what he of-
fered as purified water, so that the remedy was actually
as injurious as the disease supposed to be removed.
Another stricture made by Dr. Paris was, that the
murietes, which form a component part, of some conse-
quence in water, were by this process untouched. In
answer to this, Professor Clarks said that the Doctor
was bringing on him difficulties he had never volun-
teered to remove. Ho had offered to remove three-
fourths of the impurity, which he had electively done
in the removal of the chalk, and more than this he had
never offered to do. Another stricture was, that it was
impossible to tell the exact portion of chalk in any quan-
tity of water, so that it could not be known exactly
what quantity of lime to ore ; whence it mould arise
that a quantity of lime would always be left is our
water. Also, observed the Doctor, the quality of
water varies from season to season, or rather from day
to day. To this allegation Professor Clarke replied,
that the variation in the state of water mattered
nothing ; that every change in it was in every case
easily ascertainable by chemical process, and that ten
days in the laboratory would clear the most diffi-
cult point ; nay, that there were processes by which the
state of water could be found out in a quarter of an
hour, or even while the water was running past your
house. Professor Clarke finally made reference to a
printed volume, which appeared to contain evidence
given by Dr. Paris before a Committee of the Reuse.
The case cited was that of a family, all of whom had
drank of certain water, and had become violently ill ;
they ceased to drink of it, and partook of other, and
gradually thereupon recovered. Dr. Paris was asked
whether filtration in this case would have rendered the
water pure, to whicb he answered that he did not know.
He was questioned as to whether he knew of any
remedy to prevent the effects of bad water, to which he
answered in the negative. In fact, said the Lecturer,
this little bit of examination proved in the Doctor no
knowledge, but abundance of prejudice ; and after this,
he suggested that his audience might judge how far Dr.
Paris was fitted to criticize or make strictures on his
discovery.

_ -
INSPECTION OF THE PRESENT

STATE OF THE ROYAL NAVY.
Orders hays been sent by the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to the Chief Surveyor-General of the
Navy, and the Governors of Deptford, Woolwich,
Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth; Plymouth, and Pem-
broke Dockyards, to send in immediately to the Board
of Admiralty a correct statement of the present efficient
state or sea-worthiness of all the ships within their re-
spective dock-yards, after undergoing a careful survey
as to their fitness for active service.
It is the intention it is confidently stated, of the
Lords of the Admiralty to reduce a great many of
our small line-of-battle ships and 74-gun ships to SO-
gnu frigates, similar to the Dublin, Southampton, Pre-
sident, Vernon, Winchester, Vindictive, Warspite, &C''
so as to compete with those of the United States of
America, France, Austria, and Russia, which are fill ef
large dimensions. The greatest activity, therefore. pre-
vails in the naval departments, so that, in case of a_
ap-
proved sud-
den emergency, they will be ready to fit out well
proved ships for service.
r
In consequence of the difficulty
mission, the Lords of the Admiralty,
.17:,°w'_,ng notice
every inducement, have issued the foil
Oct2l, 1841.
hisp;Pbeienced in ob-
taining able-bodied seamen for the ships ordered
todb ino id coomut-
" Admiralty, - ' • •
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of the Admiralty to acquaint you
which mhma
vt sea obneeerns
pleased to rescind the regulationsensions
when serving on
phCreoeyvented pen-
glovers from receivingpensioners will
board her Majesty's ships, and
be allowed to receive their
in future, if fit for service,
I am, Sir,
pensions with their p
JOHN BARROW,"
their
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Your very obedient servant,

THE C°ltS D°cs
in another part of our paper, o
TO- RS.---:-A letter from Lieut.
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subject of t
Vagrant Act. It appears the worthy
the recent conviction of Nein." and Rem-
the dupe of these designing
Lieutenant has himself
implicit faith in their skill ; we may
places .
tishieorrison, li•r'
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as he .
of their roguery to induce theirthat mention
believe that the corns are really extracted
brand, under tho
patients to
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twenty of the bits of nail, bristle, or whatever the sub-
lib aurtdclyomlimkoelnysean.ssein
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cheat. With regard to the legality of the conviction,
t%ll,eeapprehend,
mstaayncaesiswewlhl iscthateis
the Magistrates acted under the advice of
their legal adviser, and they are no doubt, willing to
abide the consequences. Since the conviction, the Ma-
gistrates have received the following. letter from a lady
in Nottingham, from which it appears the " operators'
have been making a tour of the provinces, in which they,
have reaped a plentiful harvest :—" A lady at Notting-
ham begs to inform the Magistrates at Cheltenham, that
the corn impostors, who have been before them, have
lien at Nottingham, and have committed their depreda-
dens on a more extended scale of plunder, having there
charged 10s. for each bit, that they called roots (but
which never came out of the foot). The enormous sum s
which they got from the people at Nottingham, and the
neighbourhood, is past belief, and the only reason they
were not exposed there, was, that no individuals liked to
i come forward to expose their own eredulity.--Nottia
was 04 lti."...Cheltenham Eaconiner.