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2HE AWARD OF THE JURIES AND 7HE

GREAT EX.HIBMON.

The following correspondence has been forwarded
o us for publication :
" Crystal Palace, Sydesham, Dec, 18.

"Sir,—The attention of the Directors of this company
has been called to your letter, which appears in the news-
papers of this morning, in which you announce that the
Royal commissioners for the International Exhibition are
compelled, with much regret, to decline the gracious offer
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to preside at the
ceremonial of distributing the prizes to the successful ex-
hibitors, because the Exhibition Building cannot be lighted
and warmed.

"I am directed most respectfully to point out to you that
in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham these two important re-
quirements are fully supplied. The building can be warmed
to any degree necessary and is briliantly lighted. In the
centre transept and its immediate vicinity from 20,000 to
30,000 persons can be seated with comfort, in full view, and
a very large portion within hearing, of the proceedings on
the great orchestra.

"You are of course aware that there is a line of railway
from both the city and the west end, and as the approaches
from the station to the Palace are all under glass, the visi-
tors are protected from the weather from the moment they
take their places in the train at the terminus until they
arrive in the centre transept.

"The general manager of the company has already, in
his communication of the 2d of May, with reference to the
distribution of the awards of the juries, pointed out to the
Commissioners how well suited the Crystal Palace is for an
occasion such as the one in question.
"Of this communication I enclose a copy, and would
point out that the arguments therein urged are now in-
creased in force by the circumstances which have given rise
to your letter.

"In addition to the considerations before referred to, I
am directed to submit that as the ceremony cannot be held
in the International Building there appears a peculiar ap-
propriateness in its taking place in the Crystal Palace.
" The building is in many respects identical with that in
which the success of the Great Exhibition of 1851 was
achieved.

" It has been repeatedly honoured by the presence and by
the gracious interest of her Majesty the Queen and the late
illustrious father of the Prince of Wales. It is, although
the property of a public company, generally regarded as a
national institution, and it has frequently been proved to be
admirably adapted to ceremonials of a national character.
In support of this, I need only refer to the inauguration of
the Scutari Monument by her Majesty and the Prince Con-
sort in 1856, and the distribution of the prizes of the Na-
tional Rifle Association by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge in the present year. On the latter occasion,
you will remember that the Prime Minister attended and
made a speech, which was received with enthusiasm by an
audience of 20,000 persons.
" On these grounds the directors hasten to place their
building at the disposal of the Commissioners, in the hope
that they may thereby be relieved from a serious difficulty
and enabled to carry out the promised ceremonial, without
which the Exhibition of 1862 will lack its intended and ap-
propriate conclusion.—l have the honour to be, sir, your
obedient servant,

" GEORGE GROVE, Secretary.

" P.S. I have been directed to send a copy of this com-
munication to the newspapers in whichyour letter appeared
this morning."

" Crystal Palace, Sydenham, May 2.

" Dear, Sir,—Having noticed the announcement of her
Majesty's Commissioners that it is intended to publish the
awards of the jurors at an early date, my attention has, not
unnaturally, been directed to the possibility of the Commis-
sioners effecting their wish on an adequate scale in the Ex •
hibition building itself, during the progress of the Exhibi-
tion. . .. .

" Looking to the vast numbers of persons whom it is
most essential to interest in such a solemnity, all of whom
will be anxious to be within sight and hearing of the pro-
ceedings, it is no disparagement to the International Build-
ing to say that it cannot be held there.
"If it was difficult yesterday to make due provision for a
large assemblage, that difficulty must be greatly increased
as the Exhibition progresses, and every available spot of
ground becomes occupied with additional objects of interest.
"At Paris, as you are aware, the jury results were pro-
claimed and the medals distributed after the Exposition ter-
minated. With some trifling exceptions that was certainly
the finest great public display I ever witnessed. It was only
accomplished, however, by sweeping out the contents of the
main building and re-arranging a few of them as trophies
and as part of a special display. This cannot be done during
the progress of the Exhibition.
"Knowing a good deal of the feeling of the exhibitors
generally, it may, I think, be fairly said that the Commis-
sioners' plan for announcing the awards at a comparatively
early date is a great improvement on the 1851 arrangement.
It is also of equal importance that some ceremonial, the more
public the better, should accompany the publication of the
awards.

"As this, it is evident, cannot be held in the Exhibition
Building, I beg leave to suggest to you the desirability of
holding it here.

"I know well that at first sight this suggestion may meet
with an expression of discouragement from a not unnatural
disinclination to have such a solemnity away from the Ex-
hibition itself. I think, however, such advantages present
themselves for carrying out such an undertaking here with
the greatest possible convenience and eclat, coupled with
economy and even good pecuniary results to the Commis-
sion, that I do not hesitate to ask you to afford me an op-
portunity for entering into full explanations on the subject.
"My views of the number of persons who should be in-
terested in a great public display of this character are large,
very large.

" As, however, at the end of June,we shall be prepared to
seat comfortably some 30,000 people in our Great Transept,
all in view, and I fully believe all in hearing, I am tho-
roughly certain that advantages may be. offered here quite
unattainable elsewhere, and all that can be desired may be
successfully accomplished.

"I will only add that I named to Mr. Farquhar, the
chairman of the company, the purport of this letter, and he
permits me to say that he will be very happy to aid me in
any way in hie power to render the Crystal Palace avail-

" The objection to holding the ceremony at South Ken-
sington was not the impossibility of lighting and warming
the Exhibition building, but the difficulty and inexpedi-
ency of attempting to do so in the limited time at the dis-
posal of the Commissioners,—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, " F. R. SANDFORD, Secretary.
" G. Grove, Esq., Crystal Palace, Sydenham."

ROYAL MILI2ARY ACADEMY.

-EXAMINATION BY TH g DUKE OF' CAMBRIDGE.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Field-
Marshal Commanding in Chief, attended by his Aide-de-
Camp, Lieutenant-Colonel H. T. Clifton, General Sir John
F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., Inspector-General of Fortifications,
Lieutenant • General Sir Harry D. Jones, G.C.8., Governor,
and Colonel C. R. Scott, Lieutenant-Governor of the Staff
College, Sandhurst, Major-General Bloomfield, C. 8., Inspec-
tor- General, and Col. Bingham, Deputy-Adjutant• General
of Artillery, arrived at Woolwich at eleven o'clock yester-
day morning, for the purpose of conducting the half-yearly
examination of cadets at the Royal Military Academy, and
to award numerous numerous commissions and prizes.
His Royal Highness and staff were received with a salute
from a battery of artillery, and immediately proceeded
across the common to the academy, the whole of the cadets
having previously assembled in review order on the lawn
fronting the building.

His Royal Highness and staff, accompanied by Major-
General Sir R. J. Dacres, K.C.8., commandant; Major-
Gen. Sandham, R.E. ; Brigade Major Milward, and other
officers, having carefully inspected the ranks front and rear,
the cadets marched past in companies, and subsequently
went through a complete course of manual and platoon ex-
ercise, under the direction of Col. Yorke, R.E and Major
H. T. Fitz Hugh, R,A., the evolutions being performed
with the utmost precision. The several classes, numbering
about 280 cadets, then marched to the recently-erected
gymnasium, where the distribution of prizes, &c., had been
arranged to take place, in the-presence of a large company,
the majority of whom were military officers and ladies. His
Royal Highness and staff took up a position at a table on
which the valuable prizes wereexhibited ; and Major-Gen.
Hamilton, Vice-President of the Council of Military Edu-
cation, commenced the proceeding by reading a report from
the Council, to the effect that the examination of the several
classes of cadets, in 'various branches of military science and
art, was verysatisfactory, and reflected credit upon the cadets
and the professors and masters of the institution. Amongst
the examiners Captain Stodhart, R.E., reported that great
progress had been made by the first class in field works and
the construction of military bridges ; and Professor Abel ex-
pressed his entire satisfaction with the advancement made in
chemistry. The second and third classes had evinced much
proficiency in mathematics, German, and French. Consi-
dering the limited period that Hindustani had been taught
at the establishment the progress made was very encourag-
ing. The council recommended that all the cadets of the
first class, 48 in number, having fully proved their qualifi-
cation, should require commissions--20 in the Royal Artil-
lery, 20 in the Royal Engineers, immediate, and the re-
maining eight to be appointed as vacancies occur.
_ _

Col. Yorke then read the following report from Major-
General Sandham, Lieut.-Governor of the academy :
" I have the satisfaction to report to your Royal High-
ness that the gentlemen cadets of the first class are all quali-
fied for commissions by their proficience in military exer-
cises and general conduct.
"The periodical oaarainatioll of the junior classes has on
the whole been satisfactory, and, with few exceptions, the
classes have shown unusual diligence and emulatitn.
"The examination of the third class has been conducted
according to your Royal Highness's sanction to the recom-
mendation of the Council of Military Education,which had
in view that the practical studies of surveying and artillery
should be carried out more fully by the cadets on their pro-
motion to the second class.

" In order to meet the report made by the examining ma-
thematical master at the end of the last term, as to the
general deficiency of cadets on first joining the Royal Mi-
litary Academy in the more elementary brunches of mathe-
matics, a lengthened test of the proficiency of each cadet on
joining has been exacted, with every promise of advantage
to the study of the higher branches of mathematics.
"Opportunities have been afforded to most of the cadets
to sketch from nature. The landscape and topographical
drawings exhibited will show that these studies have pro-
greased satisfactorily.

" Fair progress has been made in French, German, and
Hindustani.

"The responsible and sub-divisional under officers and
corporals have exercised their authority and maintained the
discipline of their respective divisions under their officers in
a highly slditable manner, and the conduct of the corn-
pany gene A ally has been very good."
His Royal Highness then proceeded to distribute the fol-
lowing prizes :—For exemplary conduct at the institution,
Mr. Ross, a regimental sword, and Mr. Rowe, the Pollock
gold medal, with the inscription, "Founded by the inhabi-
tants of Calcutta to commemorate the eminent services of
Major-Gen. Sir George Pollock, K.C.8., and awarded to
the most distinguished cadet of the season—Cabul, 1842."
Mr. Rowe received three additional prizes, consisting of tele-
scopes and microscope, for surveying, field works and bridges,
and natural philosophy. Mr. 0 mmanney two prizes, a double
telescope for plan drawing, and a prismatic compass for
landscape drawing. Mr. South, a double telescope for for-
fic,ations. M r. Richardson, a case of instruments for mathe-
matics. Mr. Mascall two prizes, an aneroid barometer for
practical geometry, and a pocket sextant for mathematics.
Mr. Bucknill, a pocket compass for geometry. Mr. East, an
aneroid barometer for landscape drawing. Mr. Lee, a double
telescope for mathematics. Mr. Fawkes, a microscope for
chemistry. Mr. Reynolds, a telescope for practical mecha-
nics. Mr. English, a microscope for geology. Mr. Knocker,
a case of mathematical instruments for mathematics. Mr.
Elsdale, a prismatic compass for mathematics. Mr. Emp-
son, two prizes, consisting of valuable books, from French
and German. Mr. Price, valuable books, for Hindustani.
The cadets to whom commissions were awarded in the
Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers were then severally
called forward and the number of marks gained by each in
the various branches of science read over.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS then proceeded to address the
cadets in the following terms :—He observed that on the
last occasion of his meeting the cadets at that institution
he had felt it his duty to tell them plainly that he was not
satisfied with their conduct, but he was now highly grati-
fied to find that a great improvement had taken place—that
they had been attentive to their studies, and had not evinced
any spirit of insubordination. He hoped they had seen the
error of their ways ; and, for his part, he should be happy
to forget all that had formerly taken place of an unpleasant
nature. He had introduced a new system with regard to
various details of the institution, and he was glad to find
that the new rules worked well under the able direction of
the Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Sandham. With
regard to their proficiency in the various branches of study
and their general good conduct he was perfectly satisfied,
not•only from the reports he had received but with what he
had himself witnessed on that day. He could assure them
that he had no wish to be severe, and if they had ever con-
sidered that any severity was exercised towards them by the
military authorities, they must bear in mind that they had
rendered it necessary by their conduct. It was his duty to
maintain discipline, and he was determined on all occasions
to do so. They had chosen to enterupognootdheor ndleilri,tabruyt pro-
fession,and they must bear in mind that a great distinction
existed between an ordinary and a military college. In the
former
ycacsoelleitgwe todasisrceipqluiniseitaend subordination to the authori-
ties was the great essential. Science was, in the present day
preserve
especially, requisite in the army ; but he would even put dis-
cipline before science. If they were unable to govern them-
selves, it was his duty to tell them that they were not fit to
govern others ; and they would be worse than useless as offi-
cers. He would not further allude to this subject, but coun-
ritaer r
sel them, as they valued their future prospects as officers
in her Majesty's service, to have the utmost respect for strict
discipline, to acquire a practical as well as a theoretical
knowledge of the duties of their profession, and thus render
themselves fit to command in those distinguished scientific
corps, the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.
The address of his Royal Higim€BB
was listened to with
the utmost attention, and at its conclusion the cadets pre-
sented arms and marched from the room.
His Royal Highness and Staff subsequently went to the
reading room, and conducted a viva Voce examination of the
first and second classes of cadets in artillery fortification,
French and German; At the termination of this ezamina•

Paris, Dec. 4, 1862.
The affairs 'of Greece have occupied the attention of
Europe for some little time. They have more particularly
interested the three Powers who guaranteed Hellenic inde-
pendence, and they have led to continuous communications
between those Powers, the result of which, we trust, will
be complete unanimity of opinion. I propose to give you
a short analysis of the views that have been exchanged, in
order to enable you to inform the Cabinet to which you are
accredited of the considerations by which we have been in-
fluenced. I undertake this task with all the more confi-
dence, because the Emperor's Government is convinced that
it has followed the course most in accordance with its en-
gagements and its principles.
In Greece we have no interests differing from those of the
other two Courts. Without waiting for you to be urged by
any overtures, our first care was to request the Emperor's
Minister at Athens to concert with the representatives of
England and Russia such measures as were deemed ne-
cessary.
The rivalries wrap-times seen in former: days- had-ceased

for some years. Nothing had recently happened to disturb
this good understanding, and we were justified in hoping
that the dangers it was necessary to provide against in the
present crisis would be easily averted.

These dangers were of two kinds : they might arise oat of
the aspirations of Greece yielding to its ideas of aggression
against Turkey; or they might result from the election of
tho new sovereign, if it was of a nature to disturb the equi-
librium of the influences upon which the present state of
things in the East is based.

It was necessary in the first place to appeal to the intelli-
gence of the Greeks, and to dissuade them from everything
likely to arouse the susceptibilities of the Porte, or cause it
uneasiness. The cabinets of London and St. Petersburg were
agreed upon this point. Animated, ourselves, by that soli-
citude for Greece which during forty years has inspired
France with so many generous resolutions, we immediately
recommended the Provisional Government to employ all its
influence in calming the national sentiment. We did not con-
ceal from it that our interest would only be secured in pro-
portion to efforts in favour of the maintenance of order and
of peace. Our counsels had no other object than that of
strengthening it in the sentiment of scrupulous respect for
the acts which have determined its relations with Turkey,
and placed Hellenic independence under the guarantee of
European law.
The Emperor's government has regarded from the same
point of view the questions connected with the choice of a
sovereign for Greece.

We had wished if possible to carry out the arrangements
of 1832 in all their integrity, by maintaining the crown in
the dynasty to which it was then confined. Public feeling
in Greece did not, however, permit us to hope for a return
of opinion in favour of King Otho, whose misfortunes we
could only deplore, and we soon felt convinced that any at-
tempt to lead the suffrages of Greece towards a Prince of
his dynasty would undoubtedly be a failure. This opinion
was alike shared by the English Cabinet and the Russian
Government. While showing themselves disposed at first
to recognise the candidature of a Bavarian Prince, none of
the three Powers thought that it should be forced upon
Greece. She was then about to seek a Sovereign in another
Royal family.

The protecting Powers thus again found themselves
placed in the position they occupied before inviting King
Otho to the Hellenic throne. Obeying a sentiment dictated
by a just appreciation of general interests, they had bound
themselves in 1827 by express stipulations not to seek any
private political or commercial advantage, and applying
this principle in their selection of the sovereign for Greece,
they signed on the 3d of February, 1830, a protocol which
excluded all candidature on the part of a prince of their
dynasties. They had named at first Prince Leopold of
Saxe-Coburg, now King of the Belgians, but only after
having decided that he no longer belonged to the Royal
family of England.

In one sense we admit that circumstances are no longer
absolutely identical. The throe Powell!) were empowered
by a formal delegation of Greece to dispose of the crown,
Now the Greeks make direct use of their sovereign power,
and France, England, and Russia may have decided upon
exclusions to which they are reciprocally bound without
being justified, perhaps, in compelling the Greeks at this
moment to adopt their views. But, without pretending
that this restrictive clause of the protocol of the 3d Feb.,
1830, is rigorously applicable to the present state of things,
I think I am not mistaken in saying that the spirit of this
stipulation still exists, and that it is permanent, like the in-
terests which dictated it. Its object was to hinder Greece
from finding itself some day under the exclusive influence of
one of the three courts, because that court would then be-
come dominant in this respect, and would soon be so also
throughout the East, the destiny of which would thence-
forth be in its hands.

Guided by these considerations, we have judged the elec-
tion of a new sovereign and the various candidates men -
tioned.

We have had no difficulty in seeing that the Greeks wore
intent above all in obtaining a king from some power suffi-
ciently strong to afford them support, and to second their
aspirations.

The Emperor's Government, for its part, felt it to be of
the utmost consequence to be free from all interested views.
If it had been less free from personal considerations--if it
had thought less of general interests and of the treaties
which protect them, it might have offered to the suffrages
of Greece a name not without pritstige. It has preferred to
give fresh evidence of its solicitude for the peace of Europe
and scrupulously basing its conduct upon engagements, it
has rejected all idea of a French candidate.
We had at first merely to express ourselves in general
terms upon the candidatures of Prince Alfred and the Duke
de Leuchtenberg. We would not enter into a more com-
plete examination while we had reasons for thinking that
the British Government was not disposed to give Prince
Alfred to the Greeks. All that we could say at first was,
that the idea of an English monarch at Athens, associated
as it was in the plans of the Greeks with the assumed
abandonment of the lonian Isles by England, would arouse
aspirations among them which might lead to the gravest
complications, and inevitably increase the confidence they
placed in the support of England.
By his origin the Duke de Leuchtenberg had claims upon
the special sympathy of the Emperor's Government. It
might have been fitting, perhaps, to examine whether,
not being really admitted to the rank of the princes of the
Imperial family of Russia who could succeed to the crown,
he was affected by the exclusion stipulated in the protocol
of 1830 ; or whether he was not, in more than one respect,
in a similar position to that in which Prince Leopold of
Saxe Coburg was placed with regard to the English royal
family at the period when he was chosen by the three
Powers as so•Preign of Greece. We preferred to recognise
without hesitation that hie accession might also cause some
troubles in the East, deeming, nevertheless, that those
troubles would perhaps be less with a prince who, belong -
ing to the Eastern church, and satisfying the religious sen-
timents of the Greeks, would not be similarly necessitated
to flatter the national ambition, and to offer to Greece hopes
of immediate aggrandisement.
In a word, the Emperor's government, in expressing it-
self thus simply uttered an opinion, without deviating in
anything from its line of conduct; it had no candidate;
it was ready to act with England and Russia in assist-
ing Greece ; in enlightening and directing, if necessary,
her choice amid the difficulties she had to encounter in con-
ciliating her wishes with the interests of Europe and the
disposition of treaties.

The English Government proposed to us a common
action, with the view of declaring at Athens that the three
protecting courts regarded the engagements of the London
protocol as being still in vigour, and that they could not re-
cognise the election of a prince belonging to one of the three
families of France, England, and Russia. The idea of pro-
claiming in each case the obligations agreed upon in 1830
was only in conformity wilh our own intentions; and we
expressed it spontaneously at Athens on the morrow of the
revolution. Thus we replied to the London Cabinet that we
were quite ready to make known to the Provisional Go-
vernment of Greece that we considered ourselves bound by
our former obligations. The principles of our public law
did not, it is true, authorise us to establish in an official
document that we should indefinitely refuse to recognise
any sovereign that had been elected by the free and spon-
taneous suffrage of Greece, in opposition to the engage-
ments of the Powers ; but, with this reserve, we had no
objection to associate ourselves to the views of the English
Government, and to agree with it, and with the Russian
Cabinet, to exclude every candidature not within the con-
ditions prescribed by the stipulations of the London Con-
ference.
The same proposition having been made at St. Peters-
burg, Russia, after having declined collective action,
offered to inform the Greeks, if the English Government,
on its part, did the same, that it considered the stipulations
of 1830 to be still in vigour; but this reply did not satisfy
the London cabinet. It seemed to see in the hesitation of
Russia in explaining whether the Duke de Leuchtenberg
1.14 comprehended in the stipulations of exQlmiort, a ,

cumstance which might release it from its own engage-
ments and give it entire freedom of opinion.
The candidature of Prince Alfred, that the semi-official
organs of the English ministry no longer rejected, assumed
from that moment a new character. Interpreting the pro-
longed silence of the British Government the Greeks ap-
peared to consider it an implicit assent; and European opi-
nion no longer asked if Prince Alfred would be elected, but
if England would accept for him the Hellenic crown. A
prudential sentiment compelled the Emperor's Government
to look this eventuality steadily in the face, and to examine
its possible consequences. The cordiality of our relations
enabled us to explain ourselves quite freely to the British
Government. We did not hide from it, therefore, our views.
"An English monarchy at Athens," we said, " would pr?..
duce profound modifications in the position of the Po were in
the East. Contrary to the spirit of stipulations which, when
the kingdom of Greece was founded, were intended to keep
her from all preponderating action on the part of one of
the three courts, a circumstance of this importance would
threaten the judicious equilibrium it has been the object
o f other and more recent treaties to strengthen. Should any
immediate change in English policy towards the Ottoman
empire be the result, the London Cabinet would have at
its command the means of making ite influence felt upon all
parts of Turkey ; and as, in uniting the destiny of a prince
of the English royal family with that of Greece, It could
not mean to repress the national sentiment of the Hellenes'
sooner or later it would find itself compelled by the force
of circumstances to support tendencies hostile to the main-
tenance of the Ottoman Empire. The Eastern question
might then recommence under entirely new conditions.
The interests of the other powers would have to suffer now,
and would be gravely compromised hereafter. The Empe-
ror's Government could not do less than take notice of such
an event, if it occurred, while claiming the right of coned:
dering the re-establishment of the disturbed equilibrium.'
3ueh is, in subistanen eho that we have held in
the provision justified by the manifestations of public
opinion in Greece, and the reserve the English Cabinet
maintained after the last communication from the Rugg=
Government. The Cabinet of London replied to us by re-
newing the assurance of its desire to remain within the
stipulations of the treaties, and by adding that it would re-
fuse to accept the candidature of Prince Alfred, if the
court of Russia on its part made the same engagement
with respect to the Duke de Leuchtenberg. Wishing to
hinder as much as we could the embarrassments and
the dangers we had signalised, we did not hesitate to
advise the Russian Government to give the explana-
tions it has been requested to give. It had no ob-
jection to declare itself bound by the protocol of the
ambassador might remove
of the
the
Emperor3d of February ; in pronouncing itself in more formal
terms upon the position of the Duke de Leuohtenberg ; it
difficultiesat whichst.
psetitelrlerheurg mainwedee,
charged
drgthede
to express himself very distinctly in the sense of an explicit
exclusion. Although news from Greece appeared at one
time less unfavourable to the candidature of the Duke de
Leuchtenberg, the minister at Athens was expressly re-
quested to abstain from giving it any encouragement. The
court of Russia, which has already ordered its representa-
tive in Greece to make the declaration suggested by the
English government respecting the stipulations of 1830,
added, in informing us of this measure, that without dis-
cussing the rank of the Duke de Leuchtenberg, it entirely
renounced his candidature. There is nothing now to disturb
the understanding of the three courts. We hope therefore
that the cabinets will soon be able to recommend a candidate
to the suffrages of Greece, and to end an agitation which,
after having been fruitless, might become dangerous.—
Agreez, &0., (Signed) DROUYN DB LHUYS.