The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-22 00:00:00

REVIEWS OF TEIR WORK.

LA'IIIERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION.—KENT AND RICHANDS.—TMs
work possesses advantages over every other other of the kind sub-
mitted to public notice. The author is a medical man of some con-
siderable talent, who has devoted many years to the study of his
profession, and as a guarantee of his pretensions has published his
qualifications and diplomas in the work, and several testimonials of
his abilities from physicians and surgeons of great eminence, which
Is a most important consideration to those who, from the peculiar
nature of their infirmities, are obliged to seek medical assistance
from strangers. The subject is treated altogether in as excellent
mariner, and by its perusal the uutbrtunate victim of vicious habits
and excessive dissipation, will be enabled to account for peculiar
disabilities, and to discover the means of alleviating their sufferings
in an easy and effectual manner.—United Service Gazette.
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RE-EMBODYING OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN CORPS.—
We have been informed that it is not intended to send
any further detachments of the three West India Regi-
ments to Africa, in consequence of the expense resulting
from the transmission of officers and men from Nassau,
Jamaica, and Demerara, to Sierra Leone, M`Carthy's
Island, and Cape Coast Castle, and back to the West
Indies when relieved. It is rumoured to be the inten-
tion of the authorities to withdraw the officers and sol-
diers from Africa as soon as their term of service in that
country shall expire, and to replace them with a regi-
ment especially about to be raised for service in Africa
only, under the title of " The Royal African Corps"—a
title which was borne by the present third West India
Regiment, from April, 1822, to August, 1840, inclusive.
Should the proposed arrangement be carried into effect,
the grumblers against the expense of the army need have
no additional teXt for their economical homilies, as it
will be easy to draft a sufficient number of officers and
men from the three West India Regiments to garrison
our African possessions, these regiments having been
specially augmented in order to compensate for the ab-
sence of the officers employed temporarily in Africa.
The West Indian duty is not more severe now than it
was in 1840 ; the additional officers and men either will
not, therefore, be required by the West India Regiments,
or it will be in the power of the Quartermaster-General
to withdraw a regiment of the line from the West Indies,
on the return to that station of the six companies of the
West India Regiments now:detached on service in Africa.
—United Service Gazette.
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
—Experiments have, it appears by the New York papers,
been recently made with the electric telegraph to deter-
mine the difference of longitude between New York,
t
Philadelphia, and Washington. From these experi-
ments
ifinrs Newt. thatw obyimmpeoarntsanotf ctohnecmluasigonnestichatevleegbreaepnh, deduced,
d clockuced
York can be compared with another at a distance
of 200 miles quite as accurately as two clocks can be
compared in adjoining rooms ; secondly, that the time
required for the electric fluid to travel from New York
to
iso
soW smallashin gatofrneeatniednbeaf a
back
second,again a distance of 450 miles,
thatTo this we may add,
it is inappreciable
to the most practised observer.
that Mr. Bain, of Edinburgh, the inventor of the electric
agency
to
of
fthte h docks of
e
clock, offered so to apply the pr
incilale
that city and Glasgow, throughthe
telegraph, as to give them motion from one and the
sameailway
source, and thus to indicate precisely the same time at
the same moment, though forty-six miles distant.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Wednesday, a fine girl, five
years of age, daughter of a working man named Fulton,
residing in Gorbals, while crossing at the end of
Bridge-street, towards Glasgow Bridge, in company with
her grandmother, was driven down by a noddy, one of
the wheels of which passed over her, and injured her so
severely that she survived the accident only five or ten
minutes. The driver, whose name is John Ross, was
taken into custody, but we understand that little or no
blame can be attached to him on account of the melan-
choly occurrence, as he was driving slowly at the time,
and deceased is stated to have made a sudden turn
in
crossing, so as to bring herself in contact with tiw
vehicle before he could have time to pull up.--Glasgow
Constitutional.

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