The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-23 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince
Arthur, and attended by Col. Tyrwhitt, Aide-de-
camp to the Duke, and Major Flphinstone, R.A.,
Governor to Prince Arthur, went down to Woolwich
yesterday morning, and was present at the breaking
up of the Royal Military Academy. 'Their Royal
Highnesses entered the garrison at 11 o'clock, and
their arrival was announced by a Royal salute at
the Greenwich battery. Their Royal Highnesses
were received by Major-Gen. E. C.Warde, C. 8., and
staff, including the Hon. Col. Devereux, Col. Gard-
ner, Cola Anderson, Gen. Sir G. Pollock, Sir Peter
Brady, K.C.8., Sir G. Douglas, Bart., Major-Gen.
Wilford, and numerous other officers. They then
proceeded to the Academy grounds, where the
whole of the gentlemen cadets were paraded under
arms and performed a general salute, the full band
of the Royal Artillery playing " God Save the
Queen." The company was afterwarts put
through a course of manual and platoon exe:cises by
Senior Cadets Jacob, Beresford, Arnott, and Buckle,
and they were executed in a manner to elicit the
Duke's repeated approbation. At the conclusion
the Prince and staff proceeded to one of the class
rooms, and inspected the landscape and other draw-
ings, and attended a viva voce examination of the
German and French classes. The company was then
drawn up in double line at the principal entrance of
the establishment, where the Duke addressed the
cadets. He had previously heard the statement of
the Council of Military Education and the report
of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Academy. The
former was to the following effect :—His Royal
Highness having decided that one-third of the
cadets should receive commissions in the Royal
Engineers, and two-thirds in the Royal Artillery, the
Council have recommended for appointment to the
Royal Engineers the 10 highest on the list who
are elected for that corps. The remaining gentle.-
men cadets, with the exception of Mr. Denny,
whose failure the Council regret that it is their duty
to report, are recommended for commissions in the
Royal Artillery. The list of prizes was as follows :
—To Mr. Jacob, for exemplary conduct and dis-
tinguished proficiency, &c., in first artillery, first
fortification, ch.mistry, and practical mathematics
(a regulation sword, the Pollock medal, and several
other prizes) ; to Mr. Nicholson, for second artil-
lery ; to Mr. Walker, for second fortification and
natural philosophy ; to Mr. Beresford, for first topo-
graphy ; to Mr. Arnott, for geology ; to Mr. Jekall,
for second topography ; to Mr. Crookenden, for first
French and first German ; to Mr. Christie, for se-
cond French ; tl Mr. Rigg, for second German ; to
Mr. Stewart, for Hindustani ; to Mr. Setou, for first
mathematics and first practical geometry ; to Mr.
Haman, for second mathematics ; to the Hon. Mr.
Shore, for third fortification ; to Mr. Boyle, for se-
cond practical geometry ; to Mr. S. Buckle, for first
landscape ; and to Mr. Tillotson, for second land-
scape dra wing. His Royal Highness, in addressing
the cadets, referred to the pleasure it gave him in
awarding a number of prizes to Mr. Jacob, who, he
said, had well merited them by his superior energy
and application. The successful recipient, he added,
would, no doubt, distinguish himself in future life
as his uncle had done, who was now the respected
master of the Christ Church schools. He was
glad to find that the reports were so exceedingly
ab and that the new regula-
tions favourable
which hadro ugh
been throughout,
introduced tended to such
flethou,
good results. The advantages which these regu-

rations conferred upon them, and which were com-
patible with their studies, were, he thought,
conducive to their general well-being and to the
discipline of the establishment. The irregularities
which had taken place at Sandhurst, he said, on ex-
amination he had found to proceed from careless-
ness more than from intention, and that when young
cadets entered the establishment and subscribed to
the regulations they fully intended to fulfil their
obligations. From a want of energy they some-