The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

THE COMMISSIONERS of the METROPO-
LIS TURNPIKE RO I.Di North of the Thames will hold a
SPECIAr, Mi .ETI NG at their Office, No. 22, Whitehall-place, in
the parish of Saint Martin-in the-fields, in the city of Westminster.
on FRIDAY, the 19th day of December next, at the hoer of one
o'clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of consulting whether
all, or any, and which of the se eral Toll-Gates arid Side-
Bars now placed on and by the sides of the Nin h. Fifteenth, and
Sixteenth Districts of the said Metropolis urnpike Roads north of the
Thames, shall he rem ved and placed e'sewh,:re, or discontinued a'to-
gether, and whether any Toll-Oates and ide-13ars shall be erected
on or by the sides of any of the several It rude in the said Distri t,
or of either of them, and in what si uations the same shall be
placed.

Tly order of the Commissioners,
GEORGE LARAL NiONDIERE,Chief Clerk and Secretary
Metropolis Roads' Otlice, Whitehall-place, Nor. 21. 1856'

OYSTERS, BARRELLED.—The BURNHAM
RIVER NATIVE OYSTERS are the best in the world - six
years old—four hours from the beds To be had only at J. SWEET-
ING'S FBI! and OY-;TV.II ESTABLISH‘IEvT, 159, Cheapside
J. B. always has the largest supply of the beet Filth in scason, at the
lowest market price. In ordering Fish it will ho desirable to state
for how many persons it to required, and whether for v.sitors or
dotru•stie use. A post-,411. order or reference wul have prompt
*tention. Superior Oyster Rooms.

'llO LOVERS of FlSH.—Fifth Season.—
(1e nine YARMOUTH BLOATERS These highly
esteemed delicacies forwarded to all parts. on receipt of the amount
Re under, in penny postage stamps, or Post-orti-e order :-
100 prime .... • • is. Od.
10050 especially selezted.... Ss. 4d. ?Package included.
ditto .... 4s. 6d.
Send full and plain directions, county, and nearest station. Ad.
dress, THOMAS LETT ES, Jun., Fisb. Curer, Ore tt Yirmouth.

13ItORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A HORSE,
COW, SHEEP, OR PIG.
THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.
Tat • 'RtAPEAT AND BEST EVER YET INTRODUCED !
Sold M Cases centaininT, 448 PaAsges—each Package One Feed,
at the cost of bree Half-pence each, equal to 565. per case. Carriage
Paid to any railway station,
None are genuine without my signature—
JOSEPH Tri, ,RLEY, the Inventor,
1 t 5, High-street, Hull.
Post-office Orders must be made payable as above.

AIR. HOWARD' surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet
R street, has introduced an entirely new description of A RTI-
- ' CUL TEETH ,fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
erfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from
'he original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
' ecay, and will he found very superior to any teeth ever before used,
Ihi method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and Is
vuaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth
rendered sound and useful in mastication.—.s2, Fleet-street. At
' Drop from ten till five.

pIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—Extension of
Time for Compulsory Purchase.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in•
tended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an
Act to extend the time granted by " The Pimlico Improve-
ment Act, 1853" (public), for the compulsory purchase of
lands, tenements, and hereditaments, authorised by the said
Act, and also by the Act of the 15th and 101 th Victoria, cap.
78 (public), to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of
h•r Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, for the purposes
•f the said Acts, or either of them.
Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight
kundred and fifty-six.
By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
Rai ?Olio Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solititor,
Beard of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster.

PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ap
plication is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next
session, for an act to empower the Cornmiss'oners of her Ma-
ieety'a Works and Public Buildings to pull down and remove
certain houses and tenements, situate in Upper Crown-street,
Crovrn-court, Lower Crown-street, Charles-street, Duk e-
instreet, Upper Charles-street, King-street, Whitehall, and rarliament-street, in the parish of Saint Margaret, Westmins-
ter, in the county of Middlesex ; and to appropriate the site
of the said houses and tenements, and a small portion of
saint James'e-park, and all the ground described in the plan
hereinafter referred to, whether now used as streets, ways,
Yards, pleasure grounds, vacant ground, or otherwise, as a
site or sites for the erection thereon of offices for the public
sup ervice. Also to empower the said Commissioners to stop
any streets, ways, paths, or passages which n iw lead into,
er pass upon, through, or over the site hereinbefore de-
scribed, or any part thereof; and in such act powers will be
contained for the compulsory purchase of all such lands, tene-
weenie, or horeditaments as may be necessary for carrying the
purposes aforesaid into effect, and to vary or extinguish all
rights and privileges in any manner connected with the lands,
tenements, or hereditaments proposed to be Taken for the
imposes aforesaid.
And Notice is hereby further Given, that a duplicate plan
aid section, describing the situation of the houses and tene-
nsents proposed to be pulled down and removed, with a book
of reference thereto, containing the names of the owners, or
reputedre owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers of
aid houses and tenements, and also a copy of this notice,
to Published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the
a(lth day of November instant, b. deposited Cur public inspe,
do with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex,
at his office, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in the said
"untY of Middlesex ; and with the Clerk of the Peace for th--
eity and liberty of Westminster, at his office, at the Sessions
11°'18e, Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that on or before the said
30th day of November instant, a copy of the said plan and
leef reference, and also a copy of this notice as published
in the r
Gazette, will be deposited with the Parish
Clerk
of the said parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, at
Ms place of abode.
, Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight
nundred and fift
1/Y order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
and Public Buildings,
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor,
oard of Works, &c., Whitehall place, Westminster.

pROSPECTUS of the NEXT EXAMINA-
MILITARY
TION for ADMISSwION to the ROYAL
ACADEMY at Woolich.
sionaßl
Commissions in the Royal Artillery.
An Examination for the admission of Cadets to the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich will be held in London in the
month of June, 1857.
Provided a sufficient number are found competent, thirty
admissions will be made to that Institution ; candidates must
be between the ages of 17 and 20 years Those, however who
have tut exceeded 20 years of age on the Ist Jan next', will
not be considered disqualified. The successful candidates will
remain under instruction until they are sufficiently advanced
in scientific knowledge to pass a satisfactory examination,
and they will then receive commissions in the Royal Ar.il-
lety or Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum
of 221. 10s. on admission, to cover the expense of uniform,
books, ezc., and a contribution of 62/. 10s. for each half-year
of the time during which they remain at the Academy. The
half-yearly contributions, however, for sons and hans of
naval and military officers, will be regulated at the fo rpllowing
rates, as heretofore :
For Sons of admirals and generals having regiments... 240
Sons of generals without regiments 35
Sons of captains and commanders of the navy and of
colonel and regimental field officer of the army 3O
Sons of all officers of the Navy and Army under the
above ranks 2O
Sons of officers of the Army and Navy who have
died in the service, and whose families are proved
to be left in peccuiary distress lO
The sons of general officers paid only on their commissions
IA field officers, will pay the same contribution as the sons of
field officers.
The sons of officers on full and half-pay will pay alike ; but
sons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, or
received the difference, will only be admitted on the terms
prescribed for the sons of private gentlemen, viz., 621. 10s.
for each half-year.
The sons of officers in the civil departments of the Army
are admissible to the Academy upon the same terms as those
Prescribed for the sons of Naval and military officers.
The admissions will be determined by the result of a compe-
titive examination, the subjects of which will be as follows
Pure and Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynaniies,
and Hydr05tatic5......................................... 3,500
litaglish Language, Literature, Composition, History,
and Geography ............................................ .. 1,250
Language, Literature, Geography, and. History of
Ancient Rome, and of Ancient Greece .................. 1,750
Ditto ditto ditto of Fraiice 1,000
Ditto ditto ditto of Germany 750
(The examination in French and German will be both written
and viva voce).
Experimental Sciences, Le., Chemistry, Heat, Electri-
eity, including Magnetism.
Natural Sciences. , ................... , Mineralogy and Geology .........
Moral and Political Sciences . '..
Drawing, i-e-, Elementary Geometrical ..... Diawi .. ..
eluding the use of Drawine Instruments, andneithienr-
Machinery, Architectural: Engineering, or Land-
scape Drawing
......................
No candidate will be allowed tO lae..e.e..a.m.' ii;e-ci . i ....... 1,000
five subjects, of which one must be Mathematicn Inore
than
who does not obtain at least one-fifth of the allottneVnnuomohneer
oindtamt ent.
of marks in this subject will be eligible the
an appoint
se
the other subjects of examinations an
calli
eelect those in which he desires to be
gaexiaamedineida ;anbyutaanbeolmeocauye
will be allowed to count the marks unless those marks shall at least amount to one sixth of the
total number of marks allotted 'o that subjeet.
No candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
teadelnY unless he obtain au aggregate of 3,000 marks at
least.
` . Any candidate who shall not select French and
satisfy drawing
raong
t the subjects for his examination, will be required to
he examiners that he has such keowleclge, at least of
the elements of these two subjects, as shall afford reasonable
6/Notation that he will perfect himself in both durin
residence at the Academy. g his
:The following papers will be required to be transmitted by
vaiO3, gentleman to the War Department, before the Ist June,
~,_t,ll, his application to be noted as a candidate, unless he
'llau,it• notify that he has been a candidate at a previous exami-
:we, in which case the statement of subjec:s only need ac-
Patty the application 7:
' An extract from the register of his baptism, or in de-
kilt of that, a certificate verified by affidavit.
.3 A certificate of good moral character, signed 1,- a Cif.sr-
alati of the parish to which he belongs and by the tutor or
head or the school or college at which'he has received his
6dlicatiou for at least two years, or such other proof (rood
tooral character as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of
tel
3. A. statement of the subjects of examination in which (in
addition to mathematics) he may desire to b
ply
all candidates will be required to presentethetnseilnveedsat the
of examination, hereafter to be detertniued, in order to
be
th:eepected by military surgeons, that it may Le as
are free from any bodily defects or aithad_ea„tessealculated to
iaterfere with the performance of military
public
bile papers,
Notice 'wlil be given a month previously, in the at the Phoe and Sys appointed for holding the ezanAn
,- ation IL R. Ditzu„ '
43;74 D•Publuat, 154.2144 Nov. 14, 1856, u -',l•

....... 1,000
750
1,00