The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-13 00:00:00

ADDISCOMBE.

The half-yearly public examination of gentlemen cadets
educated at the East India Company's Military Semi-
nary was held on Saturday, in the presence of the Chair-
man, Mr. Russell Ellice ; the Deputy-Chairman, Major
Oliphant ; several members of the Court of Directors,
and the following intors :—Lieutenant-Generals Sir
Hew D. Ross, K.C.B. ; Sir G. Pollock, G.C.B. • Lat-
ter ; Duncan Macleod; Sir J. F. Burgoyne, G.C.B. ;
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and Sandwith • Major-General Lewis, C.B. (Royal Mili-
tary Academy) ; Colonels—H. D. Jones, R.E. ; E.
Hay, Hawkins, C.B. ; Swinton, Farrell, Moore, Car-
ruthers, H.M.S.; Sim, Greene, and Outram ; Lieutenant-
Colonels—Hardinge, K.H. ; Aldrich, R.E ; Dawson,
R.E. ; Twemlow, Ramsay, Bird, Underwood, Howden,
Portlock, R.E., and Burn, R.A. ; Majors—Stevens,
C.B. ; Walpole, R.E. • Phibbs, Ludlow, Lloyd, Vyvyan
Cox- Macleod, Hutchings, Woodburn, Hutt, C. 8., and
Birch.
Forty gentlemen cadets were brought forward for
public examination, of which number seven were selected
for the Engineers, fourteen for the Artillery, and nine-
teen for the Infantry. The following is the list :

FOR ENGINEERS.
John 11. Champain. John Richardson MammalL
R. C. B. Pembei ton. Haig P 3 in.
Robert Home. Willlam Cbrystie.
William Strover.

FOR AR!

,TILLERY.
James Hills. George My Hon.
Miuto Elliot. Geo. Agnew Goldingham.
George Francis Worsley. Charles Henry Strutt.
John Ritchie. Charles Joseph Mc iNlahon.
Da%id Macfarlan. Charles Edward Watson.
James Cecil Grove nice. Stephen Her,, E. Chewier.
Forster John Cunli go. flatly McLeod.
FOR INFANTRY.
Henry Montford Bromley.
Eric Stanhope Fox.
Charles Morro.
James Thomas Noras.
Lc 3nard Aus astus Kel rick.
Aluhur Wellesley Craigie.
Francis Roboi Fox.
Walter Forbes Belli.

John Power Burton.
Da%id Crawford Warren.
Henry Lumsden Hawkins.
Robert Bui a A ndorson.
Philip Crampton Rynd.
Lawrence A. M. Grime.
Richard James Walker.
Robert Grant Watson.
Chares George Gurning.
James Galloway.
After the reports had been read by Mr. T. R. Clark,
of the East India-house, the following prizes were dis-
tributed :

Charles Metealre Milled.

FIRST CLASS.
J. U. Champain—First Fortification, Military Drawing,
First Civil Drawing—the Pollock Mcdal.
R. C. B. Pemberton—First Mathematics, Second Hin-
dustani, Latin, frst good conduct.
F. Home—Military Surveying, French.
W. Strover—Sc cond Mathematics.
H. Pym—Second Fortification.
W. Ghlystie—Second good conduct.
D. M`Farlan—First Hindustani.
C. H. Strutt—Second Civil DraNs;ng.
H. L. Hawkins—Second Military Drawing.
SECOND CLASS.
E. B. Holland—Mathematics, Military Surveying.
J. Le Mesurier—Fortification, Military Drawing, Civil
DraNNinff, third good conduct, Hindustani.
W. A. Baker—Latin.
F. L. Tandy—Geology.
J. H. White—French.

THIRD CLASS.
W. Jeffreys—Mathematics, Military Surveying.
R. Aislabee—Hindustani.
G. G. Gordon—Fox tification.
J. H. Moore--Military Dram ing, Civil Drawing.
H. L. R. Pechell—Latin, French.
W. F. Gray—Fourth good conduct.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said,—Gentlemen,
gives me material pleasure to preside over this assembly,
as I find much cause for praise and none for censure.
The reports of the governor and of the public examiner
assure me that discipline has gone on, as it were, spon-
taneously, and that attention and devotion to your
duties have been the general rule, with scarcely any ex-
ception. For these results we are indebted, in the first
place, to your own diligence and devotion to the service,
and next to the zeal and ability of your masters. To
the lieutenant-governor, to the professors, to the public
MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF examiner, I beg leave to return the best thanks of the
YOUTH AND MATURITY. Court of Directors. (Applause.) Such of you, gentle-
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, men, as have been selected for the Corps of Engineers
Doctor of Medicine, and Matric•ilated Member of the University of
will proceed at once to Chatham, where you will be
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., Ste. placed under the command of that distinguished officer
MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, c:
iwshnoowdiraecgtreathtedsetmudaineds offorthpeubßliocywalorEknsgiinnelernsd.ia,Tshuecrh
the various disorders of the nervous and generative syst e ,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
as railroads, canals
con-
duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema- t'n these work and electric telegraphs, and for
strue i g
s the Company requires the services
ture decay at all stages of life, titan perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience of' able and zealous officers of the Engineers. You will,
to the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
therefore, proceed to Chatham, where you will have
once secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in•
ample time and opportunity afforded you for obtaining
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri- a sufficient knowledge both of civil and military engineer-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their ing. lam sure that success hero will be followed by
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
success there, and that you will thus enable the Court
Governor-
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without of Directors to strengthen the hands of the
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed General of India, by sending out to his assistance able,
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be
and how the evil and Its con•equences may be avoided, and above all, have obtainedzealous, and efficient officers. To you, gentlemen, who
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional also offer my congratulations. Yours is a service of
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure,
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn. tions that are now taking place by Parliament into the
which you may be justly proud. During the investiga-
plaints, and s the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless affairs of the Company, Lord Hardinge, Lord Gough,
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
and Sir Charles Napier were asked their opinion as to
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct the artillery
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is force in India. Lord Hardinge said—" I
tree. In selecting thi' department of practice, he has been amply think it is as excellent an artillery force as any that
row arded by the great success that hat attended his &lofts in the exists ; very efficient in all its qualifications, both scien-
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant metrics, who. with their pirated tific and practical." Lord Gough said—" I considered
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues the artillery one of the most perfect arms that any
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
prac-
have been induced to place faith in their pretensions.
kry, I
power could possibly have, both as to science and
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six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and really think, is the most efficient artillery in the
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. world." (Applause.) Such, gentlemen, is the service
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should first obtain a copy of his 1701 k on
SE LF-reESERVA TION. will do your utmost to emulate the career of those who
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and have brought it to such a state of efficiency. To those
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(Applause.) To
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THE MARRIAGE STATE.
To be or not to be, that is the question."
PILOGRAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.
By It. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841),
24), Twenty-flve years Medical and Forensic Referee in there
matters.

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