The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-03 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A detachment belonging to the 71st Reginient of Foot,
is ordered to embark, this morning, on board a steam-
vessel in the River, for Hull.
A Detachment belonging to the 46th Regiment of In-
fantry, is ordered to embark, this morning, on board a
steam-vessel in the River; for Gravesend, on route to
Chatham.
A detachment belonging to the 40th Regiment of Foot,
is ordered to embark, this morning, on beard a steam-
vessel in the river, on route to Sheerness.
A detachment belonging to the 15th Hussars, is ordered
to embark, this morning, on hoard a steam-vessel in the
river, for Gravesend, on route to Canterbury.

The public are not generally aware that the
very splendid Anatomical Museum, belonging to the Col-
lege of Surgeons, in Lincoln's-Inn-fields, is open for the
inspection of visitors, every Monday and Friday, by a tiekct
from any Member of the College. In this very extensive
collection is the skeleton of the celebrated O'Brien, who
exhibited himself many years ago as the Irish giant. His
figure was well proportioned, with the exception of a slight
narrowness of the'chest ; and the height of the skeleton is
eight feet two inches, so that the individual, when alive,
must have been something taller; but even as it is, an
ordinary tall man, when standing on a table, very barely
equals the height of this colossal skeleton. Two other
objects well worthy of notice, are the heart and the brain
of an elephant. The heart is shorter and thicker in its
figure than that of a bullock ; and in point of size, would
about fill a half-bushel measure; but the
,brain of this
most sensible quadruped is so small in proportion to its
general dimensions, that it is hardly double the size of the
brain of one of the large oxen that may be seen in Smith-
field market. In this Museum, there are specimens of
two modern attempts at preserving human bodies after the
manner of the Egyptians ; andat the further end of it may
be seen two wooden cases, containing what were once two
living females, and the visitor, by means of a pane of glass
at the top and bottom of each case, sees the face and the
feet of each of them ; but it is quite 'clear from
,the
inspection, that the medical practitioners of this country,
have not come at all near the ancient Egyptians in the art of
embalming, as both these remains of frail humanity present a
shrivelled and horrible appearance, and are quite unlike the
Egyptian mummy brought to this country by M. Belzoni,
for, although the individual had been dead and buried
2,000 or 3,000 years, and was become of a brown copper
colour, yet his features were nearly as round as when the
man lived; and his teeth, nails, and eyebrows, as perfect
as they ever had been. The great defect in this large col-
lection is, that the names of the different objects are not
written on or near them. It is true that visitors receive
every attention from Mr. Cliffe, a very clever eurgeon, who
is the curator of the Miseum ; but still no visitor Can
orally receive information, even as fir tdiAlie • *Mee of
20,000 objects ; but if thu name, were affixed to. each, he
might learn for himself what every, particular thing was,
and then inquiri for any further information respecting any
object that particularly attracted his attention.