The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-10 00:00:00

No. 11,309.

Ti t)1 pi wAwan, AND SOON DIED ; THEY CHANGED
GOLOLI It, AND BE CA3IR SPOTTILD LIRE SSA EEA. Another
captain says, be has known 3,000 weight to um. mALF
AN stoua, and that if the water gets worse, they must give
up the business. I
Win. and Thomas Fiet' herd], fishermen, state, thatiailey
had left off the bL1E11.638 lII:CAUSE IT HAD LEFT THEIR 0IT•
They used to (retch flounders, eels, roach, smelts, salmon,
&c. before they were ruined. The water gets wqrse every
year ; the cause is the gas : they could get plenty of dead
flounders, hut no live ones; Ltd seen the flounders put up
their beads above the water, and if there was ohundle of
weeds they would escape from the water upon i,. Had
been two thousand pound weight of fish die hour;
and when the wells were opened there was quite a stench,
and oil on the top of the water.

The last evidence we shall quota frdit is that of Mr.
Golcihain, who had been yeoman at Billingsgate market for
twenty-five years. He says he has known, fifty thousand
smells brought duly to Billingsgate" and three thousand
salmon °aught in tie aeasoi in the Tham.a. He adds,
%NAT THEY ARE NOW ALL DESTROYED, AND THIS FISHERY
aosit ; and this lie attributes to the twit: tot yr....rig or NNE
WATER, FROM THE REFUSE OY THE tias-woat:s, yaw/
ALL THE' CC.:IA[IION SEWERS RUNNING INTO IT, AND TD
d26A ATS CONSTANTLY sTmanra Ur TUE FILTH.
HE HAS SEEN FOCA TDOUSAND HEL9 ALIVE AT NIGHT
IN TIME Demi MOATS, AND INS NEIT 1/OP.WINO
FOURTHS HAW SEEN DEAD. faberrneu have hew
ruined by the change.

SUCH LS THE PICTURE--THE FAITHFUL ♦ND FRIGHT •
PUI. PICTURE.—OF THE CONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE
THAMES, AS SUPPLIED BY THE COMPANIES TO THEM
CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest, largest,
most populous city in the world—the seat of a more opu-
lent body of nobility and gentry than is to be found in
any other Metz•opolis-_sheuld, for so long a time, have
been contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR
CISTEILNS, AND TO HAVE USE4I, TOR ALL DOMESTIC AND
CULINARY ruarosas, A NECESSARY OF TIFF, SO LOADED
WITH ALL SORTS OF IMPURITIES AS TO BR PRONOUNCED,
BY raorssszoNAL MAN ON THE FIIIIT EMINENCE, TO Be
oFrsystariu TO THE SIGHT, disgusting to the imagination,
and destructive to the health, is a fact that would not
have been credited, and that ought nOt to have been
credited, but upon evidence unanswerable.

TiE RESULT OF THEM LABOURS IS THE RF,COSIMEN.
DATION or A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILTRATION--A SYS-
TEM, NOT LIMITED TO THE FIFTY-THREE THOUSAND
FAMILIES DAILY DRlbuctroa THE FILTHY FLUID OP WHICH
WB HAVE BEEN SPEAKING, BET EXTENDING ITSELF TD
THE HUNDEED AND SEVENTY-64X THOUSAND TENANTS OF
THE NEW RIVER AND OTHER COMPANIES, CONSURIINO
TEE TWENTY-NINE lIILLIONI OF GALLONS DAILY sur-
PLIED TO THE lINTROTOLIS,

Unfortunately, at the tnotnent when the Counntiftioners
were drawing up their !Import, the patent for "The ltoyal
Filter for Cistern,'" had rb t passed through the tedious or-
deal of office, OR IT WILL NOT 2111 DOUBTED, ArTHR READ-
I>:Gi THE FOLLOWING TESTIZIONIALS„ THAT IT Kuser HAVE
FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON-
CLUSION TO THEIR LABOURS.-The subjoined extract from
arroopeetus, issued by the Proprietor, WILL BE PERUSED
WITH 'mu LivEtiLs-r istaarer BY ALL WHO CONRIDER

IS
tiLILANI.INIMS TO 156: IitifiENTIAL TO IiVALTH, AND Ti
I'DitITY OF T 1 ELIEUENT OF NI-HI4;:H WF, AHL TILEATINU,
TO BE NEAItI.T OF S:QUAL 1111illTANCE Wall TUB Alit
Wlt LBEATIIk

Thu Royal Filter (or Cisterns will be found superior
to all filtert hitherto invented, inasmuch WI it not- only
rOEidESSES THE POWER OF CLAILIWYINLI THE WATER IN A

PII.S-EVIETEDiP DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT OF COMPLETE
PURIFICATION, RENDEF.I N a TUE Sioza TURBID, STAGN ANT,
AND NatTID WATER, OF A CRY9PALLIN£ BRILLIANCY,
DEPRIVING IT OP EVERY NOEILWI 'NCI:1111)11;NT, AND, IN
FACT, raonuctNa NATuii.E's 4t("l'Ali: IN THE I.,IOIIEVP
POBSIBIX PERFECTION ; THAT IS TO NAY, CLEAN ANIb
DESTITUTE OIL TAtITE AND SMELL."

The rapidity of the prooets may be understood by a
single ob4trration, " THAT SO VAST AS THR WATER IS
SUPPL/DO AT THE TOP OF Tkik CISTERN, SO LAST IT WELL
DISC;HA ROE ITSELT FROM YHE 2-07C031."

" But 'where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " is
the proof of all this to be found ? Wu mast have some-
thing more solid and satisfaebory than bare assertions."—
The following statement omit, we think, set the doubts of
the most sceptieal at rest for cyst.
Mr. Hume, the respectable and taleated chemist of Long
lore, who has ;wig been employed by Government iii
analysing waters, Ltd two bottles of water sent to him for
analysatiou; THE ONE FULL OF ALI. SORiti OF ANIMAL
AND YEGW.TAULD MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPO.sITION,
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 battle he found, be soya, forty-six
grains and a half of solid matter, of which thirty grains
consisted of impurities, and the reuutiuing 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 front deep wells,
superficial springs, or any other source, that is free front
saline and other soluble salts, not at all inituious to health."
In the filtered bottle he found Daily sixteen grains of
substanees, whieh, on examination, proved to be the same
materials peculiar to, awl soluble in, the water in its pri-
mitive state, and perfectly free front the isupurities and
contingent foulness of list water, ocoa.sianed principally by
deeeyed vegetable mattefa, a slight impregnation by animal
subltanco4, some caroureted hydrogen or coal gas, and car-
honk, acid gas. Mr. Hume concludes with bearing the
following high testimony to the merits of this dicovery:
" After a very careful analysis, I cannot hesitate to pro-
nounce the method which has been adopted to filter tiffs
specimen of water to be moat eiknetual, and deserv-
ing of public encouragement." The same gentleman, at a
subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, anti says,
" the opinion I had forte4l of this new process for filtering
is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus
analysed, ALTHOUGH PURPOSELY STRONGLY txt rano-
:SATED WITH OAS AND OTHER IMPURITIES, lECANIE
CRYSTALLISED, ANDDF—STITUTE OF TASTE AND SMELL.

Thus it is clearly proved, THAT OP THE FOSTY-six
GRAINS AND A HALF OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY
PLACED IN THE ROYAL FILTER, ONLY SIXTEEN GRAINS
OF SUIRTPANCES PASSED THROUGH IT ; AND WHICH SIX-
TEEN URAISS ARE ?ROVED TO HE PECULIAR TO WATER
IN ITS PRIMITIVE STATE, AND TOT AT ALL DELRTERIOUS
TO HEALTH. liiiwever trukeh, 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 labasxs, tliev had not the benefit of the preceding
experiments, and of the following striking tretiolanials
to the excellence of " The Royal Filter."
Professor Grande, 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 lie
has stepped forward with his ready testimony to• the sin-
gular merits of this discovery. " I here," he says, "tried
its eVect on very turbid water, and it appears to possess
the two groat desiderata. of such sontrivances, namely, TO
FILTER VERY PERFECTLY, ANT) VERY aarrin.Y."
Mr. Brodie, the surgeon, corroborates every thing that
has been said in its fivour. Ife Staten, that having prc-
cured soma of the foulest water his 1.L4n...,e afforded, and
mixed with it a quantity of water impregnated with gos
from coals, he Poured it into the Royal Filter; and it
paved through it very tepidly, ANXI WAS DRAWN OFF IN
A STATE OP SUCH rutin:l', AHD SO ENTIRELY FREE FRONT
THE ODOCR AND TANTE 05 THE GAS, WI to be quite fit for
be•iug plaited in a decanter on the table, to be drunk during
dinner.

lie. Sautiaplore elys, he has made staffieit,tit experiments
pith the Filtering Apparatus to satisfy his judgment of
its rflieacy in rendering the most turbid water quite clear
and agreeable, bath to the eye and to the taste, and °op-
inion it a great improve:m-1A upon all others.
31r„ Thomas, the stugeon, has haul a Royal
}slimed in his cistern, and ever since the employment
of it, has had the sat;sfaction to find his house regularly
and abundantly supplied with eleisr and wholesotr.e water.
Ile considers that the introduction of it gontally into
families will be found 1.4b1y conducive to the improve-
tnent of the health qf the !tletropolis, by tt4Vectually arrest-
ing the deleterious impurities which exist in the water in its
of latey&tre, yotre, has tended.
anotualous disorders
Pt
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,sen deawt
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lulling out of a morbid derangement of stomagh and the
othea organs subservient to the procees of digestion.
Mr. Keate, the surgeon, considers it to be admirably
adapted to the important purpose of purifying anal c•larity-
inbr on a large scale, and that it would be a valuable
appenduze tc every cistern. " It 1)°58e3"8)" he says,