The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-17 00:00:00

STAFF COLLEGE EXAMINATION.

T!.e subjoined lint, glowing the result of the re-
sent examieetion ter admission to tie Staff College, is
published for the informs iCRI of the allay. The successful
eampotetars have the word " reootrunended " spinet their
name. The names of the candidates who have failed sre
omitted, but by the lodes numbers such officers can ascer-
tain what marks they have gained. These candidates re-
setamendsi for admission will j in the C 'liege on the Ist of
Yobruary next, and will quote this order so their authority
for sc doing.

Remarks.
31 ;

1600 Aecuramended.
3.4:5' ADO.
t 439. bat&
1426 i Ditto.
303±: D.tto.
3349: _ Ditto.

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! (Recommended pond.
2337. , sionally, pruding
( cifereuce to laths.
DM: Recommended.
i Recommended pro-
-204
I vieMnally, pending
Ireference to Mau-
ritius.
IPSI Recommended.
1263. Ditto.
1840 Ditto.
{
Qualified. but there is
no vs.:Ailey f-r a
1754 third othoer .4 RI.
Artille.y.
17.1 Recommended.
{Qualliled, but there is
im nu vacancy for a
second oecer of
100th !tart.
1553 Recommended.
1363 Ditto.
Difit )
1422 -
1 vaallfled, but there
1400
! are 110 VAPS1•1•160

iiir &re HO VACILACIC3.
1081.
11/1 Failed in mathematics
1.055
.1 Ditto in modern
t languages.
' (Ditto in matheensUca
and in modern
language.
411 Do iu mathematics.

By comm.od of his Royal Highness the Field Marshal
Comotanuiog-in •Chief,
.iAmEs Poses &hater', Adjutant• General.

SCENE AT A COUNTRY MEETING.

(FROM OCR OWS ILIPOSTIOL)

COVENTRY, TUESDAY.

This evening Sir Joseph Paxton addressed his
eoistitueete in the Corn Exchange. The body of
the hall. which is capable of holding some 3,000
bidividuals, was pecked by • dense roam of the
Coventry weevers and watchmakers, the larger portion
of whom spent the inning in shouting themselves
hoarse, varied by dancing about in groups of thirty or
forty in different parte of the ball, like mad fakirs or
dancing dervishes ; and as this proceeding, which is
popularly knows is Coventry seder the name of Jeffree end
Berlowing, cautioned more or lees daring the whole of the
evening, Sir J. Paxton was obliged to speak by turns
to the reporters and le • select crowd of supporter imme-
diately below the platform, to whom alone his remarks were
audible. Without being absolutely riotous the meeting was
me of the noisiest that has ever been held even in Coventry.
When the doors ware opened the crowd rushed in yelling,
shouting, and hooting at the very top of their voices, and
when they tired • little of this they fell to blowing the
most ear-piercing penny whistles that were ever operated
spon, which, cembised with excellent imitations of the
crowing of cocks, the barking of dogs, the grunting of
pigs, the Kooning of cets, and other animal sounds, and
the Jaffree and Bestowing, rendered the scene as much
like • Pandemonium ea can well be imagined.

Numerous ems the attacks made upon the phalanx that
guarded the platform, but the liberals stood firm, shoulder
to shoulder, sedum linked in arm, so that the only effect
was to raise vest clouds of black dust, which rendered the
murky faces of the gnat unwashed murkier than before.
With the Bret rush came the old Coventry cry of
•' Morgan," but the Morganites did not meet with much
meow. the response being folly as many yells as chum
Late is the evening. ea they bad at last become utterly
unbearable, a simultaneous effort was made by the
whole body of Sir Joseph's supporters, and the disturbers of
the peace were hurried neck nod crop pell.ruell out of the
hail, after which comparative quietness ensued, and Sir
Joseph obtained a most triumphed hearing, such trifles as
halfo-dosen fights going on at the same time in different
parts of the room being altogether unheeded. Notwith-
standing the row, there was evidently little or ao real
ill-
feelies exhibited ; on the contrary, the greatest good
temper prevailed on both sides, and the majority of the
meeting seemed datermieed to treat the whole affair as an
ucellent joke.
Sir J. PLITOI entered the room a few minutes before
7 o'clock, and was received by his friends with repeated
:muds of cheering and shows of hands, which seems to be
$ very favourite way of examen' public opinion in
Coventry, for the crowd were iauriably quieted for a few
minutes by the exhibition of imams' placards on which
were ;ranted in large ohameten, " Show of hands for Pax-
ton," 'dhow of hands for Peel." Sir Joseph was wean.
pealed to the platfoun by Mr. C. Flint the Rev. Mr. Cross,
Mmes. Marston, Adldas, Weston, S. Wylliam,
Cooper, W. H. Hill, J. Hill, J. Cuba° B. Herbert Phil-
lips, R. K. Itotheraro, Hepworth, R. Cahiecott, A. H. Pees,
Watenon, W. Taunton, F. T. Taunton, R. Hoods,
J. Mien, J. F. Flint. J. & Witham, do.
Mr. Csantm FLINT, having been called to the chair, at-
tempted to open the proceedings by a speech, but not a
word that he said less andible even to ti.n.e at his elbow.
No sooner did he open his month than f.OO other mouths
were opened with such yelling, groaning, shouting, and
cheering, that he was fain to close it again. Twenty times
did be essay to address the people, and twisty times was he
obliged to &WC All this time the vast crowd
wen swaying about here and there, shouting, yell-
ing, screaming. fightiag, and wrestling ; in some portions
of the hall the people being jammed together till
the, made the building teemed with shouts' for room,
while in other parts the floor was quite vacant ; then again
the vacant parte would be covered by the rush of the crowd,
and those in which the people were so jammed just before
would he left comparatively free, until the whole scene re-
sembled nothing so much as one of those ronnoramie
emhibitions in which all sorts of figures are made to move
contrary ways, producing nothing but a /sutra idea of cal-
f usioo. At length, after a trial of about 20 minutes' dura-
tion to make himself hunt, the chairman gore Op the at-
tempt ina a bad job, and, with a look of blank despair,
called upon Sir Joseph Paxton, in dumb show, to commence
his addroo.

Sir J. PISTON went to work in a far more business-lib
way. With a short reporter before him, a tall one behind,
and three or four on each aide, be commenced by good-
kuttioureilly assuring the crowd that they would fond it
all in the papers—a promise, however, which will he hardly
redeemed—end then turned round and vociferated what be
lad to say into the ears of the reporters. At the same time
he began Ida speech,* dismal looking man in the crowd,
with a very dirty fans, began a comic song, in return for
which he initiosdistaly bad his hat knocked over his eyes •
and there were three or four fights and about tielfet-diner;
dancing parties going on. This sort of fun went on for
shout an hour, when the determined effort before alluded
to was roads to expel the Idoreanites, and some degree of
order was obtained.