The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-10 00:00:00

REVIEWS OF THE WORK.

"The author of this singular and talented work is a legally quali-
fied medical man, who has evidently had considerable experience in
the treatment of the various disorders arising from the follies and
and may be had at his residence; also
frailties of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable ad-
dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must
act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal
many questions may be satisfact.orily replied to, that admit of no ap-
peal, even to the most confidential friend." Era.
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THE LAKES.—During the last few days the influx of
tourists to the Cumberland and Westmoreland lakes has beea
so great that the hotel-keepers have been obliged to turn
away numerous parties to look out for acoommodation else-
where. This circumstance is attributed to the faculty
afforded by railway travelling.
MILITARY AND NAVAL FLOGGING.--On Friday after-
noon a large and crowded meeting of the inhabitants of the town of
Hounslow and its vicinity, convened by public notice, was held in
the Lecture-room, at the Nag's Head Inn, In that town, " to adopt
resolutions expressive of its opinion on the subject of military and
naval flogging, and to petition Parliament for the total abolition
thereof." After a lengthened discussion the following form of poth
Um was agreed on :—" To the Hon. the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled,—
The humble petition of the inhabitants of Hounslow and its vicinity,
in public meeting assembled, humbly showetb, that your petitioners,
being deeply convinced of the great importance to this empire of the
army and navy for its peace, order, and protection, and that what-
ever lowers the self-esteem or alienates the patriotism of the soldier
or sailor tends to weaken our defence and perils our safety, your pe-
titioners are grieved to find that the barbarous practice of flogging is
stilt maintained as a mode of punishment ; your petitioners, more-
over, being fully assured that a mode of punishment so unmanly,
brutal, and un-Christian, insulting to our common humanity, and so
alien to our religion and our age, does exasperate and degrade, but
never can amend the offenders ; we therefore humbly beseech your
Hon. House immediately to abolish the degrading and disgusting
practice of flogging in the army and navy."
RAILWAY ACCIDENT--An accident, which might have
been attended with the most serious consequences, befel the evening
train on the London and Gloucester Railway on Monday last. A
passenger, in a second-class carriage, on leaving the Swindon station,
thought he perceived something wrong in the motion of the car-
riages, but failed in attracting the attention of the conductor to it.
The train had not proceeded far, when, to his infinite dismay, he saw
the floor of the carriage on fire, and the flame bursting up between
his feet. The united cries of the horror-stricken passengers at length
succeeded in stopping the train, when they were rescued from their
perilous situation, and made their escape down a steep embankment.
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