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

MBXICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN
COMPANY.
The Shareholders are reminded that the last day for making the
payment of One Pound per share on the shares of this Company is the
28th of this 'month.

HYDE Ll 5, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street
Secretary.
•
t, Nov. C
13th, 1856.

METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and
GENER iL LIFE ASSUR INCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-
street, Waterloo-place, London. Caoital, 100,0001.
TRUSTIM.
Rt.Hn. Spencer IT. Walpole,M.P, Richard Spooner, Esq., MP.
Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. lE. Vansittart Neale, Esq.
Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches.
N.B. The bonus declared at the last division of profits averaged
33 per cent, on all the premiums paid.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

PRINCE'S CLUB.—RACQUET and TENNIS
COURTS, clans.place,Belgrave-square.—The Racquet Courts
efthis Club are now OPEN, comprisb,u three close and two open
courts. Gentlemen desirous of becoming members are requested to
forward their names to the secretary of the club.
By order. R. CLEMENTS, Secretary.

IMPORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A HORSE,
COW, SHEEP, OR PIG.
THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.
THE CHEASIEST AND BEST EVER VET INTRODUCED
Sold in Cases containing 448 Packages—each Package One Feed
at the cost of three Half-pence each, equal to Ks. per case. Carriage
paid to any railway station.
None are genuine without my signature—
JOSEPH THORLEY, the Inventor,
• 115, High-street, Hull.
Post-Otßco Orders must be made payable as above.

C"IS'S CELEBRATED READING
SAUCE, Which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game, Steaks,
&UPS, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene-
ral use, lS Sold by the most respectable clearers in fish and sauces.
J. and C. Cacti., Rpading, sole Manufacturers.

FRIEND of the CLERGY CORPORATION,
for allowing Pensions, not exceeding 41/. per annum, to the
_WidoWs and Orphan unmarried Daughters of Clergymen or the
Established Church, and for affording temporary assistance to neces-
sitous Clergymen and their families, throughout England, Wales, and
Ireland.

The next ELECTION of PEN-ITONERS will take place at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on TUESDAY, November 25th,
1856, at 12 o'cloek precisely;
The Rev. JOSEPH BROWN. M.A., in the chair.
The Report 'Of the Proceedings of the Corporation during the past
Year, the balance-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, M.A Hon.
The Rev. JOHN EDMUND rox, M.A., F.S.A., I Secs.
HENRY BRAMALL, Secretary.

fIIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—Extension of
Time for Compulsory Purchase.
NOTICE IS HERE BY 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.
78 (public), to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, for the purposes
of the said Acts, er either of them.
Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight
Itundred and fifty-six.
By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
sad Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor
Board of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Solicitor,

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, King-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 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
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 such 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 aforesaid into effect, and to vary or extinguish all
rights and privileges in any manner connected with the lands,
tenements, or hereditaments proposed to bo taken for the
purposes aforesaid.

And Notice is hereby further Given, that a duplicate plan
and section, describing the situation of the houses and tene-
ments proposed to be pulled down and removed, with a book
of reference thereto, containing the names of the owners, or
regnted owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers of
the said houses and tenements, and also a copy of this notice,
aa published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the
to Hof November instant, be deposited for public inspec-
i°: the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex,
County of Middlesex; and with the Clerk of the Peace for the
city and liberty of Westminster, at his office, at the Sessions
Rouse, 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 also a copy of this notice as published
in the Londe% Gazette, will be deposited with the Parish
Clerk of the said parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, at
his place of abode.
Dated this seventh day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
ay order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
and Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor,
Board of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster.

PROSPECTUS of the NEXT EXAMINA-
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 will be held in London in the
month of Juno, 1857.
Provided a sufficient number are found competent, thirty
admissions will bee made to that Institution ; candidates must
be between the ages of 17 and 20 years. Those however, who
have not exceeded 2CI years of age on the lst,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
lery or Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum
of 221. 10s. on admission, to cover the expense of uniform,
&c., and a contribution. of 62/. 10s. for each half-year
books,
of the time during which they remain at the Academy. -The
half-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 240
Sons of generals without regiments ...... 35
Sous of captains and commandersffi of.th
underythe 3°
colonel and regimental field oanedeiAormy
Sons of all officers of the Navy
above ranks 2O
Sens of officers of the Army and Navy
are
ohovaevde
diet( in the service, and whose families pr
to be left in peccniary distress lO
. The sons of general officers paid onlyati as h
their commissionstesonsof
as field officers, will pay the same contribution
field officers.
The sons of officers on full and half-pay
will pay alike ; but
eons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, or
received the difference, will only be admitted onthel. termsios
Prescribed for the sons of private gentlemen, viz., 62
for each half-year.
The sons of officers in the civil departments
teorm of the
as thoseheArmy
are admissible to the Academy upon the same
prescribed for the sons of Naval and military officers.
The admissions will be determined by the resbueltaseffaol
compe-
titive examination, the subjects of which will
Pure and Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynamics,
..... 3,500
and Hydrostatics .................................. - . . ....
ory,
lEnglish Language Literature, Composition, I t
and Geography .............
d...H...i.8.t.10.r..y. ..... 1,250
Language, Literatu;:e.,...GeOg.;Phy, and Ancient Rome, and of Ancient Greece 1,750
Ditto ditto
Ditto ditto d i t t o
of
Germany of France
(The exam ditto nation in French and German will be both wn and viva voce).
Experimental Sciences, i.e., Chemistry, Heat, Electri-
eity, including Magnetism.. .
rY,
I,oo°n
Natural Sciences, Mineralogy, .... Ge010gy.......... ......... 75„
Moral and Political Sciences .1 Ouo
............................. - ,
Drawing, i.e., Elementary Geometrical Drawing, in-
cluding the use of Drawing Instruments, and either
Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or Land-
Nape Drawing
No candidate will be allowed to be examined . in .... than
five subjects, of which one must be Mathematics, and no one
who does not obtain at least one-fifth of the allotted number
of marks in this subject will be eligible for an appointment.
From the other subjects of examination each candidate may
select those in which he desires to be examined ; but no one
will be allowed to count the marks gained in any subject,
unless those marks shall at least amount to one-sixth of the
total lumber of marks allotted to that subjeet.
No candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
Academy unless he obtain an aggregate of 3,000 marks at
least.
Any candidate who shall not select French and drawing
among the subjects for his examination, will be required to
satisfy the examiners that he has such knowledge. at least of
the elements of these two subjects, as shall afford reasonable
expectation that he will perfect himself in both during his
residence at the Academy.
The following papers will be required to be transmitted by
each gentleman to the War Department, before the Ist June,
With his application to be noted as a candidate, unless he
Rhea notify that he has been a candidate at a previous exami-
nation, in which case the statement of subjects only neod ac-
esnipany the application :-
1, An extract from the register of his baptism, or in de-
fault of that, a certificate verified by affidavit.
2. A certificate of good moral character, signed by a cler-
gYman of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or
awl of the school or college at which he has received his
edneation for at least two years, or such other proof of good
Ineral character as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of
State.
3. A statement of the subjects of examination in which (in
addition to mathematics) he may desire to be examined.
• All candidates will be required to present themselves at the
place of examination, hereafter to be determined in order to
13,!, inspected by military surgeons, that It may be ascertained
• 'EV me free from any bodily defects or aihnents calculated to
haterfere with the performance of military duties.
iotice,svlil be given a, month previously, in the public papers,
eftile Nat* and days appointed for holding the examination.
H. R. DREWRY.
1164 ]).l3•4lxtent, Pall-Mall, NoT. 14, 1856,