The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The various classes of the Gentlemen Cadets studying at
the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich were resumed
yesterday morning, at the close of the Christmas vacation.
The new pupils who have passed their examination fur ad-
mission to fill the vacancies created by the late commiasion
will join on Wednesday next.
A notification has been received at Chatham garrison
from the Horse Guards that the next examination of can-
didates for the medical department of the army will com-
mence at the Royal Military Hospital on Tuesday next,
the 9th inst., before Major-Gen. F. W. Hamilton, C. 8.,
Vice-President, and the members of the Council of _Edu-
cation.

The alterations and improvements suggested by the Army
Sanitary Commissioners on the occasion of their visit to St.
Mary's Casemated Barracks, Chatham, on that establish-
ment being evacuated by the invalid depot, have now been
carried into effect, and the building,which will accommodate
about 1,200 officers and men, will be ready for the reception
of troops during the coming summer. In order to render
the barracks more healthy as quarters for troops, the yen-
improved, while the
i
ven-
tilating arrangements in each of the casemated rooms have
been very materially altered and
accommodation will be still further improved,
by placing a
smaller number of troops in each of the compartments.
Should the barracks not be requirei to be occupied by one
of the depot battalions at Chatham garrison, it is probable
that one of the Indian regiments which will arrive horns
during the coming summer will take up its quarters at St.
Mary's Barracks.
The military invalids and thne.expirEd men who arrived
at Spithead on Tuesday in the John Lidgett, from Hong
Kong and the Cape of Good Hope, were disembarked yes.
terday, and the ship afterwards sailed for the Thames.
Another of Capt. Blakely's 9-inch guns,
manufactured
for the service of foreign Governments, was yesterday tested
at the proof butt in Woolwich Arsenal, under the special
direction of Major P. Bedingfield, officiating Assistant-In-
spector of Royal Artillery, Mr. Campbell, representing the
Blakely Company, being also present. The charge, as on
former occasions, was 451 b of powder and a cylinder of 3cwt
and lqr. The enormous amount of cast steel with which
the gun is built up weighs upwards of 12 tons. The breach-
piece, absorbing nearly the whole of this huge mass of metal,
is surrounded behind the trunnions by a ring of the same
material, 3in broad by 3in thick, and which from its posi-
tion is destined to resist the whole force of the concussion.
This ring was found to have split at the first round, and on
examination a very perceptible flaw was detected in the
metal. A similar occurrence took place in one of the guns
proved last week. The proof was, however, continued with
the consent of Mr. Campbell, and a second round was tiled
with the same charge. The success was then pronounced
to be perfect. Nothing had moved. It was therefore sug-
gested that the ring which had given way, and which NI as
considered an unimportant one,should in future be dispeabt.d
with. A number of guns of smaller dimensions, it was
stated, are in readiness for shipment by the Blakely
Ordnance Company for Denmark, and others of the same
class as those proved yesterday will be shortly ready for
Russia.

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