The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-22 00:00:00

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THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION.—Sir James Outram,
K.C.8., left Southampton on Thurstlay, the 210, for
Bombay, in order to take the command of the
British force destined to operate against Feria.

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MAJOR GENERAL SIR HOLIES SCIIOEDDE, K.C.8.,
has been gazetted to the colonelcy of the 2nd
Regiment, vacant by the death of Lieut.-Gen. Sir G.
Rolt.

H.M.S. " RALEIGH," 50, bearing the broad pennant
of Commodore Keppel, C. 8., went out of Portsmouth
Harbour, on Saturday, under canvas. So tare a
sight is this in these days that the authorities of the
port, alarmed lest the frigate should be run ashore,
sent a couple of steam•tugs to see her safely to Spit•
head !

THREE HUNDRED OF THE GERMAN LEGION em•
barked on hoard H.M.S. Vivid, at llarwich, last
Monday. When safe on board the men were paid.
As soon as they had got their money they want, d to
go ashore and spend it. The officer in charge, and
the captain of the Vivid, refused; whereupon the
men knocked them down, thrashed the crew, and
getting into the shore boats made off. A number
were afterwards arrested on shore by a detachment
of artillery, returned on board, and the Vivid soon
after put to sea.
SOME EXPEP.IMF.NTS were made three days ego at
the Grand Camp, at Lyons, with a new gun, ret e illy
invented by a French officer in the Belgian service
named Ben. Although this gun has only one
barrel, two shots may be fired with it as with a
double.barrelled one, without the necessity of re-
loading. It will carry as far as a Minie carbine.

THE PROSPECTUS OF THE NEXT EXAMINATIoN for
admission to the Loyal Military Academy at Wool-
wich has been issued by the War Department. The
examination will be held in London in the month of
June, 1857 :
Provided a sufficient number are found competent,
thirty admissions will be made to that institution ; candi-
dates must be between the ages of seventeen and twenty
years. Those, however, who have not exceeded twen y
years of age on the Ist of January next will not be con-
sidered disqualified. The successful candidates will re-
main under instruction until they are sufficiently advanced
in scientific knowledge to pass a satisfactory examination,
and they will then receive commissions in the Royal
Artillery or Royal Engineers. They will be required to
pay a sum of 221. lOs. on admission, to cover the expense
of uniform, books, &c., and a contribution of 621. lOs. for
each half year of the time during which they remain at the
academy. The half-yearly contributions, however, for
sons and orphans of naval and military officers will be
regulated at rates, as heretofore.

The admissions will be determined by the result o
a competitive examination, the subjects of which
will be as follows :

Pure and Mixed Mathematics—i.e., Statics, Dyna-
mics, and Hydrostatics .. 3,500
English Language, Literature, Composition, His-
tory, and Geography ..
Language, Literature, Geography, and History of
Ancient Rome, and of Ancient Greece .. 1,750
Ditto ditto ditto of France .. 1,4N10
Ditto ditto ditto of Germany 750
(The examination in French and German will be both
written and vied voce.)
Experimental Sciences—i.e., Chemistry, Heat, Elec-
tricity, including Magnetism .. 1,000
Natural Sciences, Blineralogy, and Geology .. 750
Moral and Political Sciences
Drawing—i.e., Elementary Geometrical Drawing,
including the nse of Drawing Instruments, and
either Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or
Landscape Drawing .. 1.000
No candidate will be allowed to be examined in more
than five subjects. of which one must be mathematics, and
no one who does not obtain at least one fifth of the allotted
tuuiber of marks in this subject will be eligible fur au ap-
pointment.
From the other subjects of examination each candi-
date may select those in which he desires to be examined ;
but no one will be allowed to count the marks gained in
any subject, unless those marks shall at least amount to
one•sixth of the total number of marks allotted to that
subject.
No candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
Academy unless be obtain an aggregate of 3,01 0 marks at
least.

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Any candidate who shall not select French and drawing
among the subjects for his examination will be required to
satisfy the examiners that he has such knowledge, at least
of the elements of those two subjects, as shall afford reason-
able expectation that he will perfect himself in both during
his residence at the academy.
Notice will be given a month previously, in the
public repels, of the place and days appointed for
holding the examination.
THE 10TH CG:IPANY OF THE 110YAL ENGINEERS,
under the command of Captain F. Brine 11. l: , has
proceeded to the camp at Curragh, Kildare. A
company of this corps, together with a proportion of
the staff officers and non-commissioned officers, will
also proceed at an early date to the camp at Alder-
shott, for the purpose of forming an establishment
of the corps at that station.
THE REDUCTION OF TILE ARMY is proceeding at
Chatham, and, in addition to the number of troops
who have already received their discharge, nearV
300 men were discharged on Thursday morning, and
the same number were inspected by the Commis•
sioners of Chelsea Hospital at Chatham on Friday.
About 1,000 troops are still veiling at Chatham to
receiye their discharge,