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

THE MILITARY STAFF COLLEGE.

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

" GENERAL ORDEUS.
" Horse Guards, S.W., June 3.
" Th 3 following regulations regarding the exa-
mination of officers who may be candidates for ad-
rui,sion to the Staff College are published for the
information of the army :
" There will be vacincies at the Staff College for
13 officers from the Cavalry, Guards, and Line ;
and for tao officers from the Royal Artillery and
Royal Engineers, in order to make up 15, that being
the number 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 Winiward and Leeward
Islands, Bermuda, Canada, and Nova Scotia, on
the 23d of August.
. .

" At all other stations the examinations will be
held at th• earliest possible date after the receipt,
by the general officer in command, of the examina-
tion papers, which will be despatched from England
ea►ly in the present month.
" At home the examination w;11 be conducted
by the Council of Military Education in London.
" At foreign stations the following regulations
will be strictly adhered to :

" A board of officers will be appointed by the
general officer in command, and will consist of
three officers, one of whona.to be, when practicable,
a staff-officer, having the rank of field-officer, and
the other two, if possible, not under the rank of
captain. One of these officers will belong to-ono
of the scientific corps where any such officer can be
obtained.

" The examinations will be conducted by means
of the same printed questions as ate set for the
examination of candidates' in limdon and thcy
are to by answered in the presence of the ILard.
" The Board will give to each candidate a num-
ber, which he will affix to each of his examination
papers, instead of his name. Ho will retain the
same number throughout the examination.
"The }hard will giye 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 candid.a!es
corresponding with their index numbers in the
examination, in a separate envelope, for ttausmis-
sion to the Counc 1 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 b :ard. Any candidate,
however, who may have finished his examination
paper on any subject before the hour named may
deliver it in►o the hands of a member of the board.
"Candidates will bring their writing and draw-
ing materials, instruments, &c., and also the tal.le
of logarithms 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 st will he published hereafter.
" Officers conainaudaig regiments abroad are to
transmit to the genera 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 Decnember,
1857, which directs that if the commanding offi-
cer of the regiment, orthe generalofficermy and-
ing, cannot recommend the application om f
an
can-
didate, the grounds of objection are to be distinctly
stated,' it is to be observed, thatt as there will not
refer to the
be time at distant foreign
stations to
such officer
Adjutant-General on
theer subject,
should, undergo his
u
should, in all cases,
examination, on the hnd epmitted
erstandiia ng
will
still be submitted for , however, that
the objections urged
againstth his e
decision applicationof 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