The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-02 00:00:00

VOL EXPECTS IT MAY 13E. LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE

HEALTH, AND EVEN LIVES, OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE
mETtiorous." And in the last edition of his work he
goes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy be not ap-
plied to the evil, " THE RAVAGES OF SOME EPIDEMIC
IIAY BE FAIRLY ANTICIPATED."

We could adduce the corroboratiye testimony of many
other professional men of eminence, if our space would
allow us to do so : we cannot, however, conclude without
giving a short summary of the evidence of six individuals,
whose business it has been to watch the progress of the
mischief, and to trace it up to its source.
Mr. Mills, the engineer, tells us, that the Thames is
neither more nor less than THE COMMON SEWER OF Lox-
DON, SO FAR AS IT RECEIVES THE CONTENTS Of ALL THE
SEWERS; which on the north side are ninety .nine, and on
the south forty-six. The water taken up opposite some of
the sewers at the time of discharge is NEARLY THE SUB-
STANTIVE CONTENTS OF THOSE CHANNELS' OF HUMAN
ORDURE. Mr. Joseph Evans has often seen the -sewers
discharging black slimy liquid, with gas, oil, dead animals,
entrails from the SLAUGHTER..OUSES, AND OTHER FILTH
Too DISGUSTING To N Mr. Goodhugh, the fish-
monger, says, that the Company's water is muddy and
offensive : if fresh fish are put into it, they will not
live more than six -hours, and turn a yellow colour. Mr.
Buteher, a fish-salesman, states the water to be very bad,
and that he has known three parts of a cargo of eels to die
by the gas-water passing ,the vessel. Mr. Newland, the
master of a Dutch vessel, says, that out of 26,0001b5. of
eels, the cargo of two boats, only 9,0001b5, were mar-
keted alive : THEY BECAME SICK ON BEING -PUT INTO
THAMES WATER, AND SOON 'DIED ; THEY CHANGED
COLOUR, AND BECAME SPOTTED LIKE SNAKES. Another
captain says, he has known 3,000 weight to DIE IN HALF
AN noun., and that if the water gets worse, they must give
up the business.
Wm. and Thomas Hetherill, fishermen, state, that they
had left off the business BECAUSE IT HAD LEFT Timm OFF.
They used to catch flounders, eels, roach, smelts, salmon,
&c. before they were ruined. The water gets worse every
year ; the cause is the gas : they could get plenty of dead
flounders, but no live ones; had seen the flounders put up
their heads above the water, and if there was a bundle of
weeds they would escape from the water upon it. Had
pound weight of fish die in an hour;.
losvp a o
enllti
sf
the water.
were opened there was quite a stench,
The last evidence we shall quote from, is that of Mr.
d
Goldham, who hail been yeoman at Billingsgate market for
Fnne oilt whenw
noti ut
twenty-five years. He says he has known fifty thousand
smelts brought 4.14 to Billingsgate, and three thousand
salmon caught in the season iu the Thames. He adds,
THAT THEY ALE NOW ALL DESTROYED, AND THIS FISHERY
GONE ; awl this lac attributes to the IMPURE STATE OF THE
WATER, FROM THE REFUSE OF THE GAs-WoltEs, FiloM
ALL THE COMMON SEWERS RUNNING INTO IT, AND TILE
STEAM-BOATS CONSTANTLY STIRRING UP THE FILTH.
HE IlAs SEEN FOUR THOUSAND EELs ALIVE AT NIGHW
IN THE DUTCH BOATS, AND THE NEXT MoRMNG
FOURTHS IlAv a BEEN DEAD. Many Qum/nen have been
wined by the change.

SUCH IS THE PICTURE-THE FAITHFUL AND FRIGHT•
FUI PICTURE..--OF THE CONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE
THAMES, AS suprttEn BY THE COMPANIES TO THEIR
CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest) 14011

most populous city in the world—the scat of a raore opu-
lent body of nohility and gentry than is to be found in
any other Metropolis--should, for so long a time, have
been contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING: INTO THEIR
CISTERNS, AND TO DAVE USED, I'oll ALL DOMESTIC AND

CULINARY PURPOSE,,, A NECESSARY OF LIFE, so LoADEL)
WITH ALL SORTS or IMPURITIES AS TO BE PRONOUNCED,
BY PROFESSIONAL MEN OF TIIE Fitts: EMINENCE, TO BE
OFFENSIVE TO THE stony, disgusting to the imagination,
and destructive to the health, is a I4ct that would not
have been credited, and that ought not to have been
credited, but upon evidence unanswerable.

THE RESULT OF THEIR LABOURS IS THE RVCOMMEN-
DATION OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILTRATION_A SYS-
TEM, NOT LIMITED TO TINE FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND
FAMILIES DAILY DRINKING THE FILTHY ELLIE 01' WHICH
WE HAVE BEEN SPEAKINC, BUT EXTENDING ITSELF TV
THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF
THE NEW RIVER AND OTHER comrANlxs, CONSUMING
THE TWENTS,NINE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY SUP-
PLIED TO THE METROPOLIS,

Unfortunately, at the moment when the COmmiaaioners
were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal
Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tediou3 or-
deal of office, OK IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER. READ-
ING THE rcaLowisc TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT 3IUST HAVE

FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON-
CLUSION TO THEIR I A BUITRS.-Thr subjoined extract from
arrovectus, issued by the Proprietor, wird. BE PERUSED
WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER

CLEANLINESS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH, AND THE
PURITY OF THE ELEMENT OF WHICH ►VE ARE TREATING,
TO BE NEARLY or EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH THE AIR

WE BREATHE:-

" The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found supelior
to all filter* bitheko invented, inasmuch as it not only
YOSSESSES THE POWER OF CLARIFYING TI! WATER IN A

PRE-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT 01' COMPLETE

PURIFICATION, RENDERING THE MOST TURBID, tiTACNANT,
AND EtETID WATER, OE A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY;

DEPRIVING IT 01' EVERY NOXIOCA INGREDIENT, AND, IN
FACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN IHE 'HIGHEST
POSSIBLE. PERFECTION; THAT II TO SAV, CLEAR ANN
DESTITUTE OE TASTE A'ND SMELL"

The rapidity of the process may be understood by a
single observation, " THAT SO FAST AS THE WATER. IS
SUPPI./ED AT THE TOP OF THE CISTERN, SO FAST IT WILL

nISCHA RG 1.: ITSELF ritom THE BOTTOM."

" But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, "is
the proof of all this to be found ? We must have some-
thing more solid and satisfactory than bale assertions."—
The following statement must, we think, set the doubts of
the most sceptical at rest for ever.
Mr. Hume, the respectable and talented chemist of Long
Acre, who has long bee❑ employed by Government in
analysing waters, had two bottles of water sent to him for
analysation ; THE ONE FELL or ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL
AND ♦EGETABLE MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION,
AND STRONGLY IMPREGNATED WITH GAS; the other, a
bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but
had been purified by the Royal Filter.
In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-six
grains and a half of solid matter, of which thirty grains
consisted of impurities, and the remaining sixteen grains
were the original ingredients peculiar to the water, and
dissolved in it : " for," he observes, " there is -no water,
however pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells,
superficial springs, or any other source, that is free from
saline and other soluble salt', not at all injurious to health."
In the filtered bottle he found only sixteen grains of
substances, which, on examination, proved to he the same
materials peculiar to, and soluble iu, the water in is pri-
mitive state, and perfectly free from the impurities and
contingent foulness of the water, occasioned principally by
decayed vegetable matter', a slight impregnation by animal
substances, some carbureted hydrogen or coal gas, and car-
bonic acid gas. Mr. Hume concludes with bearing the
following high testimony to the merits of this discovery:
" After a Very careful analysis, I cannot hesitate to pro-
nounce the method which has been adopted to filter this
specimen of water to he most effectual, and hOdy deserv-
ing of public encouragement." The same gentleman, at a
subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says,
" the opinion I had formei of this new process for tittering
is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus
analysed, nun-room{ TUREOSELY STRONGLY ydraEc-
NATED WITH GAS AND OTHER IMPURITIES, BECAME
CRYSTALLISED, AND DESTITUTE 01"rASTE AND SMELL.

Thus it is clearly proved; THAT OF THE FORTY-SIX
GRAINS AND A HALF OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY
PLACED IN THE ROYAL FILTER, ONLY SIXTEEN GRAINS
OF SUBSTANCES PASSED THROUGH ; AND WHICH SIX-

TEEN GRAINS ARE PROVED TO BE PECULIAR TO WATER

IN ITS PRIMITIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALL DELETERIOUS
TO HEALTH. However touch, therefore, the observation of
the Commissioners may apply to all former systems of
filtration, it is greatly to be regretted that, before the close
of their labours, they had not the benefit of the preceding
experiments, and of the following striking testimonials
to the excellence of " The Royal Filter."
Professor Braude, one of the three Commissioners ap-
pointed by the King, has had a portable Royal Filter,
for the purpose of trying experiments on water in a si-
milar condition to that described by Mr. Hume; and he
has stepped forward with his ready testimony to the sin-
gular merits of this discovery. " I have," he says, " tried
its effect on very turbid water, and it appears to possess
the two great desiderata of such contrivances, namely, 'so
FILTER VERY PP.RFECTEY, AND VERY RAPIDLY."

Mr. Brodie, the sukgeon, corroborates every thing that
has been said in its favour. Ile stater, that having pro-
cured some of the foulest water his house afforded, and
mixed with it a quantity of water impregnated with gas
from coals, he poured it into the Royal Filter ; and it
passed through it very rapidly, AN) WAS DRAWN OFF IN
A STATE OV SUCH PURITY, AND SO ENTIRELY FREE FROM
THE ODOUR AND riratt OF THE CAS, as to be quite fit for
being placed in a decanter on the table, to be drunk during
dinner.

Scudamore says, he has made sufficient experiments
with the Filtering Apparatus to satisfy his judgment of
its efficacy in rendering the most turbid water quite clear
and agreeable, both to the eye and to the taste, and con-
siders it a great improvement upon all others.
Mr. Thomas, the singeon, has had a Royal Filter
placed in his cistern, and ever since the employment
of it, has had the satisfaction to find his house regularly
and abundantly supplied with clear and nholesome water.
He considers that the introduction of it generally into
families will be found highly conducive to the improve-
ment of the health of the Metropolis, by effectually arrest-
ing the deleterious impurities which exist in the water in its
present state, and which he thinks, di late years, has tended
to augment the catalogue of those anomalous disorders
arising out of a morbid derangement of stomach and the
ether organs subservient to the process of digestion.
Mr. Keate, the surgeon, considers it to be admirably
adapted to the important purpose of purifying and clarify-
ing water on a large scale, and that it would be a valuable
appendage to every cistern. " It possesses," he says,
" the great advantage of filtering all that is served into the
cistern, so that no unfiltered water can be used for do-
mestic purposes ; and the water thus filtered is beautifully
clear." _ _

Dr. Clarke, in a very kind letter to Mr. Robins, speaks
of its efficacy in terms quite as satisfactory as any of the
learned profession.
It should be observed that the difficulty of getting
pure water is very common in most of the large towns,
and indeed throughout the provinces. The difficulty or
necessity of placing a Filter at this distance is now removed.
Portable ones of all dimensions, capable of filtering froth
100 to 1,000 gallons every 24 hours, have been adapted to
present theinconvenience alluded to. The expence is from
110 s. to 41. or 5/.
We trust we have said enough to draw general attention
to the merits of a discovery so highly conducive to the
cleanliness, comfort, and health of the inhabitants of this
thickly peopled. Metropolis. We shall only add that the
apparatus may be inspected at the Office of the Patentee!
Mr. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelpht
The.ttre; where the pub!ie are invited to have ocular de-
monstration of the efficacy of this remedy.

MILITARY DECISION. The following
highly characteristic anecdote has been communicated to us
of the late General Sir John Stuart, who commanded the
British forcettat the battle of Maids. After marching in
triumph through the peninsula of Calabria, the Scottish
soldier singing proudly-
- "What pipe on green Maida blew shrill ?"
the army returned to Sicily. Here the natives, instigated
as was supposed by the French emissaries, for some time
assassinated sm:h of our soldiers as inadvertently fell in
their \vay after night-fall, The most active exertions
were niade to discover the cowardly assassins, but without
effect. At length, to intimidate the islanders, General
ISntuuradr:reidn t
in this doa:tl4lle.ArGoc.ve;dnilorruoefi tmheannlleir7hieawetliu::
for every English soldier who in fyity,re should ha found
hang up a *441-1, the that he should chance to encounter
after Wing apprised 'of the deed. , The Governor remon-
strated, against the injustice of such a decree, which would
visit alike the innocent and the guilty. " For exam',e,v
said his terrified Excellency, " I myself max be the first
person you may chance to meet ,t..ter discoVermg an act of
assassination."—" Then by —lll hang ion," was the
General's blunt rrply The threat bid the iiesked effect.-7
ilntvness Courier.
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THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Erening PoPi of Friiiiy.)

ti.;loLoirne,e, i
jacnkt,l 200 n
Tmietriosod,f,)t,fier..l.oy::\l
tiA,
rtillery
Brigade in that Garrison.
alone, to
verrittAived
h;:reryt'hoef the Military will shortly be stationed
in Enni,,.
Major Hamilton, and a party of the 19th Depot
Regiment, are doing duty at Thrush.
The 34th Regiment are ordered from Cork to
Dublin.

Amongst the 'Military Promotions, which we this
day publish, we are glad to perceive the following
appointments : Cornet Francis M`Namara,of Ennis,
to a Lieutenantcy in the Bth Royal Kiss:vs; and
Lient.Jenkins, son-in-law of the late Sexton Bayly,
Esq., of Limerick, to a company in the 12th Regiment.
Lieut. Beverhoudt, who itiperintended the Re-
cruiting Department, Limerick, has left to join his
Regiment, the .58th, at Naas, having been succeeded
by Lieut. Stewart.