The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-29 00:00:00

MUT IS CORRUPTIBLE IN THE ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE

WORLD, TOGETHER WITH THE NOXIOUS FILTH OF GAS AND
OTHER MANUFACTORIES, THAT CONSTANTLY SLOW INTO
THE THAMES FROM BATTERSEA DOWN TO GRAVESEND.°
Dr. James Johnsen, the author of the " Treatise on In-
digestion," says—" We sneer at the delicacy of the
Hindoe, who slakes his thirst at the same tank where
his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina; but what shall
WO say to the DELICATE CITIZENS or WESTMINSTER,
WHO FILE DiSEIR TANKS AND STOMACHS WITH WA-
TER FROM THE THAMES, AT THAT ♦ERY SPOT INTO
WHICH A HUNDRED THOUSAND CLOACA CONTAINING
EVERY SPECIES OF FILTH, AND ALL UNUTTERABLE
THINGS, ARE DAILY DISGORGING THEM HIDEOUS AND
ABODS/NABLE CONTENTS.

The last professional gentleman to whose evidence we
shall refer, is Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work
on Diet. He pronounces the water to be impure and
offensive, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come
in. LAMM QUANTITIES or MATTER ARE MECHANICALLY
SE3IFENDED IN IT. Sd As A PHYSICIAN," he says, "I CAN-
NOT FIND TERMS SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSIVE OF THE AW-
FUL EFFECTS IT MAT BE LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE

HEALTH, AND EVEN LIVES, OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE
assTaorous " And in the last edition of his work he
goes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy be not ap-
plied to the evil, " THE RAVAGES OF SOME EPIDEMIC
MAY BE FAIRLY ANTICIPATED."

SUCK IS 741 E PICTURE-41M FAITHFUL AND FRIGHT •
FUL PICTURE...-OF TEE CONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE
THAMES, AS SUPPLIED BY THE COMPANIES TO THEIR
CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest, largest,
most populous city in the world—the seat of a more opu-
lent body of nobility and gentry than is to be found in
any other Metropolis—should, for so long a time, have
been contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR
CISTERNS, AND TO HAVE USED, FOR ALL DOMESTIC AND
CULINARY PURPOSES, A NECESSARY OF LIFE, SO LOADED
WITH ♦LL SORTS OF IMPURITIES AS TO BE PRONOUNCED,
BY PROFESSIONAL MEN OP THE FIRST EMINENCE, TO BE
OFFENSIVE TO THE SIGHT, disgusting to the imagination,
and destructive to the health, is a fact that would not
have been credited, and that ought not to have been
credited, but upon evidence unanswerable.
THE RESULT OF THEIR LABOURS IS THE RECOMMEN-
DAT/ON OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF FILTRATION-4 SYS-

TEM, NOT LIM/TED TO THE FIFTY-TIIREE THOUSAND
FAMILIES DAILY DRINKING THE FILTHY ELVID OF WHICH

WE HAVE BEEN SPEAKING, BUT EXTENDING ITSELF TI)
THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF
THE NEW RIVER AND OTHER. COMPANIES, CONSUMING
THE TWENTY-NINE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY SUP-
PLIED TO THE METROPOLIS.

Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners
were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal
Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or-
deal of office, OR IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFTER READ-
IMO THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT MUST HAVE
FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON.
CLUSION TO THEIR LABOURS.—The subjoined extract from
*Prospectus, issued, by the Proprietor, wmt. BE PERUSED
WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER
CLEANLINESS TO BE ESSENTIAL TO RYA LTII, AID THE
PURITY OF TEE ELEMENT OF WHICH WE ARE TREATING,
TO BY NEARLY OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE WITH THE AIR
WE BREATHE

" The Royal Filter for Cisterns will be found superior
to all filters hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only
PI:MESSES THE POWER OF CLARIFTINO THE WATER IN A

PRE-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ALSO THAT OF COMPLETE
PERIFICATION, RENDERING THY MOST TURBID, STAGNANT,
AND FCETID WATR.R, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY,

DEPRIVING IT OF EVERT NOXIOUS INGREDIENT, AND, IN
FACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN THE HIGHEST
POSSIBLE rintrEctiox ; THAT IS TO SAY, CLEAR AND
DESTITUTE OE TASTE AND SMELL."

The rapidity of the process may be understood by a
single observation, " THAT SO FAST AS THE WATER IS
SUPPLIED AT THE TOP OF THE CISTERN, CO FAST IT WILL
DISENA RCN ITSELF FROM THE BOTTOM."

" But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, "
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 if
the most sceptical at rest for ever.

Mr. Hump, the respectable and talented chemist of Long
Acre, who has long been employed by Government in
analysing waters, had two bottles sent to him for
analysation; 241 E ONE FULL OF ALL SORTS OF ANIMAL
AND VEGETABLE MATTERS IN A STATE OF DECOMPOSITION,
AND STRONGLY IMPRIONVIRD NYMPH GAS; the other, a
bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but
had been purified by the Royal Filter.
In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-sii
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 ne water,
however pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells,
superficial springs, or any other source, that is free from
saline and ether soluble salts, not at all injurious to
health."

In the filtered bottle he 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 cencludes 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 highly deserv-
ing of public tacouragoratat." The lame gentleman, at a

7HE ARMY.

(From the Limerick chronicle, Jan. 24.)
Letters received at our office of the 26th Novemher left
the officers and privates of the let Royals at Trinidad, in
very good health, and without a death since the 15th of
August preceding.

Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.8., arrived
on Thursday at Tralee, for the purpose of inspecting the
Reserve Companies of the 22d and 88th Regiments, at pre-
sent composing that garrison.

The Marshal Bennett transport, with reinforcements
tn. the 27th and 93d Regiments, from Portsmouth, and
the William Harris transport, with detachments of the
19th Regiment, from Cork, arrived out at Barbadoes the
latter end of November.

It was lately stated in the Dublin Paper that an order
was issued to restrain the conversation of officers on politi-
cal subjects at mess, and to prevent the fo.ldiers, as ranch
as possible, from intermixing with civilians.—No such
order has been issued.

SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27.—Wind E.S.E.—High
water 26 minutes past three.—Arrived the Fame,
Louie, from Charleston ; Ceres, Craighead, from Nantes ;
La Rosalie, Collett, from Bordeaux ; Robert and Marga-
ret, Thompson, from Ballina ; Tiger, Marshall, from
Glasgow.

The Cabinet, for Charleston, sailed from Holyhead
yesterday.
The Sally, from Weymouth to London, ran on shore
on the Goodwin Sands, yesterday, and sunk.
The Alexander, Robb, from Whitehaven to Limerick,
was driven on shore 23d inst. near the entrance of Strang-
ford river, but was expected to be get off.