The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.

When the last examination of gentlemen cadets took
place at the Royal Arsenal, and 21 of those in the Prac-
tical Class passed satisfactorily and obtained commissions
in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, an exami-
nation also took place of the gentlemen cadets of the
Theoretical Class at the Royal Military Academy, on
Woolwich-common, and 22 passed as qualified for study
in the practical class. The names of 18 of the latter
were only given at that time, but arrangements having
subsequently been made by order of the Master-Ge-
neral, the whole 22 have joined the practical class, on
their return on the 29th of January, after the Christmas
vacation, and the names of those in the practical class at
the Royal Arsenal are now as follow :
First Division.—Practical Class—William Bailey,
Frederick E. B. Beaumont, Charles G. Gordon, Geoffrey
G. Shakerley, Oliver H. Stokes, Francis Temple,
Alexander H. Hutchinson, Henry J. Alderson, John
E. R. Keene, Frederick G. Ravenbill, George W.
Holmes, Thomas H. Pitt, Henry A. Doyne, Frederick
L. H. Lyon, Charles L. Tedcroft, Ernest C. Vaughan,
Robert Hodson, John T. Daubuz, Frederick S. Maude.
Second Division.—Practical Class—Francis J. A.
Law, William F. Gilley, John H. S. Carter Major F.
Downes, James B. Edwards, Albert C. H. Light, Falk-
land G. Warren, William F. Moore, Francis W. E.
Savage, Henry C. S. Dyer, Francis H. W. Nisbett,
Henry Cardew, John K. Holdsworth, Arthur R. Robin-
son, Charles G, Johnson, Wilbraham D. Milman, Joseph
Hanwell, Joshua F. Betty, Maurice H. Fitzmaurice,
Henry R. Martin,' William A. P. Wylie.
On the 3d and 4th of February four candidates applied
for admission as gentlemen cadets, and having passed
satisfactorily, and been approved by the Master-General,
their names, which are as follow, have been added to.
those in the Theoretical Class, which'they have now
joined:—
William J. Smith Neill, William A. Frankland, John
William Campbell, William Henry Izod.

RIFLE amts.—Her Majesty's Government, ac-
cording to a recent official announcement, are prepared in
certain cases to advise her Majesty to accept the services of
volunteer rifle corps, provided that the proposed formation
of such corps is recommended by.the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county, and that the members of the corps undertake to
provide their own arms and equipments, and to defray all
the expenses attending it, except in the event of the corps
being assembled for actual service. Messrs. Nicoll, army
clothiers, are prepared to forward, on bond fidalication,
the Act of Parliament, viz., 44th Cr eor g e 111., c. happy which
they will be governed; a copy of rules adopted by several
ccrps already forming; also sketches and estimates fo
r uni.
forms and accoutrements, with o without the. rifle and
sword-bayonet, improved on thr e French principle. The
clothing they propose to supply for a superior order of volun-
teers shall not exceed the cost of plain dress or ordinary
clothes, and shall in every respect be such as a gentleman
may wear with satisfaction. Samples for the outfit of a sub-
Ecribing club may be viewed on application at the ware-
room
s, 114, 116, 118, and 120, Regent-stree', or at the City
iessrs.
(leper, 'J2, Cornhill. Eight and five guineas are quoted
and wishes of any bedvl,l g for
these samples, but the tastes
tlemen will be readily adopted and estimated for by
Nicoll, who will send competent persons for instructions to
any part of the country, Whe r e a fair amount of business will
be insured.
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were apprised last evening of a fishing___
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coast, abreast of
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up in the Channel, about thirty
Shoreham, a boat. They took
of Friday landed it at that port. it a s
new boat, about twenty feet long, markedeared to be quite a
Amazon, of Lon-
don. There is little doubt but that it. is. one of the boats that
belonged to the unfortunate
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curse of the CPO= L