The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

WONDERFUL FILTRATION.

An invention has been recently brought forward,
which is calculated to have a vast beneficial effect in
filtering, and so purifying all the water for domestic
and other purposes in the kingdom. Lord Brougham,
with many other eminent savans, has been ,surprised
and delighted at the effects produced. A machine
only five feet square has been made to filter the
enormous quantity of two millions five hundred
thousand gallons every twenty-four hours ; and that,
too, so thoroughly and effectually, that water charged
with mud, animalculee, and decomposed vegetable
matter has been produced as bright and pure, and
sweet, as it originally issued from the spring. The
merit of this most useful and valuable invention be-
longs to a Russian merchant of the name of Stuckey,
and the water filtered by it has been examined and
certified by Professor Phillips, the eminent chemist.

The Grafton Estate in Gloucestershire, announced
the delicate
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in our columns to-day, has draw
George Robins's power of descriptinon.awrftel4 (umpeo n Mr.
.of his
ilikainestrtoedirtio:4,t,ds, and complimented the reasypecinta%thyelole-
men who constitute the Grafton tenantry.
Governor
We understand that Sir George Simpson,
of the Hudson's Bay territories, of whose intended
voyage and journey round the globe we some weeks ago
:gave en account, arrived at Ilolalti, one of the Society
Islands, on the 12th of February last. As these islands,
which are situated in the centre of
eiesengtremaotmle'anctihiec
Ocean are nearly our antipodes, the adventurous Knight
t:
had thus completed his tour of half the circumference of
the earth. It is probable that at the p
is in Siberia. His arrival in England, via St. Peters-
burgh, is expected in the fall of the year.—Ross- shire Ad-
vertiser.
London now measures 71 miles in length from
east to west, by a breadth of nine miles from north to
south. Its circumference, allowing for various inequa-
lities, is estimated at thirty miles, while the area of
ground it covers is considered to measure no less han
18 miles square.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1842.

PROTEST of the POLISH EXILES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn--Ni'o,hope that you will kindly insert in your
valuable paper the following Protest of the' Polish
Emigiants in London, and as: the protest is in the
course of signature we shall have the pleasure of for-
warding to you the other names as soon as they will
he complete.—We have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servants,
Colonel Louts Onoam, Chairman.
S. .WOucEr.L, Member of the Polish Diet, Sec.
London, July 2, 1842.
" Not long ago a report got abroad that the invete-
rate foe of our country, Nicholas, was to proclaim a
general amnesty to • the Poles, in commemoration of
the twenty-fifth anniversary of his wedding. Some
of the newspapers which reported it seemed to rejoice
at that forthcoming event, as if the amnesty could
restore to our country her lost children, recognise her
rights, which have been trampled upon, and reinstate
the nation in that independence, without which there
is no lie, no existence for it, nor any prospect of re-
turn to our native country for us.. Convinced, there-
fore, that some minds entertain a mistaken idea of the
Polish cause, we venture to address a few words to
the public of the civilised world in explanation of the
true position in which the Polish emigration stands
towards their country and its oppressor.
• " The whole world knows that the Polish Revolu-
tion of 1830 was not a revolt against a lawful So-
vereign, but a spontaneous insurrection of a nation
to redress its wrongs, re-conquer its violated rights,
re-establish its ancient independence. When the
indolence of the chiefs, the mismanagement and ma-
chinations of the -diplomatic party, had frustrated
Poland of all the advantages gained upon the field of
battle by the valorous army, the Poles did not give
up their arms to Russia, but deposited them in the
neighbouring countries, reserving to themselves the
right of re-taking them at he first opportunity, and
thus signifying to Europe that the strife was sus-
pended only, not finished. The civilised world greeted
the emigration with enthusiasm, not us the fugitives,
who fled before the punishment of an of ended master,
but as the representatives of a great and sacred
cause; as the defenders of common liberty, because a
murder perpetrated upon one nation was a threat to
the liberty of all others.
" The lapse of eleven years did not bring any
change in the cause of Poland. Now, as then,
Poland is the, representative of the popular liberty,
and of the right of resisting the foreign oppression.
It is now, as it was then, her duty to sacrifice all for
the defence of her rights. As then she 'has re-
deemed with her blood the threatened liberty of the
West, so she is ready now to shield the civilization
against any attempts of the Muscovite hordes. As
then, in spite of fifty years oppression and five times
repeated partitions, the Polish people believed in the
vitality of his rights to constitute an independent na-
tion, so he religiously preserves the same faith, and
shall never forsake those sacred rights. The genera-
tion which, in 1830, proclaimed the national inde-
pendence is still living; and by the side of it arose a
new one, christened in the blood of Grochow and.
Ostrolenka, brought up amidst the cries and suffer-
ings of the tortured nation. It is its destiny to com-
plete the work begun by its predecessors, and by a
triumph to deserve those applauds with which the
people of the West have greeted our late revolution.
And we who have left our country in order to give
evidence amongst the friendly nations to the rights
and grievances of Poland, and preferred the exile to
the disgrace of taking a sacrilegious oath of fidelity to
the oppressor of our country, can we now forsake
our mission, forswear ..our duties, and slanderously
acknowledge our country to have been guilty, by
accepting, so many times offered, and -as many
times . refused, amnesty ? ! Once more, most
solemnly, we repeat, •No ! We shall not accept the
amnesty. The emigration being a protest before the
world against the spoliations and injustice perpe-
trated upon our country, we must see first those
wrongs redressed. Having left Poland as Poles, we
shall not return to it as Muscovites. Having left it
with hearts proud of having done our duty, we shall
not go back as culprits, and with the same hand,
which, in characters of blood, has inscribed upon
our native land its rights to independence, liberty,
integrity, and progress, we shall not sign a blas-
phemous acknowledgment that our revolution was a
a rebellion—that independence of Poland is a vision."
L; is already signed by 70 persons, but we sup-
press the names on account of the space they occupy.