The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Deo. 17,
1853 £10,019 9 8

Corresponding weok lad year

10;001 4 2

Total Of the half-year to this elate, 1853 348,325 17 0
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 315,408 17 8

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WJSTEBN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re
:aim for the week ending Dec. 17,1853 £ ,585 19 0
corresponding week last year 3,832 10 5

Increase in 1853 £733 8 7

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WOOLWICH, DEC. 20;

A board of officers of the Ordnance corps assembled
in the hall of the gentlemen cadets' barracks, in the
Royal Arsenal, at 11 o'clock a.m. to-day—Lieutenant.
General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, G.C.8., Royal En-
gineers,
President • Lieutenant-General Sir H. Dal-
rymple Ross, Royal Artillery; Major-General
Griffith George Lewis, C. 8., Royal Engineers ; and
Colonel Thomas Blanchard, C. 8., members—for the pur-
pose of examining the gentlemen cadets of the practical
class as to their qualifications for obtaining-commissions
in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. Colonel
James A. Chalmer, Inspector of Artillery ; Lieutenant-
Colonel Wilson, Director of the Laboratory ; Lieute-
nant-Colonel Alexander Tullob, Inspector, Royal car-
riage department ' • Lieutenant-Colonel Harding, K.H.,
Superintendent of the Royal Military Repository ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Portlock, inspector of the Royal Military
Academy ; and Captain Eardley Wilmot,. Captain of the
Gentleman Cadets, were also present to witness the exa-
mination ; and Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William
Pasley, K.C.8., Royal Engineers, with a number of
officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers,
were in the hall during the examination.
The examination of the senior division, Practical Class
of Gentlemen Cadets, comprehended a thorough know-
ledge of practical artillery, the initial force of gunpowder
and its effect upon a projectile when fired from a gun,
the laws of windage, the velocity of projectiles, the use
of wads and their various descriptions, the most ap-
proved method of forming a breach, the resistance of
the atmosphere to projectiles when moving with a cer-
tain velocity, the use of lever sheers for raising guns,
the rests for mortar beds, the materials of which the
moulds for bronze guns are composed, the construction
of guns and their three principal points . requir-
ing consideration, the proofs they are subjected to
before being admitted into the service, the. construction
of gun-carriages, the composition of Congreve rockets,
and the rate of burning of meal powder, fuze composi-
tion, and port-fire composition. The gentlemen cadets
were also examined in the raising of field works, mili-
tary mining, 'the passage of rivers by trestle bridges,
rafts, and other means when an enemy disputed the pas-
sage, and the whole was concluded by examining them
as to their knowledge of surveying, when the following
gentlemen cadets were passed as qualified for commis-
sions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, on
the list being approved by the Master-General of the
Ordnance :

1. The Hon. Cameron Wrottesley.
2. Mr. Lonsdale Augustus Hale.
3. „ Arthur Kennedy Hideout.
4. „ Henry William Hart Davis Dumaresq.
5. „ William Henry Watson.
6. „ Arthur Reid Lempriere.
7. ~ George Longley.
8. „ Henry Percy Tillard.
9. „ Edward Chichester Bolton.
10. „ Oliver Henry Atkins Nicholls.
11. „ Donald George Campbell Maclachlan.
12. „ James Barton.
13. „ Charles James Hope Johnstone.
14. „ Robert Horsley Cockerell.
15. „ 'Benjamin Humfrey.
16. „ Charles Watson Wilson.
17. „ Legh Delves Broughton.
18. „ George Albert Augustus Walker.

The following gentlemen cadets of the practical and
theoretical classes were then called forward to the
boa] d-table, and the prizes which had been awarded to
them for merit in particular branches of study were pre-
sented by Lieutenant-General Sir John Fox Burgoyne,
President of ,the Board.