The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1860.

ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, 811.XD,

HURST.

His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief
yesterday honoured the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst, with a visit, the object of which was to
be present at the declaration of the result of the
late competitive examination for army commis-
sions. His Roy al Highness, who was accom-
panied by Sir R. Airey, Quartermaster-General ; Sir
J. Scarlett, Adjutant-General ; General Romley,
Vice-President of the Council of Military Educa-
tion; Colonel Elwin and Colonel Addison, members
of the Council, and Colonel Thyrritt, Aide-de-
Camp, arrived upon the ground at a quarter past
10 o'clock, and was received ;by Major-General Sir
H. Jones, Governor of the College, Colonel Scott,
Lieut.-Governor, Colonel W. Napier, Superinten
dent of Studies, and Colonel P. Macdougall, Com-
mandant of the Staff College. The gentlemen
cadets connected with Sandhurst and the officers
belonging to the Staff College were, in the first
instance, reviewed upon parade, and subsequently
put through a variety of manoeuvres. These were
executed with singular ease, expertness, and pre-
cision, and elicited from the Commander-in-Chief
expressions of marked approval. One of the argu-
ments most used in favour of the Volunteer move-
ment is, that the superior intelligence of the en-
rolled members enabled them to learn their drill
with comparative ease, and to become rapidly effi-
cient. It is easy, therefore, to conjecture with
what quickness, and it might almost be added,
gracefulness, the movements were performed, when
then corps under arms consisted of the elite of
English military youth.—the officers elect of the
British army. The training which this excellent
materiel had received was more especially evi-
denced in the bayonet exercise, in which nearly as
great an advance has been made of late years as in
that of the rifle. In the French army mere parti-
cularly fencing with the bayonet has become all but
a:scieuce, and a complete revolution has been ef-
fected since the time when the rule was to rush for-
ward at the charge. It is now asserted that a man
who knows how to handle this weapon is more
than a match for a cavalry soldier, and drill ser-
geants are particular in warning recruits " not to
thrust their points too far in," so that they may be
ready to .meet a fresh assailant. Having gone
through the bayonet exercise, the corps was formed
into a hollow square, and General Romley read the
report of the Council of Military Education, ex-
pressing the gratification of the Commissioners
at the result of the recent examination,
which they regarded as " very satisfactory ;" 57
candidates had presented themselves for examina-
tion, of whom 20 obtained more than 4,100 marks,
while 20 others had exceeded the number of 3,000,
fixed as the minim= for obtaining commissions
without purchase. Out of the entire number, 11
had failed to pass the prescribed examination. The
Council, while recording with pleasure their opinion
of the general answering, felt gratification in add-
ing that some of the examiners had noticed a
marked' improvement in special subjects. They
also felt it right to mention in an especial manner
the name of Mr. George F. Chambers, the 13th in
order of merit among the most successful candidates,
who had only been for two terms in the College,
and had yet succeeded equally with those who had
gone through the entire course.
His Royal Highness the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
then addressed the gentlemen cadets, and expressed
his regret that, owing to the requirements of the
service, he was unable to allot more than 20 com-
missions among the successful competitors. These
would, of course, be distributed in the order of
merit, and the recipients would be gazetted with
the least possible delay. Referring to the report
of the Council on Military Education, his Royal
Highness stated his entire concurrence in the senti-
ments of the Commissioners, and added that what
he had that day seen afforded the strongest evidence
of the earnest and persevering spirit in which the
gentlemen he was addressing had applied them-
selves to their various duties. The Commander-in-
Chief alluded to a fact which he heard with regret,
that the report for the last half-year did not speak
as highly of " conduct" at Sandhurst College as in
the previous term, and emphatically pointed out the
necessity for amendment in this particular.
Accompanied by his suite, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge then entered the College
and inspected the military drawings and landscapes
of the cadets, as well as those of the students of the
Staff College. Some of the pupils underwent an
examination on the plan of attack according to
Vauban ; the riding-school was then visited, and
the style of equitation again afforded scope for
favourable remark. Returning to the exterior
of the building, the gentlemen cadets and
officers next engaged in engineering operations,
and in an incredibly short space of time the
long bolster-shaped pontoons were floated into posi-
tion, and made the points d'appui for a substantial

causeway, which, in the shape of a floating
led to an island in the centre of the sheet of water
which stretches away for some distance in front of
the college. The bright colours both of the uniforms
and pontoons, seen in full motion at the edge of the
lake, and rendered more conspicuous by the rich
background of trees. from above which in the remote
distance peered down the Bagshet monument, im-
parted to the proceedings at this stage a highly
picturesque appearance. Unfortunately the rain,
which now interferes as of prescriptive right,

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marred to some extent the final operations, and by

the time that the corps had engaged in tracing out
field works, all those whom etiquette forbade from
seeking shelter received a thorough wetting. His
Royal Highness left shortly before 3 o'clock, and,
as on his arrival, a salute was fired by the Sappers

attached to the establishment.
The students then returned to the hall of the
college, where a select and fashionable company,
for the most part consisting of their friends and
relatives, had likewise assembled. Major-General
Sir H. Jones said he had nothing to add to the
address which had already been made to them by
the Commander-in-Chief, but he had the pleasing
duty of presenting to those gentlemen who had
been fortunate enough to obtain commissions with-
out purchase the certificates of their having suc-
cessfully passed the competitive examination.
The following are the names of the successful
cadets, with their respective marks, in the order of
merit, as determined by the examiners :
No. of Marks.
1. William S Cooke
2. John A. Grattan
3. Francis E. Lloyd
4. Philip Walker
5. Hendley P. Kirkwood 5,447
6. Russell Skinner..
7. William B. Burton
8. Henry W. Ashford
9. Thomas C. Lambert 4,925
10. Charles De J. Gnome
11. George U. Prior
12. William Wilmer
13. George F. Chambers
14. Philip P. D. Clarke 4,354
15. Ou en Phibbs
16. Sylvanus R. B. Partridge
17. John C. Robinson 4,238
18. John A. Dawson
19. Edward W. Sawyer
20. John De R. Dick
Prizes were then presented by the Governor to
gentlemen cadets who had distinguished themselves
during the lest half-year in the various branches of
study as follows :
Nathematics.—First prize, Skinner ; second,
Walker ; third, Tylden.
Fortification.—First prize, De Wend; second,
Howes.

Military Surveying.—First prize, Cooke; second,

Military Drawing.—Bleazby.
Landscape Drawing.—Nangle.
French.—First prize, Cooke ; second, Fitz Her-
bert.

German.—First prize, Cooke; second, Fitz Her-
bert.

Military History.—First Trize, Kirkwood; se-
cond, Creek.

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Geology.—Lambert.
Exemplary Conduct.--First prize, Gibbons; se-
cond, Cargill; third, Ashford; fourth, Walker.
The successful students, to whom with their prizes
a few words of counsel and encouragement were
addressed by Sir H. Jones, were loudly cheered by
their companions ; and, though it was necessarily
matter of regret that more commissions were not at
the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief, an excel-
lent feeling pervaded the entire school. On quit-
ting the Hall the Governor received a no less
hearty round of cheering than any by which it had
been preceded.

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TILLI NA P. I'

The Rolla, navel apprentices brig,
Lieut.-Com-
mander Nelson, has been planed in No. 1 dock at
Portsmouth, for the purpose of cleaning and exam-
ining her copper.
The Lizard, paddle, Lieut. E. Maunsell, arrived at
Portsmouth on Wednesday from Devonport, and
went alongside the Malabar coal depot to coal.
She sailed again at 5 p.m. yesterday for Sheerness.
The Hornet, 17, screw, has been undocked from
No. 1 dock at Portsmouth on the completion of her
repairs. _
- His Brizilian - Majesty's sailing corvette, Don.
Isabel, 18, Captain Carvalho, arrived in Ply-
mouth Sound yesterday, and saluted the Bri-,
tish flag and the flag -of Port Admiral Arthur
Fanshawe, -which was acknowledged by the citadel
and the Impregnable, 104, in Ilamoazo. Shortly
after arrival she was visited by the Brazilian
Vice-Consul, Mr. T. W.' Fox, 1“1.,_ who was
honoured by a-salute on departure. The corvette
is.from Rio Janeiro,l3ec.- 31 .• New York, April
20; and Fayal, Terceira, and St. Michael's, June
2. During the last week she has experienced very
strong winds, and has most of that time been under
close-reefed topsails. The Don Isabel's guns are
32-pounders; she has a complement of 220 men,
and 'will retrain Plymouth 10 days, and then
proceed to Portsmouth, Antwerp, Cherbourg, Lis-
bon, &c.`

The screw despatch gun-vessel Torch; 4, at Cha-
tham, is ordered to be fitted for service at sea, and
to have a complement of 60 men.
'Capt-the Hon. Francis Egerton hoisted his
pennant on. Wednesday, 011 board the screw steam-
ship St. George, 91, at Plymouth.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Geyser, 6, at Ply-
mouth, is ordered to be commissioned and to have
a complement of 170 men----
The paddlewheel steam-vessel Advice, M. C.Ray-
mond, second master, commanding (tender to the
Amphion at Queenstown), arrived at Plymouth on
Wednesday with supernumeraries.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Cotamander G. M. Jack-
son' to the Geyser, commissioned; Commander F.
H. Smith, to the Torch, commissioned; William
Lockhart, assist.-surg., confirmed in the Imaum ;
Alexander Minnoch, assist.-surg., confirmed in the
Exmouth; Frederick Gransmore, paymaster to the
Blenheim; John Hay, assistant paymaster addi-
tional to the Victory.
The 2d battalion of the 11th Foot, consisting of
about 30 officers and 1,000 men, will leave Alder-
shott camp this morning, and proceed by special
train from Farnborough to Portsmouth for duty in
that garrison.

an embarrassment. To acknowledge her as an in-
dependent State would lead to endless European
complications. An island in the Mediterranean
half the size of Ireland as an independent State is
an absurdity in terms. Of course it would be seized
upon by some great Power at the first outbreak of a
war, and it requires no prophet to tell us what great
Power it would be which would seize upon it. To
unite it to Sardinia while Sardinia is what she now
is would be no less dangerous. Sardinia could not
rule it and could not protect it. Any great Power
which held Sicily would dominate Italy, and any
small Power which held Sicily as a distant append-
age would hold it loosely as the locu,a tenens of some
great Power. No, Sicily and Naples must go to-
gether. They have been united in bondage, and in
liberty they should not be separate. The true diplo-
macy of this crisis is not to diplomatise. There is a
knot which none but Garibaldi can untie, and it is
better to leave him alone to untie it. Interference
could at this moment have no other effect than to
bind the victorious Sicilians, and to hand them back
to their tyrant. This would be not only diabolically
wicked, but it would be profoundly unwise. It
would tend to convince oppressed populations that
Liberty, when she fights her best and wins with
drawn sword in open day, has no chance of being
allowed to enjoy her victories; and it would tend
to drive back the discontented world again to the
sullen, guilty counsels, that are primpted by
despair.