The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY.

WOOLWICH, DEC, 2.—An examination of candidates
for admission as gentlemen cadets at this institution took
place during the past month, and the following are the
names of those who passed satisfactorily, and have been
subsequently approved by the Master-General :--
G. W. Vansittart Yule. 1"
Edward Robert Festing.
L. 11. Hardress Parsons.
A. Angus Airlie Kinloch.
Edward Richard Marshal.
Richard Moresby.
Fleetwood Hugo Pellew.
John Knox Tindall.
John Barrett Leonard.
Robert David Dewar Hay.
Horace Harvey Webber.
J. C. Smyth Wyndham.
The above-named young ,
to join at the Royal Militar;
after the Christmas vacatioi

Richard Decie.
Edward Mitchell.
Edward Hovell Thurlow,
Charles Edward Luard.

H. P. PRstrange St. George.
Frederick Tynte Warburton,
Hon. Alexander Stewart.
William Rice Bowen.
H. D. Stutevillo Isaacson.
Joseph Egerton Cockburn.
Francis Beresford.

entlemen have been ordered
Academy on its re-opening

THE LATE BOARD OP ADMIRALTY AND ITS
AMERICAN CRITICS.

(From the Press.)

. ,
Poor Mr. Cobden ! We almost pity him. His plan
of arbitration has been tried in the Eastern Question,
and has, according to Mr. Gladstone's notion of success
—illustrated by Spain, Belgium, and Syria—succeeded
completely ; as it has already resulted in a bloody war.
To those odious soldiers, whom Mr. Cobden would dis-
band, life and property are, in Lancashire, indebted for
present security. And now it appears that the ungrate-
ful Americans, whom he so much admires, are about to
divest themselves of those claims to his regard which
have hitherto been so attractive in his eyes. " Look
at the navy of the United States," exclaims Mr.
Cobden, " and see what it consists of !" This the
Americans have been doing for themselves ; and they
have discovered that it consists of eleven ships of the
line, one raz4e, twelve large frigates, two second-class,
and about forty smaller ships. nt the feeling
lex-
citedoodeel in
navy the American mind by contemplating their
m
is exactly the reverse of that created in Mr.
Cbd n' aby the same delightful object. Mr. Cobden is
fired by enthusiastic admiration . Jonathan, our brother,
filled with intense disgust ! "The Mississippi," says the
New York .Herald, "is so badly armed, and her guns so
light, that an English war-steamer, with only one large
gun, could destroy her before her fire could take the
slightest effect. What is this force, even
Britain or
evenas a nucleus,
t o
contend
Twoor
three English
against the fleetst
e steamers,
a Great France ?
enrste,amwintrhingunossosefalsoinong
range, could sink every ship and
of the Government." Jonathan looks not onlyp at his
fleet, but also at his navy list, and on it he observes
" old fogy captains " to such an alarming extent that,
for five frigates which he names, fit captains could not be
found.
From this sad sight the writer mournfully turns, and
casts his eye over the eastern waves, till it rests on '
Eng-
land and the continent of Europe ; and there he sees
"France and Russia actively engaged in increasing the
numerical force of their navies. And there, too, he
sees, "at Spithead, a fleet such as the world never saw"
before ; and England with a preponderance of strength
on the ocean that guards her shores and protects her
erica +
and as
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tamely submit" to the observance of treaties—those re-
lating to the fisheries, for instance.
The inference the American draws from all this is that
"the true way to maintain peace is to be pi epared f
for war in pace ostendite ferrum," and concludes wi aick
n
inquiry whether the spirit of Washington, Path tr
Henry, and Andrew Jackson is extinct, on which point,
perhaps, Robert Owen may give him some information.
Thus, then, we have an influential journal of New York,
the capital of Mr. Cobden's model republic, denouncing
the organisation of that branch of the United States
service, which has to him appeared to be the emanation
of ai,solute wisdom, and the perfection of national naval
efficiency. Is this blow as much as Mr. Cobden can
bear? Alas ! the American journalist is yet more
cruel ! He lamis and holds up as an example to the
people of the United States the administrative conduct
of the late "Tory" Government of Great Britain, and
not only of the "Tory" Government, but of that par-
, ticular portion of it against which Radical orators and
Writers more especially delighted to discharge their en-
venomed arrows of malignant falsehood. Yes, it is to
thatoant
attributes
fleetpr which the Duke of Northumberland
tdritbphuoe Board of Admiralty of the Government of Lord
Derby called into existence, that the New York Herald
well
proud position which England then main-
tained,and whichoushe might hold now, could the present
Governmentweapon which their iv
ed
eoewiselyaaora
createdwield tahned
bmagnificenteciunathed
to them.