The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-23 00:00:00

PURE WATER, FOR HOUSES AND SHIPS.
THE ROYAL FILTERS.

Sole Office, 163, STRAND, LONDON, opposite the New
• Church.

TO purify foul Water like that supplied to the inhabitants
of the principal Cities and Towns in England, replete
with every species of offal and myriads of animalcules, and to
convert it forthwith into an enlivening wholesome and chrys-
talline beverage like the Mountain Spring, is one of the most
diffitult problems of science which thousands in every age
and country have attempted-in vain, having produced at best
a vapid sickening beverage, till the happy electeo-chymical
invention of ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTERS appeared.
This has justly been characterised 'by one' of the highest
practical authorities, as " THE ONLY EFFECTUAL AND
WHOLESOME MODE OF FILTRATION ;" as a proof of the
fidelity of this remark, it will be sufficient to observe, that
during the prevalence of the fatal fever that has lately per-
vaded the Metropolis, not a public establishment or private
residence in which the Royal Filters had been adpted was
visited by the scourge : the advantages of the discovery has
already raised up a host of humble imitators, but it will be
found that all other apparatus are imperfect in action, subject
to'constant disarrangement, and' in many cases render the
use of the water dangerous to health. It is only necessary
to add, that the Royal Filters are protected by her Majesty's
Letters Patent ! that they have been adopted in all the Royal
Residences, the various branches of the Public Service, her
Majesty's Navy, and the Mansions and Residences of mere
than 180,000 families throughout the Kingdom. 'To render
the Invention of general benefit, it has been proposed to the
Patentoe by the most influential Members of the College of
Physicians, to reduce the prices in order to render them avail-
able to all branches of the Community and accordingly the
following scale is submitted to public attention :

- Plain. Ornamented.
2 all. Vase Filter purifying 12 gall. per day .4'o 18 0 £1 3 0
3 ditto ... 18 1 2 0 1 7 0
4 ditto 26 1 6 0 112 0
6 ditto • • 40 .. 112 0 2 0 0
9 ditto • • 65 2 2 0 212 .0
12 ditto 90 212 0 3 5 0
• • ..
AUTION.
The Patentee of Robin's Royal Filters having discovered
that various persons have manufactured and vended certain
machines denominated Filters, professing to clear and purify
water, placing on the same, "By Her Majesty's Letters
Patent," " Patent Royal Filter," or other words to a similar
effect, hereby aAßounces his intention of suing without fur-
ther notice for the `full penalties agreeable to thel ate Act of
Parliament against all parties so offending, either as Makers
or Vendors, to which he requests the attention of Country
Agents, who may otherwise suffer by vending the piratical
imitations of certain unprincipled and ignorant adventurers ;
and the Patentee earnestly cautions purchasers not to con-
found the Royal Filter with any other apparatus, and in order
to guard against all piracies, to remark that the words
Royal Filter, ROBINS, Patentee, London,
are placed on each, that they can be obtained of his Agents
in all Towns throughout the Kingdom, at the Office, 163,
Strand, London, near Somerset House, and at Mr. A. B.
BUXTON'S, 4 and 8, Cleveland-square, Liverpool, where
the Testimonials of all the most eminent authorities in the
world of science and medicine may be obtained gratis.

All notices of claims to be inserted on the list of voters
for the county must be given to the overseers of the town-
ship in which the property is situate, on or before the 20th
July, otherwise the claimant will lose his right for the ensu-
ing year.
-UsEs OF BEES' WAX.—A great deal of wax is imported
into this country, in addition to that which we obtain from
our native hives; for it is of use in most of the useful as well
as some of the fine arts. Besides the manufacture of wax
candles, many thousands of individuals gain their living by
making wax dolls, to say nothing of the forming of wax-work
portraits, and the modelling of objects of still life and fruits ;
in both which frequently much talent and considerable in-
genuity are displayed. To the engraver, wax is an indispen-
sable object, as well as to the artist-painter,, the architect,
and the sculptor. In numerous useful crafts, as in many of
the more scientific manufactures, wax is an article of pecu-
liar utility ; and if it also form the base of the salves, oint-
ments, and cerates of the surgeon, and occupy a similar place
in the sweet-smelling pomatums, and ungents, and cold
creams of the perfumer, it is a valuable aid to medicine ; its
demulcent properties render it very efficacious in diarrhoea
and dysentery, and in other cases were it is required to assist
in protecting the mucous membrane of the stomach from the
effect of any acrid or poisonous substance. It is generally
administered, or exhibited, as medical men say, first melted
with olive oil, and then trituterated with yolk of egg, adding,
by degrees, a solution of gum arable, or some other mucila-
ginous liquid,--Magazine of Domestic Economy,