The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-16 00:00:00

MEDICAL OFFICERS.

Inspectors of Hospitals and Fleas
Deputy Inspectors ditto.
Surgeons retired
-s , 37
Surgeons retired on a commuted allowance .... 43
Ditto unfit for further active service 219
Surgeons for service 358
Assistant-Surgeons unfit for service... 55
Assistant-Surgeons fit for service.. 577
Dispensers of Hospitals 8
Chaplains retired ..
Ditto for active service 34

ROYAL MARINE FORCES.
(Head.quarters, Gibraltar.)
Major. Generals
Colonels Commandants of Divisions
Colonels and Second Commandants
Lieutenant Colonels

Captain 94
First Lieutenants
Second ditto
ROYAL MARINI; ARTILLERY.
(!lead-quarters, Portsmouth.)
Lieutenant-Colonels 1

Captains

Field Officers
Colonels on retired full pay
Lieutenant-Colonels, ditto

Majors ..:. 1
Captains 62
First Lieutenants ..
' ll
Second ditto
Lieutenant-Colunels on reserved half pay 1
Majors.., 1
Captains 7O
First Lieutenants .
Second ditto 135
The Ruyal Marino forces consist of 90 compaities, ste-
tioncd as '.olloiAzi viz.:—

Chatbath Ist division 22 companies-1,5, 9, 13, 17,
21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 56, 59, 62, 65, 70,
72, 73, 77.

Portsmouth 2d division, 27 compsnics-2, 8, 10, 14,
18, 22, 26, 30, 34,.38, 42, 46,, 50, 64, 67, 60, 63, 66,
GS 74,r2 8i
Tlyrrioutt 34 division, 23 compikates4.3, 7, 11, 15,
19, 23,-27i:-14, -35, 39, 43,_47, 51, 55, 5% 61, 64, 67,
69, 71,.75, 79, 83.

Woolwich 4th division, 18 companies-4, 8, 12, 16,
20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 76, 80, 84, 88, 89.
Royal Marine Artillery, 2 companies.
The British Navy, the most extensive in the world,
consists of 584 ships of war mounting from 10 to 120
guns each, of various calibre ; of these 84 aro armoi
steam-vessels, builtton the most approved principles for
active service.

This immense fleet, the strong bulwark of England, is
manned by 2QOOO able-bodied seaman, 2,000 stout lads,
and 10,000 Royal marines.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SCOT•

LAND.

Oa Tuesday last an accident of a very serious nature,
and one which might have been attended with the must
fatal consequences, occurred on the Slamannan and
Glasgow Railway. As it was, several of the passen-
gers were severely injured, and all of therm were thrown
into a state of the utmost consternation and alarm.
When the evening train with from fifty to sixty pas-
sengers, was within a few miles of Glasgow, the en-
gine, then going at a very rapid rate, in order, it is
said, to make up time last on the road, was suddenly
thrown off the rails, and the second and first class
carriages were in consequence overturned with extreme
violence on opposite sides of the road. Providentially
no lives were lost
; and it is only proper to say
that the utmost attention was paid to the sufferers
by the officers of the Company, and also by those
inhabitants of the neighbourhood who were drawn
to the spot immediately on the occurrence of the
accident. Without intending to throw odium on any
one in one in the present instance, we cannot help
expressing regret that some efficient means is not
adopted for the purpose of ascertaining, in all eases of
similar accidents, what is the real cause of accident, the
more especially so from the fact that in every instance
where an accident has occurred it has been found next
to impossible to fix with precision whether it was the
result of overspeed in the rate of travelling, or an inhe.
rent defect in the machinery, the popular belief almost
invariably inclining to the side of overepeed. An inge-
nious friend, one who has for many years been familiar
with the working of rallwaye, has Made to tis the fel,
lowing suggestion, which we throw out, lti order that
it, or some adaptation of it, or of some other sort of
plan suitable for the pupate, may be speedily adopted.
his proposal is to fix an apparatus to each engine con-
sisting of some Fort of clock-work, to be worked by
the machinery in such a manner as to ring a bell
at the end of every mile traversed, and to have
a clock or timepieee put id a tionspieutius part of
the train, so that the time between each stroke of the
bell, or, in other words, the time occupied in travelling
each mile, might be ascertained with certainty, and
hace the rate of speed Made known t in addition to
this index of speed, that each train be provided with
the means of being. instantly detached from the engine,
h case the rate of motion, from whatever cause, Were
increased so much as to endanger the safety of the pas-
sengers. This would at least shoe to every one, if an
while it would afford to the condue.
accident should unfortueritely happen, whether it was
the fault of overspeed or not, a matter in itself of no
and regulating the
haecfkuinnegtionary who slight
unfortu-
nately, oa I
t ol' operationsrnlgl ITladotrefttria tntahl: ece:lieenagni n
presentee r e'
arrangements, has the uncon-
tiollcd management of life and property to an almost
unlimited extent.—Edinburgh Observer.

DR. Jo/IN BORTHWICK GILCHRIST.—
Died on Friday last, in Paris, Dr. John Borthwick Gil-
christ, one of the firmest advocates, one of the truest,
most disinterested, and generous supporters of all that can
ifro and
ms honest and upright
ndhi
elevate the character and extend the liberties of the peo-
ple. In his single.ntnded and sincere devotion to the
political improvement,
course. He hated and he denounced oppression in every
form,
and sympathised With cten passionate fervency in
cause of of
all that tended to remove misery and to proms to human
happiness. A few years
ago he was among the most
active of Reformers, taking a prominent stand among the
leaders of the popular cause. Old age and absence from
Clo"uelldi'ditv7ir: moral,cim
his country, If they removed him from the sphere of busy
co-operation, neither lessened his philanthropic affections
nor diminished his desire to co-operate in every work of
good.
It is understood that his fortune is ultimately des-
tined to be devoted to the furtherance of education.
The Prussian State Gazette contains, under the
head of Berlin, 7th January, the following at title :—" A
horrible crime was committed on the 3d at Frandburg, in
East Prussia. The Protestant Bishop Ermeland, a vene-
rable old rosn, highly respected, was assaulted on the
evening of that day, between seven and eight o'clock, in
his own house, murdered and plundered. His housekeeper,
an aged woman, the only person with him
.in the house,
was dangerously wounded. In spite of every exertion the
perpetrator or perpetrators of this crime bays not been dis-
covered; The Bishop was 78 years old.

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