The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

We are requested to state that Capt. Stewart, 2d
Life Guards, and Capt. Taswell, Royal Artillery,
severely injured, as stated in yesterday's Sun, at a
cricket match at Woolwich, are progressing favour-
ably. •
By the appointment of Major-General Lord W.
Paulet, C. 8., to the colonelcy of the 87th Royal
Irish Fusileer Regiment, a pension for distinguished
and meritorious services is placed at the disposal of
Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge.
An official notification has been received at Chat-
ham, from the Horse Guards, that the examination
of candidates for the medical department of the
army will commence at Chelsea Hospital, on Mon.
day next, before Major-General F. W. Hamilton,
C. 8., vice-president, and the other members of the
Council of Military Education.

The non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Artillery stationed in the Chatham district
have presented Sergeant M'llroy, of the first divi-
sion of the depot brigade, with a handsome silver
tea service, as a mark of respect and esteem, on the
occasion of his retiring from the corps of Royal
Artillery after 23 years' service.

A letter from Copenhagen gives some additional
particulars of the recent visit paid to the King of
Denmark by the King of Sweden and his two brothers, the
Princes Oscar and Augustus, at the Palace of Skodsborg,
on the shores of the Sound :—" The august visitors arrived
about noon on the 22d ult., and were saluted by the Danish
and Swedish vessels at anchor opposite the palace. King_
Frederick of Denmark went in person to receive his royal
guests, and when the two sovereigns met on the quay theyembraced each other most cordially, amid the loud chef? of
the spectators. Though not travelling incognita.
King
Charles had expressed a desire that his visit should henot:
tended with as little ceremony as possible. The number
persons invited to Skodsborg was therefore
limiten
the only Minister present being the PresidenteSweden, which
torf the Council,
pro
who had a conversation with the King o
lasted an hour and a half. At dinnerthe t
woKingsposed
each other's health in terms which proved the feelings of
in the evening Prince
friendship existing between them.
Elsinore, and thence on
Frederick accompanied his gn.
urg. On the following day
a Swedish steamer to HlFlsinegetning
attended by the principal
there was an agricultural
and at the banquet given on the
landowners of Scani,,,,:eden,
proposing several toasts,
of Sweden,
with the Danish Monarch and
occasion, the King
expressed his y p
s
nation, and especially dwelt on the solidarity of the three
Scandinavian
the K
two kingdoms in resisting foreign aggression"
return the
Frederick went to Ma Iwoe to •
proceeded from that port to the
On 26th ing
Kings
visit, and the
Palace of Bakashog, where they remained two days, and
returned to Copenhagen on the .Ist.
AEItIAL LOCOMOTION.—This is the name we must
henceforth substitute for the more common one of
ballooning, if we may credit what eye-witnesses relate of
experiments performed a few days since in M. Nadar's
photographic establishment. Following in the footsteps of
those who first applied the screw principle to aerial pro-
pulsion, M. Nadar proposes the absolute suppression of the
balloon, and the application of the inclined plane under the
form of the helix or screw to the art of directing cars or
vessels floating 'in the air. At the meeting M. Nadar
stated that as early as 1768, that is, 15 years before the
ascension of the first Montgolfiere, the engineer Pancton
foretold the application of the screw to aerial locomotion.
At the same meeting M. de La Landelle exhibited several
models of aerial machines, constructed according to M. de
Ponton d'Ainecourt's system, and which rose up automati-
cally into the air, eael carrying a certain weight, thereby
proving the certainty of the theory. Meanwhile, an Anglo-
French Society is said to have been formed for: the purpose of
building a gigantic balloon at an altitude equal to two-
thirds of that of Notre-Dame, and which is to carry 80
persons, with abundance of provisions of all kinds, and even
a printing-press, A Lyons firm is said to have already de-
livered 12,000 metres of white sarcenet, at 7f. a metre for
this purpose. This monster balloon is to be inaugurated at
the great Baden horse races in September next.