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SANDHOLME, a village of England, East Riding of senior department, previous to the cadets receiving com* 
Yorkshire, situated on the banks of the Coulney, north-east missions from the college; and according to their pro¬ 
of Howden. ficiency in the course of studies, they have certificates of 
SANDHURST, a village near Bagshot, in Hampshire.— 
The Royal Military College, part of which is now established 
at Sandhurst, consists of a senior and junior department. 
The senior departmentwas established at High Wycombe, in 
the year 1799, (but has since been removed to Farnham, in 
Surrey) for the purpose of instructing officers in the scien¬ 
tific parts of their profession, with a view of enabling them 
better to discharge their duty when acting in the command 
of their regiments, and at the same time qualify them for 
being employed in the quarter-master and adjutant-general’s 
department. 
No officer can be admitted into this department until he 
has completed the twenty-first year of his age, and actually 
served with his regiment as a commissioned officer for three 
years abroad, or four years at home. Applications for 
admission must be made to the governor through the colonel 
or commanding officer of the regiment to which the indivi¬ 
dual belongs. Every candidate, previous to admission, must 
undergo such examination as may be deemed requisite. 
The students pay into the funds of the college such sum 
annually as is determined by the supreme board of com¬ 
missioners. The present subscription is thirty guineas per 
annum . They are subject to the rules and discipline of the 
army, as if serving with their regiments. 
The studies pursued at this deparment are as follows:— 
Mathematics in all its branches; fortification; gunnery ; 
castrametation ; military drawing and surveying; the recon¬ 
noitring of ground; the disposition and movement of troops 
under all the various circumstances of offensive and defensive 
war; rules for estimating the military resources of a coun¬ 
try ; and the German and French languages. 
There are six professors in this department, viz., one 
mathematics, &c.; one fortification; two military drawing; 
one French; one German. 
Public examinations on points of science are held half- 
yearly, in presence of the collegiate board, upon which 
occasion one or more members of the supreme board, not 
being members of the collegiate board, attend. Those 
officers who have gone through the regular course of studies, 
and have passed that examination by which they may be 
duly qualified for staff appointments, receive certificates 
thereof, signed by the board, and sealed with the seal of the 
college. 
The junior department was first established at Great 
Marlow, in 1802, (but has recently been removed to Sand¬ 
hurst, near Bagshot,) to afford a provision for the sons of 
officers who have fallen, or been disabled, in the service of 
their country ; and the means of education to the sons of 
those officers who belong to any regular regiments. R 
consists of four companies, of 103 cadets each. They are 
admitted upon three different establishments, viz.:— 
1st. Orphan sons of officers who have fallen or been dis¬ 
abled in the service, are admitted free of expense, except in 
bringing the first suit of uniform on their admission, and 
keeping up their stock of linen during their residence at 
the college. They are provided with board, clothing, and 
education, by the establishment, free of charge. 
2d. The sons of officers actually serving in regular 
regiments of the line, who pay a certain sum per annum 
(.from 10/. to 60/.) according to the rank of their fathers. 
. 3d. The sous of noblemen and gentlemen, who pay 100/. 
per annum each. * 
Applications for admission must be addressed to the 
governor.—Every candidate previous to admission must 
pass an examination in Latin and English grammar, and the 
first four rules of arithmetic. No candidate can be admitted 
who is under thirteen years of age, or above fifteen. 
There are examinations held monthly, which are con¬ 
ducted by the professors of the senior department, to ascer¬ 
tain the progress of each cadet, previous to his removal 
from one class to another. There are also public half- 
yearly examinations upon the same principle as those at the 
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qualifications to serve in the army as officers, granted to 
them by the board of commissioners, in whose presence the 
examination takes place. 
The studies pursued at this department are as follow 
Mathematics; fortification; military drawing; landscape 
drawing ; history, geography, and classics; French ;Ger¬ 
man ; and fencing. 
There are seven masters of mathematics; four of fortifi¬ 
cation ; five of military drawing; three of landscape draw¬ 
ing ; four of history, geography, and classics; six of French; 
one of German; three of fencing. 
Gentlemen cadets are allowed to purchase commissions at 
any time during their continuance at the college; but no 
gentleman cadet can be recommended for a commission by 
private interest until he has made a certain progress in his 
studies. 
SANDHURST, a parish of England, in Berkshire, near 
Blackwater, on the borders of Windsor forest. 
SANDHURST, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
3 miles north of Gloucester. 
SANDHURST, a parish of England, in Kent, near the 
Rother; 6 miles south west of Tenterden. Population 1012. 
SANDHUTTON> a township of England, North Riding 
of Yorkshire; 3 miles from Thirsk. 
SANDHUTTON, a hamlet of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 7f miles from York. 
SANDIACRE, a parish of England, ip Derbyshire; 9f 
miles east of Derby. Population 495. 
SANDING ISLES, Pulo Sanding, or Sandiang, two 
small islands, situated off the south-west coast of Sumatra, 
near the south-eastern extremity of the Nassau or Poggy 
isles, in which group they are sometimes included. They 
are both inhabited, and their only remarkable production is 
the long nutmeg, which grows wild on them; and some 
good timber, particularly of the kind known by the name of 
marbaw. An officer and a few men were landed here in 
1769, with a view to the establishment of a settlement,'and 
remained a few months, during which time it rained with¬ 
out cessation'. The scheme was subsequently abandoned, 
as unlikely to answer any useful purpose. 
SANDINI (Anthony), an Italian ecclesiastical histo¬ 
rian, was born in 1692. Of his early life we have no 
account: by his talents he recommended himself to the 
patronage and esteem of his bishop, cardinal Rezzonico, 
who was afterwards pope, by the name of Clement XIII.; 
and through the same interest he obtained the posts of libra¬ 
rian, and professor of ecclesiastical history, in the university 
of Padua. He died in that city in 1751, in the 59th year 
of his age. He is known principally as an author by a 
work, entitled “Vitae Pontificum Romanorum,” which is 
highly spoken of as abounding in learning, and very curious 
researches. The best edition is that of Ferrara, in 1748. 
In the same year the bishop of Augsburg, landgrave of 
Hesse-Darmstadt, caused it to be printed, under the title of 
“ Basis Historiae Ecclesiastics.” He also wrote “His- 
toris Familiae Sacrse;” “ Historia S. S. Apostolorum;” 
“ Disputationes XX ex historia Ecclesiastica ad Vitas Ponti¬ 
ficum Romanorum,” and certain “ Dissertations,” in defence 
of the “ Historiae Familiae Sacrae.” 
SANDISFIELD, a post township of the United States, in 
Berkshire county, Massachusetts; 112 miles west-south-west 
of Boston. Population 1648. 
SA'NDISH, ad/. Approaching to the nature of sand; 
loose; not close; not compact.—Plant the tenuifolia’s and 
ranunculus’s in fresh sandish earth, taken from under the 
turf. Evelyn. 
SANDISTON, a township of the United States, in 
Sussex county. New Jersey, on the Delaware; 11 miles 
north-west of Newton. Population 703. 
SANDIUS (Christopher), known under the name of 
Van Den Sand, a learned Prussian Unitarian divine, 
was born at Koningsburg in the year 1644. He was 
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