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London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

EXAMINATION FOR THE ARTILLERY AND

ENGINEERS.
THE following is the prospectus of the next ex-
amination for admission to the Royal Military•
Academy at Woolwich :

War-office, Oct. 14.

I. An examination for the admission of cadets to the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich will be held in
London, in the month of January, 1858.
11. Provided a sufficient number are found competent,
thirty admissions will be made to that institution ; candi-
dates must be between the ages of 17 and 20 years. The
successful candidates will remain under instruction at the
academy for about two years, or 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 ha
required to pay a sum of 221. 10s. on admission, to cover
the expenses of uniform, books, Sze., and a contribution
of W.I. 10s„ payable in advance, for each half-year of the
time during which they remain at the academy. The
annual contributions, however, for sons and orphans of
naval and military officers will be regulated at the follow•
ing rates, as heretofore :

For sons of Admirals and of Generals having Regiments ..
For sons of Generals without Regiments .. • • 70
For sous of Captains and Com nauders of the Navy, and of
Colonels and Regimental Field Officers of the Army ..
_ .

Son. of all Officers of the Navy and Army under the above
ranks 4 0

Sons of Ofßeers of the Army and Navy who have died in the
service. and whose families are proved to he left in pecu-
niary distress 20

The sons of general officers paid only on their eon•
missions as field officers will pay the same contributions
as the sons of field officers.

Sons of officers on full ant half pay will pay alike, but
the sons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half
pay, or received the difference, will only be admitted on
the terms prescribed fur the sous of private gentlemen—
viz., 12.51. per annum.
The sons of officers of the civil departments of the army
are admissible to the academy upon the same terms 55
those prescribed for the sons of naval and military
officers. _ _

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

__ _ ____.._ .
• Marks
Pure .. .. .. .. .. 2,0001
Mixed —4. e., Statics,
1. Mathematics, 1
Dyniuines, and Hydro-
statics .. .. .. .. 1,500 3,5u0
2. Engll.h Language, Literature, Composition, History,
_,
and Urography .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,2-4
Language, _ Idieratureo, Gagsa.
..Ancient..i..
1,0001 1,7 x)
2, Classitni Lulea. d.
History.. . f
Ditto, 2f Ancient Greece ,/ 150)

4 Language, Literature, Geography, and History of
5. Vitto, ditto, ditto, of Germany .. „ 750
The examination iu French and German will be both
written and viva voce.
- _ _

6. Experimental Sciences—i.e., Chymistry, Heat, Elec.
tricky, including Magnetism „ „ 1,000
T. Natural Sciences, Mineralogy, and Geology 750
Drawiug—i e., Elementary Geometrical Drawing, in-
cluding the use of Drawing Distruineuta, and either
Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or Landscape

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IV. No candidate will be allowed to be examined in
more than five subjects, of which one must be mathe-
matics ; and no one who does not obtain at least 1,000
marks in mathematics, of which at least 700 must be in
pure mathema'ics, will be eligible for au appointment.•
From the other subjects of examination each candidate
may select any, not exceeding four in number, in which
he desires to be examined ; but no one will be allowed to
count the marks gained in any such subject unless those
marks shall at least amount to one-sixth of the total
number of marks allotted to that subject.
Any candidate who shall not select French and geo-
metrical drawing among the subjects of 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 reasonable expectation that he will perfect
himself in both during his residence at the academy.
V. No candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
Academy unless he obtain an aggregate of 3,000 marks at
least.
VI. The following papers will he required to be trans.
rained by each gentleman to the \Var•otlice before the Ist
of January, with his application to be noted as a candidate,
unless he shall notify that he has been a candidate at a
previous examination, in which case the statement of sub-
jects only need accompany the application :-
1. An extract from the register of his baptism, or in
default of that a certificate verified by affidavit.
tl. A certificate of good moral character, signed by a
clergyman of the parish to which he belongs, and by the
tutor or head of the school or college at which he has
received his education for at least two years ; or such other
proof of good moral character as will be satisfactory to the
Secretary of State.
:3. A statement of the subjects of examination in
which (in addition to mathematics) he may desire to be
examined. _

VII. All candidates will be required to present them-
selves at the place of examination. hereafter to be deter-
mined, in order to be inspected by military surgeons, tbit
it may be ascertained that they are free from any bodily
defects or ailments calculated to interfere with the per-
formance of military duties.
Notice will be given a month previously in the public
papers of the place and days appointed for holding the
examination. B. HAWES.

N.B.—No more direct appointments will be made to the
provisional commissions in the Royal Artillery.

WEST KENT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
TIIE annual meeting of this society was held at
Bromley last week, under the presidency of Colonel
Cator, supported by Mr. George Norman, Mr. Caird,
M.P., Mr. Wilkinson, late M.P. for Lambeth, and
the leading gentry of the neighbourhood. After the
usual proceedings in the held, the members and
their friends dined together, Colonel Cator in the
chair.

In proposing "The House of Commons," the
CHAIRMAN coupled with it the name of Mr. Caird, a
member of that house and a distinguished agricul-
turist.

Mr. CaruD, M.P., who was received with much
cheering, in acknowledging the toast, referred in the
course of his speech to the rebellion in India :
There were two things connected with this outbreak
which were wonderful indeed. First, the utter unpre-
paredness of the Indian Government for a blow that must
have been long in contemplation ; and secondly, the
heroic constancy and courage of a small body of English-
men, scattered by handfuls over a line of 1;200 miles in
length, surrounded, not by an open enemy, but by tens of
thousands of mutinous soldiers, whom they had been
taught to look upon as their comrades in arms. If we
lost some of our ancient prestige by taking only the second
part in the campaign in the Crimea, England had in India
reasserted her position by the calm heroism of her Anglo-
Saxon sons, not picked men, but ordinary Englishmen.
It was dreadful to think of the atrocities that had been
committed, and the fearful retribution which must follow,
but truly it needed some such sum rebuke to rouse Eng-
land to inquiry and exertion. What did the people or
Parliament of England know of India? Literally nothing.
We had treated it as an outlying farm, which, if it left no
great profit to ourselves, yet gave profitable employment
and wealth to some junior members of the family who
were sent out to manage it. But the welfare of Itto,otX),oo
of people was not so to be treated. For the talent we had
received we were now called to render an account, and if
we had hid it in the ground, actuated by uo higher motives
than halfyearly dividends, the time seemed to have come
when it must be taken from the hand that had failed to
use it with advantage, and be intrusted to better keeping.
For 100 years we had borne sway over the richest territory
in the world, and bad been conten'ed not only to witness
but to encourage the grossest idolatry and superstition,
without in all that time impressing upon the native popu-
lation a rarticle of the spirit of our religion or our pun•
ciples of truth, justice, and humanity. It was but a year

e N.B.—The examination in Arithmetic, Algebra, Plane
Geometry, Logarithms, and Plane Trigonometry will be close
and aearching.