The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-10 00:00:00

PURITY OF THE ELEMENT OF WHICH WE ♦RE TILEA7ING,

TO BE NEARLY OF EQUAL IMEORTA NCR WrEil THE AIR

WE BREATHE :-

" The Royal Filter for Cikeros will he *Rind superior
to all filter* hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only
POSSESSES THE POWER OP eL•RIFTING THE WATER. IN A

Fall-EMINDNr OTORED, DUT ALSO TtiAT Or CO.itPLETE

itivicanoN, RENDERING THE MOST TURBID, STAGNANT,

ANT 3 VORTID WATER, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY

nv,ratvwci IT OF EVERY NOTIOUS.IN(:REDIENT, AND, IN
PACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN TilE HIGHEST

POSSIBLY. YBRFICTION ; THAT LS To SAY, CLEAR AND

DESTITUTE OK TASTE AND SMELL.'

The rvidity of the proce.s may be understood by a
single observation, " TIIAT to VAST AS THE WATEII. IS
SUPPLIED Ar TILE TOP or THE etsTattx, SO VAST IT WILL

DISCH A RGE WULF' FROM 7HE 80T70H."

" 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 hare assertions."—
The following statement must, we think, set the doublet of
the most sceptical at rest for ever.
Mr. flume, the respectable aid talented chemist of Long
Acre, who has long been employed by Government in
analysing waters, had two bottles sent to him for
analysation; ONY FULL OF ♦LL SORTS OF ANIMAL
AND VEGETABLE alATTtdttS IN A SIATE OF DECOMPOSITION,
AND STRONGLY IMPREGN %TRD w)Tfl GAS; the other, a
bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but
hail been purified by the Royal
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 pare and wholesome, whether from deep wells,
superfic.ial springs, or any othea source, that is free from
saline and ether soluble salts, not at all injurious to
health."

In the filtered bottle he found only sixteea grains of
substances, which, en examination, proved to he the same
materials pe;:uliar to, and soluble 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 fry animal
substance, 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 be most effectual, and deserv-
ing of public encouragement." The same gentleman, at a
subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says,
the opinion I had tiormeal of this new process for filtering
is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus
analysed, ALTMOUGIS PORPO6ELY STRONGLY 114TREC-

NA'PED WITH GAS A N 5) CrfilaiL IMPURIVIES, BECAME

CRYITALLISED, AND DESTITUTF. OF TASTE AND SAIXI.L.

Thus it is clearly proved, THAT OF"PHE FORTY-3NC
GRAMS AND ♦ MALE OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY
PLACED INT THE ROYAL FILTNR, ONLY SIXTRFN GRAINS
Or SUBSTANCES PASSED THROUGH It ; AND WHICH SIT-

TEEN GRAINS ARE PROVHD TO BE PECULIAR 70 WATER.

IN res PILIMITIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALL DBLIITHRIOLIS
TO taxa Wrii. However much, therefore, the observation of
the Commissioners may apply to all former systems of
filtration, it is greatly to he regretted that, before the close
of their labours, they had not the benefit of the preceding
experinients, and of the following striking testimonials
to the excellence, of " The Royal Filter."
Professor Braude, Dr. Clarke, Ir. Brodie, Mr.- Keats,
Dr. Scudamore, and 30 other highly eminent and unpre-
judiced medical men, have each had the Royal Filter
placed in their cisterns, and they all cancer in stating
that it renders the most turbid, fietid water of chrystaline
brilliancy, and free front taste and smell. •
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 restored.
Portable ones of all dimensions, capable of filtering from
50 to 500 gallons every 24. hours, have been adapted to
prevent the inconvenience allatled to. Thesupence is front
SOs. to 4/. or

We trivst we have said enough to draw general attention
to the merits of a discovery 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 Adelphi
Theatre ; where the public are invited to have ocular de-

THE PORTUGUESE REFUGEES.

(From the Greenock Advertiser.)

The following communication with which we have
been favoured, discloses a new and important fact
regarding the destination of the Portuguese refugees,
now embarking at Plymouth. They are to debark,
it seems, at Terceira, which still holds out against
Don Miguel, and, protected by the almost impreg-
nable fortifications of Angra, await a favourable op-
portunity for making a descent upon Portugal in
favour of the young Queen :
" His Majesty's ship Badger, which was fur
about two years on the Clyde station, was ordered
about ten months ago to Lisbon, on Don Miguel
assuming the Royal prerogative. The Badger ar-
rived twice at Plymouth with the unfortunate refu-
gees. About five months ago she was despatched
on particular service, and on her orders being opened
her destination was found to be for the Western
Islands. She has been cruizing off the Islands of
Madeira and Terceira, from which she returned
home but a few days ago. It is said that the con-
templated embarkation of the Portuguese officers,
&c. now in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, is for
the island of Terceira, instead of the Brazils.
1 his is considered by those best acquainted with
Portuguese matters to he the most judicious arrange-
ment for the interest of the young Queen, as well as
that of the Constitutionalists. The island is held
by a Brigadier-General of known and tried attach-
ment to the cause, and also one of great military
talent. He has considerable !limbers of the regular
army, though he would require more to garrison
the Castle of Angra, which he was provisioning
with all despatch w hen the Badger was last there.
These strong 1101,18 are reckoned almost impregnable,
and would set at defiance a largo attacking force.
The local situation of Terceira is such, that a descent
from it on the coasts of Portugal is rendered very
easy, and the refugees can have early intelligence
whenever a favourable change takes place in politics
in the Court of Lisbon, or in the rising of the Con-
stitutionalists. To this spot in the Atlantic, there.
fore, their brightest hopes and their dreams of liberty
are entirely directed.
" The particular details relative to the late cap.
ture of the Castle of Fayal, are very interesting.
The Bridgers was there at the time, and gave refuge
to a young gentleman, who was one of the Consti-
tutionalists engaged; he escaped on board of the
brig, under the sanction of her Commander and the
English inhabitants. His grandfather, Mr. Parkins,
has been for a long time Consul of the island ; he
was for about six weeks on board, and finally fended
at Plymouth. He mentioned that it is quite impos-
sible to calculate on the support of any party, except
those to which the Monks are devotedly attached
—that the hold they have over the consciences and
actions of man would be matter of wonder to Britons
in this enlightened age—that these men are them-
selves deplorably ignorant, and that whenever they
see the least attempt at the spread of liberal opinions,
or any thing which tends to forward the march of
freedom, they stand forth in dreadful array with all
the anathemas of the Church of Rome to arrest its
rogress." •

On Thursday evening, Mr. Batson, the li-
brAry-keeper of Trinity-eollege, was found prostrate on
the library floor, beneath the baneful influence of an apop-
lectic fit. He was removed, and medical assistance imme-
diately applied, but he expired next morning.—Cambridge
Independent Press.

There, is now living at Lynn, a Mr. Henry
Regester, formerly a considerable wholesale tailor and
draper of that town, who, since he was seventy-four years
of age, has cut six teeth ! He has been blind four and
twenty years, and, though now in his eightieth year, he bar
cut out and made himself a complete suit of clothes, with-
out any assistance whatever.—An instance of teeth cutting
at seventy years of age is recorded upon an old gravestone
in Holbeach churchyard. We hope Mr. Register will live
longer to enjoy his new ivories than did his predecessor of
Holbeach, of whom it is written, in a rustic couplet,
' She'd twenty new teeth at seventy years old,
And at seventy-two she was laid in the mould.