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ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 1, 18G6.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD-
MIRALTY Hereby give Notice, that the AR-
RANGEMENTS for the ADMISSION of PERSONS not
already in the Government service to the ROYAL
SCHOOL of NAVAL ARCHITECTURE and MARINE
ENGINEERING as Admiralty Pupils will, for the present
year, be as follows :
" Candidates must be not less than 18 years of age, and
must have served at least two years in private shipbuild-
ing or engineering establishments, or must give satisfac-
tory proof that they have in some way been so connected-
with shipbuilding or engineering operations as to become
well grounded in the elementary principles and practice
thereof.
The Pupils will be selected by Competitive Examina-
tion, the subjects for which, and number of marks assigned
for each, aro as follows :

Marks.

Pure Mathematics, including arithmetic, mensura-
tion, geometry (plane and descriptive), piano tri •
gonometry, and the elements of the differential
and integral calculus 2,500
Applied Mathematics, including mechanics and
hydrostatics ... 1,000
Practical Shipbuilding, including laying off (for
shipwright's candidates only) 2,500
Practical Marine Engineering (foe engineer candi-
dates only)

... 2,500

French .. ... 500
Elements of Physics and Chemistry... •••
••• 750
English Grammar and Composition . 750
Geography and History ••• ... 750
No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
The last four subjects, although counting in the com-
petition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may be selected will be treated,
while attached to the School, in all respects as the Mini-
ralty pupils ; they will receive ivages the same as dockyard
apprentices, commencing at Is. Id. per day for six days per
week for first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per day till it
reaches 2s. per day, and in addition a subsistence allowance
of 3s. per day for seven days per week while away from
their homes, either at the School or in the Dockyards.
Six months of each year, viz, from November till May,
will be devoted to study at the, school, and the remaining
six months to active work and the acquirement of practical
knowledge in the Dockyards.
It is to bo understood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagement to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course of study ; and they must rely on their own
worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in their subsequent career.
The number of such pupils to be selected this year is ono
shipwright and one engineer.
Persons desirous of competing must forward their names,
with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds on which
they consider themselves practically qualified, enclosing
proper certificates to that effect, to the Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, not later than the Ist September.
The Candidates should also state whether they wish to
be examined as Engineers or Shipwrights.
The examination will take place on the 25th September,
and three following days.
By command of their Lordships,
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DUBLIN.—" Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra" is
the title of _an interestinr, article that presents us
with an account of the life:of that celebrated man,
which will be agreeable to the reader to peruse.
It is here said that in our " meditations of the charac-
teristics of the author and man in Cervantes, we
have always mentally associated him with Shakspere and
Sir Walter Scott. We find in all the same versatility of
genius, and the same grasp of and breadth of intellect, the
same gifts of genial humour, and the same largeness of
sympathy. Tho life of Cervantes will be always an in-
teresting and edifying study in connection with the litera-
ture of the great events of his time." "Cowardice and
Courage " is another of those sketches which affords us
such a good exemplification of the great difference that
exists in men as to dispoiition, hatiits, &c. Many of the
anecdotes are very interesting, and illustrate the meaning
of what is said better than any description could possibly
do. " Timbuctoo "is ono of those papers on foreign coun-
tries which convey a great deal to one's mind. It is an in-
teresting task to follow tho writer of these pages, and
trace the varying
ways in which those regions have been
described by different authors at different times. " Num-
ber Five, Brooke-street" is continued in its usual myste-
rious manner, and we have.to follow the adventures of the
wily heroine. " Cometh up as a FloWer" is also proceeded
with, and is entertaining in its variety of descriptions, and
the little heroine is very attractively sketched. "Never
for Ever" is the title of a new story that is begun, and
promises to be very entertaining in its way. " The His-
tory of the Irish Church" is the political article met with.
It contains a defence of that institution, and is written
with much earnestness and eloquence. " Iphis," by Mor-
timer Collins, is a very complicated sketch in verse, that
forms an agreeable contrast to the proso selections met
with. " The Campaign of the Boyne"
alludes to men that
will over be memorable in the history of Ireland, and are
well worthy of notice, notwithstanding the very different
age in which we live.
FRASER.—Fraser addresses itself in this number
chiefly to the tastes of those who like solid reading,
for, truth to tell, its contents are somewhat weighty.
Many of the articles are excellent, but a little more
variety in the list would have been acceptable. A
lengthened and well-written criticism of Dead
Stanley's Jewish History is the first paper, and it gives a
fair impression of the scope and object of the work. Cap-
tain Burton's letters describing his adventures between
London and Rio de Janeiro are continued, and the instal-
ment is one of the most attractive items in the number.
Essays on the Order of German Knights, instituted in
the time of the Crusade; and on the Brahmo Samaj, a new
llindoo Church, follow. The latter discusses the whole
question of religion in India very fully, if not altogether
impartially. The three great questions of the day, the
Financial Crisis, the Change of Ministry, and the Con-
tinental War, form the subjects of three different papers.
The writer on the panic, after examining into the situation
of affairs in the money market during the last year or
two, arrives-at the conclusion that a total repeal of the act
of 1844 is the best remedy that can be applied to the de-
fects of our financial system. This conviction is rapidly
gaining ground among practical men, for who can fail to
see that an act which breaks down three times within
twenty years is unequal to the public requirements? The
paper on " The Ministry—Last and Present" takes us all
over the old ground of the debates of the Session, and is
preparing us for every catastrophe under the sun now that
u s tollru t
u us
u_.at least novel for
Whig and Tory have changed places. The article
anything new, but
an English writer—on the victory of the Prus-
sians, which it traces to the sound judgment of King
o itn
puts the v
a novel
William and Count Bismarck, "in spite of all the senseless
clamour and false liberalism of the Prussian Chambers.
The King was willing to stake his crown, bit ho
never
. . .
for ono moment entertained a false and shallow Nar cannot
nno
cot
com-
promise with either Democrats or Ultramontanos, and he
has his reward." The reward, it is very possible, when
the excitement of tho campaig.n has died out, will not be so
unreservedly agreeable to King William
and his
Prime

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Vizier.
C °.e—le ou Thunder and
The storms of the
Lightning, founded on a French work, which treats
of the subject comprehensively. Francis Jacox
season iji3lj
haveß '
continues his discourse upon those mysterious in-
structive likes and dislikes which are so unaccount-
able, and yet so well founded. He styles it " About not
Loving Dr. Fell, and the Reason Why," and cites number-
lessinstances in which authors and poets have referred to it.
Mrs. Bushby proceeds with her series of stories under the
head of "Snowed up," and " Mafia" is continued in all its
fervent romance. The story can scarcely,lail to end with
a tragedy, which will ho its most fitting conclusion.
Lieut.-Colonel Miles gives a furthee instalment of his nar-
rative of " .
k voyage from Sea to Sea, through the Isthmus
of Suez,", and Mr.. Ramage • continues his. "Wanderings
through Italy" in search of its ancient remains. Among
the remaining papers are one on "Portuguese PiScoverY

in Africa," and an essay on " The War of Annexation,"
by Cyrus Redding.
COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.—The
United Service for this month is more varied than
usual. It opens with " The Health of the Navy,"
a subject of most vital importance both to the men
and to the country which looks to them for its pro-
tection and security. The charm of a sailor's life is grog;
grog is the stimulus to exertion and the reward of glorious
deeds. But there is a limit to good as well as evil, and
excess defeats its chiefest pleasure. So it is with grog ;
while stimulating in one case, it enervates and incapacitates
'in another. But poor Jack is not a man to moralise—he is
all for action and glory, so there be grog and prize-money
to be had. And these are the great charms of a man-of-
war's man's existe.nce. Lord Collingwood—a keen observer
of sailor life—for be toiled fifteen years as a midshipman
before accident, not 'favour, gave him a chance of promo-
tion, was of opinion that " were a man as wise as Solomon
and as brave as Achilles, he would still be unworthy of
trust if he addicted himself to grog." And such an opinion,
coming from such an authority, must have grieved the
conscience of many a worthy sailor, be 116 officer or sea-
man. But a little grog in season works wonders with
Jack. It is the sentiment of his life, the very soul of his
ambition, and, judiciously administered, operates very
beneficially on his health, and neutralises any injurious
tendency resulting from climate and the provisions inci-
dent to 'a long voyage, and other trying circumstances on
unhealthy stations abroad. It is to excess that Lord Col-
lingwood refers, and that would equally apply to a soldier
on land as to a sailor at sea. Tho writer dwells on other
matters which very much affect the health of the navy,
_some of which may be modified by proper precautiotis
in port, and one which is referable to the stingy economy
of the Admiralty towards our surgeons, in withholding
proper rank and promotion to men upon whose knowledge
and conduct the lives of our gallant defenders so much
depend. It is the old curse of monopoly ; there is no
virtue at sea, but in men born to promotion and to rule.
It is the vice of the despot carried to extremity.
It is founded in ignorance, nursed by pride, and
perpetuated by selfishness. But a better spirit is
gradually working its way in the administration of
our naval affairs, and the service must in dire time reap
the benefits of a more enlightened conduct. With respect
to the health of our sailors it appears there are four stations
moro particularly dangerous than others. These are the
south-east coast of America, the Pacific, the west coast of
Africa and China station. But the west coast of Africa is
the wag of all; the ratio of mortality there is absolutely
fright More More than half of those who go there never
return ! And this is the blessed effect of the slave trade !
Why, we thought that when the civil war in America was
over there was to be an end of the slave trade, and an end
of sending our sailors to be sacrificed on the. pestilential
shores of the African wilderness of humanity. We have
heard of the black list as a punishment for worthless cul-
prits, but to send good men to a deadly coast for an ideal"
protection is little short of homicide. It is trying the
temper of the good until they become bad and die of dutiful
murder, like the modern plan of testing pieces of ordnance,
which have survived upwards of two thousand discharges,
with extra pounds of powder and heavy shot, subjecting
their well-sustained "proof" to destruction. Such are our
commission committees of investigation, and such our
African hilling squadrins! " The Army in India" is
another sample of how bravo men are sacrificed to a sense
gf duty. But we hope for a speedy improvement in the
administration of our Indian army, by the facilities which
railway communication will afford for transferring them
to more healthy residences in the hills during the sickly
season. This subject is to be continepd. "Light Drill
in the French Army" is a paper well worthy the attention
of the Horse Guards, for, however high our military men
may be in their own esteem, they should never bo
above taking a hint from a neighbour, and that
neighbour the ono of all others whose whole mind is de-
voted to the art of war and the means which may tend to
excellence. Tho intelligent writer who has taken this
in hand, is an officer who seems to delight in improving the
knowledge and quickening the practice of his countryman
in the most essential points of the profession in which they
aspire to worthy deeds. There is no doubt that in matters
of discipline the French are deservedly in the first rank.
They spare no pains to attain the very best possible sys-
tem, and they use the knowledge acquired until practice
makes perfect. Above all they catch the spirit of the
work, and aspire to excellence for the delight of distinction.
With them it is not enough to do the thing well, it must
and can be done batter. With them celerity adds to the
charm of all their movements, and our author seems to
have caught its very spirit. Let our riflemen look to it
now that needle-guns. and breech-loaders aro the order of
the day. It would seem that much of the success in the
late Prussian campaign is owing to their discipline and
confidence in their arms. The needle-gun, so long despised
by all the other nations of Europe, England in particular,
has been cherished and practised by the Prussian, and now
behold 'the result. " Curiosities of Naval Literature—
Quakers," has for its motto—
"The Castor's guns were thirty-six,
Not one of them a Quaker,
The Castor's men they (ought like bricks,
And soon we took John Acre."
This is a humorous paper, full of old and sometimes droll
recollections; it divides the genus Quaker into two classes
—those who will not and those who cannot fight.
The first class was a worthy, wide-awake, conscientious
set, who, looking to the future, actually contrived to
" weather" an American yew of Scotch extraction—no bad
achievement in a worldly bargain. The other class aro
simply wooden guns, which, from their non-combatant
qualities, seamen humorously call Quakers. Formerly
these Quakers did good service in the art of war, more
especially at the famous battle of Bull's Run, where the
Confederates used them to such good effect that they
frightened the Yankees to run all the 'faster. They are
used sometimes with good effect both on land and water to
perform or cause some laughable mistakes. But in the
present instance they are used as expressive of a deception
of any kind, such as a stratagem at sea, in lighthrg a tar
barrel in a dark night to mislead a ship in chase. Those
stratagems were frequently practised by Lord Cochrane,
when in command of the Speedy, with her terrible four-
pounders. In 1801, when the combined fleets of France and
Spain had sailed from Algosiras, in Gibraltar Bay, they
had not proceeded far when it came on dusk, and soon
after dark Captain Keats, in Superb gallantry, dashed in
between the two sternmost ships, firing right and left, and
passed.on. The movement was so rapidly executed that
the Superb shot ahead before the smoke cleared away, and
the Spanish ships mistaking each other for the aggressors
began a mutual attack, resulting in the Real Carlos, of 112
guns, losing her foretopma,st, the sails of which falling
over her own guns caught fire. While in this condition
the other ship, the Hermengildo, also of 112 guns, kept
still engaging the Carlos as a real enemy, and in the con-
fusion fell on board her and caught fire also. Both ships
burned till about midnight, when they blew up, and
nearly all on board, 2,000 men, perished, as Captain
Keats was taking possession of a third line-of-battle ship.
The phrase " fighting like bricks" has many guesses as to
its origin—ono is that "The Bricks" was the name of a
club in the Strand who had a quarrel with another club
called "The Chips," and the one having vanquished the
other, the first-named brotherhood wore said "to have
stuck together like bricks." A paper on " The Battles in
Central Europe" gives a masterly account of the war with
all its great promises and shortcomings, of which the
public have had quite enough for the present. " The Navy
as it was and as it is" is another good article ; but we
should like it better if we knew what the future navy is
to be, for in that consists the grand secret—to be or not
to be.

mation, and we may now appreciate the changes wrought
by time when we read of the story of Dr. Sydenham's
silver tankard being taken from a window, the thief being
lost among the bushes of Praol-street, "the thief no doubt
regaling at his pot luck." "Legislators going to Dinner"
contains an entertaining account of the difficulties which
attend the work of a cook at the House of Commons, who
never knows how many will sit down to his provisions, and
indeed may have •sixteen when ho thought a hundred and
fifty were coming. "A Tale of St. Martin's-le-Grand"-is
a ludicrous sketch of the miseries of ono who thus de-
scribes himself—
" When some do wrong and some do right,
1 quill-drive for my betters ;
St. Martin's sees from morn till night
No poorer man of letters."
" The Cruise of the Aphrodite" is a chronicle of very stir-
ring adventures, which it is well worth while to peruse.