The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-30 00:00:00

FAMILIES DAILY DRINKING THE FILTHY FLUID OF WHICK

WE HATE BEEN SPEAKING, BUT EXTENDING ITSELF TO

THE HUNDRAD AND SAVIENTT-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS or

THE NEW RIVEN. AND OTHER. COMPANIES, coNsumING
THE TWENTY-NAYS MILLIONS Or GALLONS DAILY SUP-

PLIED TO THE METROPOLIS.

Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners
were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal
ilter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or-
deal of office, OR IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER READ-
ING THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT MUST HAVE
FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON-
CLUSION To THEIR LABOURS.—The subjoined extract from
aProspectus, issued by the Proprietor, WILL BE PERUSED
WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER

CLEANLINESS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH, AND THE

PITHITE OF THE ELEMENT OF WHICH WE ARE TREATING,

TO BE NEARLY OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH THE ♦IR

WE BREATHE :-

" The Royal Filter for Cisterns will he found superior
to all filters hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only
POSSESSES THE POWER OF CLARIFYING THE WATER IN A

PRE-EMINEN I' DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT OF COMPLETE
PURIFICATION, RENDERING TILE MOST TURBID, STAGNANT,

AND FETID WATER, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY,
DL:rruviNo IT OF EVERY NOXIOUS INGREDIENT, AND, IN
PACT, PRODUCING 4 NATURE'S NECTAR' IN THE HIGHEST
POSSIBLE PERFECTION; THAT IS TO SAY, CLEAR AND
DESTITUTE OF TASTE AND SMELL."

The rapidity of the process may he understood by a
single observation, " THAT SO FAST AS THE WATER IS
SUPPLIED AT TOP. Tor OF TISK CISTERN, SO FAST IT WILL
DISCHA RG I, ITSELF FROM THE BOTTONI."
" But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " is
the proof of all this to be found ? We mnst hays 'some-
thing more solid and satisfactory than hare assertions."—
The following statement must, we think, set the doubts of
the most sceptical at rest for ever.
Mr. flume, the respectable and talented chemist of Long
Acre, who has long been employed by Government in
an;dysing waters, had two bottles sent to him for
analysation ; THE ONE FULL OF ♦LL SORTS OF ANIMAL
AND VEGETABLE MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION,
AND STRONGLY IMPEEGN ATM) WITH GAS; the other, a
bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, lint
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 : " fur," he observes, " there is no water,
however pure and wholesome, whether from deep well,,
superficial springs, or any other source, that is free from
saline and ether soluble salts, not at all injurious to
health."

In the filtered bottle he found only sixteen grains of
substances, which, on examination, proved to be the same
materials peculiar to, and solutde in, the water in its pri-
mitive state, and perfectly free from the impurities and
contingent foulness of the water, occasioned principally by
decayed vegetable matters, a slight impregnation by animal
substances, some carbureted hydrogen or coal gas, and car-
bonic acid gas. Mr. Hume concludes with hearing 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 hi:;bly deserv-
ing of public encouragement." The same gentleman, at a
subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says,
" the opinion I had formed of this new process fur filtering
is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus
analysed, ALTHOUGH NIKTOSELY STRONGLY IMPREG-
NATED WITH GAS ANA OTHER ?Mr C RITIES, BECAME

CRYSTALLISED, AND DESTITUTE OF TASTE AND SMELL.
ThUS it is deArly proved, THAT OF TOE FORTY-SIX
GRAINS AND A HALF OF soup MATTER ORIGINALLY

FLACFD IN THR ROYAL FILTF.II, ONLY SIXTEEN GRAINY
OF SUBSTANCES PASSED THROUGH IT; AND ATBIICII SIX-

TEEN GRAINS ARE PROVED TO BE PECULIAR TO WATEB,

IN ITS PRIMITIVE. STATE, AND NOT AT ALR DELETERIOUS
TO HEALTH. However much, 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 excellen,e or " The Royal Filter."
Professor Brandt, Dr. Clarke, Mr. Brodie, Mr. Keate,
Dr. Scudamore, and 30 other highly eminent and unpre-
judiced medical men, have each had the Hovel Filter
placed in their cisterns, and they all concur in stating
that it renders the most turbid, fintid water of clirystaline
brilliancy, and free from taste and smell.
It should be observed that the difficulty of getting
pure water is very col-ninon 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 ull dimensions, capable of filtering from
50 to 500 gallons every 24 hours, have been adapted to
prevent the inconvenience alluded to. The expenco is from
SOP,. to 41. or Si.

We trust we hare said enough to draw general attention
to the merits of a digcorery ro highly conducive to the
cleanlinevs, 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 Adelphi
TheAtre ; where the public are invited to hare ocular de-
monstration of the efficacy of this remedy.