The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

WOOLWICH,
THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.
An examination of candidates from thk
Carshalton, and from several of the private
ments for instructing young gentlemen in Woolwich
and the surrounding country, took place during the
present month to ascertain the qualifications of the
various candidates who were [anxious to be admitted
as gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military Academy,
preparatory to their becoming ofacers in the Royal
Artillery or Royal Engineers on the satisfactory con-
clusion of their studies at the cadets' barracks at Wool-
wich. The examination on the present occasion has been
the most gratifying that has taken place for many years,
as out of the 26 young gentlemen who came forward 25
passed, and the Master-General has been pleased to ap-
prove of them, and they are ordered to join at the Royal
Military Academy on Tuesday, the Ist of February
next, on its re-opening after the approaching Christmas
vacation. A young gentleman from the school at Car-
shalton was first on the list as to qualifications in May
last, and another from the same school stands first on
the list after the examination just completed and ap-
proved by Lord Raglan. Altogether ten of the young
gentlemen whose names are given below as passed, and
ordered to join the Academy, are from the school at
Carshalton, and stand high on the list, which is made
according to their merit and abilities in the requisite
branches of education, in which they are strictly ex-
amined previous to their being placed on the list of
gentlemen cadets of the Theoretical Class at the Royal
Military Academy :--
1. Mr. Walter Moncrieff Thriepland Campbell.
2. Mr. Francis Arthur Marindin.
3. Mr. Rowland Burden Webster.
4. Mr. Henry Woodruff.
5. Hon. Ralph Hare.
6. Mr. Frederick Richard Saunders.
7. Mr. PercyCharlesGullemardCavendish.
cLaveewnellisn Smith.
.s. Mr. James
9. Mr. Henry Colebrooke Lewes.
10. Mr. William Henry Wardell.
11. Mr. William Gustavus Temple Stacie.
12. Mr. Turner Straubunzee.
13. Mr. John Ashton Pappilon.
14. Mr. Ramsey Wiston Phipps.
15. Mr. Edward Sidney Burnett.
16. Mr. Edward Broadrick.
17. Mr. Robert Charles Walter Campbell.
18. Mr. John Burgh Rochfort.
19. Mr. Ashley Henry Woodgate.
20. Mr. Henry George Saunders.
21. Mr. Harry Style Ruston.
22. Mr. George Paxton.
23. Mr. John Hobart Seymour.
24. Mr. Fitzroy Somerset Talbot.
25. Mr: John Booth Richardson.
ROYAL ARSENAL.

The Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Lord Raglan,
G-.C.8., Master-General of the Ordnance, accompanied
by Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, C. 8., .N., Principal
Storekeeper, visited the Royal Arsenal to-day. They
were received by tho heads of the various departments,
with whom they made a lengthened investigation of the
stores on hand in progress of being converted into the
necessary articles used in her Majesty's services.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
The ground, both in Hyde-park and ate Wormwood-
scrubs, to which it was proposed to change the intended
review of the troops in London and its vicinity, in pre-
sence of the foreign officers who came over to the
metropolis to be present at the funeral of the late
Duke of Wellington, is still so saturated and soft
from the immense quantity of rain which has fallen
lately, that the idea of a review is given up, several
of the foreign officers having already left London, and
many of the others being anxious to return home
as early as possible. The troop of Royal Horse Artil-
lery which came up from Canterbury on Thursday to be
present at the review on Friday last, and has remained
here during the early part of the present week in case its
services should have been required at a review in Hyde-
park or Wormwood-scrubs, has received orders to hold
itself in readiness to leave Woolwich on Friday morning
next on its return to Canterbury. Captain Price's com-
pany, 7th battalion, announced as having returned from
Hong Kong to Woolwich on Wednesday last, under the
command of that gallant officer, and consisting of 45
non-commissioned officers and gunners and drivers, was
filled up with recruits to the usual number in a company
to-day. The non-commissioned officers and gunners of
the Royal Horse Artillery attended Divine service in
the garrison chapel on Sunday last in their stable dress,
their full uniform having become so thoroughly saturated
at the review on Friday afternoon that it was not dry or
fit to put on on Sunday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 30.
The distinguished Russian officers visited the dock-
yard to-day, and at 11 o'clock were escorted over the
establishment by Acting-Admiral Superintendent Hen-
derson, C. 8., and at 1 p.m. Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs,
G.C.M.G., the Commander-in-Chief, embarked them in
his barge, and hoisted the Imperial Russian ensign in the
bow. The gallant Admiral took them to the mouth of
the harbour to get a glance at the fortifications, after
which they proceeded on board the Excellent, and re-
mained witnessing shot and shell practice till nearly 3
p.m., when they left under a salute of nineteen guns, and
visited the Port-Admiral at the Admiralty-house, where,
we believe, Prince Gortchakoff will sleep this evening—
the other distinguished officers going to an hotel.
The Fire Queen steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Paul, sailed this morning with marines and supernume-
raries for Plymouth, also taking seamen paid off from
the Scourge.
The Avon steam-tender, Master Commander Veitch,
arrived here this morning from Plymouth, with super-
numeraries, and left on her return this afternoon.
The broad pendant of Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenee,
G.C.H, was struck on board the Royal George yacht at
daylight this morning.
The crew of the Edinburgh, 58, screw gunnery-tender,
Captain Hewlett, were paid wages yesterday. Her
crew comprised the Hotspur and Excellent's party.
Hamoaze lighter, Wood, master, left Devonport on
Monday afternoon, with stores for Pembroke.
Rhadamanthus steam-transport, Master Commander
Belam, left Devonport on Monday afternoon for Wool-
wich.
Scourge, 6, steam-sloop, was placed in the basin, at
Portsmouth, yesterday.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 30.
APPOINTMENTS.

Surgeons.—William R. Dalton (1846), to the Sidon
steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ; Robert Fulton, M.D.
(1849), to the Furious steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ;
Robert Clarke, M.D. (1848), to the Magicienne steam.
frigate, at Devonport.

Paimaster Thomas E. Gould (1845), to the Magi-
cienne.

Assistant-Surgeon C. F. A. Courtney (1848), to the
Sidon.

The Resistance troop-ship, Master Commander Brad-
shaw, arrived yesterday at Woolwich, having brought
home Captain Hamilton's company of Royal Artillery
from Malta, and Captain Philpott's company of 1-°Y.III
Artillery from Gibraltar.

By order of the Board of Admiralty, Commander
Lefebvre proceeded in her Majesty's steam-ship Dasher
last week from Jersey to Alderney, for the purpose of
superintending the laying down of moorings for men-of-
war within the harbour of refuge at the latter island,
where three lighters are now employed on that work.—
Jersey Sun.
TM' FRENCH NAVY.—A letter of the 19th of August,
from a naval officer on the Tahiti station, gives an ex-
cellent account of the sanitary state of that country.
The health of the crews of the ships of war was most
satisfactory. The Moselle, corvette, had recently ar-
rived from Noukahiva, to which place she had carried
MM. Gent and Longomazino and their families. The
Arthemise was to leave on the following day for Val-
paraiso, to fetch supplies. A few days before, the
schooner Hydrographe had been caught in a heavy gale,
and driven on shore at a short distance from Papeiti,
after having lost her mainmast. She was afterwards got
off, but was found to be seriously damaged.

THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT EXETER._The adjourned
inquiry touching the melancholy death of Mr. William
Wreford, of Clanaborough, was resumed on Monday.
Numerous witnesses were examined ; among othenr9, the
young woman who was suspected of the muydGfp a d her
mother. The evidence disclosed a sad staged.. 4 immorality,
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DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—Mr. Smith,the
the Angel tavern, Webber-street --
proprietor of
Mr. Holland, a master printer r' Blaekfriars-road, and
bourhood, narrowly escaped beingwing in the same neigh-
Heal miscreant, a night o shot by some diabo-
lical
Holland was c r two since, it appears that
conversing wi •th Mr. Smith whilst ho
was standing behind his
noise was heard of a bar, when all of a sudden a
vehicle passing the house, and at
the same moment a
pistol or gun was discharged, and a
ball fired through one of
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glass
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dow, making a circular
as a shilling. Fortunately neither gMr. Smith nor Mr.
Holland received any injury, although the charge of the
Weapon fell within a few feet of the spot they were
standing on. Tho guilty party is at present at large.
ALARMING TUMULT.--FIRING AT A Moß.—The
neighbourhood of Wallaston, in Northamptonshire, has
been in a state of much excitement during the week by
the following startling occurrence :—Some few days ago
several labourers were prosecuted by a bailiff named
Dycer for breaking away some portion of an old fence.
This seemed to have excited much feeling in the village,
and an effigy of the bailiff was burned. The feeling sub.
sequently ran stronger, and a mob assembling in front
of Dycer's house, and several windows being broken,
one of his brothers very imprudently fired a loaded
pistol at the mob. The result was that a young man
was seriously
named James Page w seriously wounded. At this
the mob became more infuriated, and for a time the
lives of both brothers, as also their dwelling, were
placed in much hazard. At length the brother who
fired the shot was arrested by the police, and being
examined by the ma trite, w remanded,