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London, England, 1828-01-17 00:00:00

THE SUPPLY OF WATER TO A CITY

The supply and distribution of water in a large
city, since the steam engine was added to th,,
apparatus, approaches closely to the perfection
of Nature's own wiirk in the circulation of blood
through the animal body. From the great
pumps of a high reservoir a few main pipes issue
•to the chief divisions of the town ; these scud
suitable branches to every street ; the branches
again divide fir the lanes and alleys ; and at
last, into every house, a small leaden conduit
rises, which, if required, carries its precious
freight into the separate apartments, and yields
it there to the turning of a cock. A correspond-
ing arrangement of drains and sewers, con-
structed with the greatest exactness,-in obedience
tolthe law of level, receives the water again, I7llCit
it has answered, its purposes, and carries it to be
purified in the great laboratory of the ocean,
And so admirably complete and perfect is this
counter-system of sloping channels, that a heavy
shower may fall, and after washing and purifying
every superficial spot in the city, and sweeping
completely all the subterranean passages, it may,
within the space of an hour, be again collected
in the river passing by. It is the recurrence of
this almost miracle of expansive, sudden, and
perfect purificatio►►, which has made London the
most healthy, although the largest city in the
world.

" English citizens have now become :Al ha-
bituated to the blessing of a supply of pure
water, more than sufficient for all their pm poses,.
that it causes them no more surprise than the
regularly returning light of day, or warmth of
summer. But a retrospect into past times may
awaken us to a sense of our obligation to
advancing art. How often, formerly, did perio-
dical pestilences arise from deficiency- of water.
and how often Las fire devoured whole cities,
which a timely supply of water might have saved.
Kings,
.1104-I*en accounted worthy of divine
honours;for having consti ucted aqueducts to
lead the pure streams from the mountain
into the peopled towns. In the present
day, he only who has travelled on the sandy
plains of Asia or Africa, where a well is
more prized than mines of gold, or who
has spent months on ship-board, where the fresh
water is often doled out with more caution thus,
the most precious product of the still, or who
has vividly sympathised with the shipwrecked
man spreading out his garments to catch the rain
of heaven, and then with mad eagerness, suck-
ing the delicious moisture into his cracked lips--_
only he can appreciate fully the blessing of that
abundant supply which most of us now so
thoughtlessly enjoy. The author will long re-
member the intense momentary regret with which,
on once approaching a beautiful land, after month:;
spent at sea, he saw a little stream of fresh ..
wa
ter sliding over a rock into the salt waves ; it ap-
peared to him that he was witnessing a most
precious essence, by some accident pow jug out,
to waste."—Liverpool Museum.

METHOD OF CURING THE ITCH E THE
JUICE OF THE HEMI,ock.-Dr. G. Pellegrini,
in a letter to Dr. Omodei, observes, that he has
Found the external application of the above juice
highly efficacious in curing the itch ; the pustules
are to be bathed with it for five or six days. Thy
doctor employs the juice expressed from the fresl-
- of the hemlock, bruised in a mortar, but he
says that the extract, decoction, or the powder of
the leaves, is equally efficacious, and that he
never failed in effecting the cure. The remedy
is not only easy to be had, but also important,
because it is to be obtained at so small an ex-
pense.—London Medical Gazette, Jan. 12.

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~ XTRAoIiDINARy CRANIA.—In the cabi-
„et of natural
tradition has yet
pre-
served the cranium of a man, named Borglnui,
of very extraordinary dimensions. He (lied att
he age of fifty, and was not quite four feet high,
His head measured three feet round the sides, and
One foot from the summit to the base. The in_
proportion to the quantity of brain which nature
ellectual faculties of this individual were not in
kept up the proverb a ~ as great a fool as Borg-
hini." When he arrived at the age of manhood,
had bestowed upon him, for
he was obliged to support his unwieldy head by
means of cushions placed upon each shoulder.—
A Moor resided some years at Tunis, whose head
.vas of a most unusual size. His nose was limy
inches long, and his mouth so capacious, that he
could put into it a middling sized melon. This
man was an idiot.--London( Medical Gazette,
Jan. 12.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Tuesday, Jan. 15.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC, 12.—Among the mea-
sures of defence recently adopted by the Sultan
must be placed the Convocation, which took place
a few days ago, of the chiefs of trades and corpora-
tions in the capital.
They were made to take an oath, and were in-
formed that they were to prepare, in the possible
event of a war, all the Mussulmen of their quarters
for military service, at whose head they were to
march.
The Seraskier delivered to them on that occasion
a caftan of honour, as a mark of their dignity.
Seven hundred pieces of iron cannon have been
Rent to the Dardanelles for the defence of the forts.
The sending of military stores of all kinds continues
without intermission.

Firmans have been sent to the capital of the pro-
vinces to order the above measures relative to the
corporations and trades to be executed in them.
Though these preparations excite some uneasiness
among the Franks, it is nevertheless certain that the
Porte will entirely avoid offensive war, and will con-
fine itself solely to the defensive. This certainly
confirms at Pcra the opinion of the weakness of the
Porte; and the more so, as it is affirmed that the
part of the Divan which, after the catastrophe at
Navarin, endeavoured to give weight to the opinion
that the Admirals of the Allied Powers, would be
- den'ounced by their Courts, seems now to believe
that the three Ambassadors have quitted the capital
without being authorised to do so—an illusion which
might be considered as an indication of uneasiness.
On the other hand, it is clear that the Porte has
adopted a system which admits of providing against
possible vicissitudes, as well political as military.
The greatest tranquillity still prevails here.
BUCHAREST, DEC. 18.—The news that the Pacha
of 13raila has been beheaded is not confirmed, but it
is said that he has received from the Pacha of Sills-
trio a severe reprimand, for having lately suffered
some armed Turks to pass the Danube.
It appears that the Porte is particularly vigilant
not to provoke the first entrance of the Russians
into the Principalities.
TRIESTE, JAN. 3.—The ships wl4;7h arrived on
the 30th December, under convoy of the Austrian
corvette Caroline, have had long voyages, and bring
nothing new, and the same is the case with those
which have arrived to-day from Smyrna ; the seas
are still infested by pirates. A ship, which quitted
Constantinople on the 13th December, brings word
that the vessels of the three Powers do not easily
obtain firentins for the Archipelago, and that several
have been taken to the arsenal to be unloaded.

BERLIN, JAN. 7.—M. de Nagler, the Postmaster
General and Minister •at the Diet, will go on the
loth inst. to Frankfort, and the Sessions will open
on the 20th.

FRANKFORT, JAN. 9.7-,—A.11 the news which we
have received here for some days past is of a specific
nature ; we hear nothing of the passage of the Pruth,
which has been so often and so positively announced
by the Liberal Journals of Paris. 'The Funds have
risen considerably in this City, on the arrival of a
Courier from Vienna, who is thought to have brought
a Declaration of Turkey, tending to a reconciliation
with the three Powers. The rise continues.
_ .

MAYENCE, JAN. 3.—Lieutenant-Generta,T;Od-
Marshal Count Langenan, Colonel of- the Austrian
Regiment of Infantry in Garrison in this City, and
President of the Military Committee, of the Germanic
Diet, is said to be intended for an important- com-
mand in the Army of Observation, which is now
forming on the Turkish frontiers.

It is thought that he will go there in the course
of this month.

(From the Journal des Debeas.)

PARIS, JAN. 14.—The vital condition of represen-
tative Governments is, ,shat .the depositaries of the
Royal power should be ceLtain of obtaining the sup-
port of a majority in the two 4pmf,:i4.Parljament.
The Monarch may vary his Miniasterisreopihmatiptis
to break down refractorY majorities—he may even
dissolve the elective Chamber; iheritidii
ment of God. The 'great. blow being struck, ir file.
success does not answer his expectations, there must
be some compromise. We have gone through all
these experiments. The dissolution has been fol-
lowed by an election that all Europe, has beheld;
and it is plain that another dissolution will not be
tried. For the first
.time within forty years, the
elections have been made in opposition to the wishes
of power. We have often before seen the wishes of
the Chief of the Stafe surpassed, but /lever opposed.
The impulse, then, always appeared to come from
authority.
_ . _

(From the ConstitutiouneL)

PARIS, JAN. 14.---REPORTS.--Nothing was talked
of yesterday in Paris, but a Ministry of such an ex-
traordinary composition that it is impossible to be-
lieve it. It would be a violence substituted for hy-
pocrisy; the open and declared counter-revolution,
for the Jesuits' counter-revolution. We will not
give the names of this pretended Ministry, fearing
to give importance to reports that are of a nature to
excite terror. They are, no doubt, propagated by
the emissaries of the old Ministry, who wish to re-
venge themselves for their defeat by exciting terror,
and making the s►ation believe that a more odious
_Ministry than themselves could exist. Perhaps it
may be a trick of M. de Villele's colleagues, who
form part of the new Ministry, to persuade France
to remain contented with them.

(From the Courier Francais.)

PARIS, JAN. 11.—The reports of M. M. Chabrol
mid Frayssinous having resigned gain credit; it has
even been said, that if these resignations were not
accepted, and if the Ministry were not reinforced by
some conspicuous Constitutional and Parliamentary
leaders, to support the Ministry in the debates, that
two other Members meant to resign, as they were
afraid of using their personal consideration, by ap-
pearing to sanction a course .pinch, in the Chamber
of Peers, they have always blamed.
We hear from Toulouse, that a Mr. F--, wish-
ing to establish a Journal there, to be called the
Figaro du Midi, could not find a printer, the Jesuits
having caused all the printers in the town to under-
stand, that they should be prosecuted without mercy,
if they undertook, the business.
M. Veyrac, of Grenoble, aged 82, having put a
period to his existence, the Clergy of his parish re-
fused to bury him. He was, therefore, accompanied
to the cemetery by soldiers, and the Members of the
Legion of Honour. Even the Commissaries of
Police thought their conscience would not allow
them to be present.

(From tLe Journal des Debats.)

" WARsAw, DEC. 20.—They are in high spirits
in Russia since the news of the departure of the
Ambassadors from Constantinople. Every one asks,
Is not the treaty of the Gth of July null and with-
out effect, since the total interruption of relations
betwixt the three contracting Powers and the Porte?
Does not this interruption dissolve all the obliga-
tions resulting from the said treaty ? Has not each
of the Powers which entered into the treaty, after
being satisfied of its inefficiency, the employ
to eoloy
individually all the means it has in its power to at-
tain the object of the treaty, referring only to means
of intervention, not to means of force, to be em-
ployed to bring the Porte to reason ?' The Sove-
reign of Russia, who knows what arc the wishes
of his people, and who has paid a tribute to public
Opinion by the protocol of St. Petersburgh and the
treaty of London, well understands that theinte-
rest of Russia and the voice of the nation require that
the Greek question should be regarded as Russian,
and that all contentions should be ended by the ad-
vance of his army ; but he knows likewise° that he
risks losing the confidence of Europe in regulating by
his own authority the affairs of the East, without
first conferring with his allies. lie has adopted the
latter course ; he has sent couriers to London and
Paris, with propositions to both Cabinets; but he
at the same time prepares means to enable him to
act with vigour, and to decide the great question.
During the journey of the couriers to Paris and

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