The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-29 00:00:00

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11-ALTO X- N- THAMES REG ATT A

This event came off last Saturday, and was well con-
ducted by a Committee of the neighbourhood. The as-
semblage of spectators was large, and there was abundance
of sport. The following are the results of the principal
races, Same of which were only of local interest :

Junior Sculls.
Final Heat.

C. C. Gibbons, London Rowing Club

C. May, North London Rowing Club
G. Whitelaw, Christ Church, Oxford
They made a tolerably good start, after which Gibbons
and 3fay came away, and then Gibbons loft his op-
ponents.

Outrigged Gigs with Coxswains.
Final Heat.

A. Shoolbred, J. Maud, and W. Weston, (cox)
D. Winstanloy, C. Winstanley, and F. Reece (cox) 0
Tho winners bore the title of the Oscillators, the losers
of the Ariel Rowing Club. Tho winners came away with
the lead, kept it, and won easily.

Junior Fours.

Leander Boat Club

Kingston Rowing

Phoenix flowing Club

The Leander Crew.
1. T. E. Hicks. I 3. C. Tomes.
2. J. G. Richards. 4. F. Pownall.
C. Walton (coxswain).
Tha Kingston Crew.
1. P. B. Abraham. 3. W. T. French.
2. W. P. May. I 4. G. P. Coleman,
F. Walton (coxswain).
Phoenix Crow (River Lee).

tained,

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WATER SUPPLY OF LONDON.

Forty years ago an alarm arose that the water
then drawn from the tidal district of tha Tluuzwg
was unwholesome and dangerous to health. A Royal
Commission which was then appointed to determine
its quality reported that the water of the Thames,
when free from extraneous substances, was not unlit
for domestic use, but that as it approached the
metropolis it became loaded with a quantity of filth
which rendered it improper to be employed in the
preparation of fool. 'fli is report was referred to a
C,onini i ttee of the I louse of Commons, which in July,
1828, made a report recommending that Mr. T
yel-
ford he instructed to be to the surveys necessary
to enable him to recommend a practicable and effica-
cious plan of supplying the whole of the metropolis
with pure and wholesome water. In 1834 Mr. Tel-
ford made his report, advising that the northern
partof the metropolis then supplied from the'l'hames
should be supplied from the river Verulam, and the
southern part from the Wandle. In the same year
this report was refer' ed to a Select Committee, which
carried on a long investigation, but, owing to its
being late in the session, merely reported the evi-
dence to the house. In 1840 the House of Lords
appointed a committee upon the subject; but this
also, after examining many witnesses, only con-
cluded with reporting the evidence to the Louse.
The outbreak of cholera in 1849 again drew often -
Lion to the quality of the water supply. The Board
of Health undertook to investigate the subject, and
in the following year proposed a plan for drawing a
better supply from gathering grounds in the Bagshot
Sands and in the district known as the Hind head,
to the south of Guildford. In the same year, in a
Parliamentary Committee in a bill relating to the
supply of water from the river Lea, the report of the
Board underwent a severe scrutiny, and its con-
clusions were somewhat discredited. In consequence
of this the Government appointed a scientific Com-
mission on the chemical quality of the water supplied
by the several companies ; and the committee
in 1850 came to the conclusion that it exhibited no
unwholesome qualities, but they recommended that
it should be protected from town sewage, and be
filtered. In 1851 the Government proposed a bill
to amalgamate all the metropolitan water companies,
and compel the new company to obtain water from
such sources as the Secretary of State might direct.
This bill was referred to a committee, which ascer-
tained that a sufficient supply of water of good
quality might be obtained from the valley of the
Thames and the other sources upon which the com-
panies drew. While these discussions were going
on the tidal waters of the Thames were being gra-
dually affected by modifications in the drainage of
London. It had long been penal to allow any solid
matter to pass into the drains, but with a better sup-
ply of water to wash it away it was made compul-
sory to pass it there, and at the sany! time with the
extension of the population the quantity of house
drainage was largely increased. It was in these
circumstances that the Act of 1852 was passed, pro-
hibiting the companies from taking water from the
Thames below Teddington Lock, or from any tribu-
tary stream below: the tidal point. In 18b6, the
first year after that Act came into full operation,
the five companies obtaining their supply from the
Thames obtained an average of nearly 33,000,000
gallons a day ; in 1866 they drew nearly 47,000,000
gallons daily. The estimated number of persons
DOW supplied by these companies is 1,369,090.
Supposing the population should double itself within
the next 60 years the supply required would not
exceed 100,000,000 gallons a day. But the smallest
quantity of water known to flow down the Thames
at the source of supply, in the driest time on record,
exceeds 350,000,000 gallons a day, and in a time of
flood more than 25,000,000,000 gallons have flowed
down, so that if it were thought necessary to pro-
vide a store in reservoirs the Thames will sometimes
yield in a day a sufficient supply for a whole year.
The quality of the water supplied to London has
very greatly improved since the passing of the Act
of 1852, and inly be advantageou4y compared with
the water generally supplied to towns in England.
Still the only mode of securing water against pos-
sible causes of danger is by preventing it being
mixed with sewage or other known sources of conta-
mination. The Act of last Session relating to the
'names provides for this as far as at present deemed
practicable; and the committee from whose report
these statements arc taken--the Commons' commit-
tee on the East London Water Bills—are convinced
that the quantity and quality of the water supply
from the Thames are so far satisfactory that there is
no ground for disturbing the arrangements made
under the Act of 1852. The New River Company
and the East London Company, drawing their sup-
plies from the river Lea (the former having also the
springs at Amwell, affording about 4,000,000 gallons
daily), supplied nearly 38,000,000 gallons a day in
1856, and 41,670,000 gallons in 1866. The popula-
tion supplied by them is now estimated at 1,458,570.
The average daily flow in the Lea is about 99,000,000
gallons ; in extreme dry weather nearly 60,000,000
gallons. The companies are bound to leave suffi-
cient water for the purposes of navigation. Any great
addition to the present supply would make reservoirs
for storing water requisite, but there does not seem
to be any difficulty in constructing such works. A
bill passing through Parliament enables the East
London Company to increase their Tottenham reser-
voir so as to store 500,000,000 gallons of water ; and
as the water at their intake is liable at certain times
to become so much contaminated as to be unfit for
storing, the committee on the bill introduced a clause
requiring them to make such channels of communi-
cation between the river and the reservoir as will
allow the flow of water to be regulated or cut off.
Another bill gives this company power to obtain a
supply of 10,000,000 gallons a day from the Thames,
and the committee are satisfied that there will thus
be an abundant provision of water for the eastern
part of London for many years to come. The com-
mittee are also satisfied that, as faras science affords the
meansof judging, the watersupplied by the New River
and East Loudon companies is not only wholesome,
but compares favourably with that supplied by other
places. But they concur in the recommendation made
by the Rivers Pollution Committee that after the
lapse of a certain period no sewage (unless passed over
land so as to become purified) and no injurious re-
fuse should be allowed to be cast into the Lea or
tributaries. The works at Old Ford arc also, un-
der these bills, to be improved. The committee
state that with these remedial measures carried into
effect, the Lea will be as free from risk of contami-
nation as the Thames, and will afford a supply of

wholesome water of unquestionable character to the

East London Company at the lower source of sup-

ply, as it now does to the New River Company from
its intake near Hertford. The other company, the
North Kent, draws its water from deep wells, and
no question has ever arisen as to the quality of the
supply. The quantity, averaging 2,340,000 gallons
a day in 1856 is now more than 6,000,000 gallons.
The population supplied numbers 237,068. The

quantity might easily be doubled. The result of
the inquiry is, in the opinion of the committee,
that London is found to have an ample supply of

good water at its doors, and all that is needed is to
stop the systematic contamination of it, and to pass
a constant supply into every house, Loth of which

objects are attainable and ought now to be at-

SPORTING PROSPECTS.—As from the moors of
Derbyshire. Cheshire, Yorkshire, and the lands farther
south, the most dismal accounts come in from the West-
moreland moors, blighting the hopes of local sp.,rtsmen.
The fatal disease, which seems to have fastened upon the
grouse to the destruction of so many thousands, has
manifested itself in our county, decimating the birds to a
very serious extent, and rendering the chances of a goo,'
shooting s,,ason slender enough. Dead birds, our corre-
spondouts say, are found in all directions, while those on
the wing are small and poor. On the other hand, how-
ever, partridges and pheasants show well, being appa-
rently in excellent health as well as in good condition
The coveys, too, are numerous and large, affording
every promise of abundance and game.--Aendal Mercury.
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