Showing the PARTICULAR DEFICIENCIES on account of which CERTIFICATES of QUALIFICATION have been REFUSED by the CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS during the Year 1858.

CAUSES OF REJECTION.

Table showing the Extent to which Rejections have been attributable to Failures in SPELLING and ARITHMETIC in the Year 1858.

*These numbers show the relative importance of each subject.

TABLE OF EXAMINERS.

Employed continuously.

Theodore Walrond, Esq., M. A., late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.

Edward Headlam, Esq., M A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Employed occasionally in General Subjects.

G. Brodrick, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. S. Butler, Esq., M. A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge.

G. W. Dasent, Esq., D.C.L., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
W. F. Edwards, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge.

F. Headlam, Esq., M.A., Fellow of University College,
Oxford.

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

E. Poste, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

J. Roberts, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge.

Employed for Special Subjects.

Dutch.-Rev. Dr. Gehle.

Eastern Languages.-Col. Ouseley; C. B. Eastwick, Esq.; J. W. Redhouse, Esq.

French.-M. Dupont.

German.-Max Müller, Esq., M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, and Professor of Modern European Languages, Oxford; Rev. Dr. Walbaum, Chaplain to the Prussian Legation; Herr Fontane.

Italian.-Count Arrivabene, Professor of Italian at University College, London.

Polish.-Major Czulczewski; M. Sosnowski.

Russian.-Rev. E. Popoff, Chaplain to the Russian Embassy. Civil Engineering, &c.-Captain Galton, R E., Assistant Secretary to the Railway Department of the Board of Trade.

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