The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-19 00:00:00

MEREWEIIIER.

HYDE CLARKS. Secretary.
15, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Nov. 13th, 1856.

METR 0P 0 LITAN COTINTIth3 'and
GENF:II.AL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent.
street, Waterlm•place, London. Ca-iital, 100,0001.
TRUSTE-VS.
Rt.Un.Spacbill. Bralpole,M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., MP.
Henry Petar Fuller, Esq. yangtttaris Neale, Esq.
Life Assurance business transacted all its bra iches.
N.B. The beans declared at the last dlyiiion ot profits averaged
33 per cent, on all the premiums paid.
F. FERGUSON CASIROUX. Manager.

PRINCE'S CLUB.--RACQUET and TENNIS
COURTS, Trans place, Belgrave-square.—The Racquet Courts
of this Club are now OPEN, comprising„ three _close and two oper,
Courts.
are requested to Gentlemen desirous of becoming members forward their names to the secretary tho club.
By order. R. CLEMENTS, Secretary.

IMPORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A HORSE,
COW, SHEEP, OR PIG.
THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.
Tax CHEAPEST AND BEST EVER YET INTRODUCED
Sold it, at the
any rallway station.
None are genuine without my signatare
JOSEPH THORLEY, the Inventor,
115, High street, Hull.
PpSt•otnee Orders must be made payable as above.

C
()CMS's oCELEBRATED READING
Boa SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game. Steaks,
lis, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene-
ral use, is sold by nig most respectable deaterk it fish and sauces.
• X. and C. Cocks, Beading, sole Manufacturers.

FRIEND of the CLERGY CORPORATION,
for allowing Pensions, not exceeding 411. per annum, to the
_widows and Orphan unmarried Daugkters of Clergymen of the
Established Church, and for affording temporary assistance to neces-
sitous Clergymen and their families, throughout England, Wales, and
aud.
_ The next ELECTION of PENSIONERS will take place at the
London Tavern, Blshopsgate-street, on TUESDAY, November 25th,
1856, at 12 o'clock precisely;
The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, M.A., in the chair,
The balance of the Proceedings of the Corporation during the past
Year, the -sheet, list of subscribers and pensioners, &c., may
be had at the Offices, 4. St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, where
donations and subscriptions will be thankfully received,
The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN, 51. A , 1 Hon.
The Rev. JOHN EDMUND COX, M.A., P.S.A., j
Secs.
HENRY BRAMALL, Secretary.

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 16th Victoria, cap.
71; (publte),to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, for the purposes
of the said Acts, or either of them.
Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
aid Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor,
Board of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster.

PUBLIC OFFICES EXT ENSION,-
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ap-
plication is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next
session, for an act to empower the Commissioners of her Ma-
jesty's Works and Public Buildings to pull down and remove
certain houses and tenements, situate in Upper Crown-street,
Crown-court, Lower Crown-street, Charles-street, Duke-
street, Upper Charles-street, Kiug-street, Whitehall, and
Parliament-street, in the parish of Saint Margaret, Westmins-
ter, in the county of Middlesex ; and to
appropriate the sites
of the said houses and tenements and a small portion of
Saint James's-park, and all the ground described in the plan
hereinafter referrod 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
service. Also to empower the said Commissioners to stop
up any streets, ways, paths, or passages which now lead into,
or pass upon, through, or over the site hereinbefore de-
scribed, or any part thereof; and in sue% act powers will be
contained for the compulsory purchase of all such lands, tene-
ments, or hereditaments as may be necessary for carrying the
purposes afores'aid 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
Purposes aforesaid,
And Notice is hereby further Given, that a duplicate plan
and section, describing the situation of the houses and tette-
Inents proposed to be pulled down and removed, with a book
of reference thereto, containing the names of the owners, or
downers, lsespes' or reputed lessees, and occupiers of
and tensuents, and also a coPy of this notice,
al
Publbibed in the London Gazette, will, on
or before the
oth day of November instant, be deposited for public inspec-
tion with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex,
sto his office, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in the said
sitnty of Middlesex ; and with the Clerk of the Peace for the
...Y and liberty of Westminster, at his office, at the Sessions
'°Wie. Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that on or before the said
30th day of November instant, a copy of the said plan and
.book of reference, and shie a copy of this notice as published
In tbe Lo,c/Gra ~,,' z .
Clerk of the said parish of Saint M
ette, will be deposited with the Parish
his place'of abode, argaret, Westminster, at
h Dated this sevcaith day of November, one thousand eight
111- order undred „a flitY .six.
ofthe Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
and Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor,
Board f Yorks, dze., Whitehall-place, Westminster.
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PROSPECTUS of the NEXT TION for ADMISSION to the ROYAL
MILITARY ACADEMY at Woolwich.
N.B. No more direct appointments will be made to Provi-
sional Commissions in the Royal Artillery.
An Examination for the admission of Cadets to the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich
month of June, 1857. will be held in London in the
Provided a sufficient number are found competent must
admissions will be made to that In candidates
be between the ages of 17 and 20 years. Those, however ho
have not exceeded 20 years of age on the lst Jan. next' 'Twill
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 Artil-
will be required to
lery or Royal Engineers. They
pay a SUM
of 22/. 10s. on admission, to cover the expense of urm,
books, dte. , and a contribution of 621. 10s. for each half- nifo
year
of the time during which they remain at the Academy 'The
l'alf•Yearly contributions, however, for sons and orphans of
naval and military officers, will be regulated at the following
rates, as heretofore :
For Sons of admirals and generals having regiments £4o
Sons of generals without regiments
Sous of captains and commanders of the navy
rand of
eolonel and regimental field officer of he m
Sons of all officers of the Navy and Army under
ayth- 30
e
above ranks 2O
Sons of officers of the Army and Navy who have
died in the service, and whose families are proved
,Th to be loft in peccuiary distress lO
The sons of general officers paid only on their commissions
as field officers, will pay the same contribution as the sons e I
field officers.
Me sons of officers on full and half-pay
will pay alike ; but
neeons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay,
or
l'rereceived the difference, will only be admitted on the terms
eect ea ch ribed for ther.sons of private gentlemen, viz., 621. 10s.
half-yea
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.
tit i
The admissions will be determined by the result of a compe-
ve examination, the subjects of which will be as follows :
Nre and Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynamics,
Englishand nydrostaties ............................................. 3,500
Language, Literature, Composition, History,
, and Geography ..............................................
.. 1,250
4Janguage, Literature, Geography, and History of
Ancient Rome, and of Ancient Greece
ditto 1,750
ditto of France 1,000
The examinati
Dittoon in French and German will be both written
and viva voce).
Experimental Sciences, i.e., Chemistry, Heat, Electri-
Naturcity, including Magnetism ..... 1 000
al Sciences, Mineralogy, and . 6.0.1 .. Ky...
Moral and Political Sciences ... °—
750
Drawing, i.e., Elementary GeOineti.:i ...... . ii.r.:;wi..:n.g., .' " 1,000
eluding the use of Drawing Instruments, anerd either
Machinery, Architectural, in-
Engineering,
scape Drawing ....................................... 1,000
No candidate will be allowed to be examined ii; . in-O
than
Soo subjects, of which one must be Mathematics, andrneo one
Who does not obtain at least one-fifth of the allotted number
cr marks in this subject will be eligible for an appointment.
WillP!eecProm the other subjects of examination each candidate may
t those in which he desires to be examined ; but no oue
Ix allowed to count the marks gained in any subject,
ale those marks shall at least amount to one-sixth of the
to number of marks allotted to that subjeet.
jieNo candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
leestftletnY unless he obtain an aggregate of 3,000 marks at
~,,4'?3' candidate who shall not select French and drawing
~7',18 the subjects for his examination, will be required to
"h"iBr7 the examiners that he has such knowledge, at least of
~,.`,l_ eleta?nts of these two subjects, as shall afford reasonable
I.Tetation that he will perfect himself in both during his
eidetic') at the Academy. eaTli, e following papers will be required to be transmitted b
elk gentleman to the War Department, before the Ist Juno,
1/411,_,.thllis application to be noted as a candidate, unless he
:.‘, notify that he has been a candidate at a previous' exami-
,,4o,, , .
coat
in which case the statement of subjects only need ac-
fault the application :-
1.
1,0„. n extract from the register of his bapt*or in de-
'''' Of that a certificate verified by affidavit-, Ism'
2. A
.'
•a certificate of good moral character, signe,l by a eler-
irk II of the parish to which he bel_ongs, and by the tutor or
"41 of the school or college at 'winch he has received his
trietionseatieen for at least two years,. or such other proof of good
BtaZi. haracter as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of
241,4,,A. statement of the subjects of examination in which (in
`4°ll to mathematics' he may desire to be examined. pia4l,el_c"llflida'4B will be required to present the
at the
be . ot examination hereafter to be determined, in order to
t,7,4'74.Preftred by
ascertained
weiett!rom any
military surgeons, that it may Le
I%,terferee bodily defects or ailments calculated to
Notice win , tile Performance of military duties.
of the "e liciven a month previously, in the public papers
Place and days appointed for holding the examination:
Wet. Der. , H. R. DREwity.
—'""34B4ts rell-Uail, Nov. 14, 1356.

FINNIS, Mayor.—The First Court of Mayor
and Aldermen held is the Inner Chamber of the Guildhall,
on Tuesday, die lath day of Novern.)er, ifir.4, and in the 20th year
or th• rei-n of Vi,..tola of the united Kingdom of (Mat Britain and
Ireland, Queen, &c.:
Resolved unanimously,—That the cordial thanks of this Court be
presented to the Right Hon. David Salomons, late Lord Mayor of
this City, for the courtesy and ability with which he has presided over
the deliberations of this Court—for the efficient manner in which he
his discharged the arduous duties of Chief Magistrate in the admin-
istration ofjustice for the splendid ithosptality which he has displayed,
and the ready liberality with which e has not only ass steel the
charities of this metropolis, but aided In alleviating the dist,esses of
the neighbouring allies of this country, and for the dignity with which
ke has sustained the importance of hii office, and urheld the rights
and privileges of this City, thereby securing to himself the esteem and
regard of all classes of his fellow-citizens.

MEXICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN
CONIPANY.
The Shateholders are 'reminded that the Mst day far making the
payment orOne Pound per share on the shares of this Company lathe
28th of this +loath.