6. The merit of the persons examined will be estimated by marks, and the numbers set opposite to each branch in the preceding regulation denote the greatest number of marks that can be obtained in respect of it.

7. No candidate will be allowed any marks in respect of any subject of examination, unless he shall, in the opinion of the examiners, possess a competent knowledge of that subject.

8. The examination will be conducted by means of printed questions and written answers, and by viva voce examination, as may be deemed necessary. 9. The marks obtained by each candidate in respect of each of the subjects in which he shall have been examined will be added up, and the names of the twenty candidates, not ineligible according to the preceding regulations, who shall have obtained a greater aggregate number of marks than any of the remaining candidates, will be set forth in order of merit, and such candidates shall be deemed to be selected candidates for the Civil Service of the East India Company in the Presidency of Bengal.

10. A further examination of the selected candidates will take place, under the superintendence of the Civil Service Commissioners, in the following subjects:

1. English Composition.

2. The History and Geography of India.

3. The elements of the Bengali or Hindustani languages.

11. The selected candidates will receive instructions as to the books which should be studied.

12. Any selected candidate desirous of presenting himself for further examination at a time earlier than that above-mentioned, will be permitted to do so on application to the Civil Service Commissioners. If he should then fail to pass, he will be allowed to present himself again in December.

13. Any selected candidate who does not pass at the further examination of December 1858, will be struck off the list of selected candidates.

14. The selected candidates who, at the further examination, shall be found to have a competent knowledge of the subjects specified in Regulation 9, shall be adjudged to have passed, and to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil Service of the East India Company in the Presidency of Bengal.

15. The seniority in the Civil Service of the East India Company of the selected candidates shall be determined by the date of the further examination at which they shall be adjudged to have passed; and, as between those who passed at the same further examination, their seniority shall be determined according to the order in which they stand on the list resulting from the examination of July.

16. No person will, even after passing the further examination, be allowed to proceed to India unless he shall comply with the regulations in force at the time for the Civil Service of the East India Company, and shall be of sound bodily health and good moral character.

The Civil Service Commissioners will require such further evidence on these points as they may deem necessary.

17. All papers relating to the above-mentioned examination are to be addressed to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commission, Dean's Yard, Westminster.

The following letter contains further Instructions for the "Further Examination."

SIR,

Mr. Maitland to Selected Candidates.

Civil Service Commission, 24th August, 1858.

With reference to the further examination of selected candidates, which, under the regulations of the present year, is to take place in December next, or earlier, at the option of each candidate, I am directed by the Civil Service Commissioners to recommend you to consult the following works relating to the history and geography of India :

1. "Elphinstone's History of India," for the periods to which that history relates; and

2. "Mill's History of India," continued by Wilson, for later periods. 3. The principal articles relating to India in M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary.

You will also derive information as to Indian geography from the Introduction to Elphinstone's History.

With these works you should, of course, use a good map.

I am also to recommend you, if you select Bengali, to study the principal rules, as given in Haughton's grammar; and if you take Hindustani, to use Forbes's grammar.

In estimating the proficiency of candidates, the Civil Service Commissioners will have regard to the shortness of the time which it has been considered proper, in the present instance, to allow for preparation.

You will have learned from the regulations, that even after passing the further examination, no person will be allowed to proceed to India, unless he shall comply with the regulations in force at the time for the Civil Service of India, and shall be of sound bodily health, and good moral character. If, with regard to the very important qualification of physical competence, you entertain any doubt, you will do well to communicate with me, in order that you may undergo at once the medical examination to which all candidates will ultimately be subjected.

I am, &c.

English Language and Literature

Greek and Latin
Languages and
Literature

French Language
and Literature
German Language
and Literature

Italian Language and Literature

Sanskrit Language and Literature

LIST OF EXAMINERS.

G. W. Dasent, Esq., D.C.L. of Magd. Hall, Oxford.
G. L. Craik, Esq., M.A., Professor of History and
English Literature in Queen's College, Belfast.
[Rev. J. W. Donaldson, D.D., late Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge.

Rev. W. E. Buckley, M.A., late Fellow of Brazenose
College, Oxford, and late Professor of Classical Liter-
ature at Haileybury College.

M. Dupont.

(Max Muller, Esq., M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Modern European Languages in the University of Oxford.

Count Charles Arrivabene, LL.D., Professor of the Language and Literature of Italy in University College, London.

Monier Williams, Esq., M.A., of University College, Oxford, late Professor of Sanskrit at Haileybury College.

Arabic Language (Col. Ouseley, late Professor of Arabic and Persian and Literature - at Haileybury College.

Mathematics

Natural Science

Moral Science

Rev. Charles Graves, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College,
Dublin, and Erasmus Smith's Prof. of Mathematics in
the University of Dublin.

· Rev. J. W. L. Heaviside, M.A., late Fellow of Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge, and late Professor of
Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Haileybury
College.

(G. D. Liveing, Esq., M.A., Fellow of St. John's College,
Cambridge, and

Alex. Bain, Esq., M.A., Examiner in Logic and Intellectual, Moral, and Political Philosophy in the University of London.

AVERAGE ALLOWANCES of the CIVIL SERVICE in INDIA in 1857.

The highest salaries are those of the Judges of the Sudder Courts, viz.: Rs. 50,000 per annum

PENSIONS.

A covenanted civil servant, having served 25 years, and having actually resided in India 22 years, or 21 years in the event of his having been absent for one year from certified sickness, is eligible to retire on an annuity from the Civil Service Annuity Fund of 500l. per annum, and such further annual amount as a deduction, at the rate of 4 per cent. made from his salary during the whole period of service, and accumulated at 6 per cent. per annum, may be equivalent to.

No pension is granted directly by Government, the affairs of the Civil Service Annuity Fund being administered by managers appointed by the civil servants. Subscription to the fund is compulsory on covenanted civil

servants.

RELATIVE RANK OF CIVILIANS WITH MILITARY OFFICERS.

Civilians of 35 years' standing, from date of rank assigned to them on their

arrival, rank with

Major-Generals.
Colonels.

.do.

Lieut-Colonels.

ORDER OF THE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES.

1. There will be a viva voce examination in each of the subjects. Candidates will be informed on presenting themselves at this office, in compliance with the instructions which have been sent to them, as to the time and place at which they will have to attend.

2. The doors of the Examination Room will be opened each day a quarter of an hour before the time fixed for the commencement of the examinations.

3. Each Candidate will receive a number on his attendance at this office. It is requested that this number (and not the name of the Candidate) be placed at the head of each sheet of paper sent in to the Examiners. 4. Candidates are requested to write on one side only of the paper supplied to them.

5. No Candidate who has left the Examination Room during the hours assigned to paper-work, will be permitted to return to the paper which he quitted.

6. Candidates wishing for explanations of the questions before them should apply to the Examiners.

7. Any Candidate detected in the use of a book or manuscript brought with him for his assistance, or in copying from the papers of any other Candidate, or in giving or receiving assistance of any description, will be regarded as disqualified, and his name will be removed from the list.

Civil Service Commission,

Dean's Yard, Westminster.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND

HISTORY.

In the department of "The English Language, English Literature, and English History," the attention of every competitor, throughout the examination by writing, is especially requested to the following general rules and directions:1. In every answer the precise import of the question should first of all be well considered, and then kept throughout clearly and steadily in view; and it must be understood and remembered that the introduction of any matter which does not come within the terms of the question will be merely time and labour thrown away, however good in itself the irrelevant matter may be.

2. Every answer should be in the form of a regularly constructed sentence, or series of sentences, and not in that of a tabular statement, still less of a mere memorandum; and it should be complete in itself, and intelligible independently of the question..

3. The punctuation should be carefully attended to. A deduction will be made from the valuation of the answer wherever this is neglected.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

1. Give a distinct account of the constitution of the English Language, in respect both of the vocabulary and of the grammar, at each of the following dates:-in the 10th century (when it was still what is usually called Saxon, or Anglo-Saxon, by modern philologists); in the 12th; in the 14th; in the 16th; and in the 18th; noting carefully the difference between each stage of its progress and the immediately preceding one, and assigning the cause or causes of the change.

2. Describe clearly and exactly the position and connexion of the English language (regarded in its earliest known form, which is still its basis or mould) in what is called the Indo-European family of languages. 3. Compare the English language with any one other modern language with which you are acquainted in respect of the following particulars:—its vocal or musical character; the orthography, in relation to the pronunciation; the vocabulary (in the degree in which it is homogeneous or composite); and the grammar (in the degree in which it is inflectional).

4. Compare the English language in its present state with any other, ancient or modern, with which you may be familiar, in general serviceableness and power as an instrument of expression.

5. Illustrate by a few decisive examples the manner in which the English language adopts words from the French, from the Latin, and from the Greek languages respectively, and the nature of the changes, whether in the spelling, in the pronunciation, or in both, by which it assimilates them and makes them its own.

6. Sketch the history of the employment of the French language in England as a separate form of speech, noting, as far as known, the date and cir