The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-22 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The two battalions of Guards under orders for Canada are
to be reviewed by Lord Hill the General Commanding. in_
Chief, this day, at 11 o'clock, in Hyde Park. The Dukes of
Cambridge and \Wellington, the Colonels of the regiment, are
expected to be on the ground. The troops march on the 26th
instant for Portsmouth, to embark for North America.
We regret to hear that the Earl of Dalhousie is so ill as to
leave little hopes of recovery. His Lordship's decease would
leave the Colonelcy of the 26th Regiment, now in India, vacant.
The following Regiments arc daily expected to arrive in
this country :
The 11th Light Dragoons from India.
The 45th Regiment from India.
The 84th Regiment from Jamaica.

In consequence of the late period at which the service com-
panies of the I 2th Regiment embarked for the Mauritius, they
arrived in that colony in the warmest month ; the result has
hen an unusually large number on the sick-list when the last
advices came away.—Morning Paper.

Sir J. Ross, and a deputation upon the subject of
steam navigation, had an interview with the President of the
Board of Trade yesterday.
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Sir William Molcsworth paired off with Mr. Ful-
ton against the Sabbath Bill.
We regret to hear that his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex is confined by indisposition.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILwAY.--11e-
i.orts having reached us of some serious accidents having oc-
curred to the Kilsby and Brickwood Tunnel, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, we arc glad to find, upon enquiry,
that they are wholly unfounded. The worst effect of the late
trying weather has been to damage a few bricks in the Brick-
wood Tunnel, and a small portion of the brickwork in Kilsby,
where it was in an incomplete state ; neither of which cir-
cumstances will have the slightest effect on the opening of
the line, but of course will tend to add considerably to the
confidence of all parties interested in the success of this
ereat wr'rk. That a work with so much water about it
as Kilsby Tunnel should have received no damage, ex-
cept in a part which was unfinished, during a frost of so
long continuance, when the thermometer was in some
places at 12 degrees below zero, must afford a suffi-
cient guarantee that, notwithstanding the uncommon dif-
culties of that undertaking, they have been met with a
corresponding degree of science and skill, and been fully sur-
mounted ; the trials it has been put to lately being of a much
more severe nature than may ordinarily be expected in this
climate. The line from Birmingham to Rugby may be con-
sidered as finished, although a few trifling things yet remain to
be done ; but, in order to proceed with due regard to the
safety of the public, it is not intended, we understand, to open
it till the 9th of April, at which time that point between Tring
and Denbigh Hall will also be ready.—Rai/tvay
[We understand that the Company have given notice to
Messrs. Chaplin and Co. (who are to convey passengers by
coaches between Denbigh Hall and Rugby) to have their
horses and carriages in readiness on the 9th of April; but
that it is more probable that the day of opening will be Easter
Monday, the 16th of April.—Manchester Guardian.
THE COLUMBUS STEAM SHlB.—This vessel may
now be seen in the Trafalgar Dock, Liverpool. She will Pr°:
ceed on her voyage early in April ; but, this being an
experi-
mental voyage, she will not carry passengers. She is a
beautiful steam ship and is neatly fitted up with aecomme.-
dations for about twenty-five cabin passengers. She is, it
will be recollected, propelled by Mr. Howard's patent va-
pour engines, of about one hundred and twenty hers"'
power, and can carry fifty days' fuel at the same immer
u as a steam vessel of the common equal
power plan, of
and tonnage, can carry twelve days' fuel. She
will make about eleven miles per hour. The following
de-
scr'ption of the machinery will be interesting:—"
This
steamer differs fl om all others in having, literally, no
boiler ; she has steam generators in which water in small
quantities is made to drop from an orifice on a heated
plate, which rests upon a stratum of mercury about three
inches and a half thick, which is heated up to the tempera-
ture of three or four hundred degrees by means of a fire un-
derneath. The rest of the engine is similar to the common
low pressure engines, except that the cold water cistern is
kept cool by means of pipes of cold salt water running
through it. y It is originally filled with fresh water, so that
the evil of using salt water for condensation is avoided. The
fael burned is coke and stone coal, and the vessel will carry
,ufficient for fifty days' consumption. The vessel steamed
the whole of the way from London, and frequently attained
a speed of eleven knots per hour. Such is the construction
of this vessel ; and it must be acknowledged, that great ad-
vantages, even for short voyages, are obtained by the use of
machinery occupying so little room as this does. It is said,
however, that it is found extremely difficult to keep the joints
of the vessel containing. the mercury perfectly tight, and that
the efiect has been seriously to affect the health of the men
employed.—Mancltester Guardian.