The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-22 00:00:00

columns. The second line consisted of two bat.

teries 2d Division Wpot, commanded by Colonel
Smyth, C. 8., and Col. Middleton, C. 8., and one 40
pounder battery, and all appeared in admirable
condition. The infantry were commanded in chief
by Cal. Master, C. 8., sth Fusiliers. Precisely at the
appointed hour, namely, 11 o'clock, a couple of her
Majesty's carriages, drawn by four gray horses
each, entered the garrison, containing the Prince
and suite, which was announced by firing a royal

salute, in command of Capt. Gilmore. His roya
highness was received on the Royal Artillery pa
rade by the General and Staff, and having mounted
he was escorted to the review ground, where the
whole of the troops presented arms, and the
amalgamated bands of music played the national
air. The Prince, who is only twenty years of
age, was dressed in the uniform of a General of the
Staff. He appeared much interested in the various
field movements, and made frequent remarks to
Gen. Warde, expressing his admiration of the high
state of discipline which appeared to regulate the
proceedings, especially when the batteries, after
trotting past, changed face and returned at full
gallop without interrupting the regularity and pre-
cision of their lines. During the sham figtt the
infantry retired to the rear, and the brunt of the
battle was sustained principally by the field batte-
ries, in which they expended 30 rounds of blank
ammunition per gun, the 40 pounders 15, and the
infantry 15 rounds per man. The Military Train
were in attendance with their ambulance waggons;
but, notwithstanding the slippery condition of the
ground after the heavy rainfall during the peat few
days, their services were not called into requisition,
as no accident of any importance occurred through-
out the morning. At 12 u'tlock the whole of the
troops advanced in front, and, having performed a
general salute, they broke off and retired to quar-
ters. The Prince, acoompanied by his suite and the
garrison authorities, then proceeded to a hasty in-
spection of the Royal Military Academy, and after-
wards honoured the General and officers of the
Royal Artillery mess at luncheon. General Shaheen
Pasha, Ali Bey, Selim Effendi, and three other
Egyptian officers of distinction, on a short visit to
this country, and who were present, accompanied
by Mr.L4.rking, were also invited by Gen. Warde
to j fin the mess table. They were met on parade
by a guard of honour of 100 men, in command of
Capt. Law, 13th Brigade Royal Artillery, and the
Royal Artillery band, who played a selection of
operatic airs during the repast. At 2 o'clock the
entire party proceeded to the Arsenal, where his
Royal Highness was received by the heads of depart-
ments then on duty—namely, Capt. Fraser, It A.,
Assistant Superintendent of the Laboratory ; Capt.
Magendie,C iptain Instructor ; Lt.-Col. Shaw, Royal
Carriage Department; Captain Gordon, Military
Stores ; and Lieut.-Col. Campbell, Royal Gun Fac-
tories, in full uniform, according to instructions
received from the War Department to that effect.
The inspection of the Royal Arsenal occupied nearly
three hours, after which the Prince and suite re-
turned to London.
Capt. Edward Codd is to have the good-service
pension placed at the disposal of the First Lord of
the Admiralty by the promotion of Capt. Frederick
H. H. Glasse, C. 8., to flag rank.
James C. Spence, engineer student of the Ports-
mouth Dockyard Steam Factory, has been appointed
by the Lords of the Admiralty a student at the
Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering at South Kensington.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. J. F. B. -Wainwright to
the Terror, vice Capt. Glasse, promoted to be Rear-
Admiral—Capt. Lord Fredk. H. Kerr to the Black
Prince, vice Capt. Wainwright-- Charles Edward
Pyne,nominatedto a naval cadetship—John Stanley,
in the Pandora, promoted to acting engineer—Geo.
Thomson and Robert H. Cooper, in the Cumberland,
promoted to first-class assist-engineers—William
C. Graham, second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Brisk—Fred. J. Baron, acting second-class assist.-
engineer, to the Cumberland—Reginald J. Meek,
clerk, to the .Euryalus—Alfred Smith, clerk, to the
Cambridge—Reginald C. Hodder, assist.-clerk, to
the St. Vincent—Henry R. Lloyd, assist.-clerk, to
the Achilles—Samuel J. Davis, aseisteclerk, to the
Formidable—Henry Dawson, assist-clerk, to the
Hrwke—and Henry H. Rickard, assist.-clerk, to the
Donegal.

PIIOTO-SCULPTURE,--The sitter to the photo,
sculptor is placed exactly in the centre of a circular
chamber surmounted by a glass dome, posed upon a cir-
cular platform marked round its circumference with 24
equal divisions. Around the wall of the chamber are
ranged 24 pho ographic cameras, each pointing to the
sitter, and each corresponding to one of the numbers of the
divisions on the circular platform. These cameras, duly
furnished with photographic plates, are all uncovered at
the same instant, and 24 pictures of the sitter are taken,
representing his contour as seen from each of the positions
occupied by the cameras. The plates being removed from
the cameras, and developed and fixed in the usual manner,
the photographic department of the process is finished, and
the sitter's attendance is no more requir,d.—Once a Week.

COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.--A few counterfeit
sovereigns of a rather dangerous character have
within the last week been detected at the Bank counters.
They are made of gold, but of an inferior quality, being 2
carats 11 grains worse than standard gold, of which the
genuine sovereigns are made ; that is to say, instead of
having 9,167 parts of pure gold in 10,000 they have only
8,133 parts,which makes them only worth about 17s. The
coins are new, but seem to have been purposely soiled to
give them the appearance of having been worn in circula-
tion. They have more of the greenish-yellow colour of
pure gold than the genuine sovereigns, with the exception
of the old George and Dragon pieces. All of them are struck
from one pair of dies. One of these dies, the reverse, is
cracked in two places, and the coins have been touched up
by a hand-tool after striking in the press; and the eff,ct of
the crack, which runs d agonally upwards through the
Scottish quarter of the shield, and through the E of the
" Regina," is in this way, from some of them, partly re-
moved, although sufficient remains for the purpose of de-
tection. In the Irish quarter the harp is elmost erased by
this after•manipulation, and the consequent smoothness
and want of definition strike the eye at once. The quality
of the engraving is coarse, and does not appear to be the
work of a person accustomed to engrave coin dies. The
lettering particularly is roughly executed by an unpractised
hand ; yet, after all, the imitation is sufficiently close to
deceive on a casual inspection. The sound, which is dull
and wants the sharp clink of the true sovereign, is one of
the best means of detection to those accustomed to the ring
of the genuine metal. It is not apprehended that there
are many in circulation, and, indeed, the whole facts point
to operations on a limited scale,
LONG SENTENCE.—Gardiner, the New South

Wales bushranger, has been sentenced, under three several
convicticns, and as the sentences are to take effect in suc-
cession he is couclewned to peual eervitulo for 32 years.