The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-26 00:00:00

,TR OP 0 LIT A N COUNTIES and
_ GENI..R t.L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-
street, Waterloo-place, London. Caiital, 100,0001.
TRUSTEES.
Rt. Tin. Spencer IL Walpole, M.P 1 Richard Spooner, Esq., M P.
Henry Peter Fidler, Esq. I E. Yansittart Neale, Esq.
Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches.
N.B. The bonus declared ?t the last divi.lon of profits averaged
32 per cent. on all the premiums paid.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

NEW SYSirElif OF LIFE ASSURANCE•
rr HE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL
AMUR ANC ft and INYESTMEN r AssoerA "lON invite
attention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted
by this Association, viz., that of allowing Interest on all Premiums
Pam, Instead of the remote and uncertain system 04 Bonuses usually
adopted.

By this
Plan the Policyholder will secure to himself a constantly
increasing anneal income during lire, s 9 well as the payment of the
nO2 assured to his rcpre,entatives at his death.
Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system of Asgurance may
be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pall-mall East, or for-
warded free on application.

PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.

BANK OF DEPOSIT,
No. 3, PALL.MALL EAST, LONDON.
Establi,hed
Partfes desirous of INVESTING iIION,P,Y are requested to
examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of interest
Lay be obtained with pe*fect security.
The interest is payable in January and July, at the Head Office in
London, or at the various branches in the country.
PETER MORRIsON, Managing Director.
Prospect3ses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free.

riro LOVERS of FlSH.—Fifth Season.—
Ge: nine YARMOUTSI BLOATERS • These highly-
-10 tes d delicacies forwarded to all parts, on receipt of the amount,
r 0 to Rourke ir,atage strmspe; or Past-oince
I* !ally selected.. Ss. 44 ?Package included.
50 ditto .... 4s. 6d.
Rend Hill and plain directions, county, and nearest station. Ad-
dress, THOMAS LETTES, Jun., Fish Curer, Ore it Yarmouth.

IMPORTANT TO EVERY MAN WHO KEEPS A MORSE,
COW; SHEEP, OR PIG.
THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.
THE 'HEAYEST AND BEST RYER YET INTRODUCED !
Sold in Cases containing 448 Packages—each Packlge One Feed,
at the coat of hree Half-pence each, equal to 565. per cu.!. Carriage
paid to any railway station.
None are genuine without my signature—
JOSEPH TH RLEY. the Inventor,
115, High street, Hull.
Post-office Orders must be made payable as above.

PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.—Extension of
Time for Compulsory Purchase.
NOTICE IS lIEREItY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an
let to extend the time granted by " The Pimlico Improve-
ment Act, IR5:1" (public), for the compulsory purchase of
lands, tenements, and bereditaments, authorised by the said
Act, and also by the Act of the 15th and ltith Victoria, cap.
78(public),to be purchased or taken by the Commissioners of
ber Majesty's Works and Publ,c Buildings, for the purposes
of 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
sad Public Buildings.
JOHN GARDINER, Soli'itor,
Board of Works, &c., Whitehall-place, Westminster.

PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION
d NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That ap
/ictation 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
eertain houses and tenements, situate in Upper Crown-street,
Grown-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 sits-
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 n 'w 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 bereditaments 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 ,aken for the
Purposes aforesaid.
And Notice is hereby further Given, that a duplicate plan
aad section, describing the situation of the houses and tene-
ments proposed to be pulled down and re Pored, 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
"2„,uatY of Middlesex ; and with the Clerk of the Peace for the
0y and liberty of Westminster, at his office, at the Sessions
tllBe, Clerkenwell aforesaid ; and that on or before the said
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
cLer& of the said parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, at
his Place of abode.
bated 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.
Board JHRDINER, Solicitor,
of WOork N, dr Gc.A , Whitehall-place, Westminster.

P_
ROSPECTIJS of the NEXT EXAMINA-
TION for ADMISSION to the ROYAL
MILITARY ACADEMY at Woolwich.
N.B. No fliers direct appointmeats 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 June, 1857.
Provided a sufficient number are found competent thirty
admissions will be made to that Institution ; candidates must
Ile between the ages of 17 and 20 years. Those, however, who
have n t exceeded 2'l years of age on the Ist Jan •next', will
act be considered disqualified. The successful candidates will
remain under instruction until they are sufficiently advanced
is scientific knowledge to ,pass a satisfactory examination,
and they will then receive commissions in the Royal Aron, or Royal Engineers. They will be required to pay a sum
of 221. 10s. on admission, to cover the expense of uniform,
books, &c,, and a contribution of 621. 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
maul 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 ....
Moss
and of
35
.So of captains and commander; of the navy and f
colonel and regimental field officer of the army 3O
Mons of all officers of the Navy and Army under the
above ranks Sons of officers ................................... . 2O
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
as 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 compc-
%iv* examination, the subjects of which will be as follows
?lire and Mixed Mathematics, i.e., Statics, Dynamics,
and Hydr05tatic5,.......................... 3,500
lheglish Language, Literature, Composition, History,
and Geography ............ .. ..............
Language, Literature, Geography, and. History of
. ...... 1,250
Aacient Rome, and of Ancient Greece.. 1 75,1
Ditto
ditt0................ '
ditto of France 1,000
in
ditto
ditto of German
sad viva voce). y 75
Phe exam Ditto
ination French and German will be both writteno
}experimental Sciences, it is. Chemistry Heat, Electri-
city, including -...llEagnetis.m.. . .
Natural Sciences, Mineralogy, .au.d . d;c*ln'....."' ............... 1,000
... , ..... .. I,oeo
Moral and Political Sciences ...........
...' ............... 75°
Elementary GeometricaTiii:
Instruments, IZZT2e;thienr.
Drawing, i.e.,
eluding the use of Drawing
Machinery, Architectural, Engineering, or J.,.,,a_
:i.rancrne than
i ....... 1,000
scape Drawing .....................................
Mo candidate will be allowed to be examined
lye subjects, of which one must be Mathematics
who does not obtain at least one-fifth of the allotted nu°moloneet.
subject will be eligible tor an appointment. .
of marks in this
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,
'anima those marks shell at least amount to one-sixth of the
total number of marks allotted to that subject.
Ne candidate will be admitted into the Royal Military
eadenly 'titles, he obtain
au aggregate of 3,000 marks at
east.
Any candidate who shall not select French and drawing
among the subjects for his examination, will be required to
alitifffY the examiners that he has such knowledge, at least of
the elements of these two subjects, as shall afford reasonable
eEexpectation that he will perfect himself in both during his
residue° at the Academy.
The following papers will be required to be transmitted by
*ten gentleman to the War Department, before the let June,
h
with his application to be noted as a candidate, unless
shall notify that he 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 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-
Olean of the parish to which he belongs, and by the tutor or
itead of the school or college at which ho has received his
edneation for at least two years, or such other proof of good
Moral character as will be satisfactory to the Secretary of
%etc
3. A. statement of the subjects of
tornexaation in which (in
ildditieu to mathelatics) he may desire be examined.
place All eandidates will be required to present themselves at the
thenof examination, hereafter to be determined, in order to
ierebeted by military surgeons, that it may i e ascertained
Ire fres from any bodily defects or ailments calculated to
iaterfere with the performance of military duties.
of the
Place
11.tiee wlil be given a month previously, in the public papers,
aad days appointed for holding the examination.
'Wee leellitt M. R.
•Fazeizt, Pal-141.1, Nov. 14, 1356. DREwRY.