The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-28 00:00:00

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BRITANNIA ESTABLISHED 1837.
LIFE ASSURANCE COM-
Zmpowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9, and
BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION,
Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
lkfaxoa- 1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
GENERAL ALxxs
Number of Policies issuedaxom,
Blackheath-park, Chairman.
Annual Income from Pe upwards of 11,000.
ments) upwards of 84,0001. r
Premiums (exclusive of Interest on Invest-
Rates of Premium reduced to the lowest Possible scale compatible
With security, and computed in such variety of ways as to suit the
ircurnstances and convenience of every clues of Policy-holders.
E. R. FOSTER, Resi4eit
retar or.
..—_______—___ ANDREW FRANCIS„ ec y.

CONTRACT FOR STOCKS AND CAPS FOR THE ROYAL
MARINES.

DepartmentWflhaUomptroller for Victualling,
Somerset-place, 26th November, 1856.
rilliE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, do hereby give
notice, that on MONDAY, ,he 15th
persons
December next, at One o'clock, they will he ready to treat with -uch
into as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering
of her /Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities
STOCKS and CAI'S, with BALLS,
as shall from time to time be demanded, for the use of the Royal
Marines, for 12 months certain, and farther until the expiration of
3 Months' warning.
The conditions of the revised contract may be seen at the said
minst
ofnee, and patterns at the Marine Office. 15, Duke-street, West-
er, between the hours of 1 i and 2. No tender will be received
after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made
oR the minted form provided for the purpose, and which may be
obtained on application at the said sake.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear In the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Stocks and
Caps, With Balls," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place.

INVESTMENTS in BRITISH MINES.—FuII
Particulars of the most important Dividend and Progressive
/illness Will be found in the Fourth Edition of BRITISH 31INES
CONSIDERED As AN INVESTMENT, recently published by J.
H. MURCHISON
48.
)1
Mr. imucru
MININsox also publishes a QUARTERLY It ETIEW of
RITISH G, iving the sition and at the end of each quarto
the dividends pr
paid, &cospects or the Mines.
The Review for the quarter ending 30th Sept. last contains a Map
ef the Bassett district, price Is.
"The book will be found extremely valuable."- Observer.
"A valuable little book."—Globe.
"A valuable guide to investors."—gegapath.
"A useful little volume."—Morning Herald.
"Of great value to capitalists."—Sunderland Times.
' Parties requiring information on mining investments will find no
better and safer in tructor than Mr. Murchison."—Leeds Times.
" One of the most valuable mining publications which has come
Under our notice, and contains more information than any other on
the subject of which it treats."— Derby Telegraph.
"To those who wish to invest capital in British Mines, this work
is of the first importance."—Welshrnan.
"This work enables the capitalist to invest on sound principles; it
le to truth, an excellent guide "—Plymouth Journal.
Copies of the above publications can be obtained at Mr. Mur hison's
offices, 117, itishopsgate-street Within, London ; and reliable infor-
mation and advice will be given at any time to those who may re-
quire it.

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
/ands, tenements, and hereditaments, authorised by the said
Act, and also by the Act of the 15th and 15th Victoria, cap.
78(public).to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, for the purposes
ef the said Acts, or either of them.
Dated this seventh clay of November, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six.
By order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
and Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor,
Board of Works &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster.

PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION._
NOT IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ap-
Prication is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next
semi en for an act to empower the Commissioners of her Ma-
jedY'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 gxounds, vacant ground, or otherwise, as a
Bite 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
conistined for the compulsory purchase of all such lands, tene-
ments, or hereditaments as may be necessary for carrying the
purposes aforesaid into offect, 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
7..0d section, describing the situation of the houses and tene-
-
/4 .s.rl.l:opOSed to be pulled down and removed, with a book
reputed owners, lessees, '0 ftpul.. -------... -hf
will, copy
rrnier
t,
the said houses and tenements, and also
a cop
as published in the London Gazette, on y f
or before the
30 h t day of November instant, be deposited for poifibmliiedidniespsee.c:
tion with the Clerk of the Peace for the
at his office, at the Sessions House,Clrk e
of the Peace erkenw county
elpl,eine for
thestah said
county of Middlesex ; and with the clehis
office,
at the Sessions
City and liberty of Westminster, at
Rouse, Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that
oofn
tohrebseafoidreptihane said
30th day of November instant, P. 7
book of referonee, and also a copy of thisnoitsiicteh
in the London Gazette, will be depositedet,
Clerk of the said parish of Saint Margaret, asthpeubPliasthieshd
his Place of abode. Westminster, at
bated this seventh day of November, one thousand eigtt
hundred and fifty-six. ll7 order of the Commissioners of her Majesty's !forks
and Public Buildings.
.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor,...,,,,minster.
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Board of Works, dic., Whitehall-place, w c

IpROSPECTIJS of the NEXT EXAMINA-
TION for ADMISSION MILITARY ACADEMY at Woolwich ti the ROYAL
N.B. No more direct a pointment.
Provi-
sional Commissions in thePßoysl ArtilerY•
,ill be made to
An Examination for the admisei4 of Cadets to the Royal Military Academy at Woobach wzl be held in London in the
month of June, 1857.
Provided a sufficient numb,. are found competent, thirty
admissions will be tele to tut Institution ; candidates must
be between the no,. of 17 a,d 20 years. Those, however, who
bare net exec -. d dis1 2') ye's of age on the Ist Jan' next, will
not be con
...: equalfied. The successful candidates will
% inetrnetbn until they are sufficiently advanced
remain % kn.
-wlcage to pass a satisfactory examination,
and
il seien'will then receive commissions, in the Royal ArLil-
?Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum
eq. 10s. on admission, to cover the expense of uniform,
,Ibl
thes, C.
and a contribution of 621. 10s. for each half-year
,f 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
l'ates, as heretofore :
Por Sons of admirals and generals having regiments E4O
Sons of generals without regiments
Sens of captains and commanders of the navy and of 35
colonel and regimental field officer of the army 3O
Sons of all officers of the Navy and Army uuder the
above ranks
Sons of officers of the 20
Army and Navy who have
died in the service, and whose families are proved
to be left in pecuniary distress The Sons of general officers paid only on their commissions
s
geld field
ffic officersers ' will pay the same contribution as the sons of
o.
The sons of officers on full and half-pay will pay alike ;bur
*ems of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, o
received the difference, will only be admitted on the terms
Prescribed for the sons of private gentlemen, viz., 62/. 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
Prlleribed for the sons of Naval and military officers.
„,:fhe admissions will be determined by the result of a comps-
Pure and examination, tho subjects of which will be ne follnws t
Pure and Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynamics,
and Ilydrostaties .. . ................................... 3,500
nglish Language, Litei:a.inre, Composition, History,
and Geography ............................................... 1,250
Language, Literature, Geography, and History of
Ancient Rome, and of Ancient Greece 1,750
Ditto ditto
Ditto ditto ditto of France 1,000 (r ditto of Germany 750
and viva voce). he examination in French and German will be both written
Experimental Sciences, I.e
, CheinistrY, Heat, Electri-
' city, including Magnetism .. Naturar Sciences, Mineralogy, and 600f.i4;
750
Moral and Political Sciences
.......eoin
Drawing, i.e., Elementary
Ga ............. ..........
.i
•
and either 1,000
eluding the use of Drawinglnstrutncrts,win'
Machinery, Architectural, Engineezing,
Land-
scape Drawing .................................... °.; .in
more 1,000
No candidate will be allowed to be exaniine.
aopipt i Liuoulthan
er
Dive lbjects, of which one must be Mathematics
who " s not obtain at least one-Efth of t
Of From
this subject vill be eligible torah
the "her subjecs of examination each ;
candidarnt'
select those in -hick he lesires to be examine
may
but noone
will be allowed t, ennui the marks gained in a
sny subjec t
,
Wen these marks hP4all I least amount to one-ixth of the
total number of marks &lifted to that subjeet.
No candidate will )e dmitted into the Royal Military
Academy unless he AWL an aggregate of 3,000 marks at
wit

Any eandirle who shall Ili select French and drawing
"mug the wets for his exanination, will be required to satisfy the seminars that he has such knowledge, at least of
'be element of thee, two subjecte as shall afford reasonable
eirpectatid that he gill
reeidenecd the Acadely.
perfect iFreself in both during hie
- The Avowing papers till be required to be transmitted by
%%ea valeman t• the Wet p
wi De artment, before the Ist June,
thtis application to be
noted as a candidate, unless he
. . Mal notify that he has been
,kdon, in which Case the statc,
candidate at a previous exami-
kospaay the application :- cut of subjects only need ac-
t. An extract from the f
registet,
Milt of that, a certificate verified t his baptism, or iu de-
?,. A certificate of good moral chZrndavit.
,
R,in, an of the parish to which he belon ter, signed by a cicr-
40c1 of the school or college at wha.and by the tutor or
education for at least two years, or such' has received his
mgood
• ...1 1 3 ora 1 be satisfactory ‘
character as will 1" proof of
ate.t,he Secretary of
3. A statement of the subjects of examinatio.
addition to mathematics) he may desire to b, ex in which (in
All candidates will be required to rntthem%uvec;
be of e • • 1 • ft to be dew
be xammat ,
ion imea er mmed . ,
the ' 't or ler to
inspected by military sureons, that it my be e
at the
y are free from any bodily defects or ailin-.
hit f
in te pUblie
easortained
et ore with th erformance of military 478. alcut.ted to
Notre . e P
of theewlil be given. a month previously,
Place and days appointed for holding to oxa Papers,
ruination,
IN
War ll' : DliEWity
- "ePartraett, Pal).? 11, Nov. 14,185 t