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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1829.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.

rrHE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL,
and Naval and Military Magazine, No. 2, for FE-
BRUARY, price 2s. 6d., will comprise, among a variety
of other interesting papers, Narratives of the Battle of Na-
varino and the Storming of Badajoz, by Officers engaged.
—Memoir of the late Colonel Denham.—Recollections in
Quarters.—Origin of Lord Byron's Shipwreck in Don
Juan.—The War in the East.—A Galley Story.—Extra-
ordinary Career of Lieutenant Shipp.—Continuations of
the History of the Siege of Vienna by the Turks, trans-
lated by Miss Porter.—Captain Spearinan's Gunnery.—
Admiral Raper's System of Signals.—Twelve Yea& Mili-
tary Adventure.—Lighting the Coast.—Original Corre-
spondence on various interesting subjects, &e.
Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street;
Bell and ikadfute, Edinburgh; and John Cumming,
Dublin.

This day was published, with a beautiful Portrait of the
Princess Victoria, Part 1., to he complete in Twelve
Parts, uniform with the Percy Anecdotes, of
THE LADY'S LIBRARY.
A present, the handsomest and most useful that the
Father can offer to his Daughter, the Brother to his Sister,
or the Husband to his Wife.
*.* Part 11. will be published, March 1, andcontinned
Monthly.
London: printed for 'Knight and Lacey, 55, Pater-
noster Row.

This day was published, in one thick Volume of 1171

pages, closely printed, with Maps, Plates, &c. price
2I P. hoards,
THE SHIP-MASTER'S ASSISTANT
and OWNER'S MANUAL; containing general
information necessary for Merchants, Owners, and Masters
of Ships, Officers, and all other persons concerned or em-
ployed in the Merchant Service, relative to the Mercantile
and Maritime Laws and Customs.

By DAVID STEEL, Esq.
The 18th Edition, brought down to the year 1829.
The Commercial and Mathematical Department by Dr.
KELLY, Author of the " Universal Cambist," and Ma-
thematical Examiner to the Trinity-House, and the Legal
Department by a Professional Gentleman.
Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.

This day was published, in Bvo. price 18s. bds.

AN INTRODUCTION to GEOLOGY;
comprising the Elements of the Science in its pre-
sent advanced State, and all the recent Discoveries. With
an Outline of the Geology of England and Wales. Third
Edition, entirely recomposed and greatly enlarged, with new
Plates, a coloured Map, and Cute.
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GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER

FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.

THE Season of the Year is approaching when
1 the public will have additional reason to congratulate
themselves upon this important and national invention. So
many attempts have been made to mislead the good folks of the
Metropolis, by pretending to cure the crying evil of bad water,
without the least pretension, that we were amongst the
many who remained sceptical as to the pretensions of the
Royal Filter, until we were led to seek ocular demonstra-
tion by having one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have
now nu sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUITE COM-
PLETE, and in giving it out:. UNQUALIFIED PRAISE.
The names of the highest professional talent in the Metro-
polis have given the strongest testimony, that they snay be
considered, in the metropolitan city of London as an ab-
solute " God-send," but we will illustrate their opinions
by stubborn facts and proofs as strong as Holy Writ; and
first let us examine the state of the water, as now drank
by the thousand and ten thousand persons who have not
yet availed themselves of this Filter, and our readers will
bear in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence
given last season in the BRITISH HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT.
The following eminent and learned - men in their voca-
tions have given evidence, of which the following is ne-
cessarily a short extract, viz.:—
Sir Henry Halford, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keate, -Mr.
Thomas,-Dr. Turner, Drs. Hume, Yates; Kerrisoti, Somer-
ville, Johnson, and Paris, &c. &c.—they pronounce the wa-
ter sent into their houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated
with decayed vegetable matters, and other substances pre-
judicial to health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly
contribute to the production of that state of FAULTY DI-
GESTION and IMPURITY of BLOOD; that it is SO FILTHY
and 'multi:, as to be unfit for the breakfast table and
' for culinary purposei, and that it adds so much to the other
unwholesome constituents of bread, as to render every
meal injurious to the health of thousands ; that the water
sent into the cisterns during the hot weather frequently
became_ QUITE parratn ; and they have no doubt that the
continued use of it WITHOUT FILTERING is capable of pro-
ducing deleterious effects ; that the Thames water is ex-
tremely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the
great quantity of FILTHY MATTERS CONTINUALLY POUR.
ING INTO IT FROM NUMEROUS SEWERS; and Dr. Ker-
rison makes us acquainted with a fact, the perusal of
which will excite the same disgust in the mind of tke
reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in-
specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
he saw " the foul and black stream from the Ranclagh
sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and
the Dolphin, Loaner) WITH NO SMALL PORTION OF UNDI-
VIDED FLOATING FILTH FROM PRIVIES;" from which he
concludes, that " A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF HUMAN
EXCREMENT, IN A SUBDIVIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED
STATE, ACTUALLY PASSES INTO OUR CISTERNS."

Dr. Somerville, the physiciin to Chelsea Hospital, states
the water to be very impure. " The tide," he says,
" STIRS UP THE MASS OF IMPURITY PRODUCED BY ALL

THE LONDON MAGAZINE.

THOSE who are desirous of becoming Sub-
scribers to a Periodical Work, which unites the Use-
ful with the Amusing, and whose political opinions, with-
out being distorted by party violence, are in accordance
with the advancing intelligence of the age, have an oppor-
tunity of commencing a Volume with the last number of the
London Magazine published on the let of January ; being
No. X. of the Third Series.

The number for February will contain the following
articles :

I. The approaching Session of Parliament-2. Ele-
mentary Education—No. 111. Children's Books-3. The
best Bat in the School-4. The Tower—a Letter from
Dr. Meyrick to the Editor-5. On the Supply of Anato-
mical Subjects-6. You'll come to our Ball-7. Paris in
1828-8. Looking-glass for the Cowntry—No. I. Windsor
—9. Stanzas-10. The Moral Tendencies of Knowledge-
-11. Diary for the Month-12. Hobbledehoys-13. Notes
on Art--The Colosseum, &c.-14. The Editors' Room-
-15. The Journal of Facts.

London : Printed for the Proprietors, and published by
their Agent, Henry Hooper, at the office of the London
Magazine, 13, Pall-mall East.