The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The usual half-yearly examination of the gentle-
men cadets and the distribution of prizes by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in his
capacity of President of the Council of Military
Education,was held yesterday morning, at theßoyal
Military Academy at Woolwich. The report of the
council was read by General Knollys. It stated
that the gentlemen cadets of the first class who have
been under examination are all qualified for com-
missions • and that the third, fourth, and fifth
classes had undergone very satisfactory examina-
tions. The following gentlemen had particularly
distinguished themselves in mathematics—Messrs.
English, Richardson, Heneage, Ramsay, Browne,
and Clark; in fortification—Messrs. English, Mac-
diarmid, Fraser, Bell, and Burt; in French—W.
Taylor, H. Stewart, and Hamilton ; and in German
Messrs. Wighton, Anstey, and Hamilton. In prac-
tical geometry and plain drawing there has been an
improvement, and in landscapie drawing, chemistry,
artillery, and mechanics the results aro exceedingly
satisfactory. The conduct of the pupils and their
application to study was reported by the memo-
randum of the council as deserving of laudable
comment. At the close of the reading the follow-
ing gentlemen cadets were recommended for com-
missions—viz. :—ln the Royal Engineers--Messrs.
Begbie, Sale, Williams, Abney, Livesay, and Sir
Arthur William Mackworth ; and for the Royal
Artillery Messrs. Clayton, Loraine, Hemans,
Townsend, Anderson, Irwin, Bradley, Kensington,
MoleSworth, Stace, Rothwell, Gaskell, Campbell,
Carlisle, Sogan, and Des Barres. His Royal High-
ness dispensed the prizes in the following order :
To Mr. Townsend, 1 year and 3 months at the aca-
demy, a regulation sword, for exemplary conduct
while at the institution, and for acquirements or
great proficiency in study ; to Mr. Sale, 2 years
and 3 months, a pocket sextant for artillery; to
Mr. Anderson, 1 year and 3 months, a prismatic
compass for surveying ; to Mr. Willans, 1 year and
3 months, a pocket compass, with scale and pen in
case, for excelling in fieldworks ; Mr. W. Moles-
worth, 1 year and nine months, for chemistry, a
microscope ; and the same to Mr. Willans and Mr.
Livesay, 1 year and 3 months, for geology and phi-
losophy; to Mr. Hemans, 1 year and 3 months, a
double telescope, for mathematics ; to Mr. F. Fire-
brace, 1 year and 9 months, a double telescope for
mathematics ; and the same to Mr. Beauchamp, 3
months, for mathematics ; a double telescope to Mr.
Bradley, 1 year and 3 months, for fortification ; to
Mr. M'Cullah, 1 year and 9 months, an aneroid
barometer, for fortification; to Mr. Bradley, 1 year
and 3 months, for practical geometry, a prismatic
compass ; to Mr. Brooke, 1 year and 3 months, also
a prismatic compass, for practical geometry ; to Mr,
Begbie, 1 year and 3 months,
.Racine, for French ;
to Mr. Clayton, Schiller's Sammtliche Werke, for
German ; to Mr. Loraine, 1 year and 3 months, for
plan drawing, an aneroid barometer ; to Mr. Wynne,
9 months, for landscape drawing, a double tele-
scope; to Mr. Burke, 9 months, a pocket compass
with scale and pen in case, for landscape drawing ;
and to Mr. Lawrie, 1 year and 9 months, for car-
bine practice, a double telescope.
The Royal and Indian Engineers have completed
the construction of three batteries on their field-
works attached to the Royal Engineer Establish-
ment at Chatham, each mounting four guns. The
batteries aro formed on the plan recommended by
the late General Sir C. Pasley, R.E., and consist of
an elevated, sunken, and half-sunken battery,
parallel with each other. The sides and angles of
the elevated battery are reveted with sandbags, and
the other batteries with gabions and fascines. The
Engineers have also commenced the construction of
a two-gun earth battery, at a short distance from
those already formed. Several hundreds of the
Royal and Indian Engineers are daily employed in
sapping and mining on the field works, and in the
construction of flying and other bridges of various
descriptions across St. Mary's-creek, and also in
pontooning. Under the new regulations recently
sanctioned by the Duke of Cambridge several of
the most experienced and intelligent of the non-
commissioned officers of the Royal Engineers have
been raised to the rank of assistant field work in-
structors, and also assistant instructors, under the
various officers at the head of the several depart-
ments at the Chatham Engineer establishment.
Capt. A. H. Hutchinson, of the Indian Artillery;
Lieut. J. A. Kelso, Royal Artillery ; 10 non-com-
missioned officers and bombardiers, and 88 men of
the Depot Brigade stationed at Sheerness, will pro-
ceed this morning to Shoeburyness, there to undergo
a thorough course of instruction in working and
managing the various descriptions of Armstrong
guns.
The present strength of the division stationed in
the camp at Aldershot is 16,300.

THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTII STAF-
FORD RAILWAY.—The inquiry into the cause of death of
John Smith (driver), John Pains (fireman), and Robert
Gardener (guard), who were killed on the Burton and Tut-
bury branch of the North Stafford Railway on Friday even-
ing last (as detailed in Monday's Sun), was commenced on
Monday morning at the Castle Inn, Tutbury, before Mr.
Coroner Sale. It was ultimately adjourned until Saturday,
in order that the Secretary of State might be communicated
with in reference to a Government inspector having an
opportunity of investigating the matter,