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 Mllroy, 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 additiona
particulars of the recent visit paid to the King o 1
Denmark by the King of Sweden and his two brothers, the
Princes Occar 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 Dan.i°.!
and Swedish vessels at anchor opposite the palace. King
Frederick of Denmark went in person to receive his ioy
gey
guests, and when the two sovereigns met on tiler
_,,,aleere of
embraced each other most cordially, amid the lee . '—
to. sing
the spectators. Though not travelling blosaid be at-
Charles had expressed a desire that his visitte
tended with as little ceremony as possfibrele.extreinely limited
number of
persons invited to Skodsborgwasththerre
Keg of
of the Council,
the oaly Minister present being
the
• icing of Sweden, which
who had a convetwo Kings proposed
aatit?n witncr
der the
lasted an hour and a i:alf. A. dO, proved the feelings of
each other's health in terra% 7::,, in the evening Prince
On the following day
tween -mire and thence on
friendship existing be thee guests to Ele, 1
Frederick accompanied lir gneburg.
a Swedish steamer to .
eeting attended by tta? principal
at the banquet given el; the
there was an agr
landowners of icultui::9l3l
Scano7sweden, in proposing several toasief
occasion, the
King
grepathies with the Danish Monarch and
expressed his sympathies
dwelt on the solidarity of the three
nation, end (On?'
Scandinavian 11Dg
dome in resisting foreign aggression."
'Frederick we t to M
On the 26th sing n cslmoe to return the
a two Kings proceeded from that port to the
visit, and th
raises of Bakaohog, where they remained two days, and
returned to Copenhagen on the 31st.
AntrAL 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, each carrying a certain weight, thereby
proving the certainty of the theory. Meanwhile, an Anglo-
F renchSociety 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.