Star.
London, England, 1828-08-23 00:00:00

ROODS,

Near the Turnpike Gate, on the road from Basinguoke to Reading.
LOTS—THREE ALLOTMENTS of PASTURE LAND,
Situate DM the New Inn, on the mad (rem Basingstoke to Aida-

manor, nearly
SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES, In baud.

LOT 6—SILCHESTER FARM, in the Parish of Silehester,
Comprising A BRICK BUILT FARM HOUSE,
Tiled, with Barn, Stables and Outbuilding., Garden and Meadow,
Arable and Wood Land, containing SIXTY NINE ACRES.
The Woods in hand, the Farm in the occupation of
George Goddard,
Adjoining the Lands of the Duke of Wellington, -- Griffiths
and Lees, Esqrs.
Lot 7—ln the Pariah of Ringsrlere. a MESSUAGE,
With Gardens, Orchard, and Outbuildings, and Meadow Land,
Containing nearly EIGHT ACRES.
In the occupation of William Cripps, tenant from year to year.
•Lor B—A PIECE OF MEADOW LAND,
Sheffield Meadow,
Situate in the Parish of Burgh&ld,
Containing nearly SIX ACRES.
In the occupation of Mr. Benjamin Draper. a
Particulars may be bad on the premises.
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Wolverton Mansion may be viewed by applying to Mr. Joseph'
Brooks, the Bailiff; Ewirtirst Mansion on application to Mr. Budd.
the Gardener; the Farms, Lands, &c. the respective Tenants will
show, of whom particulars may be bad ; and at the New Inn and
Lion ; of Mr. Glover, Auctioneer, and at the Crown, Basingstoke ;
Pelican, Newbury ; Castle and King's Head, Marlborough ; Bear,
Rr ad iag and Hongerford; George, Winchester; White Hart, Sa-
lisbury; Sun, Maidenhead; York House and White Hart, Bath;
Bosh and White Lion, Bristol; Hen and Chickens, Birmingham ;
of liners. Goodeve and Rankin, Solicitors, Gray's Inn ; at Gar-
raway's ; and of Mr. Robins, No, 170, Regent-Meet, where plans
'1 of the &seta any be ama.

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Conindisioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr.
Nias, Princes street, Bank.
John Orth Waldener, Rising Sun Public-house, 4th...rivet, Picca-
dilly, August 26, September 16, and October 3, at ten, at the

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Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts. Basinghall-street. At-
tornies, Messrs. Vandercurn and Co. Bush-lane, Cannon-street.
Robert fairy, Mile End-road, victualler, August 26, September 2,
and October 3, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank-
rupts, Basinghali-street. Attornies, Messrs. Argill and Co. White-
clidpel- road.
Benjamin Smith, Birmingham, steel toy-maker, Sinember 15,16,
at eleven, and October 3, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Birming-
ham. Attornies, Messrs. Norton and Co. Gray's Inn-square;
or Mr. Wills, Birmingham.
John Quick and Frederick James Chown, Stonehouse, Devonshire,
mjliers, September 9,10, and October 3, at eleven, at the New
~,.erondon Ions Exeter. Attornies. Messrs. Brutton and Co. New

Brand-street or Mr. Brutton, Exeter.
Charles Tuck. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, shipwright, September
a, at eight, 10, at nine, and October 3, at twelve, at the Star Inn,
Great Yarmouth. Attorniea, Mr. Edmund Reeve Palmer,
Great Yarmouth ; or Messrs. Swaia and Co. Frederick's•place,
U.d Jewry.
DIVIDEND to be made in BA SINGHALL-STREET.

Nov. 4, John Jenner and John Wharton Soppet, Greek-street,
Soho, linendrapers, at ten.

invioiNps to be made in the COUNTRY.
Sept. 27, George Bingley, late of New York, United States of
America, merchant, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham.
Sept. 13, Nicholas Isaac. sen. Nan&id, Gloucestershire, msltster.
at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Bath. Sept. 13, Edw. Young,
Wakefield, Yorkshire, woolstapler' at eleven, at the Sessions House,
Wakefield. Sept. 27, Charles 11111, Rochdale, Lancashire, inn-
keeper, at two, at White's Hotel, ;Manchester. Sept. 29, Thomas
Drake, Rose-MIL Drayton-in-Hales Shropshire, 'stiller, at ten, at
the Phenix Inn, Drayton-in-Hale:. Sept. 29, Robert Dawe3,
Drayton-In. Hales, Shropshire, mercer, at twelve, at the Phenix
Inn, Drayton-in-Hales. Sept. 16, John Mann, Overbury, Won
cestershire, silk throwster, at eleven, st the office of News. Laval.
Plies and Byrch, solicitors, Evesham, Worcestershire.
CERTIFICATES, See. 12.

William Hubbard, jun. late af What. Lion court, Cornhill, mer-
chant. ' William Woodcock, Preston, Lancashire, timber and wise
merchant. William Wisedill, Friday-strect, ironmonger. John
Barnett, Stroud, Gloucester,lire, innkeeper. Thomas Chantler,
Pendleton, Eccles, Lancashire, hop merchant. Thus. Ainsworth
and Peter Con, Torton and Bradshaw, Lancashire, bleachers.
Joseph 13sowne Kidderminster, silversmith.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Thomas Lucy and Thomas Morgan, Great Trinity-lane, cat•
penters. Jahn Spencer and John Barlow, Sandywell, &Ilford,
Lancashire. silk dyers. John Ames, William Atkinson, William,
Brunskill, Charles Mullikin, William Atkinson, jun. and William
Ames, PaTernoster-row, silk manufacturers (so far as regards Wm.
Atkinson and Win. Brunskill). Edward Roach (deceased) and
Janie. Roach, Newport, Isle of Wight, millers. W. H. Palmer
and W. Cranswick, Islington, grocers. John Ashforth and George
Hurridge, Sheffield, Yorkshire, cutlers. C. Whittingham arid
C. Whittingham, jun. Chiswick, printers. Phillis Weakner and
Anne Weakner, New Bond-street, child bed-linen-manufacturers.
'John Campbell and John Hathaway, Tottenham-court New-road.
Jienj. Bailer and Joseph Bailer, Barnstaple, Devonshire, leather
dres,ers. R. Greenough and J. Lawless, Manchester, cotton
manufacturers. Betty Parker and Ann Partington, Pennington,
Leigh, Lancashire, confectioners. T. Slagg and J. Slagg, Ford,
Eckington, Derbyshire, edge-toul-manutact num. John Fletcher
and Thomas Tanner, St. Paul's Church-yard, haberdashers. R.
Hills and S. Sconham, Maitivone, Kent, bakers. Wm. Cumming,
Wm. Glrdwood, and A. Thomson, Edinburgh, woollendrapers.
IC. Friend and T. Phipp, Ilishopsgate.street- Within, auctioneers.
Josiah Spode, Rachel Wolfe, Ralph Bourne, Win. Baker, John
Boerne, Charles Bourne, Thomas Minton, Hugh Booth, and Jos.
Booth, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, colliers and farmers (so
' far as regards the said Charles Bourne).

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.

The following is a copy of the Repott from the Select
Committee on the Supply of Water to the Metropolis:

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the present
system of supplying Water to the Metropolis. including the Borough
of Southwark, and into the amount of the Rates paid by the Inha-
bitants, and who are instructed to include Lambeth, Christ Church,
Surrey, and the adjacent Parishes in the Inquiry ; and to whom the
Petition of the inhabitants of the Western parts of the Metropolis,
and also the Report of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty
to inquire into the state of the Supply of Water in the Metropolis,
severally presented to the House in the present Session, were re-
(erred to ; and who were empowered to report the Minutes of Evi-
dence taken before them, haws considered the subject to them
referred, and agreed upon the following Report
The Companies which at present supply the Metro-
polis, including the Borough of Southwark, Lambeth,
Christ Church, Surrey, and the adjacent parishes with
water, are eight in number; the West Middlesex,
Grand Junction, Chelsea, New River, and East London,
on the north side of the Thames; and the South L
don, Lambeth, and Southwark, on the south side; all
of which derive their whole supply directly from the
River Thames, with the exception of the New Rivet,
which takes water from the River only occasionally, by
a steam engine placed at the Broken Wharf.
The Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, state
in their Report, that their attention was chiefly confined
to the description, the quality and the salubrity of the
water, and that they did not consider themselves called
upon, either to consider new and more eligible sources
,ot supply, or to suggest plans for the improvement of
those already existing, and that they had therefore pro
ceeded to obtain specimens of the water taken out of
the various parts of the River upon an extensive scale,
and placed them in the hands of a Gentleman emi-
nently qualified by his extensive knowledge of che-
mistry, and his practical experience, to analyse and
report thereon.
The Commissioners also proceeded to examine the
Engineers of the various Water Companies, as well as
the Agents of the petitioners, who bad submitted BIM(

comp aints to Parliament during the last Session, and
also WI those persons who, from local knowledge or
observation, were induced to offer their evidence upon
the subject.
The Commissioners, after observing in the following
passage of Dr. Bostock's leper:, 't That the water of
the Thames, when free from extraneous substances, is
in a state of considerable purity, coritaininOnly a mo:
derate quantity of saline contents, and those of a kind
which cannot be supposed to render it unfit for domes.
tic purposes, or to be injurious to health ; but as it ap-
proaches the metropolis it becomes loaded with a quan-
tity of filth, which ren.lers it improper to be employed
in the preparation of food," &c. appear to arrive at the
following conclusions:
" It is obviGus," they say, "that water receiving ser
large a proportion of foreign matters as we know find
their way into the Thames, and so far impure as to de.
stroy.fish, cannot, evens when clarified by filtration, be
pronounced entirely free from the suspicion of general
insalubrity. In reference also to this question, we ap-
prehend that there ate no grounds for assuming the
probability of any improvement in the state of the az.
ter drawn from the London district of the river.
"Taking into consideration the various circumstances
to which we have adverted, together with the derails
of evidence by which they are proved and illustrated,
and also the facts' derived from our own observation
and experience, we are of opinion, that the present
state of the supply of water to the metropolis is suscep.
tible of and requires improvement ; that many of the
complaints respecting the quality r f the water are well
founded, and that it ought to be derived from other
sources than those now resorted. to, and: guarded by
such restrictions as shall at all tines enint,e its cleanli-
ness and purity." •i ,
Your Committee cannot but unanint.. usly approve
these sentiments and opinions of the Commipsioners, that
the supply of water for the Metropolis,including the Bo-
rough of Southwark and the adjacent parishes, should
be derived from a purer source than it is at present;
and in furtherance of this object, therrecommend that
Mr. Telford be instructe.l to proceed to the making
such surveys as he shall think necessary, in order to en-
able him to recommend a practicable and efficacious
plan of supplying the whole cf the Metropolis with pure
and wholesome water.

Your Committee have further proceeded to inquire
into the amount of the rates paid by the inhabitants, as
compared with those psid at the pet io,l when the for-
mer Select Committee investigated this subject, and
which will appear in the evidence annexed to their Re-
port.

In observing upon this very important subject, your
Committee will take for the basis of their proceedings
the able Report of the Select Committee appointed in
1821, in which, after a most full and labotious investi-
gation into the whole detail of the Income and ExFen.
Jiture of the various Water Companies, that Committee
observe, 41 That the public is at present without any
protection even against a further indefinite extension of
demand. In cases of dispute, there is no tribunal but
the Boards of the Companies themselves to which in-
dividuals can appeal ; there are no regulations but such
as the Companies may have voluntarily imposed upon
themselves, and may therefore at any time revoke, for
the continuance of the supply in its present state, or
for defining the cases in %WA it may be withdrawn
from the householder. All these points, and ctiers of
the same nature, indispensably require legislative regu-
lation, where the subject matter is an article of the first
necessity, and the supply has, from peculiar alarm-
stances, got into such a course, that it is not under the
operation of those principles which govern supply and
demand in other eases.'

" The principle of the Acts under which these Com-
panies were instituted, was to encourage competition;
and certainly in this, as in other cases, it is only from
competition, or the expectation of competition, that a
perfect security can be had for. a good supply ; but
your Committee are satisfied, that from the peculiar
nature of these undertakings, the principle of competi-
tion requires to.bc guarded by particular checks. and
limits in it.; application to them, . in order to render it
effectual, without the risk of destruction to the com-
peting parties, and thereby ultinia-ly of a serious injury
to the public;" and the Committee proceed to remark,
4, The submission of their accounts annually to Parlia-
ment for a few years would necessarily throw light on
this part of the question."
Flom the general tenor of the Report, it should also
appear, that the Committee consideied the Rates of
Is2l, which included the increa.e of 25 per cent. upon
the rental of 1810, as sufficient to remunerate the various
Companies at that period; but an inspection of the
present Returns, shows that a gradual increase has taken
place, amounting to no less than £44,000 per annum
to those Companies who derive their :applies from the
North side of the River Thames. ,
It must also be remarked, that there is no Scale of
Rates existing, or any criterion by which your Com-
mittee can form a judgment upon the reasonableness r f
the rates imposed ; no two Companies appear to avee
in their mode of rating; on the contrary, as the amount
is unlimited, so is the proportion altogether uncertain ;
it is not regulated either by the quantity of water con-
sumed, or by the distance to which it is conveyed, but
appears to be in every instance left solely to the agents
of the different Companies, td.charge as they shall
think fit.

With respect to the new Table of Rates, alleged in
the Petition of the inhabitants of the we.tern parts cf
the metropolis to have been introduced into a Private
Bill passed in May 1826, empowering the Grand Junc-
tionz
Company to levy an addition of . om 50 to 800
per cent. upon their customers, your mittee have
examined the Chairman of the said C pang there-
upon, who states that the said new Tables of Rates,
levying a partial and oppressive tax upon the inhabit
ants of the district, was at the time introduced contrary
to their wishes, and that they ate desirous that it should
be repealed ; your Committee therefore recommend the
immediate repeal of the said clause.
In conclusion, your Committee have only to observe,
that the late period of the Session at which: they were
appointed precludes them from entering more fully into
the subject of the investigation, particularly so far as
regards that most important part of their inquiry, the
inequality of the rates ; but they trust, in recommend-
isle the immediate employment of Mr. Telford in the
object in view, and also the repeal of the obnoxious
clause in the Grand Junction Company's Act cf 1826,
they have, as far as circumstances would permit, ful-
filled the duties committed to their charge.