The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-02 00:00:00

VICTUALLING OFFICE, DEC. 31, 182.9.
HE Commissioners for Victualling His
Majesty's Navy, Bte. do hereby give notice, that on
..fIUIISTIAY, the 15th day of January next, they will be
i:eady to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for
i?wenty Thousand SHIRTfi
7ivei Thousand Ditto, for Hospital use
ihre.Thousand DUCK FROCKS
ive.Thousand, DUCK TROWSERS
;Ten Thousand FLANNEL WAISTCOATS
Ten Thonsand FLANNEL DRAWERS
'Ten Thousand BLACK SILK HANDKERCHIEFS
One Thousand CAPS, for Boats' Crews
Three Thousand FLUSHING JACKETS
To he delivered inta the Victualling stores at Deptford,
.thereof by the 31st day of Mardi next, and the
refs minder by the 30th day of April following.
Also for Ten Thousand IiI.ANKETS,
To be delivered at a Packer's in London, in the month
sif May next.
Patterns of the ewe- mentioned articles, and the Con-
siitions of the Coutract,s, may he seen at this Office.
Each Tender mus% specify the price in words at length,
nad be delivered bi!fore One o'Clock on the day appointed,
end the Person v; ho makes the Tender, or some Perron on
.kbalfs my :;t attend to answer when called far.

M. WALLER CLIFTON.

ILLGIi'ORGE 11.0 rOyA•--- 17F•Tf-----:/ BINS'S i TR
.
lit' FOR •CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.
iIl TIJ.E Season o 1 the Year is approaching when
n the public will have additional reason to congratulate
''''hellY etlves upon this important and national invention. So
e,
:lit. OAr .y attempts have been made to mislead the good folks of the
Jc''d etropolie, by pretending- to cure the crying evil of bad water,
'no
e, "without the least pretension, that we were amongst the
, tmany who remained sceptical as to the preteneions of the
Roye I Filter, until we „wore led to seek ocular demonstrt..
o, Peon by having One fixed up in a large cistern, and we have
now no sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUITE ; CoM-
-2'.IipLETE, and in giving it mitt uliQuatortuti enefst.
•
!. ee:The names of the highest professional talent in the Metro-
AuVI ; voile have given the strongest testimony, that they way he
;'.eivosidererl, in the metropolitan city of London as an ab-
t, roeolute " God-eend," bnt we will illustrate their opinions
"e ;by stubborn facte and proofs as strong as Holy Writ; cad
Lot ;-y
.strearst /et us examine the state of the water, as now drank
an ''by the thousand and ten thoustied persons who have not
Goui
yet availed themselves of this Filter, and our leaders will
orn near in mind, that this evidence is sopplicd from evidence
f , •
th MINI last Hee
MME
rlen in the BRITISH HOUSE Or PARANT.
The following ourineut and learned men in their voca-
l. C. lions have given evidence, of which the following is h ne-
ln eY, eeseetrrily a short extract, viz.
i—
ost, Sir Henry Ilalferd, Dr. Helper, Mr. Keats, Mr.
/bonne, Dr. Turner, Drs. Hume, Yates, Kerrison, Somet-
'
tnb, eillel Johnson, Joh and Paris, &-c. &c.—they pronounce the wa-
s
W. (tee sent into tlieir houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated
biretta-Ith decayed. vegetable matters, and other substances pre-
I Iv ridicial *4O health ; that such matter@ in the stomach greatly
2 10.11 mite to the prodection of that state of FAULTY
tr-
Ince,„isonon and IMPURITY Af BLOOD; that it is SO
FILTHY
a at bad imrunx, as to be unfit for the breakfast table ;and
of i
..er culinary putpoees, and that it adds so much to the other
to anwholesorne constituents of bread, as to render every
vet., lea] injurious to the health of thousands ; that the water
is : taut into the cisterns during
.the not weather frequeutly
Prineteeame QUITE PUTRID; and ney. have no doubt that the
entr,,ontinued nee itf it wierieetur FILTESING is capable of pre-
lirretneing deleterious effete; that the Thames water its ex-
ad-eremely bads foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the
great quaeetity of FILTH; MATTERS CONTINUALLY POUR-
'"" I!"o '..NTO IT FROM NUMEROUS SEWERS ; and Dr. Ker-
r(' talon makes us acquaiuted with a fact, the perusal of
"t which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the
reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in-
specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
Le KW " the foul and black stream from the Ranelagh
Sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and
the Dolphin, LOADED WITH co EWALT, PORTION OP UNoI-
vIDED FLOATING mem PRONE PRIVIES;" from which he
toncludes, that " a ooNsinarraeLe. QUANTITY OF HUMAN
IKICREMENT, IN A SUBDIvIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED
STATE, ACTUALLY ',asses INTO OUR CISTERNS."
I Pr. Somerville, the physician to Chelsea Hospital, states
'..oe' water to be 'Very impure. " The tide," he says,
..'t te IRS UP THE MASS Oy IMPURITY PRODUCaD BY ALL
i, HAT IS COARUPTIBLE IN THE. ANIMAL AND 'VEGETABLE
' ARED, TOGIMIER WITH THE NOXIOUS FILTH OF GAS AND
In isitlEß. MANUFACTORIES, THAT CONSTANTLY ?LOW INTO
tilt '""E THAMES FROM BATTERSEA DOWN TO GRAVESEND.'
ra. Jr. Jame. Johnson, the author of the " Treatise on In-
Igestioe," say,-.._0 `yo sneer at the delicacy of the
.-tindoo, who shakes hie thirst at the same tank where
L ie neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina; but what shall
re say to the DELICATE CITIZENS 01, 'WESTMINSTER,
'MHO FILL THEIR TANKS AND STOMACHS WITH WA-
TER FROZI THE THAMES, AT THAT VERY SPOT INTO
lemon A HUNDRED THOUSAND or,oitc.N, CONTAIYINO
EVERY sytilies OF FILTH, AND ALL UNUTTERABLE
LI THINGS, ARE DAILY DISGORGING THEIR HIDEOUS AND
ha ABOMIXABLI: CONTENTS.
IT The Let professional gentleman to whose evidence we
'than refer, is Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work
'.. on Diet. He pionouueos the water to be impure and
effensire, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come
.it, LARGE QUANTITIES OF MATTER ARE MECHANICALLY
lUSPF.EDIO IN IT. "AS A PHYSICIAN," he eays, "I CAN-
i Nov FIND TERME SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSIVE OF THE AW-
E TUL EFFECTS IT MAY BE LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE
~ HEALTH, AND EVEN LIVES, OF THE INHABITANTS OF TILE
HETROPOLIS." And in the last edition of his work he
toes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy he not ap-
stied to the evil, " THE RAVAGES or some. Erlne:3l4c
''TAY BE, FAIRLY ANTICIPATED."
SUCH Lt THE. PICTURE--Tae FAITHFUL AND FRIGHT-
FUL, PICTURE—OF THE BONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE
THAMES, AS SUPPLIED BY THE COMPANIP.S TO THEIR
CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest, largest,
most populous city in the world--the seat of a more ripe-
; Lent body of nobility and gentry than is to be found in
my other Metropolis—should, for to long a time, have
teen contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR
tett:moss, AND TO HAVE USED, FOR ALL DOMESTIC AND
•'.DLINARY PURPOSES, A NECESSARY OF LICE, SO LOADED
WITH ALL SORTS OF IMPURITIES AS TO RE PRONOUNCED,
IST PROFESSIONAL MEN OF TUE FIRST EMINENCE, TO RE
orraxstvit TO Tux ware, disgusting to the imagination,
one! destructive to the health, is a fact that would not
"air. been credited, and that ought not to have been
•Terietli but upon evidence unanswerable.
rill RESULT OF THEIR LABOURS IS THE RECOMMEN-
. DATION OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILTRATION—A SYs-
rEm, NOT LIMITED TO THE PIETY-THREE THOUSAND
pAmtur.s DAILY DRINKING Tile FILTHY FLUID OF WHICH
k WE HAVy BEEN &PEAKING, BET EXTENDING ITSELF TO
I on it HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF
Hs NEW RIVER AND OTHER COMPANIES, CONSUMING
le -HE TWENTY-I+I.NR MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY SUP-
1Y fronn TO The METROPOLIS.
Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners
es 'pre drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal
el liter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or-
, -sal of office, OR IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER READ-
i NG THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT 'MUST HAVE
CHIMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON-
.LESION TO THEIR LABOURS.—The subjoined extract from
aProepectue, issued by the Proprietor, WILL BE PERUSED
versr THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL wilco CONSIDER
!LEARLINESS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH, AND THE
:MUTT OF TIM EdLEMENT OF WHICH WE ARE TREATING,
1 r 0 BE NEARLY or EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH THE AIR
.VE BREATHE :--
i " The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior 'o all filters hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only
~,5E68E6 THE POWER OP CLARIFYING THE WATER It, A
'RE-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT OF COMPLETE
' URIFICATION, RENDERING TSIE rooter TU REID, STAGNANT
' -ND WETID WATER., OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY,'
,
'DERIVING li' OY avarry NOXIOUS INGREDIENT, AND, IN
ACT, PRODUCING 4 NATURE'S NECTAR' IN THE IliollEsT
,GSSIELE PERFECTION ; THAT IS TO SAT, GLEAR ANN
,E.SITTUTZ OR TASTE AND SMELL."
The rapidity of the process may be understood by a
'ngle obeervation, " THAT 90 FAST AS THE WATER IS
'PPLIED AT THE TOP OF THE KisI.IIIIN, SO VAST i' Wild.
'EHAROE ITSELF' PROM Tllli BOTTOM."
i But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " is
proof of all this to be found ? We. must have eome-
i 4 more solid and satisfactory than bare aseertione."--
i, .1 following-statement most, we think, set the doubts of
t -re most sceptical at rest for ever.
tr Mr. Hume, the respectable and talented chemist of Long
to who has long been employed by Government in
ra/yeing waters, had two bottles sent to him for
ialyeation; THE ONE FULL OF ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL
ID VEGETABLE. MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION,
,'D STRONGLY IMPREGNATED WITH GAS; the other, a
*Ale which had contained the sane foul ingredients, but
'ail been purified by the Royal Filter.
In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-six
sins and. a half of solid matter, of which thirty grains
waisted of impnritties, and the remaining sixteen grains
1 the original ingredients peculiar to the water, eed
solved in it i " for," he observee, " there is no Water,
Fever pare nod wholveeme, whether from deep wells,