The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-05 00:00:00

THE MILITARY STAFF COLLEGE.

The annexed General Older, relative to the exa-
mination of officers, candidates for admission to the
Military Staff College, has been issued for the in-
formation of the army at home and abroad :

" GENERAL ORDERS.
" Horse Guards, S.W., June 3.
" Tha following regulations regarding the exa-
mination of officers who may be candidates for ad-
rni'sion to the Staff College are published for the
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information of the army :
" There w,ll be vacancies at the Staff College for
13 officers from the Cavalry, Guards, and Line ;
and for two officers from the Royal Artillery and

Royal Engineers, in order to makeup 15, that
the nun :1136r of the junior division of the college.
" The examinations will take place at the several
stations are follows :

" At home, at Gibraltar, Malta, and the lonian
Islands, Jamaica, the Windward and Leeward
Islands, Bermuda, Canada, and Nova Scotia, on

the 23i of August.
" At all othr stations the examinations will be
held at the earliest possible date after the receipt,
by the general officer in command, of the examina-
tion papers, which will be despatched from England
early in the present month.
" At home the examination will be conducted
by the Council of Military Education in London.
" At foreign sitious the following regulations
will be stricAy adhered to :
" A board of officers will be appointed by the
general officer in command, and will consist of
three officers, one of whom to be, when practicable,
a staff-officer, having Vac rank of field-alter, and
the other two, if possible, not under the rank of
captain. One of these officers will belong to one
of the scientific corps where any such officer can be
obtained.

"The examinations will be conducted by means
of the same printed questions as are set for the
examination of candidates in Lyndon, and they
are to be answered in the presence of the Bard.

" The Board will give to each candidate a num-
ber, which he wi:l affix to each of his examination
papers, instead of his name. He will retain the
same number throughout the examination.
" The B )ard will give to each candidate a paper
of the printed examination questions on each sub-
ject at the time specified for the examination in
that subject.
"The candidates will write their answers to the
questions in the presence of the Board, and their
papers, together with the printed examination
questions, will be collected at the hour appointed
and made up into a packet, which will be sealed
before being taken from the examination-room.
" The Board will, immediately on the conclusion
of the examination, forward the papers of the can-
didates to the General officer, commanding, for
transmission to the Council of Military Education,
accompanied by a certificate that the candidates
obtained no assistance from books or help of any
kind in their examination. The Board will at
the same time forward the names of the candidates
corresponding with their index numbers in the
examination, in a separate envelope, for transmis-
sion to the Council of Military Education.
" The following will be the order of the exami-
nation :

" First Day.—Mathematics : obligatory portion,
first part, three hours ; second part, ditto.
Second Day.—Mathematics : voluntary por-
tion, first part, three hours ; second part, three
hours.
" Third Day.—Military History : first paper,
four hours ; second paper, two hours.
" Fourth Day.—Military History : third paper,
three hours ; fourth paper, three hours.
"Fifth Day.—French, three hours ; chemistry,
three hours.
" Sixth Day.—German, three ; geology, three.
" Seventh Day.—Fortification, three ; military
drawing, three.
" There will be, in all cases, an interval of not
less than one hour between the two periods of exa-
mination on each day.
" The papers will be collected at the appointed
hours by a member of the board. Any candidate,
however, who may have finished his examination
raper on any subj, ct before the hour named may
deliver it in r o the hands of a member of the board.
"Candidates will bring their writing and draw-
ing material, ini.trumenis, &c., and also the tat,le
ofle2a,rolimii they are in the habit of using. No
other books or notes of any description will be
allowed to be used.
" It is scarcely necessary to observe that no com-
munication whatever will be allowed between the
candidates at the examination.
" The regulations for the home examination,
which will be similar in character to those for
foreign stations, will be published hereafter.
" Officers commanding regiments abroad are to
transmit to the general officer in command a return
of the officers desirous of competing, together with
a medical certificate of good health and fitness for
the active duties of the staff. Such officers will
then be ordered to join at head-quarters for exami-
nation or at any other places which may be selected
for the convenience of those at the more distant
stations.
"With reference to paragraph 4of the Horse
Guards' Memorandum of the 7th of December,
1857, which directs that if the commanding 01E
cer of the regiment, or the generalofficer command-
ing, cannot recommend the application of any. can-
didate, the grounds of objection are to be distinctly
stated,' it is to be observed,
that as there will not
be time at distant foreign stations to refer to the
Adjutant-General on the aubject, such officer
should, in all cases, be permitted to undergo
that
undergo his
• examination, on the understanding,
pl
h
the objections urged against
' still be submitted for the decisionapcation will
ofi his Royal
. Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief.
"General officers commanding at foreign stations
will place no restrictions. upon officers competing,
further than the exigencies of the service may ab-
solutely require. As only one officer, however, can
be spared from a battalion at a time, for the.purpose
of studying at the Staff College, those regiments to
which officers now at the Staff College belong will
not be able to compete at the examination of the
present year, but this limitation will not apply to
the period during which an officer from any corps,
after passing through the staff college, is attached