The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-28 00:00:00

2HE AIM'.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur yesterday
rode down to Woolwich and spent the after part of
the day in the gymnasium and school of arts. He
witnessed a lengthened course of sword and other
exercises practised by the officers and men of the
Royal Artillery. His Royal Highness was accom-
panied by Major Elptinstone, and was received at
the mess quarters by General Sir Richard Dacres,
Commandant, and the garrison staff, who attended
him until half-past 4 o'clock p.m., when he returned
to his residence at Greenwich. The Prince has ex-
gaged the services of Sergeant-Major Kelly, gym-
nastic instructor at Woolwich, who will attend
three times a week at the Ranger's house, to ini-
tiate the Prince in athletic and sword exercises,
during his stay at Greenwich. A few days pre-
viously his Royal Highness visited the Royal Mili-
tary Academy, when M. Lovey and Herr Feiling,
the French and German masters recently appointed
tutors to the Prince, received instructions to com-
mence their duties.
Letters received from Medeira announce the
arrival there, on the 9th inst., of the Adventure
screw troopship, Commander Lethbridge, with
Royal Artillery on board for the West Indies. Fair
winds and a pleasant voyage had been experienced
from the Downs, with the exception of one portion
of the voyage, where the ship rolled considerably,
owing to a strong breeze right aft, causing some
sea sickness, especially among the women and chil-
dren. The ship was appointed to leave early on
the morning of the 10th in prosecution of her
voyage.

A general order from the Horse Guards has been '
received at Chatham garrison, notifying, with re-
ference to paragraph 5 of the Staff College regu-
lations published with the general order of March
last, to officers of the army the subjects in mili-
tary history and geography on which candidates
for admission to the Staff College will be examined
in July, 1863. They are—in military history, the
campaign of Napoleon in 1809, the campaign of
Wellington in 1811, and the campaign of Welling-
ton in 1815 ; in military geography—the basin of
the Danube, the Portuguese frontier, the theatre of
operations on the frontier of France and in Bel-
gium, and the principal routes from Paris to Brus-
sels. The number of campaigns required to be taken
up has been considerably diminished, in order
to enable candidates better to acquaint themselves
with, and to be prepared to reason upon, the cir-
cumstances by which the issue of the campaigns
was mainly influenced, for which purpose the can-
didates should compare for themselves to the fullest
extent possible the accounts of both sides. The ex-
amination will be principally directed to elicit this ,
"knowledge, rather than a mere narrative of facts.
An unusually large number of time-expired
troops, as well as those who from sickness or rather

causes have been found unfitted for further service,

were discharged from the army at the St. Mary's
invalid establishment, Chatham, yesterday, in ac-
cordance with orders to that effect received from the
Horse Guards, the whole of the number having
previously been inspected by a Board of the Com-
missioners of Chelsea Hospital. The troops, who
numbered upwards of 100 men of all ranks, had
been selected from the 7th, 10th, and 13th Hussars,
Military Train, Royal Artillery, 2d Royals, sth
Fusileers, 12th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 25th (King's
Own Borderers), 26th (Cameronians), 33d, 37th,
47th, 50th (Queen's Own), 59th, 60th, 61st, 64th,
67th, 78th (Highlanders), 82d, 83d, 84th, 90th
Light Infantry, and 101st and 105th regiments. In
addition to the troops discharged, a number of non-
commissioned officers and men left the invalid estab-
lishment to join their respective regiments or depots.
Arrangements are in progress for removing the
1 general Hospital, as well as the invalid depot, to-
gether with the entire staff of officers and other
officials at Fort Pitt and St. Mary's Barracks, from
Chatham to Netley, where the large military hos-
pital will be ready for the reception of patients
early in the approaching year.