The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The annexed General Order relative to the Staff
College has been promulgated

" Horse Guards, S.W., Sept. 30.
" The followino•regulations regarding the examination of
candidates for admission to the Staff College under the pa-
ragraph 13 of the Memorandum from this department dated
17th Dec., 1857, are published for the information of the
army. •
" Any officers who desire to enter the Staff College for
one year only will present themselves at the annual exami-
nation of the junior division of students early in December
next (the exact date to be published hereafter), with the
view to their being examined in the subjects stated below.
" There will be three vacancies in that division, for which
officers in the Cavalry, Guards, or Line will be eligible.
" SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION.
" OBLIGATORY.

" Arithmetic.
" Algebra.—As far as quadratic equations, inclusive.
" Geometry.—Six books of Euclid, the fifth book solved
algebraically, or not, at the option of the candidate.
" Plane Trigonometry.
" Fortification.—The principle, construction, and appli-
cation of field works. The principles and construction of
permanent works, as exemplified in the first system of
Vauban, and the modern French system. The defence and
attack of field and permanent works.
" Military Topography.—A sketch done on the ground
with pocket sextant or compass will be required from each
candidate, with one or more finished plans (should he have
them in his pOssession), certified to be his own work.
" Military Art and History.—The principles of tactics and
strategy, with a critical abstract of one or more campaigns,
and of one or more battles, as evidence of the candidate's
knowledge of those subjects.
" French.

" VOLUNTARY

" German, Hindostanee, Chemistry, and Geology.—The
following will be the marks allotted to each subject, viz.:—
Mathematics, 600; fortification, 600; military art, history,
and geo;rraphy, 600 ; military drawing and survey-
ing, 300 ; French, 300 ; German, 300 ; Hindostanee, 300 ;
chymistry, 150; geology,•lso. In the first five subjects—
viz., mathematics, fortification, military art, history, and
geography ; military drawing and surveying, and French
—a candidate will be expected to gain one-third of the marks
allotted to each subject, as a proof that he is qualified to
enter upon the course of the senior class of the college.
" By command of his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding in Chief.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant-General."

Yesterday orders were issued from the Horse
Guards that the 6th battalion of the Military Train
hitherto stationed at the encampment at Woolwich
Common is to proceed to the Curragh Camp, to ex-
change with the sth battalion of the Military Train
ordered to Woolwich.
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The colonelcy of the 20th Regiment, vacant by
the death of Liout.-General Thomas, will, in all
likelihood, be conferred on Major-General Marcus
Beresford, an officer of long Indian service, who last
year commanded the troops in the Madras Presi-
dency during the absence of Sir P. Grant.
Col. Yorke, C. 8., late of the Ist Dragoons, and
Col. Daubeney, C. 8., 55th Regiment, have been ap-
pointed inspectors of clothing.
Yesterday the freightship Thames City, laden
with several hundred tons of military stores, went
out of the London Docks, bound for Vancouver's
Island. She will drop down the river to Gravesend
to embark a detachment of Royal Engineers for
Columbia. The freightship Brieris has loaded • up-
wards of 300 tons of ordnance stores, carriages, &c.,
for Vancouver's Island. Several persons appointed
to conduct the police of the colony and some mis-
sionaries take passage in this ship. Both vessels
are expected to sail from the Thames on Monday.
The Blenheim, 800 tons, Capt. T. Hedley, which
has been taken up by the Hon. Council of India for
the conveyance of reinforcements to India, will em-
bark the following troops at Gravesend to-morrow
for Kurrachec—viz., 16 men of the 27th Enniskil-
lens and 12 men of the 87th Royal Irish Fusileers,
:from Canterbury; 25 men of the 81st Regiment
:and. 20 of the 94th, from Chatham ; and 15 men of
the 89th; from Fermoy. The following reinforce-
ments for Madras are under orders to embark at
Gravesend this morning in the Havering :-12 men
of the Ist Royals, Ist hatt. ; 30 men of the 44th
and 55 men of the 66th, from Colchester 12 men
• of the 3d, batt..fiOth Rifles, from Winchester ; 14
men of the 74th Highlanders, from Aberdeen; 116
men of the. 68th Light Infantry, and 18 men of the
k9th., from Fermoy ; and 50 men of the 91st.
The following additional vessels have been taken
up by the Hon. Council of India for the conveyance
t roops to India during the present month :—The
:Rod, an, 850 tons, Capt. E. Evans, for Calcutta • the
nmont, 960 tons, for Calcutta ; the Blenheim,
800 tons,
Hedley, for Kurrachee ; and the
,
Mal it& Capt.. H.
Wattenbach, 1,000 tons, Capt. T. Denkin,
for , Znrrachee. Each of the above ships will embark
their -complement of troops at Gravesend.
Yes nllay a number of Convalescent wounded and
clisabloa troops, who have recently arrived at the
St. Mary':;••• invalid establishment, Chatham, chiefly
..:from Lucia tow and Delhi, received their_ free dis-
,eharge from the army at that establishment incon-
sequence of their unfitness for further service. The
Commissionea's of Chelsea Hospital, who previously
Meld a board At Chatham for the impectiop, a the
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sick and wounded troops, awarded each man a pen-
sion previously to his discharge, varying in amount
according to his length of service and the nature of
his woundi.
A detachment of non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Engineers, to the number of 43
men of all ranks, left head-quarters, Brompton Bar-
racks, Chatham on Wednesday morning for Wool-
wich, for the purpose of doing duty with the Royal
Sappers and Miners at that station.