The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-22 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY ITEMS.

As already mentioned, the Rodney, although only
two years in commission, has been ordered home; but
Admiral Keppel, has not been recalled. He will
hoist his flag on the Ocean for the remaining
period of command. Captain Cochrane has
been appointed Superintendent of Sheerness Dock-
yard. Mr. Childers thus carries out the intention of
his predecessor, Mr. Corry. Captain Sherard
Osborn will probably get one of the two good-service
pensions now vacant. Captain T. Wilson, having
been promoted to flag rank, there will fall vacant the
post of Captain-Superintendent of the Royal Hos-
pital at Greenwich. It is not improbable that Mr
Childers may decline to fill up this vacancy.

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.
The volunteer review at Dover this year is
likely to be more interesting than former gatherings
of the sort. It will be the first occasion on which the
movements of the troops will have been managed
during a field-day by telegraphing and signalling on
a large scale. The experiment is to be tried of
fighting a battle scientifically as regards the
mode in which the orders are to be given.
The Royal Engineer Field Telegraph Train
is to be employed, and as the troops march into their
position the telegraph wires will be uncoiled, and
communication established between headquarters,
the commanders of the attacking and the defending
forces, and the London telegraphs. Each commander
of a division will be attended by an officer who has
been thoroughly instructed in signalling, and who
will receive and communicate the orders. It is in-
tended also to have the fleet in communication with
the Castle by means of signals.

TIIE DOUBLE CONTROL AT THE WAR OFFICE.
The Telegraph announces that Lord Northbrook,
Mr. Stansiield, and Mr. Anderson having just made
their report on Financial Control, and being now
required to investigate the subject of the Double
Control at the War Oflice, have called into their
council Sir Edward Lugard, to help them in military
matters.

A CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE.
The proposed Civil Service College now seems
likely to become au fait accompli. The committee
have for some time past been at a standstill in
consequence of want of information as to the
result of the canvass instituted on . behalf of
this undertaking among Civil servants of the
Crown abroad, and especially in India. Within
the last few days, however, very gratifying com-
munications have been received, and it appears
that both in India and the colonies the project hai
been recognised as likely to supply a want much
and generally felt among servants of the Crown
abroad. The committee have been given to under-
stand that from India especially a very large sum
may be expected. It is the wish of the committee
to make temporary arrangements for commencing
their Operations as soon as a sufficient sum shall
have been received to justify them in taking such a
step.

SICK BISHOPS,
The Daily News directs attention to Sir Massey
Lopes's intended mooting of the position of the
Episcopate in the South of England, and gives the
following facts and figures, which certainly need no
explanatory comments :—" In five dioceses between
Bcachy Head and the Land's End Episcopacy is
virtually suspended. The Bishop of Winchester,
who is nearly 80 years of age, is disabled by
paralysis ; the Bishop of Chichester is 83 years
old ; the Bishop of Salisbury, though ()ily 01,
has for some time been incapacitated through
severe and dangerous illness ; the Bishop of
Bath and Wells, who is 70, is such a con-
firmed invalid that he is regularly carried up
and down the stairs of his palace; the Bishop of
Exeter is within seven weeks of attaining his 91st
year, and has taken no active part in the affairs of
his diocese since 1803. The Bishops of Winchester
and Exeter are the only prelates who held their
present sees when the' Episcopal Act of 1830 was
passed. Their incomes have, therefore, not been
affected by the working of that statute, which
enacted that on the ne it voidance of the see in
each case, the value of Winchester should be re-
duced from £10,417 to £7,000, and the value of
Exeter raised from £2,700 to £5,000. It should be
added that the Bishop of Exeter's income is much
larger than that given here, since he holds a canonry
in Durham Cathedral. On resigning his bishopric
the income of the see would be nearly doubled, so
that there would be ample room to give him a hand-
some pension, perhaps equal to the income from the
see. All that he would lose would be his patronage.
That, it need scarcely be added, ought to be exer-
cised only by one who is able to be acquainted with
his clergy.