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

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d Secretary of State for War having
etermined that a beestablished in the Royal
Arsenal for the Education of the Boysihall employed in the several De-
partments, applications for the situation of RESIDENT SCHOOL-
MASTER may be made in person or by writing to Captain OrrR.A.,
Royal Laboratory, the Arsenal, Woolwich, from whom all informa-
tion on this subject may be obtained.
Salary, 120/.per annum, with a House.
War Department, Pall-mapn, 27th November, 1856.

-PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD
cLIIII.—The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots,
impdlements, &c., commences on Tuesday Morning and closes on
Friay Evening-9th, 10th, llth, and 12th December. BAZAAR,
Ximr-street and Baker-street. Open from daylight till nine in the
evening. Admittance-One Shilling.

ESTABLISHED 1837.
BRITANNIALIFE ASSURANCE COM-
PANY,
Zmpowered bySpeclal Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9, and
BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION,
Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman.
Number of Policies issued, upwards of 11,000.
Annual Income from Premiums (exclusive of Interest on Invest-
ments) upwards of 84,0001.
Rates of Premium reduced to the lowest possible Belle compatible
with security, and computed in such variety of ways as to suit the
ircnmStance3 and convenience of every class of Policy-holders.
- E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, secretary.

CONTRACT FOR STOCKS AND CAPS FOR THE ROYAL
MARINES.

Department of the Comptroller foi Victualling,
Somerset-place, 26th November, 1856.
PHE 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, the 15th
December next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with itch
persons as may be willing to Contract for sppplying and delivering
Into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quantities
of STOCKS and CAPS, with BALLS,
as shall (rein 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
office, and patterns at the Marine Office, 15, Duke-street, West-
Minster, between the hours of 11 and 2. No tender will be received
after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made
oa the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be
obtained on application at the said office.
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.-Frill
particulars of the most important Dividend and Progressive
Minas will be found in the Fourth Edition of BRITISH MINES
CONSIDERED AS .AN INVESTMENT, recently published 1)y J.
' 'MURCHISON, Esq.. EG.A., PALS., mier 511-Gd..; by piist is.
M. MURCHISON also. publishes a QUARTERLY REVIEW of
BRITISH MINING, giving the position and prospects of the Mines
at the end of each quarter, the dividends paid, & c.
The Review for the quarter ending 30th Sept. last contains a Map
of the Bassett d ktrict, price Is.
"The book will be found extremely valuable.".
" A valuable little book."—Globe
"A valuable guide to investors."—Herapath.
"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 truetor 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 Brltish Mines, this work
is of the first importance."—Welshman.
"This work enables the capitalist to invest on sound principles ; it
is, in truth, an excellent guide "—Plymouth Journal.
Copies of the above publications can be obtained at Mr. Mur bison's
offices, 117, Hishopsgate-street Within, London ; and reliable Infor-
mation and advice will be given at any time to those who may re-
quire it.

'- Observer.

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 lintroie-
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 CommissioOers 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
and Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Solicitor, I
Board of Works, Szc., Whitehall-place, Westminster.

PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION,--
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, ThA 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,
Crowe-court, Lower Crown-street, Charles-street, bulte-
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 lauds,
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 tone-
Monts proposed to be pulled down and removed, with a book
of reference thereto, containing the names of the owners, or
reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers of
the said houses and tenements, and also a copy of this notice,
as published in the London Gazette, will, on or before the
30th day of November instant be deposited for public inspec-
tion with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex,
at his office, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, in the said county of Middlesex ; and with the Clerk of the Peace for tho
city and liberty of Westminster, at his office, at the Sessiotls
House, Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that on or before tile 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 London Gazette, will be deposited with the Parish
Clerk of the said parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, at
Lis place of abode.
Dated this seventh day 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.

_
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 the
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 not 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 Aril. or Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum
•f 221. 10s, on admission, to cover the expense of uniform,
books, sac., 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 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
Sees of captains and commanders of the navy andf
o
colonel and regimental field officer of the army •• 30
Sens of all officers of the Navy and Arm under above ranks y the
Sons of officers of the Army and Navy who have 20
died in the service, and whose families are proved
to be left in peccuiary distress
paid only on the commissions
as field officers, will pay the same contributionir as the sons of
field officers.
The sons of officers on full and if pay will pay alike
eons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, ;buro
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
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, Dynamics,
and Hydrostatics .................................... .......... 3,500
English Language, Literature, Composition, History,
and Geography .............................................. 1,250
Language, Literatnre, Geography, and History of
Ancient Rome and of Ancient Greece ..
................ 1,750
Ditto
ditto ditto of France 1,000
Ditto
ditto
ditto of Germany 750
(The examination in French and German will be both written
and viva voce).
Experimental Sciences,
C1'0,14417, Heat, Electri-
city, including Magnetism Natural Sciences, Mineralogy,;;,;',i . d'c:i ................. ... 1,000
Moral and Political Sciences ..... ... °gY .............. 750
Drawing, i.e., Elementary Geo.m. et .......... ......
. 1,000
eluding the use of Drawing Instruments, -Zig' in-
Machinery, Architectural, Engineering,' -1. either
scapo Drawing ....................... , ......... 7 f1t1....
.... ..... 1,000
No candidate will be allowed to be examin4 ...
Tire than
five subjects of which one must be Mathematics,
who does not obtain at least one-fifth of the allotted nno ohneei
of marks in this subject will be eligible for an
appoint-ma:an •
From the other subjects of examination each candideautbeimocatY,
select those in which he desires to be examined ; but no one
will be allowed to count the marks gained in any_
unless those marks shall at least amount to one six
of the
total number of marks allotted to that subject.
No candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
Academy unless he obtain an aggregate of 3,000 marks at
east.
Any candidate who shall not select French and drawing
among 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.
each The followiu,g papers will be required to be transmitted by
Withc gentleman to the War Department, before the Ist June,
his application to be noted as a candifiate, unless he
shall notify that ho has been a candidate at a previous exami-
nation, in which case the statement of subjects only need ac-
company the application :-
1. An extract 4om the register of his baptism, or in de-
fault of that, a certificate verified by affidavit.
2. A certificate of geed moral character, signed by a cler-
gyman of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or
heed of the school or college at which be has received his
education for at least two years, or such other proof of good
Moral character as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of
State.
3. A statement of the subjects of examination in which (in
addition to mathematics) lie 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
be inspected by military surgeons, that It may Le ascertained
they te free from any bodily defects or ailments . l lated to
interferewwilithbtlte performance of i.nilitary duties': a eu
Notice
n a month previously in the publ* • papers,
of the plac 5 give
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e and days appointed for holding the ex-areination.
War
H. B. DREWRY
DeArtment, Pall-Mall, Nov. 14, 1836.