The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-16 00:00:00

oTenaive, and says that it stinks shortly after it has come
LARGE QUA-NTITLES OF MATTEL ARE MECHANICALLY
SUSPENDED aN I?. "AC A PHYSICIAN," be says. " I CAN-
NOT FIND TERMS SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSIVE OF THE AW-
FUL EFFECTS ITS MAT EE LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE
HEALTH, AND EVEN LIVES, OF THE INHABITANTS OF -THY
MSTBOPOLIS " 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 SOSSE EZSDILMIC
MAY BE FAIRLY A NTICIPATED."
SUCH IS THE PICTURIO—THE FAIKUNFUL AND FRIGHT..
FUL PICTURE.-.-01, THE CONDITION OF THE WATER OF THE
THAMES, AS SUPPLIED BY lISIE 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
bean contented to have SEEN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR
CISTERNS, AND TO ISAVE USED, FOR ALL DOMES.= AND
CULINARY PURPOSES, A NECESSARY OF LIFE, SO LOADED
WITH ALL SORTS OP INtruarxrcs AS TO BE PRONOUNCBH,
BY PROFESSIONAL MEN Of THE FIRST EMINENCE, TO SE
OFFENSIVE TO THE SIGHT, disgusting to the imagination,
and destructive to the health, is a fact that would not
have been credited, and th ought not -to have beep
credited, hot upon evidence unanswerable.

THE RBSUIT OF THEIR LAHOURS IS TIE RECOMBIEN-
DATLON OF A G.ENNEAL STSTHM OF FILTRATION.--. 4 SYS..
TSAI, NOT LIM2TBO TO TILE FIFTY-THIGHS THOUSAND
FASIILIBS DAILY DRINKING: T2tE FILTHY FLUID or WHICH
W 1 HATE BRYN SVEAKINC, !IT EXTENDING rrsizu, TO
THE HUNDEND AND SEVIINTY-SM THOUSAND TENANTS OF
THE NEW RIVER AND 07LISIR COMPANIES, CONSUMING
THE TWENTY-NINE MILLIONS OF GALLONS DAILY Sur-
FLIED TO THE 3SY7IROPOLIS.

Unfortunately, at the moment when the Commissioners
were drawing up their Report, the Fatent for " The Royal
Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or-
deal of office, ox IT WILL NOT BE DOUBTED, AFDBE READ-
ING TILE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS, THAT IT MUST HAVE
FORMED AN IMPORTANT AND HIGHLY SATISFACTORY CON-
CLUSION TO THEIR LABOURS.-The subjoined extract from
aProopectus, issued by the Proprietor, WILL BF. PERUSED
WITH THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BY ALL WHO CONSIDER

CLEANLINESS TO BE ESSENVIAL TO lITALISI, AND THE
TURITT Or TILE ELEAIDNT Or WHICII WE ARE TREATING,
TO BE NEARLY OW EQUAL IllartlltTANcE WITH 4448

WE BILEAT4IE :--.

" The Royal Filter for Cisterns will he Ibuna superior
to all filtery hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only
POSSESSES THE POWER OF CLARIFYING THE WASPIEL IN A
FRB-EMINENT DEGREE, BUT ♦LSO THAT OF COMPLETE
PURIFICATION, REINDBRING TPIE MOST TB MUD, STAGNANT,
AND PCE'PID WATER, Or A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY,
DIAPRIYAIG IT OP itvznY NOLIOUS INGREDIENT, AND, IN
FACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN 'ME HIGHEST
POSKULR PERPECTIOX ; THAT TO SAY, MEAN. AND
DETPITUIJI OL TAI/PE ANT) SMELL."

Ile rapidity of the process may be understood by a
single observation, " IMAT SO VAST AS THE WATASIL IS
!SUPPLIED AV THE TOP Of IDE CISTERN, SO VAST N WICL,
DISCiiAROE: lirsai.r cause 941 R BOTIOIL."
" Bat 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 bare a tiertione."—
The following statement mast, we think, set the doubts of
the most sceptical at rest for ever.
Mr. Hume, the respectable and talented chemist of Lung
Acre, who has long been employed by Government in
analysing waters, had two bottles sent to hire for
analysation; TEE ONE FULL OF ALL SORTS Of ANIMAL
AND VEGETARCE MATTERS IN A STATE Of DECOMrosrrionly
AND STRONGLY IadPREGN &TRW WITII GAS j the other,
bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but
bed. been purified by the Royal Filter.
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 : " for," he observes, " there is no water,
however pure and wholesome, whether from deep wells,
t..erfieial springs, or any other souree, that is free from
saline and other soluble salts, mot at all injurious to
health."

In the filtered bottle he found only sixteeta grains of
substances, which, on examination, proved to be the same
materials peculiar to, and soluide 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 cencludee 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 width has been adopted to filter this
specimen of water to be most effectual, and highly deserv-
ing of public encouragement." The saine gentleman, at a
subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says,
" the opinion I had formed of this new process for tittering
in fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus
analysed, ALTHOUGH PURPOSELY STRONGLY IMPREG-
NATED WITH GAS ANA OTHER IMPURIBIES, BECAME
GRYITALLISED, AND DESTITUTE OP TASTE AND SMELL.
Thus it is clearly proved, THAT OF THE FORTY-SIX
GRAINS AND A HALF OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY
PLACED IN ISSE ROYAL FILTER;. ONLY SIXTEEN GRAINS
OF SURS72ANIPES PASSED 'THROUGH IT; AND WHICH SHE-
SEEN GRAINS ARE PROVED TO RE PECULIAR TO WATER
IN MS PRIMITIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALL DELETERIOUS
TO HEALTH. However much, therefore, the observation of
the Commissioners may apply to all farmer systems• of
filtration, it is greatly to be regretted that, before the close
of their labours, they had not the benefit of the preckiing
experiments, and of the following striking testimonials
to the excellence of " The Royal Filter."
Professor Braude, Dr. Clarke, Mr. 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 concur in stating
that it renders the most turbid, foetid water of chrystaiine
brilliancy, and free from taste and smell.

It should he 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
neeetosity of placing a Filter at thin distance is now removed.
Portable ones of all dimensions, capable of filtering from
50 to 500 gallons every 24, hours, have been adapted to
prevent the inconvenience alluded to. T;:eex.fpence is from
SOS. to 41. or Si.

We trust we have said enough to draw general attention
to the merits of a discovery so highly conducive to the
cleanliness, comfort, and health of the inhabitants of
thickly peopled Metropolis. We shall only add that the
apparatus sway be inspected at the Office of the Patentee,
Air. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelphi
Theatre; where the public are invited to have ocular de.
monstration of the efficacy of this remedy. .