The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-30 00:00:00

rode forward, attended by the whole of the staff on
the ground, into the hollow square which had been
formed to receive him, when—
His ROYAL HIGHNESS said,—Lord C lville and
G4,.ntlemcn of the Hon. Artillery Company, it has
afforded me very sincere gratificat on to have been
present at this inspection. It is, perhaps, the first
time I have had the opportunity of seeing you alone
although at .the volunteer field-day last month I
was very much gratified with the manner in which
your regiment marched past, as well as with your
other branches. Allow me, also, to congratulate
you, Lord Colville, on the high state of efficiency of
all. the branches of this regiment. You have this
day received a new set of colours from the Princess
of Wales, who I need not assure you takes a deep
interest in your regiment, as well as did one who is
now no more, my father, who so long commanded
your regiment.

His Royal Highness afterwards inspected the
general arrangements of the home of the regiment.
The Princess did not accompany him, and the in-
terval was filled up by some excellent music, per.
formed by the band of the regiment--a conspicuous
melody being " God bless the Prinee of Wales."
At length his Royal Highness entered the carriage.
s,
The Royal cortege departed amid loud cheer
above which rose repeated and hearty cries of
"Denmark, Denmark," The Princess, who wore a
dress of black and white, looked pale; but her
smile end expressive countenance exercised its old
magic on all who had the happiness to be near her.

The Aldershot Camp Industrial Exhibition.

An exhibition, to which a very peculiar interest is at•
tached, was yesterday opened at the Club-house, Aldershot.
The soldiers and officers in camp, forgetting the sterner
glories of war, have sought to utilise their many hitherto
unoccupied hours, and to relieve the dreary monotony of
camp life, by engaging in the production of numerous works
connected with the peaceful and industrial arts. Col. Pon-
sonby of the 12th, desirous of encouraging among the men
under his care a taste for useful, interesting, and intellec-
tual amusement, aided them by all the means in his power
in carrying out the idea of an industrial exhibition. It took
place a short time since in Dublin, and was a great success.
The example thus set has been followed at Aldershot upon
a larger and More important scale. The exhibition consists
of two great classes of articles; the first includes all those
which have been invented or made by officers, non-commis-
sioned officers, and men now quartered at Aldershot. or by
their wives and children ; the second, which may be taken
to represent the foreign countries and British colonies in
this collection, includes articles collected by officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men quartered at Aldershot, or
by their wives and children, during the course of their ser-
vice in various parts cf the world; No stronger evidence
can well be afforded of the care and attention bestowed
upon our army than is given by this curious and interesting
exhibition. The hours of idleness of camp life have been
greatly reduced by the preparations necessary for this dis-
play, and a spirit of competition and emulation has been
created among the men which has exercised a most salutary
influence upon the discipline and conduct of the division
at Aldershot. The most of the time which would have
been unprofitably spent at the canteens has been occupied
in preparing the articles now on view, in reading works
which will afford them suggestions or directions for their
production or manufacture; in learning what others
have done in the same branches of peaceful industry, and
no small proportion of pay has been diverted from the old
quarters to the carrying out of this novel idea. Just in pro-
portion to the time and money which they have bestowed
upon these works, has been the improvement in discipline,
and, if they have thus been made better men, there is little
room to doubt that they will be better soldiers. The most
superficial glance at the exhibition will be sufficient to show
how much of skill, and taste, and ingenuity—how much of
the useful fcrm of invention there must be in the British
army if opportunities were only afforded for their display
and exercise. For many years it has been the custom to
reproach the British soldier with being the most helpless
animal in existence—that he can neither house, nor clothe,
nor warm, nor feed himself, when he leaves the routine of
camp or barrack life. The exhibition at Aldershot must go
far to prove the injustice of this reproach, and to show that,
in the workshop as in the field, the British soldier is fully
equal to other armies which it is the peculiar delight of Eng-
lishmen to praise at the expense of their own military forces.
The exhibition has been carried out under the direction
of a committee consisting of the officers commanding such
regiments, corps, and departments as were willing to take
part in the work—Lieut.-General Sir John Pennefather,
K.C.8., acting as president, and the general officers com-
manding brigades being the vice-presidents. Lieut.-Col.
Clifford (assistant quartermaster-general), and Lieut. Col.
Lennox (deputy assistant quartermaster-general), and
Major Hammersley (director of gymnastics), have acted as
secretaries; and Capt. Maclean (brigade-major of the Ist
Brigade) and Captain Lockhart are the treasurers.

It was expected the exhibition would have been opened
by the Duke of Cambridge, Commander in Chief, bait a
pressure of other engagements prevented the attendance of
his Royal Highness. A large number of ladies and officers
in full uniform had assembled in the open space in front of
the club house to receive his Royal Highness, and when
at length it was finally known that the Duke of Cambridge
would not be present, General Pennefather, commanding
Aldershot division, proceeded to the ceremony of opening
the exhibition. The gallant general was accompanied by
Lieut.-Colonel Paget Bayly, Capt. Yogle, Lieut. Doherty,
3d Hussars—Colonel J. W. Armstrong, C. 8., assistant-
adjutant-general—Capt. W. E. Lockhart—Brevet Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. H. H. Clifford—Capt. P. A. A. Twynam,
15ih Foot—Lieut.-Colonel W. Lennox, Royal Engineers
—Major-Gen, E. C. Hodge—Capt. J. Fife, 10th Hussars
—Major Turnbull, Royal Dragoon—Lieut.-Colonel Chas.
Sawyer, Col. Robert Wardlow, Lieut.-Colonel Some G.
Jenyns, Lieut.. Colonel Thompson, and a number of the re-
gimental officers in camp.
General Pennefather, in opening the proceedinge,l ex-
pressed his regret at the absence of his Royal Highness the
Commander-in-Chief. He need not say that that illus-
trious prince, who upon all occasions took such an interest
in the proceedings of the army, and who evinced such an
anxiety in the discipline and honour of the service, would
have been most gratified to have been present—bur, unfor-
tunately, he was prevented by pressure of public business
from being there, as he fully intended to be, The object of
this exhibition was to encourage and foster in the soldiers,
in their wives and families, a taste for the practice of the
useful arts and sciences—and he hoped that the company
would be satisfied with this their first attempt in that direc.
tion. For his own part, he ventured to think that the pre-
sent exhibition would prove a most creditable one. The sol-
diers had exhibited various articles of their own invention
and manufacture, and the officers had co-operated with them
by exhibiting a number of things which had fallen into their
hands in periods of warfare in different parts of the world.
Many of the articles which were made by the soldiers and
their wives and families would be sold for their benefit, after
deducting the necessary expenses of the exhibition, and some
of the articles exhibited by the officers and their families
would also be sold and the proceeds devoted to charitable pur-
poses. They ware indebted to Col.A. Ponsonby for the notion
of starting the soldiers' exhibition, the gallant colonel hav-
ing originated one in Dublin, which had been carried out
with great success, and also to Col. Lowe, for the very active
'Part which he had taken in the promotion of the present
°as. There was one point upon which he could not but ex-
press nis
gratification—namely, that however great might
be the tt,Ary between the various regiments, they had all
combined ha making the exhibition attractive as a whole,
and he might
say generally that everybody seemed to for-
get himself in lits desire that this exhibition should prove a
success. (Cheers) All that he had now to do was to declare
the exhibition open. (Cheers.) At the conclusion of the
general's speech the hands played " God save the Queen,"
and a royal salute was firel by the A Battery, 4th Brigade.
The doors of the club house were then opened, and in a
few minutes every portiere of the building was filled with
visitors. The interior was arranged in a most agreeable
manner. Each regiment or earns exhibiting had its own
portion of wall and ground apace allotted to it, and the
arrangement of each portion was lett to the taste of its re-
presentatives, and thus a degree of etatilation was excited
which had a beneficial effect upon the undertaking. Such
of the articles as were intended for sale were marked with
the prices, and those which were to be sold for the benefit of
any particular charity had that fact clearly Stated on the
tickets attached to them. The articles exhibited were ar-
ranged in six classes :--1. Painting, drawing, and photo-
graphy-2. Carving, cabinetmaking, and carpenters' work
—3. Military engineering instruments, accoutrements, and
equipment-4. Armourers' and smiths' work-5. Leather
. _

work-6. Needlework and clothwork. Other portions of the
club were sat apart for an exhibition of articles collected
by officers and men in the various countries in which they
had been stationed, or in which they had been actively
employed. The regiments and battalions exhibiting were
the 6th Carbineers, Ist Royal Dragoong, 2d Scots Gre2. 8,
13th and 14th Hussars, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers,
2d and 3d Battalions Military Train, and the Ist, 6th, Ist
Battalion of 24th, 37th, 59th, 2d Battalion of 60th, 73d and
87th Infantry.

The divisional staff made a very attractive display, the
principal exhibitor being Colonel Clifford, who sent a large
number of water-colour drawings and sketches, including
a number taken in the Crimea, and some carefully made
copies of sketches of costumes at Constantinople, the ori-
ginals being in the possession of General Pennefather.
Captain T wynam showed an interesting sketch of the
battle of Rivoli, from an uncoloured French plan, and Mrs
Twynam exhibited a copy from an oil painting, by Mignot,
of "Autumn on the Susquehanna," in which the varied
tints of the rich autumnal foliage of America were very
effectively depicted. Colonel Clifford also showed a large
collection of bread-plates and other works in wood carving,
designed and executed by himself. The 6th Dragoon Guards
(Carbineers) have a number of excellent maps drawn and
coloured by privates in that regiment. Sergeant-Major
Linden showed a very ingeniously constructed horse shoe, to