The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

EAST INDIA OOMPAiVY'SMILITARY COLLEGE SIR WILLIAM MOLISWORTH UN. SANITARY
ADDISCOMBE. . AND MUNICIPAL REFORM.

Yesterday a public examination took place of the gentle-
men cadets educated at tho East India Company's Military
College at Addiscombe, near Croydon, in the presence
of the chairman, Russell Ellice, Esq. ; the deputy chair-
man, Major Oliphant ; W. B. Bailey, Esq., W. C. Plow-
den, Esq., several other members of the Court of Directors,
and the following visitors :—Lieut.-General Sir George
Pollock, G.C.8., Major-General Lewis, C.B. ; Colonel
Jones, R.E., Sir H. M. Wheler, Whish, Straton, Tulloch,
W. D. Robertson, Neil Campbell, and Sir Colin Campbell ;
Lieut.-Colonels Leslie, C. 8., Mansfield, H.M.S., J. A.
Wilson, Tulloh, Duke, Sim, W. C. Macleod, Melvill, and
C. S. Stuart ; Majors D. F. Evans and Glasfurd ; Brigade
Major Bingham ; Captains Kemmis, M`Kerlie, R.E., St.
G. Ord, T. P. Waterman, Macdougall, Hay, and Aitkin ;
Lieutenants Nicolls, Gahegan, E. R. Blagravc, Cunning-
ham, and H. Green ; Engineer Cadets Hancock and Lang ;
Admiral Sir A. Green ; Archbishop of Canterbury ; Revs.
G. Coles and H. Thomas ; Sir J. H. Polly, Bart. ; Hon. J.
E. Erskine ; Messrs. Sutherland, P. Melvill, Jones, Nar-
rein, F.R.S., Waterfield, H. Ellice, Graham, Murray, and
W. Eade.

The number of cadets brought forward consisted of 37,
and were selected for the different services a follows :
FOR ENGINEER SERVICE.—Mr. Edward Burnes Holland,
Mr. John Le Mesurier, Mr. Patrick Murray, Mr. Alex.
M`Neill. Mr. Francis Latter Tandy, Mr. Wm. Adolphus
Baker, Mr. John Hubbard White, Mr. Hector Tulloch,
Mr. Wm. Can• Hamond, and Mr. John Ord Hasted.

FOR ARTILLERY SERVICE.—Mr.Thomas Porter Berthon,
Mr. James Sconce, Mr. John Charles Tayler, Mr. Henry
Marshall Davies, Mr. John Tasker, Mr. Henry Archibald
Mallock, Mr. Richard Currie, Mr. Edward Charles William
Raynaford, Mr. Robert Roche Franks, Mr. William Farar
Grey, Mr. Phillip Hanmer Harcourt, Mr. John McNeill,
and Mr. Henry Montgomerie Finlay. -
FOR INFANTRY SERVICE.—Mr. W illiam Arthur Chalmers,
Mr. Oliver Simpson Bridges, Mr. John Skynner Walters,
Mr. William Edward Cox, Mr. Thomas Weldon, Mr. W.
Littleton Powys Drummond, Mr. Horatio Nelson Noble,
Mr. Aldourie Patrick Grant, Mr. William Melville Lone,
Mr. Elliott Larkins Robertson, Mr. David Arnot, Mr. G.
Lodwick Warden, Mr. William Popham Dicken, and Mr.
Charles Daniel Inglis Lee.
Mr. T. R. Clarke, of the cadet department of the East
India House, read the report of the public examiner (Gen.
Sir Charles Pasley), which stated that the progress of the
students had been must satisfactory ; and in the case of
the gentleman to whom the Pollock medal had been
awarded he would rank as one of the most distinguished
mathematicians ever educated at Addiscombe.

The report of the Lieutenant Governor (Colonel Abbot)
was equally encouraging.
Mr. Clarke then read the following list of prizes.
First Class.
(Ist Fortification.
' Ist Military Surveying.
J. Le Meurier j Ist Military Drawing.
11 Ist. Civil Drawing.
, Ist Hindustani.
1-lst Good Conduct.

The CHAIRMAN, in presenting the 'prize for first Good
Conduct (a splendid artillery sword) said—Mr. Le Mesu-
rier, by your undeviating good conduct whilst in this insti-
tution you have won this honour of the Court of Directors.
This prize of a sword is presented to you for your exem-
plary conduct, which you have nobly won, and I trust
that the same honourable course will mark your future
career, and lead to distinction in the service to which you
belong. (Loud cheering.)
{lst Mathematics.
E. B. Holland
The Pollock Medal.

The CHAIRMAN, in presenting the Gold Pollock Medal to
Mr. Holland, said—Mr. Holland, I have great pleasure in
presenting you this medal, recommended by the public
examiner and the-lieutenant governor as a prize to which
you are entitled as the senior cadet who ranks the highest
in general merit, and who by his good conduct and cha-
racter is found to be deserving of this honour. This
medal was struck by the inhabitants of Calcutta in honour
of the distinguished services of General Sir George Pol-
lock, and to stimulate the young soldier to follow his
brilliant example. I trust, in your case at least that object
will be fully attained. (Loud cheering.)
A. M`Neill ... • ... ... 2d Mathematics.
J. H. White... ... ... French.
( 2d Hindustani.
W. C. Hammond ... ....1 Latin.
{2a Fortification.
2d Military Drawing.
2d Civil Drawing.
Chemistry.

F. L. Tandy...

IL 3!. Davies

Second Class.
J Mathematics.
"• Military Surveying.
... 3d Good conduct.
J Fortification.
••• French.
Military Drawing.
... Hindustani.
... Civil Drawing.
... Latin.
Third Class.

W. Jeffreys
C. J. Haig ...
D. Ward ...

J. H. Moore...
R. Aislabie
W. Somerville
H. H. K. Pechell

{
Mathematics.
Fortification.
"'Military Surveying.
Hindustani.
... Military Drawing.
... French.
... Civil Drawing.
... Latin.
... 4th Good conduct.

Eneas Macdonell ...

E. Jones ... ...
F. B. Howes ...
M. E. Eden ... ...
H. R. Meiklejohn ...
A. Oakes ... ...

MILITARY DRAWINGS.
First Class.

r. Le Mesurier (Ist prize).
r. Tandy_(2d prize) . Aden.
r. A. M`Neil
r. Berthon...
Murray... • .• Hong Kong.
Holland... ...
Tulloch
Hasted
Davies ...
. Baker ...
. J. M`Neill
. Sconce ...
Currie
. Tasker
. Harcourt
. Chalmers

... .
... Hill fort of Singurh.
... Mequinenza.
... Tarragona.
... Salsette.
... Hill Fort of Shoonair.
... Hill Fort of Poornndhur.
... Versovah Fort.
... Salsette.
... Field of Wavre.
Second Class.

Mr. Moore (prize) ... ...
Mr. Tanner ... ... .
Mr. Hues ... ...

•" Drawings from Models.

Mr. Jeffreys... ... ...
Mr. Penny ... ... ...
Mr. Browne...

Third Class.

Mr. E. Jones (2d term prize), Salsette ; and several very
promising elementary subjects in the two junior classes.
In the fortification department the drawings were of the
usual character. Some, indeed, attracted particular atten-
tion as excelling in design and execution those of former
years ; particularly the illustrations of Vauban's third sys-
tem, and the system of Carnet and Dufour, elevated ac-
cording to the plan introduced at Addiscombe by the senior
professor of fortification.
The sand model room contained a front of Fort Alexan-
der, near Coblentz, on a scale of a quarter of an inch to
the foot. Two fronts of the modern system att ached, show-
ing the third and fourth parallels with their respective ele-
vated cavaliers and batteries on a scale of a quarter of an
inch to the foot ; explanations of an elevated battery, a
half-sunken battery, and a sunken battery, the two former
on a scale of one inch, and the latter two inches to the foot,
completed this interesting portion of the professional ex-
amination.
The Chairman then rose and addressed the cadets gene-
rally. He said when last he had the pleasure of addressing
them in that room he had to congratulate them on obtaining
the approbation of the public examiner and of the lieutenant
governor, but on the present occasion their reports were
still more favourable, and left nothing to be wished for on
that account. (Cheers.) By the discipline observed, and
their steady devotion and application to their studies, an
unusually large number of gentlemen had qualified iem-
selves for the service of the engineers. To those of them,
therefore, who would come back to resume their studies he
might say that every cadet who by application qualified
himself for the engineers, did so with a reasonable ex-
pectation of obtaining a commission in that distinguished
branch of the service. Judging from the reports they had
that day received, he thought words of encouragement
were hardly necessary to induce them to pursue their
studies, for they could not tell how soon after their
arrival in India their services might be called into opera-
tion. It had fallen to him, in readily, the reports of the
late war in Burmab, to receive a list of those who had
there distinguished themselves, in which ho found the
names of many young officers who had lately received
their education within the walls of that institution. One
of them (Lieut. Mayne), who distinguished himself at the
storming of Rangoon, had not been in India more than
six months, whilst Lieut. Trevor, and others, had not been
there more than two years. No doubt those young soldiers
were led on by able and gallant officers, but still they had
obtained a distinction of their own that had bem men-
tioned in the dispatches. Like those young officers, let
them avail themselves of every means afforded them in
that institution and at Chatham for obtaining informa-
tion and qualifying themselves for engineers: and amongst
e attention, no d oub tand that
w
those qualifications a knowledgeof the vernacular language
of the troops that would be placed under their command
importance.
He hla d
they
thatas of the greatest
s b j ect
would pay special
attention, and qualifying themselves in that respect, they
would lay the sure foundation of military
did not wish to indulge in a long strain of greatness. He
exhortation, but
he trusted they would cultivate gentlemanly conduct,
avoid debt and dissipation, and above allthing
strictest, attention to their religious duties things pay
which
, involved their temporal and eternal welfare.iin
believede
that for the success that had attended their studies there,
they were mainly indebted to the various professors, and
the distinguished officer who presided over them ; and in
the name of the Court of Directors he returned thanks t°
the lieutenant governor, the public examiner, and prof
sors, and also begged to express the sense they antertaineter
of the success of Colonel Harry Jones, who presided
eaTto
the engineering department. To those about to Pmcceoessain
India in the artillery, he wished them ev°rYsa, to re-
their distinguished career • and to those who Christmas
christmas
turn to Chatham he heartilyi wished a merry
and a happy new year. (Cheers.) concluded, after
The business of the examination hero
ti their military
which the gentlemen cadets seentll
to
slow and quick
evolutions, passing in review orderi-swora exorcise.
time, terminating with the brOtLt
dad to the house of the
The invited company then P
sLieicui
r°cptuous luncheon con- '
lieutenant governor, Where
a -nd soon after the greater
eluded the business of the a p
t:Yr,..ivn by train.
part of the guests returned

_
PRICE OF WHISKY.—On Mon-
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During the intense fog which
prevailed on Tuesday an accident took place on the
(Scott South Western line, a mineral train having
contact with a luggage train. There was little
(;°rlnneo damage done, but we regret to learn that one of
the guards was killed. No one having seen the occur-
rence take place, it is conjectured that he must have
been squeezed between the buffers of some of the wag-
gons.—North British, Mail.

Yesterday afternoon a numerous and influential depu-
tion from the vestry of the parish of St. James, West-
minster' accompanied by Sir J. Shelley, Bart., and Gen.
Sir De Lacy Evans, Knight, the representatives of the
city of Westminster, waited on Sir William Molesworth,
Bart., at the Board of Works, Whitehall-place, for the
purpose of urging upon him the propriety of giving paro-
chial bodies more efficient powers than they now possess
to carry out sanitary improvements, and of constituting
parishes into municipal corporations for a similar object.
Among the deputation were Messrs. Brown, York, Nel-
son Geesin, the Hon. E. Byng, &c
In reply to the deputation, *
Sir W. Molesworth remarked, that if he understood
rightly their object, it was to impress on. the Govern-
ment the necessity of bringing in measures for the more
prompt removal of nuisances, to remove underground
dwellings, and to have a revision of the Building Act.
He could only say that all these subjects, which were of
great importance, had engaged the attention of the Go-
vernment, of the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, and the General Board of Health ; but he
could not take upon himself to say what were the mea-
sures in contemplation. The subject of municipal cor-
porations was also under the consideration of the Go-
vernment, and since the commission of inquiry upon
the City corporation, he was enabled to say, that, after
what had come out there, great changes must take place
in the constitution Of the corporation. The whole ques-
tion would be carefully considered by the Government.

DREADFUL SRIPWRECK-LOSS OF EIGHT

LIVES.

Yesterday (Friday) information was received of the
total and extremely sudden loss of the barque Hyperion,
bound from New York to Kingston
(Jamaica), which
melancholy event involved the loss of eight lives, and
exposed four survivors to the fn ry and inclemency of a
North Atlantic winter, having neither food or shelter
for
fifty-seven hours, during which time, the sea wash-
ing over them in a continuous stream,
reduced them to
a most pitiable and exhausted conditio.
The Hyperion was, as above stated, on a voyage
from New York to Jamaica, and on the 30th of Oetobe-
when in lat. 35 39 N„ long. 73 30 W., she encountered
a most teriffic gale, and about 1 p.m. she sprang a leak,
which gained so rapidly, notwithstanding every effort of
Captain Perkins and the crew to decrease it, that she
sunk before the boats could be lowered, and eight of the
crew, including the boatswain and carpenter, met with
watery graves.
Captain Perkins, the chief and second mate, and one
li seaman, providentially escaped by getting on the top of
the cook house, which floated after the vessel down. On
this frail raft they were exposed to a furious gale at N.E.,
with a heavy sea washing continually over them, and
neither food nor water. Fortunately the American ship
Edward Everett, Grundy master, from Baltimore for
London, hove in sight, and, observing the ill-fated ma-
riners, bore down to their assistance, and rescued them
from their perilous situation. This occurred on the 2d
of November, at eight a.m. ; consequently fifty-seven
hours had elapsed from the time they were exposed to
the mercy of the wind and sea. When the unfortunate
seamen were taken on board they were in a most ex-
hausted state, from exposure, want of food, and an in-
tolerable thirst ; but by the kind attention of Captain
Grundy and his crew, they gradually recovered. The
Edward Everett arrived yesterday with the survivors. So
extremely sudden was the wreck of the Hyperion, that it
is supposed she either struck on a half-sunken vessel, or
else started one, if not more, of the butt ends of the
planking.