Star.
London, England, 1828-05-19 00:00:00

BRAZIL.

THE DIARIO PLUMINENsR. DATED RIO JANEIRO,
THE /STH Or MARCH.
As the disturbances which have taken place in the
Rua dos Barboneos, and its vicinity, by the Irish recruits
quartered therein, under the command of Coloitel
Baldwin, and the Sd battalion of Grenadiers, under
Colonel William Cotter, have come to the knowledge
of his Majesty the Emperor;, and wishing to enforce
the responsibility of these Commanders, and of .the
officers-of that quarter, who neglected to execute the'
orders repeatedly given them to prevent such excesses,
and who omitted to restore order amongst these
recruits, as they ought to• have done, when, on
pretence of insults received from negroes, they tta-
versed these parts armed with cudgels, attacked and.
ilkulted peaceable citizens, and broke into their houses,
which likewise happened on the 9th of this present
month, in the street of Mangueirus, in the dwelling
house of Counsellor Jose Ricardo da Costa Aguiar, part
of which offence was witnessed by the commanding
Colonel, Cotter, who, in a quarrel on that day, failed in .
behaving with due respect to the Intendant General of '
the Police—who, by virtue of his office, had taken cog. •
nizance of the matter, and desired the mutiny to be '-
suppressed—the said August Lord and Sovereign has
been pleased to direct that the aforesaid recruits Shall,
until further orders, be removed to the depots of
Praia, Verinellea, to learn their necessary military disd
cipline ; and that Colonel Cotter shal} be dismissed from
'his command, and Lietit. Colonel Baldwin beitnprid
soned in the fortress of the Rho das Cobras t-and that
the other Officers of the Quante de'Barhonvos be ion-
frisoned in the fortress of Laji. An orZfet will 'be like.;
wise issued to the latendant.General of PPlice to punish:
and chastise those of the negroei who instated and prod
yoked the foreign staters..
(Signed) BENT° 8AMR07,43 PURELIIA.
Ralace, 11th MRrch,lllW, . . sef :4; •
"fro. Scriber Jose Maisel de Moms. •

PARLIAMENTARY PARER.
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rrom the ItepOrt of the Commissioners appointed tar
kiquire into the stateOf the supply' of Wafer for the
Metropoliat itaptit'art; is 4 !hit on-the 'side of fisantity,
the?" is oo.koiltsacffor reasonable complaint-2diy,thete-.
'the . 6141164m0' Misted' ti"p swifts' ihe sif ate! supplied by the.
Neitilti*VompaisifrOtii their'own -sources, may be '
sesVritfOrli;ptespetlite.--.3dli ' 'that. ill, hal-purities
ailsich min O'srifirtlielbad,,sq *alai ;Minixll9i
'.. goe
,Fiii 6r -14..any-po' dr. 61640044tii „Li .that in Ai'.
impiritiet, to a tesiiiii'dtt •lisbut chielly 04 is ate
eh ii, ai.einiii*** - • - • •
i. ' Oilf If the sirdaiest esideacti to 'OW facts' it Mr* ,
tdliillit';ltisl'hlis avoids are too tialaeltalsie to beomitted:'
Speildokirt4eThirai.s, *he eaya....',' • ,
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' 4lr !s neiihr.
116..te ilPf less Ihfla: tik*otathote sayer'
"ortnsidok so fat 'is receiving Ihe..cOistenta of all dig„''''
,
setters which on the north side, as numbered by that ..,
•Cnoynisaionets of*Seweri, ate 96, and op the,south 461!
Aailead there is no other recipient; and this commistura,%
is cots4ejel by the ebb a let* Miles doirdireards Co .
the east; then, tirtheflow, repassilig London, a fey; '.
lasilis upwards.
to the'wcie ; but neither reaching Teal...
lington nor the sea." ' •
• And again:-,:- • •
" A slender portion' of consuisiu seise authorises me to
.affirm, that a sprain •which reeeives daily the evacuas-;...
lions of a Million of humus beings, of many thourantn•
'aninisWwith. an ch...filth and refuse of the variou
offensive: .rnsnufaetnries, . whichi if necessity must 1s •
Carried on in oile of the most populous cities of Europe,
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lcannot require to be analyzed, except by a luoatie, nik ..
ikterrnine whether it ought to be punspedip as a bey"'
verage for the inhabitants of the Metropolis of the Bri.: '
tish empire. The question which you will deCide _is,
not whether a few grains of this immeasurable filth can
'by chemical process be extracted from a bottle of water '
taken here or there, and subjected to the process of a *
tea kettle elahoratory, but whether, with Out any pro-
tesit at all, this stream, palpably known to contain all
this mass of filth, should continue to be supplied r
.- The number of. tenants supplied by the New River
•ComPany, is between 66,000 and 67,000, andthe roan.
tity of water which is daily supplied exceeds 13,000,000
gallons, being about 2,000,000 cubic feet. The number .
of tenants supplied by. the East London Water Works,
is about 42,000, and the daily consumption of water, is ;
nearly 6,000,000 gallons, or about 950,000' cubic
feet. The West Middlesex Water Works supply about.*
15,000 houses. The average daily supply is abotit :
2,250,900 gallons, or about 360,000 cubic feet. The
Chelsea Water Rocks supply 12,400 houses. The
average daily 'supply being about 1,760,000 gallops,
'or 282,000' cubit: feet. The Grand Junction Com-
pany supply 7,709 tenants, • whose daily , consump-
tion of water is about 2,800,000 gallons, or 4.50,000
cubic feet. 'From Whence it appears that the quantity
of water daily supplied io the Metropolis; on the Nor-
thern side of-the Thames, is nearly' 26,000,000 of' •
gallons, and the number of houses supplied amounts,
to about '144,000. The average daily consumption
of each hoisse" is' about 180 gallons. Of this water,
more than one hal(of which is derived from the Thames,
stle,;
engines
aloin
a large portion irdelivered at very considerable elev‘
tiOns above the .k'vel of the river, constituting what is
called high
are empldyed,
purposehigharsiceplfbor of
fifteen
about
horses. The Lambeth Water Works supply about 16,000 -
who consume 1,244,000 gallons of water daily.
o
r which
exerting a power
t 200;000'cubic feet. The Vauxhall, or South
-London Water Water Wthles supply about 10,000 houses wills
nearly 1,000,000 gallons daily, or 160,000 cubic feet.
The' Southwark Water .Works supply 7,000 houses with
about 7p0,0e0 gallonh or 115,000 cubic feet of water
daily. The whole-of the water which these Companies
supply is from the Thames; and amounts to nearly
3,000,000 gallons,- or 485,000 cubic feet daily ; and Is
distributed among 33,000 tenant%
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Part of the Evidence adduced by the Medical Wltoesies,before the
Committee en OW Supply of Water to the Metropolis:
XXALINATIION Or DN. JAMS,' JOHNSON. •
I am supplied by the New River Company ; I have "
hot a single -461t.t0 fiqd,willi 'it. it is a great deal • •
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better than than water supplied ny the Chelsea Conipatry.—
ass In Spring Garde%& was supplied for five years and a
half by the Chelsea Company. The water was dis-
gusting to the sight, and the effluvia affected the senses.
As a medical man, I had prejudices against the water,
from a conviction thee must have been many offensive
and injurious matters dissolved in it, beyond what were
cognizable by the senses:, In my own experience, I
can state that I was affected with pain after raking my
breakfast and tea, which I attributed to the water. I
obtained water from the Charing Cross pump. and had
a kettle for this water, which I used for myself. I had
Uo pain after the use of this water ; but 1 found the
pain increased after using, through the servant's negli-
gence, or by design, the other water, that is the Thamesl
water; and-this was uniformly the case after repeatef
trials. I 'svis informed by Mc. Drell, Waterloo-place,
ovhd.hs a great many young women employed in the
millinery business, that se;'oral of the young people h avet
been repeatedly affected with bowel complaints ; if they
went out of town a few days, and drank other water,
tbecomplaint subsided, but often returned again on their
again drinking this water, lan the medical attendant
on this establishment, and Mr. bell w islied that I should
make the fact known, which I have now stated, aril
that he is firmly persuaded the complaint is attributable
principally to the use of impure water. There is a team
on the surface of the water of an oily twine, and the
deposit, is immense ; whim my cisterns, were cleaved out,
the smell rendered the house say uncomfortable for
somehow: afterwards. This was Thames water from
the Chelse t Company's works.
EXANIINATIIN OF DR. PARIS.
The water with which I am supplied is bad—very
impure, offessive, and muddy. We do not rise it ex-
cept for washing. We send to the Russian Ambassa-
dor's, where tHete is a well and a pomp. The cistern
has been often emptied, and the mud a, rapidly accu-
smilatess The Cnnipany send in mud with the water,
• and then complain hat we do not keep the cisterns
• elem. In the si:mnier,. at which time .1 particularly
too iced it, there were. large qo atonic. of matter mecna-
pisally suspended, and I should think many that were
diso•lve.i in the nicer:
Have vou any eridence that it stinks as it comes in?
Nit I Cianot say that I have; but I know that it
does so very silently after. 1 beg to mention, that a
printed paper, which was circulated by the directors of
the Gs o.d Junction Company, in which reference is
made to myself, conta:ns a complete mistatement of the
facts. I have no cow ection with Mr. Wright; but my
.• opinion as a physician is, that the water is injurious to
. beafth. 1 visited a family, who were all ill in the
• elllollll3, and I believe their Illness arose from drinking
the wat• r on coming to town. They changed the water,
and :drank other *wet; and got yell. [low tar filtra-
tion may tender it puke, remains to be proved, I shAtid
doubt its being made pure by such means ; but I can-
not speak positively. At all events, I should not choose
to drink It after any process to Which it might be sub-
. lected. _ _
EXAMINATION OF DR. WILLIAM SOMERVILLE' PHIT-
-41C1AN TO CHELSEA HOSPITAL.
Water is supplied to the Chelsea Hospital from the
Thames; it is received frosts the river into two large
canals in the garden, by valves, which are opened by
the fl ov of the tide raising the water to their level:
front the canals the water is forted by a tisle.engine
into reservoirs, from which pipes distribute it. It
frequently impure, especially after heavy rains or the
westward; indeed, the water received into the canals
cannot be pure, when it is considered that it is received
front the river at the time that It has been agitated by
tbetonfi:cting forces-of the descent of the stream, over-
came at last by the tide repelling that stream, alter
having stirred op the mass of impurity produced by
all that is corruptible in the animal and vegetable world,
together with the noxious filth of gas and other manu-
factories that constantly Bow into the Thames, from ,
Battersea down to Gravesend. Mnch of this horrible
mixture is deposited in the canals ; I have seen -shrimps
in the water.
'Does it vary in its pntity ?--Answered in the reply
to the former question; but I must add, that the ims
purity of the water at Chelsea bears no comparison to
that which was supplied for )ears to my house' in
Hanover square, which was not only frequently but
pr her ally extremely impure, !solid. and offensive; it
deposited much mnd, and often contained enough to
rei•der its colont blacki h. lu Hanover-sqoare, I always
complained of the foul state of the water. It seems to
me, that thi• question of the purity of the water has
been placed on a very erroneous footing by many, who
say, that there is no ingredient in the water in London
to produce disease, and that chemical analysis detects
nothing delete% icus in the mixture; this reasoning
would equally apply to water taken from the pats of a
water-closet. The very idea of impurity is, in my
estimation, sufficient ground for rejecting water that
floes from a foul source, or is contaminated by having
putrid animal or vegetable matter in contact with it.
The case of the water-closet is no great exaggeration of
the contiguity of the Dolphin and the Ctoacea Maxima.
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, . hiom a paper laid on the table of the House ~t Cons. +,
nuns, it appears that in the year ending Jan. 5, 1826, 18.65,7,846
imperial gallons of spirits were distilled in the United Kingdom
for home consumption; the duty received on which amounted to
3.884,8501. In the year er.ding January 5, 1827, 18,633.402 gal-
bats; the duty on which was 4,146,4671. 14s. In the year ending
January 5, 1828, the number of imperial gallons distilled in Eng-
land was 6,671,562; in Scotland, 4,752,199 ; and in Ireland,
.8.260,919 ; total, 19,684,651 ; the duty on which was 4,157,4421.
The meat increaue appears not to be so treat as bas been cum.
wanly imagined.
Tim last quatter of the Marquis CAMDIN'S contribu-
tion t.. the Public was paid a few days ago, which com-
.plems the eleventh year since his Lordship has paid his
receipts and emoluments beyond the regulated salary
as Teller of the Exchequer, to the public service. That
paellas amounted, in eleven years to 100,1.56/. 3,. 2d.
His Lordship also contributed hefote tl.e peace of
Paris 0,4 W/. Os. 7d. amounting in all to the sum of
145,5631. This noble specimen r,f public ho-
nour seems destined to be as unparalleled as it is
Munificent.
A Memorial has been addressed by the merchants of
Liverpool to the Lords of the Conecil for the Affaiisoi
Trade, earnestly requesting that their Lotdships, in the
tontemplated alteration to the present fluty (a sugar.
Will propoSe such enactments as will, it they do not
equalize the duty on East and West India sugars,
Make the difference not more than 4 per cent.
Sir TIKMAS TROWSKIDGZ, while eroploy,ld on the
atastof Italy, was asked by a Lieutenant Colonel, a
stitunth Royalist, for two English sloops of war. with
which he was to take some fort (from the French). The
Request was granted, and the warrior returned and
begged for two frigates. These were granted in lieu of.
the sloops, whey another request was preferred for two
line of battle ships. This lau application was made in
the cabin of the Culloden. Suddenly the doors burst
open, and out flew the Lieutenant Colonel, with Capt.
Tnowniwens at his beel,s kicking him along ; and while
gowning with rage, he exclaimed—" The cowardly
;meal; 81st sloops, then trigates, then ships of the line,
4.4 the% d.na hist be is afraid to fight ;t ale

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