The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, Til URSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1566.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

On Tuesday Major-Gen. Taylor, Inspector-Gen.
of Artillery, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Major
Teesdale, arrived at Sheerness, by the 11 10 a.m.
train, for the purpose of making his annual inspec-
tion of the Ist Depot Brigade of Royal Artillery,
stationed at that port. The whole of the brigade,
consisting of about 700 officers and men, were
drawn up in line on the parade-ground after the
usual salute. The men were then formed into 12
companies, each of which was carefully inspected.
This concluded, the marching past was conducted
with beautiful order. The men deployed into line,
formed square, and executed various other infantry
movements, the whole of which were gone through
in a very soldier-like manner. The Inspector was
accompanied through the ranks by Col. Riddell,
C. 8., Commandant of the Chatham division of the
Royal Artillery, and the troops were put through
their various evolutions by Lieut.-Col. Crofton, in
command of the Brigade. This part of the proceed-
ings was brought to a close about 1 o'clock, when
the men separated to go to dinner. At half-past 2
they again assembled on the parade, and, after being
told off into companies, manned the sea defences.
This concluded the inspection for the day. Yester-
day morning the Royal Military Hospital was in-
spected, together with the barracks, the new fortifi-
cations, the battery books, the married men's quar-
ters, the dinners, &c. At the conclusion, the general,
addressing the sergeants in their mess-room, ex-
pressed himself as highly gratified with the inspec-
tion, which had been most satisfactory.
The half-yearly inspection of the corps of Royal
Marines Light Infantry, which commenced at head-
quarters, Chatham, on Monday, was resumed on
Tuesday by Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, the
Inspector-Gen. of the corps. The early part of the
morning was devoted by Major-Gen. Stransham to
the inspection of the kits and accoutrements of the
non-commissioned officers and men, for which pur-
pose a few of the companies were assembled on the
barrack parade-ground in front of their quarters.
The Inspector-General afterwards proceeded to the
military gymnasium, at the inner lines, Brompton,
where the non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Marines, in common with the troops of the
Line, undergo daily a course of gymnastic exercises.
The non-commissioned officers and men inspected
consisted of a squad of about 90 men of all ranks
who are now undergoing their course of instruction
at the establishment, prior to embarkation. On this
occasion the physical endurance of the men was put
to rather a severe test, the detachment being made
to run a distance of several hundred yards. They
were then momentarily halted and immediately put
through the bayonet exercise, which was performed
in a highly satisfactory manner, not one of the de-
tachment evincing any symptom of undue fatigue.
After witnessing some other exercises, in which the
Royal Marines displayed considerable efficiency,
Major-Gen. Stransham and:staff rode back to the
Royal Marine barracks, where he inspected the offi-
cers and non-commissioned officers in the sword
exercise, the party engaged being drawn up in the
barrack square. At the close of this portion of the
inspection, General Stransham highly commended
the manner in which the officers and non-commis-
sioned officers had acquitted themselves in this part
of their duties, intimating in the course of his com-
mendatory remarks that in the sword exercise the
Chatham division was not inferior to either of the
other divisions. Major-General Stransham subse-
quently inspected the barrack-rooms and new bar-
rack quarters, all of which were found to be models
of cleanliness and regularity, and in the afternoon
he left head-quarters to commence his inspection of
the Woolwich division.

Yesterday the troops comprising the three divi-
sions at Chatham garrison, including the Ist, 2d,
and 3d battalions, together with the division of
Royal Marines Light Infantry, were marched to
Chatham lines, where they were put through a
variety of brigade and other manoeuvres incidental
to a brigade field-day, under Major-General Sir
R. Walpole, K.C.8., commanding the forces in the
Chatham districts. The troops engaged in the
movements returned to their respective quarters late
in the afternoon.

Capt. Col th urst, instructor of musketry to the 2d
depot battalion at Chatham, has been appointed
Capt. and Adjt. of the 14th depot battalion at But-
tevant, vice Capt. lleathcote.
An order has been received at Chatham garrison
from the Horse Guards directing Lieut. Brinkley,
of the 2d depot brigade, Royal Artillery, to embark
on board the Robin Hood, at Gravesend, for Hong-
kong, to join the brigade of Royal Artillery in
China. Lieut. Wheatley, of the Ist depot brigade,
is ordered to be transferred to No. 7 battery, 10th
brigade, in Canada, and to embark for Montreal.
The 24th company of Royal Engineers, under the
command of Captain Locock, has arrived at head-
quarters, Brompton, Chatham, from Devonport,
having been conveyed to Gravesend in the Ceres,
and disembarking at Government-quay. The
strength of the company numbered two officers and
78 non-commissioned officers and men, with 12
women and 18 children. During the time the 24th
company has been stationed at Plymouth it has been
employed on the engineering works at that part of
the coast.

The ironclad ship Research, 4,200 horse power,
Commander Scott, having undergone some exten-
sive alterations and additions at Chatham dockyard,
will be undocked on Saturday.
The armoured iron frigate Bellerophon, Capt. E.
Tatham, made her first cruise south of the Isle of
Wight for trial of the experimental broadside gun-
carriages she has on board yesterday. The commis-
sion on board, appointed by the Admiralty to con-
clude those trials with the Bellerophon, which were
begun. by Capt. Key, C. 8., with the Minotaur, com-
prised Captains R. H. Powell, C.B. (Britannia), E.
Tatham (Bellerophon), F. A. Herbert (Royal Sove-
reign), Commanders M. Singer (Helicon) and W.
Arthur (Excellent). Admiral E. G. Faushawe,
from the Admiralty, went off to the frigate in one
of the port steam tenders previous to her weighing
from Spithead. At 7 a.m. the Bellerophon was
under plain sail to topgallant sails, with her head to
the southward, well off from the Culvers, close
hauled, and looked remarkably well under her
canvas.

The unarmoured screw frigate Tribune, Captain
Lord Gilford, went into Portsmouth harbour from
Spithead on Tuesday, and took up a berth along-
side the south jetty, where she is ordered to be dis-
mantled and paid out of commmission.

Rear-Admiral George Ramsay, C. 8., has been
appointed Commander-in-Chief on the south-east
coast of America station, vice the Hon. C. E. J. B.
Elliot, promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral.
Rear-Admiral E. Ommanney has been appointed
a Conservator of the River Thames, vice Captain
Inglefield, resigned.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. J. B. Michell, to the Spider,
as Lieut. commanding, vice Kennedy, promoted ;
Lieut. C. F. Hill, to the Gleaner, as Lieut. com-
manding, vice Hardy, promoted ; Lieut. Martin J.
Dunlop to the Pearl ; Lieut. Henry J. Hesketh to
the Amazon ; Lieut. Capel Wodehouse to the
Jason ; and Louis F. B. Farnall, nominated naval
cadet ; Lieut. Arthur C. Curtis to the Terrible ;
Robert E. Clarke and Chas. G. Robinson, midship-
men, to the Jason ; Edmond J. Trafford, Charles
Windham, Herbert A. W. Onslow, and Thomas
Hadlay, naval cadet, to the Bellerophon ; Frank
Finnis, William C. IL Snell, Robert Pray, Henry
Harris, William H. Webster, and Charles W.
P. Bouverie, naval cadets, to the Pearl ; Alexander
E. T. Bruce, Claude Paget, William C. Weed, and
11. B. Buchanan, naval cadets, to the Victoria ;
Frederick C. Pike, George 11. Smith, Charles M'C.
Leblanck, and Bevan W. Slater, naval cadets, to the
Jason ; G. M. Brooke, William J. L. Heyland,
Richard T. Rennie, and Francis G. °River, naval
cadets, to the Duncan ; Edward Knipe, Harold G.
Bird, Alexander Serle and T. C. Fenton, naval
cadets, to the Pallas ; George 11. Beaton, chief
engingeer, to the Jason ; John G. Shearman, chief
engineer, to the Pearl ; Charles M‘Vreener, engi-
neer to the Pearl ; Thomas Rose, engineer, to the
Jason ; Thomas J. Warburton and Edward Wat-
son, first-class assist.-engineers, to the Pearl; John
assist.-engineer,
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tahses i eonng. ineer, to the Jason;
James,. Edmonds, first-class assist.-engineer, to the
Gladiator ; and Charles E. Stewart, second-class

University of London.

Yesterday the Vice-Chancellor and Fellows of the Uni-
versity of London held a meeting in the Convocation-room
of the University at Burlington-houso, Piccadilly, for the
ptilpose of admitting graduates and awarding certificates
and medals to those who had passed with honours.
Mr. GROTE, the Vice-Chancellor, said it was with deep
regret he had to state that Earl Granville, their Chancellor,
was prevented from attending by an afflicting family cala-
mity. It was therefore his duty, as Vice-Chancellor, to
preside.
Dr. CARPENTER (the Registrar) then proceeded to read
the report showing the number of candidates (255) ad-
mitted as graduates and undergraduates during the pre-
ceding academical year.
The following graduates who had passed the examina-
tions for the higher degrees were then presented, the Vice-
Chancellor, as he admitted them, delivering their diplomas.
LL.D.—Wm. Willis, Huddersfield College ; Daniel Leg-
gatt, private study.
M.D.—Frank Buszard, Guy's Hospital ; William Dale,
Leeds, and Middlesex Hospital ; Thos. Fairbank, St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital; Samuel J. Gee, University College;
Francis W. Gibson, University College ; Gwynne Henry
Harries, King's College; Charles A. Hingston, St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital; Edmund Holland, University College ;
Horace Jeaffreson, St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; Henry L.
Kempthorne, King's College ; Thomas Morton, King's
College; Walter Rickards, University College ; Eustace
Smith, University College; Richard P. Burke Taaffe, St.
Bartholomew's Hospital ; Thomas J. Woodhouse, St.
Thomas's Hospital.
D. Sc.—lnorganic and Organic Chemistry.—Walter
Flight, Universities of Halle and Heidelberg; Edmund J.
Mills, Royal College of Chemistry. Geology and Palaeon-
tology.—Edward Hesketh Birkenhead, Royal School of
Mines ; Frederick G. Finch, Royal School of Mines and
University; Clement Le Neve Foster, Royal School of
Mines.

M.A.—Classics.—Rev. Thos. Ansell Marshall, Trinity
and New Inn Hall, Oxford ; James Edwin Odgers, Man-
chester New College ; William Field, Cheshunt College.
Mathematics.—Jonas Ashton, University College. Moral
Philosophy, &c.—George Lyon Turner, Cheshunt College;
Robert Hunter, University College; William Field, Ches-
hunt College.
The graduates who had simply passed the examinations
for the other degrees were then presented :
LL.B.—John Gall, George Gordon, and David Robert-
son, University of Aberdeen; John Leonard Alcock, Henry
Rutter, and Thomas Pallister Young, University College ;
Henry Nelson Capel, King's College; James Edward Han-
num and Septimus Peeche Moore, New College ; Joseph
Gill, Royal Belfast Academical Institution ; Frank Crisp,
private study ; and William Easterby, self-tuition.

11.8., 8.A., and B. Sc. followed.

Those graduates who had passed with honours were
next presented :

LL.B.—Lindsey Middleton Aspland, University Col-
lege, first in principles of legislation (scholarship), first in
equity, and first in common law; John Shortt, Trinity
College, Dublin, fourth in principles of legislation ; John
Stirling Ainsworth, Manchester New and University Col-
leges, fifth in principles of legislation ; Robert Romney
Kane, Queen's University, alone in conveyancing, first
(seq.) in Roman law, third in principles of legislation,
second (seq.) in common law, and third in equity ; Lewis
Adonijah Mendes, Regent's Park and University Colleges,
second in equity ; Thomas Charles Jarvis, University Col-
lege, first (seq.) in Roman law, second iu principles of
legislation, and second in common law.
M.B. M.S. and B.A. graduates followed.
Graduates to wham a scholarship, medal, or prize had
been awarded were then presented :
LL.D.—William Willis, Huddersfield College, medal.

M.D.—Henry Law Kempthorne, King's College, medal.
M.A.—Jonas Ashton, University College, medal in
mathematics; and Geo. Lyon Turner, Cheshunt College,
medal in moral philosophy.
LL.B.—Lindsey Middleton Aspland, University College,
University law scholarship.
M.B.—Revet Coleridge Powles, King's College, scholar-
ship and medal in medicine ; Geo. Oliver, University Col-
lege,inedal in medicine; Revett Coleridge Powles, King's
College, scholarship and medal in midwifery ; Arthur Geo.
Mickley, Guy's Hospital, medal in midwifery ; and Peter
Maury Deas, University of Edinburgh, medal in forensic
medicine.

M.S.—Peter M. Deas, University of Edinburgh, scholar-
ship and medal in surgery ; and E. Andrew, University
College, medal in surgery.
B.A.—John F. Moulton, St. John's College, Cambridge,
scholarship in mathematics ; Benjamin Renshaw, Stony-
hurst College, scholarship in classics ; and Alfred H. F.
Burder, private study, scholarship in moral philosophy.
B. Sc.—Stephen W. Bushell, Guy's Hospital, scholarship
in biology.
First Scriptural Examination—Geo. Alex. Christie, New
College, prize ; Arthur Wm. Kay Griffith, Spring-hill Col-
lege, prize ; Charles S. Slater, Spring-hill College, prize ;
and Edward Barnett Wensley, King's College, prize.
The Registrar then read a list of all the undergraduates
who had obtained honours.

The VICE -CHANCELLOR, after referring to the exertions of
Dr. Storrar as a member of the Senate, as chairman of Con-
vocation, and as the representative of the university in the
Medical Council, to the death during the last year of four
members of the Senato—Lord Monteagle, Sir J. Lubbock,
Mr. Brande,.and Mr. Hodgkin—and the resignation of Mr.
Billing, said that the more immediate representatives of
the university had during the past year endeavoured to
extend and promote its usefulness. Their degrees were-
known throughout the land to be the result and recom-
pense of serious and well-directed studies. T heir curriculum
was large and well defined, butlarge as it was at present the
Senate was on the watch for any well-considered means of
improving it. Various suggestions had been made to them.
The medical degree had been successful, and a degree had
been suggested as a parallel to it, for the encouragement of
literary acquirements, to be called (as we understood) "Doc-
tor of Letters ;" indeed, similar to the degree of Doctor of
Science. The University had also established a degree of
Master in Surgery. They had likewise made a useful im-
provement with regard to the degrees of Bachelor of Law
and Doctor of Law. Hitherto law had not been treated as
a separate faculty, like arts and medicine, but had been
regarded as a sort of superstructure upon the department
of arts. The rule had been that no student could come up
for examination in law until he had passed an examination
for and had taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts. But, ac-
cording to the scheme which was to commence next Ja-
nuary, students of law would no linger be required to take
a degree in arts before they came up for a first examination
inlaw. Ile would be entitled to come up within on yearafter
matriculation ; but at the same time, inasmuch as this de-
greein law would become a separate and substantive degree
there would be required a far higher range of legal studies
before it would be allowed to be obtained. He was led to
hope, from various inquiries which had been addressed to
the Senate, that this improvement would accord with the
aspirations of many young students who sought to qualify
themselvesfor the practice of the legal profession. He had
had the satisfaction during the past year of discovering the
active influence of the University of London might be ex-
pected to spread, not only over England and Ireland, but over
the British colonies. They had been holding provincial exa-
minations in various colleges in Great Britain and Ireland ;
and which were in every respect the same as the examina-
tions held in that hall. The system of examination, under
certain qualifications, had been extended to the Mauritius.
A similar arrangement was expected to bo made with
British India, communications with Calcutta having
been opened with that object, and he hoped in no very long
time they would he able to establish a practical system of
co-operation, and make the University of London actively
instrumental in promoting the spread of European know-
ledge in the East. (Cheers.) He would now turn to one or
two other points of interest. He was happy in being able to
congratulate all the friends of the University of London
upon two measures which her Majesty's Government had
proposed since the commencement of the present Session
of Parliament. (Cheers.) One of these measures was the
declared intention of the Government to provide the Uni
varsity at last with an adequate and substantive building
of their own. • (Cheers.) And not merely was it their in-
tention to do this, but a motion was made in the House of
Commons about ten days ago for a vote of £20,000 on ac-
count of expenses, and which vote was introduced as the
first instalment of a total vote of £65,000, at which the
Government estimated the entire cost of the building.
(Cheers.) The other proposition was that which geutle-
meat had read in the speech of Mr. Gladstone the other
evening—namely, the intention to erect the University
of London into a Parliamentary constituency return-
ing one member to the House of Commons. He need
not point out the great importance of these two mea-
sures as affecting the position, the dignity, and the
future efficacy of their University. It indicated that the
University had at last arrived at the period of its
majority. They might be said now to have become of
age, after a minority which to some extent had been in-
conveniently prolonged. As to the building, it was a most
pressing want. It was really not without pain and humi-
liation that one heard and read of discussions being carried
on not merely in newspapers, but in the House of Com-
mons, where some persons wore not able to distinguish
the University of London from University College. The
University College was known to all the world, and that
was the advantage of having a conspicuous, distinct,
and substantive-building. The University of London was
comparatively unknown. They were taken as a sort of
invisible agency, having a name, but no local habitation.
He rejoiced, therefore, that this want of a house was about
to terminate. The Government proposed to place a new
building on the north front of Burlington-house gardens. It
would be central, accessible, and public, and as little dis-
turbed with noise and traffic as would be consistent with
those conditions. From the grant of £20,000 having been
passed by the House of Commons without a division, he
thought they might fairly conclude that the proposition of
the Government would receive the approbation of the Le-
gislature. Respecting their prospects of becoming a Parlia-
mentary constituency, that must depend upon the temper
of Parliament. Upon that point he would only remark that
it would be perfectly consistent with the performance of
their educational duties, and would not only be giving a
standing and a dignity to the University in the eyes of the
country, but would be realising those hopes and aspirations

they had long cherished, on its being held out to them
30 years ago that they should be received upon an equal
footing with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
He was not about to argue any disputed points on Parlia-
mentary reform. It would be out of place ; but this much
he might say, that if the proposition of the Government
should be adopted by the Legislature no person would ac-
quire a vote within the walls of the University except those
who should have passed through three successive and se-
rious examinations at least, and he was convinced that the
preparation necessary for obtaining a bachelor's degree in
arts, science, or in medicine afforded proof of a competency
to exercise the elective franchise greatly superior to any
amount of property they might please to suggest. (Cheers).
With the speech of the Vice-Chancellor the proceedings
terminated.