The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-09 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The Enrolled Pensioners for the Cardiff district have
been mustered, under the command of Captain Wiley.
The company numbers 70 well•trained men.

The Royal Glamorganshire Militia have I;eeti inspected
by their Colonel (Kemeys Tynte, M.P.). This body is
but a skeleton of its former strength, in consequence of
the numerous draughts of volunteers which have gone
over to the various regiments of the line ; but recruit-
ing is as active as ever, and many are enrolled.
The Government have given up their intention of
erecting permanent- militia barracks at Hereford, and
intend only putting up wooden huts for a small com-
pany of men. These huts will be erected upon land pur-
chased for the erection of militia storerooms, the cost of
the land and the storehouses being estimated at 3,0001.
Wooden huts for the accommodation of 60 men are also
to be erected at Haverfordwest.

The Armagh Militia arrived in Cork on Tuesday from
the Curragb, and are to embark on board her Majesty's
screw steam-ship Perseverance, Captain Harris, for con-
veyance to Plymouth.
Upwards of 60 young men were enlisted at the Dub-
lin head office of police, between the 2d and 6th inst.,
for the Mayo South Rifles.

NATAL CADETS:

The following letter has been addressed to a contem•
porary :

Sir,—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have
issued the following notice :

"Candidates for naval cadetships may present them-
selves at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, on the
26th of January, 1856. They must produce certificate
of birth, showing that they are above 14 and under 15
years of age, and will be examined as follows :
" 1. Writing from dictation.
"2. Arithmetic, including vulgais and decimal frac-
tions.

"3. First bok of Euclid.
" 4. Algebra, including simple equation!... _
principal 1
" 5. General knowledge of geography, 01 the 1
countries, rivers, cities, &o.
or some other modern language.
be laced for ODO or
"The accepted candidates will I ,ships, previous
two months in one of the harbousr_gp.r
to being appointed to a seagoing hi
of the day, Sir Charles
" 6. ,Acompetent acquaintance with Lai.,
In accordance with the fashion of
an
" experiment,"
Wood is about to try what
for
the
navy whose attain.
to obtain young gentlemen
ore than those of the most
manta shall be something more
powers, if the navy be,
neglected schoolboy, and a
profession, mad
be above par.
in truth, a popular
thB results of this experiment may
Let us hope that
0 proceed further—to insure to the
induce its
author
commandersr ofour ships such a steady and unin-
terrupted of instruction, both in theory and
terrupted courseoalone
give a hope of th •
or French,
theirfuture pro-
practice, as can
ficiency.
always
been held by those who are said to be
It has a
"of the old school" that a practical knowledge of a
sailor's duties can only be obtained by a long experience
of the thousand and one accidents or casualties of a sea
voyage- Doubtless this is so. Nay, more, it will be
acknowledged by every seaman that he learns something
fresh every time that he is at sea, so various are the
positions in which he is placed.
But it is not less true that, from the uncertain nature
of the duties of a man-of-war (so different from those of
a merchant ship, which makes regular voyages at stated
intervals), a young officer frequently arrives at his term
of preliminary service without having witnessed the
common evolutions practised at sea sufficiently often t!
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enable him to perfoam them, still less to judge the 0
merit when they become necessary.
At the same time, from the vicious system of intrust-