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ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.--Persons assured
for the whole term of Life, will have an addition
nude to their PolicieS every seventh year, or an equivalent
reduction will be made in the future payments of Premium,
at the option of the Assured.
_ _

The Additions in Greet Britain for the seven years
entliug at Christmas 1323, were from 13 to 37 per. Cent.
en the Sums assured, -according to the Ages of the Parties.
Policies effected with the Company between the present
time. and Christmas, 1830, Will participate in the Bonus
to he theta declared.

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FIRE DEFARTMENT.—In addition to the benefit of
the late Reduction in the Rates of Prerniums,.this Com-
pany offers to 'Assurers the advantage of periodical Re-
turns of the surplus Premiums ; and also the payment of
Rent of Buildings rendered untenantable by Fire.
The retarn.s.for some years were from 10 to 25 per cent.
en premiums paid.
Policies. falling due at Christmas should be renewed
within fifteen days from that period.
The Company's Rates and Proposals may be had of any
of the Agents in the Country, who are authorized to re-
port on the appearance of Lives proposed for Assurance;
HENRY DESBOROUGH, Jun., Secretary.
%topside, London, Dec. 24, 1828.

GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER
FOR CISTERNS, AND PORTABLE FILTERS.
Season of the Year is approaching wheat
the public: will have additional reason to congratulate
themselves upoti this impel-tent and national invention. So
tuloY attempts bare been made to mislead the good folks of the
letr°P°4!,llPeetatling to cure the crying evil of had water,
without the least pretension, that we were amongst the
Inany w" remained sceptical as to the pretensions of the
Royal Filter, until sirs Were to seek ettular dernonstra-
lieu
by 14-whig one fired up in a large cistere, and we have
4°"' ut' Sort of-hesitation in pronouncing 'it QUITE COM-
Ihe isi giving it OUR. UNQUALIFIED PRAIRE.
names the hi heat professional talent in the Metro-
Polialaave given the strongest testimony, that they way be
ideted, in the metropolitan city of Louden as an ab-
''4o,e " God-send," but we will Dili/strati, theie opinions
by stubborn facts. and proofs as strongae Holy Writ; and
41.):g let 115 examine the state of the water, as now drank
;y.*4:„ ,th°"aand•and ten thousand persons who have not
te', availed
themselves of this Filter, and our readers will
'Jeer in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence
lut Beasop in du BRITLSIS HOUSE OF FABLIAMENT•
Thia fallowing eminent and learned men in their voca-
tion* have given evident*, of which the following is ne-
cessarily a short extract, viz.:—
Sir Henry Raiford, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keate, Mr.
Thema; Dr. Tenter, Dre. Hume, Yates, lierrison, Somer-
ville' Johnson, and Paris, &o. &c.—they pronounce the wa-
ter see.t into their houses to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated
deaaYeel vegetable matter% and other substances pre7
t° health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly
ewute to the production of that state of FAULTY DI-
GEBTION and aireany of ntoon ; that it is so FILTHY
aml turuatt, to be unfit for the breakfast table And
fer eulinary purposes, and that it adds so much to the other
unwholesome' emetituente of bread, as to render et ay
.injuriotts to the health of thousands ; thatthe- water
beeeme
*tut into the cisterns during the hot weather frequently
QUI P it
TRLn ; and they have nu doubt that the
Continuedd nee -of it WITHOUT FILTERING is capable of pro-
ticin.g deleterious effeeta ; that the Thames water is ex-
treutelY had, foul, dirty, and unwholesome, from the
great quantity of FILTHY MATTERS CONTINUALLY FOUR-
IN. 0 INTO AT FROH NUNIRROUSi• &EWERS ; and Dr. Ker-
rison makes- us acquainted With a fact,' the perusal of
Which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the reader, As WC ourselves feel in narrating it. On in-
specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital,
he saw " the foul and black strewn from the Ranelagh
"Ws parsing between the Company's steam_engine and
the Dolphin, LOADED WITH NO SMALL PORTION OF UNDI-
FIORD FLOATS-NG FILTH BROX PRIVIE4 " from which he
soncludes, that ".A CONSIDERABLE QUANTITY OF HUMAN
BISCABBIESIT, IN A SUBDIVIDED AND ulinecompo,sat)
STATE, ACTUALLY PASSER INTO OUR eIS'PERISS."

Dr. Somerville, the physician to Chelsea Hospital, states
the water to be very impure. " The tide," he says,
smuts BF THE MASS OF usruanv TRW/COM BY ALL
kT IS CORRUPTIBLE IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE
WORLD, moowritatt WITh Teta NOXIOUS FILTH OF OAS AND
OTHER MANUFACTORIES, THAT CONSTANTLY PLOW INTO
THE THAMES FEM./ PATTERSEA DOWN TO GRAVESEND.°
Dr. James Jobason, the author of the " Treatise on In-
tgestion.,. says—" We sneer at the thtlicacy of the
who slakes his thirst at the *same tank where
hi
taeighbour is saorifteiug to Cloaeina ; but what shall
We: say to the RELICATE CITIZENS OF WESTIIINSTER,
WHO FILL Tema watats ANp. SIOIIACIIS WITH WA-
saR FROM • THE THAMES, AT THAT rutty SPOT INTO
/*HUM A HUNDRED THOUSAND C.LOAGAIN, CONTAINING
kvear SPECIES OF FILTH, AND ALL UNUTTERABLE
, *WIGS, ARE DAILY DISGORGING THEIR HIDEOUS AND
44.141A,NA SLR CONTENTS.
The last prothssional gentleman to whose evidenee the
refer, is Pr. Paris, the author of the popular work

THE RI/CULT OF THEM rADOURS Mg ALBOOSISISN.
DATIOH OP A GPIIZEIAL kyorzaza OP SYS:
TOW; HOT 'fa THE n.rty-THREE THOOSAtiD
FiIdiLLES .DALLY" DRITIEINO THE FILTHY FLUID' OF WHICH
WE HAVE BEEN sexAiusia, HUT EXTEPOINQ ITSELF FO

TRE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OE
THE NEW RIVER AND OTHER COMPANIES, CONSUMING
THE TWENTY-NINE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DA/LT SUP-

•
FLIED TO THE SIETROPOLTS.
Unfortunately, at the mo►nent when the Commissioners
wore drawing• np their Report, the patent for " The Royal
Filter fur Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or-
deal of office, OR IT WILL NOT HE DOUBTED, AFTER READ-
ING TOE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT Fr MUST HAVE

FORMED AN lISFORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON-
OLUSION TO THEIR LABOURS.-The subjoined extract from
aFrospectßs, istoted by the Proprietor, WILL BE PXRUSEL
WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST B'( ALL WHO CONSIDER

OLEANLINEW, TO BE ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH, AND THE
FURITI OF THE ILLRILENT OF WHICH WE ARE TREATING,
TO BE NEARLY OF EQUAL 131.1.03TANCE WITH THE AIR

WE BREATHE :•-••••

" The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior
to all filters hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only
POSSE9BIis THE POWER OF CLARIFYING THE WATER IN A
PRE-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT
,ALsO THAT OF COMPLETE
PURLFICAT/ON, RENDERING TUE MOST TURBID, STAGNANT,
AND ICBM WATER, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY,
DBCRIVINCLIT OF EVERY NOXIOUS INGREDIENT, AND, IN
FACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN THE HIGHEST
POSSIBLE PERFECTION'; THAT 18 TO SAY, CLEAR AND
DESTITUTE OE TASTE AND SMELL."
The rapidity of the process may be understood by a
single observation, " THAT so EAST A 9 THE WATER Is
SUPPLIED AS THE TOP OP THE CISTERN, SO 1...X5,i IT WILL
DISCHARGE IifSELY PROS THE BOTTOM."

" But where," the reader will naturally exclaiin, " is
the proof -of all this to be found ? We must have some-
thing more solid and satisfactory than bare assertions."—
The 'following *statement must, we think, set the doubts of
the most sceptical at rest for ever.
Mr. Huine, the respectable and talented chemist of Long
Acre,- who has long been employed by Government in
analysing waters, had two bottles sent to him fix•
analysation; MINN ONU FELL OF ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL
AND VEGFONABLE MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECO)IPOSITION,
AND .STRONGLY .MIPRECIN4T&D warn GAS; the other, a
bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but
had been purified by the Royal Filter.
lu 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 : " for," he observes,' " there is no water,
-however pure 'and Wholesome, whether from deep wells,
superficial springs, or any °diet source, that is free front
saline and ether soluble salts, not at all injurious to
health." _ •

In the filtered bottle be found only sixteen grains of
substances, which, on examination, proved to be the same
materials peculiar 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 by animal
substances, 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
specimen of water to be most effectual, and highly deserv-
ing of public encouragemeut." The carne gentlemata, at a
subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says,
" the opinion I had ilarina of this new process for filtering
is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus
analysed, At:ram:Gm FoRPOSELY STRONGLY /Immo-
NATED GAS AND OTHER IMPURITIES, EIICAW
CRYSTALLISED, AND DESTITUTE OF TAns AND fihl 13 .

Thus it is 4xlearly proved, THAT or TVS FORTY-Skil
GLARIS AND A HALF OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY
PLACED IN TALK ROYAL. FLI.TISR, ONLY SIETI.EN GRAINS
OF SURSTANDES PASSED SUROUGH Yr ; AND WHICH SIN-
T.REN GRAINS ARS PROVED TO BR I.RCULIAR To WAWA

• Its PRIDUTIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALE DELETEMOUS
'TO IiKAI4Ii. 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 preoAing
experiments, and of the following striking testimonials
to the exoellence of " The Royal Filter."
Professor• Brands, Dr. Clarke, Mr. Brodie, Mr. Keats,
Dr. Scudamore, cud 30 other highly eminent and unpre
judioed medical men, have each had the Royal Filter
placed in their cisterns, and they all concur in stating
that it renders the most turbid, foetid water of chrystalnie
brilliancy, and free from 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 removed.
Portable ones of all dimensions, capable of filtering from
60 to 500 gallons every 24 hours, have been adapted to
prevent the inconvenience alluded to. The expence is from
30e. to 41. or 51.

We trust we have said enough to draw geneixil attention
to the merits a discovery so highly conducive to t'ie
cleanliness, comfort, and health of the inhabitants of this
thickly peopled Metropolis. We shall only add that the
apparatus Ixay be inspected at the Office of the Patentee,
Mr. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelpbi
Theatre ; where the public are invited to have (leader de-
monstration of tie efficacy of this remedy,

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